I.R.I.S. Group has announced the successful implementation of 400 scanning stations running IRISPowerscan in South Africa to process the slips of the national election results.

            The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) required a scanning solution for the backup of the result slips in the national election in 2009. The 297 municipalities needed one or more scanners dependant as well as a scanning application to meet specific requirements. I.R.I.S. worked on this project together with First Coast Technologies, a South African company specializing in document centric technology. The solution delivered was IRISPowerscan in combination with fast document scanners.
             Pierre De Muelenaere, President & CEO of I.R.I.S. Group, commented: “IRISPowerscan™'s ease of implementation and flexible indexing (manual and OCR-assisted) as well as its comprehensive abilities in terms of barcode recognition, image hyper-compression and output formats, seemed the perfect solution from the start. From an operator standpoint too, effective quality control as well as document and page manipulation offered all the userfriendliness initially required.”
            The implemented system for each scanning station consisted of:
                  - An ADF and color scanner at 40 ppm scanning speed
                  - IRISPowerscan, I.R.I.S.’ scanning application, for the indexing of the results slips
                  - Automatic encryption and transfer of the results slips to the IEAC Head Office.
            The elections were on April 22, 2009. About 80.000 pages were scanned and transmitted to the IEC head office. The results were announced one day earlier than they were expected.
            First Coast Technologies’ managing director commented: "Without fail, we delivered on our promises. The IEC chose First Coast Technologies because we demonstrated excellent understanding of our product range; – products which not only met the requirements but in fact exceeded them."
            For more information about IRISPowerscan, visit http://www.irislink.com.