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Captricity: Freeing Data Trapped on Paper
“Captricity is making a value proposition that you can keep paper workflow, but still adopt a useful and helpful digital system.” What sets it apart? “Data accuracy. Most of the existing automated solutions out there that are optical character recognition based only get to 80% accuracy but you really need to be at 99%…[With Captricity] a mixture of human and machine intelligence get you there without having to manually recheck everything. Before, you couldn’t trust the results, and now you can.”
Why You’ll Need A Big Data Ethics Expert
“A substantial amount of data by government organizations, for example, is still locked up in paper format. However, companies such as Captricity have developed innovative ways to turn massive amounts of paper-based data into digital form.”
A startup takes on “the paper problem” with crowdsourcing and machine learning
“The process of converting paper forms into structured data still hasn’t been significantly disrupted by rapid growth of the Internet, distributed computing and mobile devices. Fields that range from research science to medicine to law to education to consumer finance to government all need better, cheaper bridges from the analog to the digital sphere.
Enter Captricity…”
Press Releases
Captricity Announces the Public Launch of API at Code for America Demo DayAPI creates seamless paper-to-digital-data workflow Berkeley, California October 31, 2012 – Today Captricity (http://captricity.com) announces the public release of its API. Captricity’s web-based data entry technology captures handwritten data from paper documents, transcribing it into digital, structured spreadsheets and data sets. The announcement comes today at the Code for America Demo Day. “When Captricity first [...]
Captricity Announces Suite of Cloud IntegrationsRebuilding the Enterprise Stack to Truly Harness the Power of the Cloud BERKELEY, CA. Oct. 15, 2012 — Captricity (http://captricity.com), today announced direct integrations with well-known cloud services including Salesforce, Box, DropBox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, Google Spreadsheets and Constant Contact. This increased interoperability situates Captricity as part of an integrated data capture and management solution [...]
Captricity Launches Open Data Portal at Code for America SummitNew publishing service calls for contribution of public datasets from paper forms BERKELEY, CA. Oct. 3, 2012 — Captricity (http://captricity.com), announced yesterday at the Code for America Summit the launch of their Open Data Portal (http://captricity.com/opendata) for publicly sharing digital, structured data sets. Captricity is a member of Code for America’s inaugural Accelerator Program. [...]
Captricity Releases Mobile Capture AppFree iOS app allows users to digitize paper documents anywhere, anytime BERKELEY, CA. Sept. 27, 2012 — Captricity, Inc., today announced the release of the Captricity mobile app, a free iOS app that lets users digitize paper documents directly from their mobile devices. The app, available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, interfaces directly [...]
Captricity Closes Financing Round with Knight Enterprise Fund InvestmentInvestment brings total financing to date to $1.6M BERKELEY, Ca. (Sept. 24, 2012)— Captricity, Inc., a cloud-based service which captures digital data from paper documents, today announced an investment from the Knight Foundation Enterprise Fund, which provides early-stage venture funding for media innovation. The investment brings the total amount Captricity has raised to date to $1.6 [...]
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