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An OCR story

A case study in converting scanned documents into text to generate insights and improve document management processes… We’re working on a client project presently where there is a requirement to convert scanned PDF documents into text. We have done this before, but for this job, there was a larger volume of documents to process than…
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Could you benefit from text analytics?

Many organisations have large collections of documents stored in shared drives either in the cloud or on premise. These documents are often referred to as unstructured data or sometimes the more sinister term “dark data” is used. A common characteristic of these data assets is that very little is understood about them. You may be…
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Integration and technology – our answer is yes!

Infoboss empowers your organisation to automate the management and processing of its data. Whether you’re trying to improve data quality, data protection, compliance processes (like DSARs, retention, discovery), Contract management, process automation or business intelligence, we’re here to help. We consume structured data, meta data and unstructured data (text adding structure to it) to enable…
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Data heaven or hell?

Is your organisation in data heaven or data hell? In this post we’ll explore what characterises data heaven and data hell. If you think you’re organisation is getting too hot (i.e. too close to hell), don’t worry, we’ll provide some suggestions on how to redeem yourself with our 3 steps to heaven… Every organisation is…
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The cost and consequences of data munging

Considering the cost and scarcity of a data scientist (or analyst) and given that almost 80% of the activities undertaken by data scientists is “munging data” (collecting, preparing and cleaning), we ask the question as to whether an investment in sustainable data quality improvement is perhaps a smarter move for your organisation? At infoboss we…
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Using text analytics for customer insight

Understanding customer experience (CX) is vital to organisations.Yet so much insight available to an organisation in the form of text that is not analysed, but could provide a whole new set of insights. Consider, Infoboss empowers you to derive insight from this ‘dark data’ using a varierty of advanced text analysis techniques. This short video…
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Pay as you go pricing

Pay as you go pricing in the world of software is usually associated with cloud based Software as a Service solutions. However, when you’re dealing with data management and processing, some customers prefer the software to be installed “behind the firewall” either on-premise or private cloud, but would still like the option to try out…
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Data discovery with word clouds

Sometimes its hard to convey a message when there are so many concepts to explain. Word clouds are a good way of conveying a complex message. For example, the word cloud image associated with this blog illustrates the use cases, concepts and discussions we tend to have with our clients. As you can see, a…
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Food for thought

In this article I am going to share some insight from work we’ve been doing at infoboss that could potentially save your organisation a lot of money… The picture for this blog is a picture of some fruit, cherries. The picture is perfectly able to convey my message that this is in fact a food…
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Santa: Automated data management and processing case study

Have you ever taken time to reflect on just how good Santa and his team of elves are at data management and processing? He must surely be the benchmark we all aspire to. Let’s consider the enormity of his task and how he does it… Data quality Just think of the data quality challenges he…
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