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What is IBM Datacap?

IBM® Datacap helps users streamline the capture, recognition and classification of business documents and extract important information. Datacap supports multiple-channel capture by processing paper documents on scanners, mobile devices, multi-function peripherals and fax. It uses natural language processing, text analytics...

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We are confident that IBM Datacap will take us into the future by improving the levels of insights and control on business documents.

10 out of 10

November 08, 2021

We shifted from traditional document capture methods to IBM Datacap since it offers intelligent cognitive capture capabilities, which are …

Automate Complex Document Capture with AI-infused Intelligent Processing on IBM Datacap

10 out of 10

October 19, 2021

Traditional methods of capturing documents tend to be hectic to use when processing complex and unknown document formats from external …

IBM Datacap: Must Have Data Extraction and Optical Character Recognition Software

10 out of 10

October 08, 2021

Classification and management of business documents are vital in every organization to enhance smooth workflow. IBM Datacap is the main …

Ideal scanning solution with IBM Datacap

8 out of 10

September 24, 2021

We currently use IBM Datacap across the whole organization to ingest documents that are formatted and also with relevant data.

IBM Datacap capturing documents AND hearts?!

8 out of 10

January 20, 2020

We currently use Datacap to ingest standard formatted documents and free text documents, identify these and label them and extract …

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What is IBM Datacap?

IBM® Datacap helps users streamline the capture, recognition and classification of business documents and extract important information. Datacap supports multiple-channel capture by processing paper documents on scanners, mobile devices, multi-function peripherals and fax. It uses natural language…

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What is IBM Datacap?

IBM® Datacap helps users streamline the capture, recognition and classification of business documents and extract important information. Datacap supports multiple-channel capture by processing paper documents on scanners, mobile devices, multi-function peripherals and fax. It uses natural language processing, text analytics and machine learning technologies, to automatically identify, classify and extract content from unstructured or variable documents. The software can reduce labor and paper costs, deliver meaningful information and support faster decision making.

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November 08, 2021

We are confident that IBM Datacap will take us into the future by improving the levels of insights and control on business documents.

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Adam McKnight, PE

Senior Professional Engineer

Upper Trinity Regional Water District (Utilities, 201-500 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We shifted from traditional document capture methods to IBM Datacap since it offers intelligent cognitive capture capabilities, which are robust and accurate. I don’t know if IBM Datacap is being utilized across the enterprise, but in Engineering department, we highly rely on it to automate processing of complex and unknown documents.

Pros and Cons

It eases data capturing from multiple devices such as scanners, faxes and emails in all formats.
AI-infused intelligent processing gives business users opportunities to capture complex and unknown documents from cloud and on-premise repositories.
Exporting documents to other applications is just by a one-click.

Even though IBM Datacap has enriched mobility and allows users to capture data with tablets and Smartphones, it tends to be slow and makes the devices to hang, mainly when using smartphones with outdated versions.

Likelihood to Recommend

Once highly customized, IBM Datacap can suit any business unit and scenario. To realize accurate knowledge and insight base on business documents, I would emphasize use of IBM Datacap since it has robust OCR tool that ease document capturing.

Most Important Features

Enriched mobility support: IBM Datacap allows business users to use Smartphones and Tablets to capture documents. However, they need to have latest versions in order to make it easy to capture documents.
AI Intelligent capture: with availability of machine learning on IBM Datacap, it is easy and effective to capture, classify and extract data from complex and unstructured documents.
Data redaction based on user roles:- In regard to requester specifications, IBM Datacap redacts data to make sure it doesn’t offer what the user don’t want; mainly sensitive business data.

Return on Investment

We have protected and safeguarded business information by redacting documents to ensure that confidential data doesn’t reach to irrelevant business users or cyber attackers.
Business procedures automation has been enhanced by IBM Datacap as part of the Cloud pak, which eases workflow and decision management.
Being based on modern modular, IBM Datacap allows us to pay for what we use, thus no losses are encountered.

Alternatives Considered

Atlassian Confluence

Atlassian Confluence only stores and share documents in the cloud, whereas IBM Datacap has additional features that makes it effective to not only store and share documents, but also capture information via OCR and redact sensitive information.

Other Software Used

Asana, GoToMeeting, Slack

October 19, 2021

Automate Complex Document Capture with AI-infused Intelligent Processing on IBM Datacap

Lane Cox

Marketing Director

AT&T (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Traditional methods of capturing documents tend to be hectic to use when processing complex and unknown document formats from external sources like emails and scanners. IBM Datacap is being used across all company departments to capture documents from faxes and emails as digital files and process them to modern formats.

