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Do you dream of walk-in, color-coded closets and labeled storage rooms? Okay, that may be a little too Type-A… but if you wish you could organize your daily responsibilities a little better, let me help. Here are a handful of practical tips, techniques and strategies for getting organized and taking control of your projects that work like a charm.

Redact as defined by Merriam-Webster is to select or adapt (as by obscuring or removing sensitive information) for publication or release.

Here’s a basic example:

Before: I would like to take you to dinner.

After: [REDACTED] would like to take [REDACTED] to dinner.

Protecting sensitive information through redaction is gaining priority across all organizations. With regulations tightening and the growing need to publish reports online, there is more data requiring redaction. Search engines can even find information that is hidden from our eyes, requiring more attention to redacting private data. Manually identifying this sensitive information is a huge undertaking. This time-consuming task is costly with a margin of error too large for comfort.

As our workload continues to build and technology continues to advance, it may be time to analyze your current procedures to see if an advanced OCR solution is right for you. Applying such a solution can save valuable work hours, improve turnaround times, increase transcription accuracy and yield an exceptional ROI all while streamlining your workflow. Here are four signs that you should look into an advanced OCR software solution.

Each year millions of Americans are the victims of fraud or identity theft. In 1997 the Consumer Sentinel Network (CSN) was established to create a secure online database to track complaints filed with the FTC, state law enforcement agencies, and Federal agencies like the IRS and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The ultimate goal of your data entry process is to create an organized set of data, in a specified format, which can be easily accessed and utilized.  The success of your organization in achieving this goal depends on the quality of your data entry process.  Here is a list of Top 10 Best Practices that--if followed--can deliver an accuracy rate of 99% or higher from Invensis.net.

What is Data Extraction?

Data extraction is when meaningful data is automatically pulled from information-packed documents via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Software. This OCR Software has been created by the best developers in the industry who continuously strive to expand the software’s capabilities.

In my previous blog I talked about managing your workload, and one of the keys pieces to being able to do so is to prioritize what the most important projects are.  But how are you supposed to prioritize projects when everything is a top priority?  While working at a software company, I quickly realized that no matter how well organized the preparation – you always encounter surprises along the way requiring changes, and reprioritization of tasks.

“Work smarter not harder” 

Let’s face it we’ve all probably had someone say this to us at some point in our life, but it's often easier said than done...

I searched for some tips on workload management and came across an article from Entrepreneur Magazine 6 Steps to Managing Your Overwhelming Workload. I found this article to be very valuable in managing my personal workload and I wanted to share my findings with you.

County officials that handle land and court records are, among many other things, responsible for three things:

As I travel around the country talking to elected officials and government employees one of the most common talking points is the challenge with managing their data.  Many of them still do a lot of manual data entry while others struggle with getting accurate indexing data from submissions using electronic recording/filing.  This often leads to: