The Statistics Department of Malaysia chooses ReadSoft to process 1.5 million documents

The Statistics Department of Malaysia has turned to ReadSoft to process 1.5 million documents in 100 days. The project is an Establishment and Enterprise Census and it is the first step towards completely automating the handling of forms at the Malaysian Statistics Department – a quest which will continue during the years to come with additional projects and market surveys.

The Statistics Department of Malaysia has evaluated several data capture solutions and has chosen ReadSoft DOCUMENTS for Forms to process census forms at eight different sites in Malaysia. The prestigious project was won by ReadSoft’s partner Datamation, a local Malaysia IT-company with over 21 years of experience in data automation and forms processing. "ReadSoft DOCUMENTS for Forms is a very fitting solution for automating the processing of incoming census forms, says Aw Lay Kok, Senior Sales Manager of Datamation. The Statistics Department won't have to deal with the monotonous task of keying in information into computers, which quickly frees resources for more important tasks. The software can summarize the content of the forms quickly which means that the Statistics Department can compile its necessary statistics information very quickly and accurately. " What is ReadSoft DOCUMENTS for Forms? The forms processing software offers organizations substantial savings, increased productivity and improved data quality. The software reads handwritten text, machine-print, barcodes, check boxes, circles, tables, matrixes etc. Among other benefits, automatic forms processing is much faster than manual keying of information, offering a quick return on investment.