TeleForm
TeleForm is a forms processing application originally developed by Cardiff Software, but now owned by the company OpenText.
Developer(s) | OpenText |
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Stable release | 20.3 (Windows platform)
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Operating system | Windows 10, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2 |
Type | forms processing, document capture, Data Capture |
License | proprietary, commercial |
Website | http://www.opentext.com/products-and-solutions/products/customer-experience-management/intelligent-forms-automation |
Function
TeleForm performs several tasks:
- design machine-readable data forms in a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG design environment
- scan images using high-volume document scanners
- ingest images created by other applications
- automatically read data from completed forms
- allows users to review and correct data, if needed
- export and store the read data in an external database
Forms can be individually designed within the application or templated using existing forms. When completed forms are scanned, any handwritten, machine printed, barcodes and bubble responses are read, evaluated, verified and exported to the end databases.
Dependencies
Functionality of TeleForm, and similar applications, relies heavily on other technologies.
TeleForm uses several sorts of optical technologies to process forms:
- Optical Mark Recognition (OMR)
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
- Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR)
- Bar Code Recognition
History
Originally designed in 1991 to capture data from faxed forms, TeleForm handles data from fax, paper and electronic forms.
The Cardiff TeleForm product was re-branded Verity TeleForm for a brief period in 2004 and 2005, when Verity Inc acquired Cardiff Software. In 2005, Autonomy acquired Verity, and the Cardiff brand was reintroduced as "Autonomy TeleForm". On August 18, 2011, HP announces its intention to purchase Autonomy,.[1] TeleForm was officially re-branded as HP TeleForm in the release notes for version 10.9 [2] TeleForm was purchased by OpenText in 2016 and is sold and supported as OpenText TeleForm.
References
- HP to acquire Autonomy deal HP Newsroom, 18 August 2011
- HP Autonomy release notes for Teleform version 10.9, 2014
External links
- OpenText Acquires TeleForm 2016
- (in German) Electric Paper Informationssysteme GmbH
- ePC, TeleForm and LiquidOffice specialists and OpenText OEM partner
- (in Spanish) Tecnomedia Sistemas SL
- SR Capture: Teleform and data capture specialists. Creators of SRCloud.
- Formtran, Inc.: TeleForm and LiquidOffice specialists
- Genoko: TeleForm and LiquidOffice specialists
- Digiform: TeleForm and LiquidOffice specialists
- Teleform support: TeleForm and LiquidOffice support