Version 6.x

Ascent Capture has long been a favorite choice for mid-range sites that need lots of out-of-the-box functionality and easy setup. It is also a great choice for high volume sites that want the ability to install a highly customized solution.  Ascent Capture 6 delivers unsurpassed scalability and robust batch control for the most demanding production capture environments.

Ascent Capture can be easily customized to create a highly integrated content solution that meets your specific needs:

• Remote Capture. Before Ascent, most organizations with remote offices were forced to either ship their paper documents to a central site for scanning or send low-quality faxes. Now your remote offices can scan documents – and even index and validate them – directly into the central Ascent Capture process for release into your back-end enterprise system. You save the costs of shipping and photocopying, benefit from better security and document quality, get faster access to your content, and accelerate your business processes. Ascent is the undisputed leader in remote capture. Choose the Ascent Capture Internet Server to capture batches of documents, or Ascent Ricochet to capture transactions quickly and easily, without any knowledge of production capture.
• Custom Modules. Tailor Ascent to support your precise business processes with any of dozens of plug-and-play custom modules. From powerful forms-processing modules that can extract information from even the most difficult documents, to postal mail scanning, to microfilm archiving for long-term records retention, Ascent custom modules give you powerful, off-the-shelf alternatives. Or you or your consultant can write your own. Ascent’s flexible architecture makes it possible.
• Import Controller. Create front-end scripts to feed Ascent Capture from enterprise applications such as financials, human resources, manufacturing, and management decision support.
• Customizable User Interface. Modify the Ascent Capture user interface via Visual Basic, Visual C++, or any language that supports COM.
• Database Lookup Interface. Set up sophisticated database lookups without scripting.
• Flexible Information Delivery. Deliver information into workflow and content management systems via release modules written in Visual Basic. Choose from our unrivaled library of release modules, or use our source code to write your own. And Ascent Capture lets you deliver information into multiple systems at the same time.

Easy To Use, Easy To Install

Ascent Capture is recognized for its ease of use and fast, simple installation. Many applications can be up and running in hours, rather than days or weeks of expensive installation and configuration. And when the job changes, Ascent Capture’s test mode and point-and-click batch editing make setup a breeze.

Scalable To Grow With Your Enterprise

Scanning a few hundred pages a day? No problem. We have low-cost, stand-alone configurations that provide all the functionality you need. Scanning a million pages a day? Still not a problem. A networked installation of Ascent Capture can be expanded easily by adding more scanning, recognition, validation, or release stations. And with the Ascent Capture Internet Server and Ascent Ricochet you can expand even further by installing remote scanning and indexing stations anywhere around the world, all linked to your central site via the Internet or your corporate network.

Supports Color Scanning

Ascent Capture has color image processing and advanced thresholding to improve image quality and OCR accuracy for color documents. It uses advanced algorithms developed by Kofax to handle full-color deskew, and state-of-the-art color-to-bitonal thresholding. Ascent Capture can now automatically recognize color images, extract data from them and deliver them into your business systems.

Integrates With Workflow And Content Management Applications

Ascent Capture uses standard release scripts to connect seamlessly to business systems from IBM, FileNet, Microsoft, Gauss, Legato, Documentum, Open Text, Hyland, eiStream, Hummingbird and many others. Ascent Capture can also export to any ODBC-compatible database or to a delimited ASCII file. This flexibility makes Ascent Capture the perfect front end for any system.

What's New In Ascent Capture 6

• Software-Based License Management. One central license server enables concurrent workstation licensing as well as easy expansion and control of licenses across an entire enterprise.
• Optimized for Enterprise-Wide Usage. The Ascent Capture software can now be deployed with a silent unattended installation routine. Central user management provides single sign-on capability for any Ascent module.
• Enables More Sophisticated Capture Processes. The Ascent Workflow Agent allows for dynamic, flexible batch routing. The agent decides upon completion of each Ascent module which procedure the batch should engage next.
• Native PDF Support. There is no additional expense to output “Image Only“ PDF files, plus you can upgrade to enable “Image+Text“ output.