We recently had a customer who needed to migrate off of an aging and highly customized Capture/indexing/workflow one-off solution. At the center of many of their form types in this system was a repeatable field collection object that functioned much like how you would expect a .NET DataTable control to function – values could be added horizontally to the current “row”, and at the end of it you could hit enter and a new “row” would be added. As you moved through, you also had the ability to validate the line item as a whole. In other words, nothing too out-of-the-ordinary.
Unfortunately, this stood out as a red flag for both myself and my coworker when we first saw it, since we were migrating the client to Kofax Capture. There’s nothing inherently wrong with Kofax’s flagship product, in fact it is an excellent tool for getting content where it needs to be, often in record time. One thing it doesn’t do well out-of-the-box, however, is table fields. Defining one looks normal enough, but when you actually get the chance to index them, each column ends up being a standard index field. Needless to say, turning the table 90 degrees counter-clockwise and forcing keyers to manually delimit values is not an ideal experience, especially when 99% of your form is tables that need to be indexed.Continue reading
I recently worked with a customer who was receiving the error below on a Client/Server installation with a standalone SQL instance (not built-in):
[3566] KdoLib: Network I/O error: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (Provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 – Error Locating Server/Instance Specified) (-1)
After performing a clean install of Kofax 10 on a new workstation, they were unable to open Batch Manager, Administration, etc. The process could be seen in Task Manager, but the window would not open, and after about 20 minutes would show the error above.
To resolve this we first tested the connection to the SQL server using a .udl file. This can be done by creating a blank text file, then renaming the extension to .udl.
Open this new Data Link and fill in the fields for your SQL server and test the connection. If you do not get a success, verify that your server name, login, firewall, etc. are configured properly to access the server.Continue reading
I have personally been selling PC’s, PC Peripherals and scanners since 1995. When I came to ImageSource in June of 2000, I had to learn the document scanner side of things. ImageSource was definitely an early adopter of the VRS (Virtual Rescan) Technology. This insight was driven by being close partners with Fujitsu and Kofax. In the beginning, you had to have extra hardware components in the scanner and host PC to make the equation functional. The installations were clumsy at times, but it really was the best way to get the best quality image from your scanner.
Kofax provides an add-on pack for their Transformation Modules product to handle CMS-1500 (formerly HCFA) and CMS-1450 (alternatively, UB-04) medical claims forms called the KTM Medical Claims Add-on package. Related to this package is the Kofax Export Connector for Medical Claims. This Export Connector allows for the data captured off of said forms to be formatted in the HIPAA-compliant EDI/ASC X12 837 formats (to be exact, 837 Professional for the CMS1500 and 837 Institutional for the UB04).
Are you tired of separator sheets? Tired of wasted paper and countless hours of flipping through pages and inserting a barcode sheet at the start of a new document just to take it out after the batch is scanned or leave it in the batch and have more paper to store? Why not have the computer do the work for you? That’s the idea behind the Project Planner module in KTM. There is a standard separation functionality built into KTM that works very well on structured and semi-structured documents but when you have more complex separation rules the Project Planner component of KTM is what you need.
