Kofax Ships Adobe LiveCycle Barcoded Forms 7.0 for Ascent Capture

New Advanced Barcode and Information Capture Product from Adobe and Kofax Streamlines Paper-based and Online Business Processes, Dramatically Reducing Costs Associated with Manually Re-keying Data

Kofax, the world's largest information capture vendor, today announced the general availability of Adobe LiveCycle Barcoded Forms 7.0 for Ascent Capture, the world's most popular information capture application.  Adobe LiveCycle Barcoded Forms automates the capture of user-supplied data from fill-and-print interactive Adobe PDF forms using proven two-dimensional (2D) barcode technology. In conjunction with Kofax's Ascent Capture, when the barcode is successfully scanned, data is extracted from printed or faxed forms with 100 percent accuracy and routed directly to back-end enterprise applications.

This combined technology accelerates the flow of mission-critical information among employees, customers and suppliers, regardless of whether the transaction is electronic or paper-based.  The application also eases the transition to online forms and significantly reduces errors, time and costs associated with manually re-keying data from paper forms.

Adobe LiveCycle Barcoded Forms in conjunction with Kofaxs advanced capture application allows organizations to more efficiently process information from both electronic and paper-based sources, streamlining their document-processing workflow," said Anthony Macciola, vice president of product management at Kofax.  Adobe LiveCycle Barcoded Forms provides our mutual partners and customers with an integrated, comprehensive information capture solution that increases the overall efficiency of their daily operations while reducing operational costs.Kofax Ships Adobe Barcode Product for Ascent Capture

Kofax will market and sell LiveCycle Barcoded Forms products through its network of 1,100 Certified Solution Providers (CSPs) to help deliver complete solutions direct to customers.  This enables end-users to accommodate any paper-based or online forms processing requirement and offers a migration tool toward electronic forms processing.  Using the combined solution, form designers can create interactive Adobe PDF forms that can be completed on or off line.  

The combination of Ascent Capture and Adobe LiveCycle Barcoded Forms will automate an organizations paper-based forms processing to reduce costs and improve data quality, said Brian Wick, Group Manager, Enterprise and Developer Solutions Business Unit, Adobe Systems. Were excited to work with Kofax to deliver a great solution that helps customers easily transition their paper-based processes online and help them maximize the productivity of their workflows that capture and process unstructured information.