UNSD Workshop – Minsk - Dec 2008

Amir Angel Director of Government Projects

Supporting National Censuses

Top Image SystemsData Capture platform for Censuses

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Agenda

Who we are? TIS’s Platform for Censuses Questions & Answers Demo

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Number of people “Counted” by TIS in Censuses world wide

1,374,026,304

TIS’s Experience in Censuses Projects Turkey 1997 & 2000

Brazil 2000

Kenya 2000

South Africa 2001

Slovak Republic 2001

Hong Kong 2001

India 2002

Ireland 2002

Italy 2002 Cyprus 2002 Slovenia 2006 (Census of real estates) Ireland 2006 Hong Kong 2006 South Africa 2007 (Community Survey)

Thailand NSO 2008 (Community Survey)

Largest market share worldwide in census projects information

capture

Largest market share worldwide in census projects information

capture

TIS’s Experience in Censuses Projects

2010 RoundProjects Won: • Scottish Census 2011• Belarus 2009

Overview - Top Image Systems

Founded 1991

Data Extraction solutions. Specialized in Censuses

Projects.

Since 1996, traded on NASDAQ (TISA)

Since 2006, traded on TASE (TISA)

2 acquisitions in 2007

~250 employees

Local offices in:

Europe United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Benelux

Asia Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai,

Guangzhou (R&D) and Australia

USA North & Latin America

Israel R&D Headquarters

Present in app. 40 countries Strong partner network worldwide Around 800 installed systems worldwide

eFlow platform for Censuses

Top Image SystemsData Capture platform for Censuses

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The evolution of data capture in census projects

eFLOWeFLOWFrom OCR into IDR Solution

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TIS’s Census Data Capture Solution

Census Data base

Suggest a Single platform for all enterprise content

How does eflow read data?

Top Image SystemsData Capture platform for Censuses

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The Process Flow – Processing Center

CLASSIFY

Completion

RECOGNTION

EXPORT

Workflow Process

Database Host/ERP/Custom

Electronic Archive

InputOutput

Structured & unstructured information

Exception

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ScannedDocuments

eDocs and Facsimile

Email

1313Scanning OCR Validation

Process integrality, implementing a work flow according to the client needs

Export

MFlexibilityctivator

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Flexibility

Flexibility

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The Process Flow

CLASSIFY

Completion

RECOGNTION

EXPORT

Workflow Process

Database Host/ERP/Custom

Electronic Archive

InputOutput

Structured & unstructured information

Exception

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ScannedDocuments

eDocs and Facsimile

Email

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Advanced approaches Automatic EFI Matching

– Improving template recognition station speed via the “Force EFI” mechanism, a unique barcode posted on each page

Questioner integrity

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The Process Flow

CLASSIFY

Completion

RECOGNTION

EXPORT

Workflow Process

Database Host/ERP/Custom

Electronic Archive

InputOutput

Structured & unstructured information

Exception

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ScannedDocuments

eDocs and Facsimile

Email

ICR

OMR OCR

Multiple Data Types

Recognition engines/technologies embedded in the platform

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ICR A ICR B ICR C

Virtual Engine example to increase recognition

Voting Method

Automatic approaches Auto Coding

– Coding tasks and data validations performed on the data capture platform: a ‘cost-effective’ solution

– Use one of the statistic software's in the market like ACTR (Canadian statistical software for coding some fields)

– Use Approximate Search tools for improving results via DB (Exorbyte)

Dynamic Dictionary update– Lookup and dictionaries via DB

Form Out

Original TIFF EFI DIF

ROI

Reduce network traffic Reduce storage media

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The Process Flow

CLASSIFY

Completion

RECOGNTION

EXPORT

Workflow Process

Database Host/ERP/Custom

Electronic Archive

InputOutput

Structured & unstructured information

Exception

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10101010101010101010101010 001 101

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ScannedDocuments

eDocs and Facsimile

Email

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Completion Station – Page Mode

Field Group Mode Completion

Business Logic & Validation

Identify false positives Alpha & Numeric fields Highlight for verifications Quality control for ICR

Unique Tiling stations – Checking for false positives

Implementing Edits

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Analysis Of Current Form

Dictionaries– Owner name to actual address– Address Database

Date Of Birth : should match with Age Higher Education : Which 12th year of high school Age Of Mum : Child cannot be older than mum Religion : Detailed action Married : if not married shouldn’t have wife And more…

CodingComputer Assisted Coding by statistical experts as part of the data capture system (2nd level repair).

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Custom stations approach

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The Process Flow

CLASSIFY

Completion

RECOGNTION

EXPORT

Workflow Process

Database Host/ERP/Custom

Electronic Archive

InputOutput

Structured & unstructured information

Exception

1010 1

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10101010101010101010101010 001 101

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010100101

ScannedDocuments

eDocs and Facsimile

Email

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Customized Exported DataExamples

XML

SQL

CSV

Tab Delimited

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Controller

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Monitoring and Management

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Modules

Statistical Data base– Statistical report to monitor the daily,

weekly, monthly rate per user/station– Quality checking using

Post Census Usage

Building of new Database for Census Agricultural Census Real Estate Census On going Surveys Tax Office Tourism Board Immigration Department Urban Development Board

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Summery

Data capture and IDR platform (paper, electronic, mobile) and not a recognition product

Proven solution in census data capture! no need to invest time and money in new technology and vendor, minimizing the risk

Extensive experience in the design, development and implementation of real census and other high volume form processing projects. Largest market share worldwide in the processing of census projects,

Huge experience based on long researches in the Census arena

Maximum flexibility, redundancy and robust platform ensuring you meet project timetable to release census results.