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Current Filter: Document>>>>>Case Study> Updating the Registry Editorial Type: Case Study Date: 01-2015 Views: 3488 Key Topics: Document PDF Forms Capture Recognition Public sector Key Companies: ABBYY Key Products: FlexiCapture Key Industries: Government | |||
| Recognition technologies are helping the Land Registry to receive and process property register applications and changes electronically Land Registry is a government department created in 1862 to register the ownership of land and property in England and Wales. They keep and maintain the Land Register, where more than 24 million titles - the evidence of ownership - are documented. Once land or property is entered in the register they record any ownership changes, mortgages or leases that affect it. Land Registry's vision is to be recognised as a world leader in the digital delivery of land registration services and in the management and re-use of land and property data.
FRAUD PREVENTION The applications that customers submit through e-DRS are form based, typically as PDF or a TIF, JPG or GIF image. The content of those files was "locked" and not readable or searchable by machine. Land Registry wanted to increase operational efficiency by reducing the time required by employees to manually enter data from these documents. Land Registry determined they could increase efficiency by automatically digitising the valuable information held in the forms so they could pre-populate their existing casework systems.
TRIAL WITHOUT ERROR "The decision to move to a digital system was not taken lightly," comments Kim O'Flaherty, Technical Team Lead, Land Registry. "The e-DRS initiative was a multi-year project but we knew we could reap significant benefits by undertaking it. A major part of this was putting in an automated system that gives us the potential to take data straight from forms and put it into our systems. The ABBYY FlexiCapture solution gives us this potential."
10 Million Pages And Rising "We are expecting to process over 10 million pages this year and this is increasing steadily as take up of the service increases. Overall, we are very pleased with the ABBYY solution," concludes Kim O'Flaherty. "It is saving our caseworkers time by not having to key in data. The ABBYY team was friendly and supportive throughout, responding quickly to the emails and calls put in by our developer." | ||
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