It's no secret that organizations today have little trouble collecting massive amounts of information. Workers everywhere generate content that contains valuable data every day - in email messages, status reports, and the like. But they also spend an inordinate amount of time searching for that same information when they need to reuse it. When, and if, they find it, they often spend even more time re-keying the relevant data into another document. Why hasn't technology made it easier to gather and integrate all this content we generate? The problem is that many of the documents we use for everyday business processes aren't amenable to automation. While data capture and validation has been a core component of traditional forms for some time, the technology needed to automatically gather, say, valuable data from a text document, hasn't been available. Until now.
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