Pros and Cons

Machine learning automates document processing from external applications and sources like scanners.
Exporting data with just a click to other content repositories.
Redaction of data based on requester role. Therefore, we are able to block irrelevant or sensitive information based on the specification of users.

Availability of a success team that offers free support during and post-implementation ensures that I am free from issues always. Therefore, whenever I need something I just call or email the customer support team.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend IBM Datacap to all businesses and users that want to protect sensitive data from delivering to the wrong business users by redacting data based on the role of the requester.

Most Important Features

Smartphone and tablet support: with this enriched mobility, users are able to capture, validate and submit documents from anywhere with smartphones and tablets.
Advanced document recognition: this is used in RPA to improve workflow automation by integrating it with Automation Anywhere.
User role-based data redaction is another feature that protects sensitive data from landing to wrong recipients.

Return on Investment

IBM Datacap has brought a new level of insights that improve business process automation.
Document management in one integrated solution reduces operational costs and time by logging only in a single solution.
By capturing data in the cloud, we are able to improve data governance.

Alternatives Considered

Ephesoft Transact

IBM Datacap has a strong OCR capability that makes it easy to capture, validate and submit data from other document repositories like Scanners, faxes, and mobile applications unlike Ephesoft Transact, which also lacks enterprise data capturing capabilities.

Other Software Used

Ephesoft Transact, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Access Management

October 08, 2021

IBM Datacap: Must Have Data Extraction and Optical Character Recognition Software

Claire Campbell

Industrial Accountant

Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 1001-5000 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Classification and management of business documents are vital in every organization to enhance smooth workflow. IBM Datacap is the main tool being utilized at COTA to capture, automate data processing, and export to other repositories.

Pros and Cons

Capturing data and storing it in one integrated solution from other applications. It is easy to input documents from scanners, emails, and other digital files like PDF.
Once data is processed at stored in IBM Datacap it is easy to export to other repositories
Artificial Intelligence available on IBM Datacap automates data processing that is hectic to capture so ad they can be better understood by business users and machines/systems.

Image capture through IBM Datacap mobile application hangs when machine learning is processing metadata.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend it for data capturing, but it has other more vital capabilities that every agency requires on a daily basis. I would emphasize prospects to use it as pak for Business Automation to easily automate tasks and orchestrate workflow in the cloud.

Most Important Features

Intelligent Processing capability on IBM Datacap has improved data analysis.
Document processing: This feature makes it possible to support any file assortment from PDF, TFF, DOC to JPG.
Data Extraction: eases processing of data and information from semistructured and unstructured data repositories.
Wide array OCR Support from Linux, PC and MAC

Return on Investment

Data processing and AI-infused intelligent processing puts data into a format that is known by every business user.
Data input from multiple devices and applications to Datacap ensures data is always available.
Third-party applications integration makes it easy to export documents without facing difficulties or IT procedures.

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Textract

IBM Datacap has robust optical character recognition features compared to some of the competitive tools that I have used prior. In addition, IBM Datacap integrates with a wide array of external applications and does not pop-up lots of errors while extracting data from already scanned documents.

Other Software Used

WhatsApp Business, Concur Invoice, Teamwork

September 24, 2021

Ideal scanning solution with IBM Datacap

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Seval Aksoy

Hr director

Abbvie (Pharmaceuticals, 10,001+ employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use IBM Datacap across the whole organization to ingest documents that are formatted and also with relevant data.

Pros and Cons

Ingest documents
Text analysis

Sometimes its documentation is poor
Creating customized flow [is] not always straight forward
Support from IBM could be better and faster

Likelihood to Recommend

Scanning mechanism and ease of use provided out of [the] box. [However, the] speed of the application is slow and could be better.

Most Important Features

It's able to scan documents in [IBM] Datacap and upload them to file net with minimal steps
It has amazing nice bar detection

Return on Investment

Accounting checks and balances
Also being able to extract data from all content and creating searchable pdfs has been so nice in our business processes

Alternatives Considered

Kofax Capture

It's easier to extract data from documents for analytics, unlike other similar platforms.

Other Software Used

Microsoft IIS, Microsoft Azure, UiPath Process Mining (formerly ProcessGold)

January 20, 2020

IBM Datacap capturing documents AND hearts?!

Ben Williams

Automation Developer (RPA and OCR Datacap)

Admiral Group plc (Financial Services, 5001-10,000 employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use Datacap to ingest standard formatted documents and free text documents, identify these and label them and extract relevant data. Development is limited to one team, but all incoming mail, email and snail is routed through it.

Pros and Cons

Ingest documents
Analyse text

Supporting documentation is poor
UI is old fashioned

Likelihood to Recommend

It's well suited to extracting data from structured documentation and can do this with relative ease. It's less suited to images or Excel and has difficulty reading these.