Passport office for university hostels

The Systems of Industrial Automation company used tools of ABBYY PassportReader SDK developer during creation of the special module for automatic filling of fields of a card of passport accounting. Thanks to technology of ABBYY of the company it was succeeded to cut down expenses on development and release of the new version of the "Passport Office of Hostels of University" software product and to expand its opportunities for input of personal data due to scanning and recognition of passports. Use of the module allows customers approximately to reduce time for creation of new cards of passport accounting by 30%, to increase employee performance of a passport office and also to reduce quantity of errors of input of personal data.

The "Passport Office for University Hostels" program is intended for ensuring office-work of passport offices of universities. With its help it is easy to keep the centralized passport and migration account of the students and employees living in hostels of university and departmental housing. The program facilitates search of the continuous and contemporary records about living in hostels and also allows to create instantly any documents necessary at passport accounting.

Before a card of passport accounting which are brought to the program were filled manually, and workers of a passport office not always coped with a flow of the registered students during the summer and autumn periods when students in large quantities move into to hostels. The decision to expand program capabilities "A passport office for university hostels" and to automate process of creation of a card of passport accounting was made.

After the analysis of the technologies of scanning and recognition existing in the market specialists of Systems of Industrial Automation company selected tools of ABBYY PassportReader SDK developer. Testing showed that tools have very simple and user-friendly interface of programming of applications thanks to which to build in components of scanning and recognition the program it appeared very easily. Demonstration of the most high-quality recognition of identity documents, among the competing solutions and also a possibility of processing of passports of the CIS countries became additional benefits when choosing ABBYY PassportReader SDK.

Now after scanning of the passport in a card of accounting personal data, at the same time the photo and a graphic image of the scanned document also are automatically entered remain in the program. It is not required to purchase the special equipment – office scanner with resolution capability of 300 dots per inch quite will be suitable for work with the new module.

"Thanks to a sensing technology of identity documents, from ABBYY we managed to increase market attractiveness of our program for automation of work of a passport office of university. The passport office of hostels of university is, as a rule, the least automated its structure. Computers are often used just as replacement of typewriters, only slightly facilitating daily routine transactions of pasportist. The new module for automation of process of filling of fields of a card of passport accounting will make work of pasportist more convenient, fast and effective", – Epikhin Andrey, the CEO of Systems of Industrial Automation company comments.

Estimate advantages and convenience of work with the module "Scanning of Passports" workers of a passport office of the campus of the National research Tomsk state university already could. They use the automated input of personal data in 6 workplaces of pasportist. It allows to reduce considerably time of creation of new cards of passport accounting and it is easy to cope with "seasonal influx" of students.

The software of Systems of Industrial Automation company can be used for automation of document handling, proving the identity, not only in universities, but also in normal passport offices.