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Grooper was built from the ground up by BIS, a company with 35 years of continuous experience developing and delivering new technology. Grooper is an intelligent document processing and digital data integration solution that empowers organizations to extract meaningful information from paper/electronic documents and other forms of unstructured data. The platform combines patented and sophisticated image processing, capture technology, machine learning, natural language processing, and optical character recognition to enrich and embed human comprehension into data. By tackling tough challenges that other systems cannot resolve, Grooper has become the foundation for many industry-first solutions in healthcare, financial services, oil and gas, education, and government.	Getting Started
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PDF Generate Behavior

PDF Generate Behavior is a new feature in the upcoming version of Grooper, Grooper 2021.

The PDF Generate Behavior is a Content Type Behavior designed to create an exportable PDF file with additional native PDF elements, using the classification and extraction content of a Batch Folder. This includes capabilities to export extracted data as PDF metadata, inserting bookmarks, and creating PDF annotations, such as highlighting, checkbox and signature widgets.

The PDF Generate Behavior (or PDF Generate for short) allows Grooper users to more fully leverage the capabilities of the PDF file type. The standard PDF Export Format in Grooper will use the page image files and their text data to create a multipage PDF file for each document folder upon Export. However, this is just the "display information" required to open and read the document. There's a lot more to what a PDF can be than just a multipage document with page images and machine readable text. PDF content can also include metadata, keywords, bookmarks, annotations, and more!

The PDF Generate Behavior creates an exportable PDF file that includes some of this additional content available to the PDF format. This is part of Grooper's evolving "Smart PDF Architecture". This is a design philosophy striving to more fully utilize the capabilities of the PDF file type and merge them with Grooper's own document processing capabilities.

The expanded PDF Generate Behavior functionality can be divided into three categories:

Annotations
Bookmarks
Metadata

The earliest examples of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) can be traced back to the 1870s. Early OCR devices were actually invented to aid the blind. This included "text-to-speech" devices that would scan black print and produce sounds a blind person could interpret, as well as "text-to-tactile" machines which would convert luminous sensations into tactile sensations. Machines such as these would allow a blind person to read printed text not yet converted to Braille.

The first business to install an OCR reader was the magazine Reader's Digest in 1954. The company used it to convert typewritten sales reports into machine readable punch cards.

It would not be until 1974 that OCR starts to form as we imagine it now with Ray Kurzweil's development of the first "omni-font" OCR software, capable of reading text of virtually any font.

New in 2.9

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Welcome to Grooper 2.9! Below you will find helpful links to all the articles about the new/changed functionality in this version of Grooper.

Compile Stats	Microsoft Office Integration	Document Viewer	Separation and Separation Review

Data Review	Confidence Multiplier	Data Element Overrides	Database Export

CMIS Lookup	Content Type Filter	Output Extractor Key	Box (CMIS Binding)

LINQ to Grooper Objects

They’re Saving Over 5,000 Hours Every Year in Data Discovery and Processing

American Airlines Credit Union has transformed their data workflows, quickly saving thousands of hours in electronic data discovery , resulting in much greater efficiency and improved member services.

Discover how they:

Quickly found 40,000 specific files among one billion
Easily integrated with data silos and content management systems when no other solution would
Have cut their mortgage processing time in half (and they process mortgages for 47 branch offices!)
Learn from the document and electronic data discovery experts at BIS!

You can access the full case study clicking this link.

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-'''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office Microsoft Office]''' integration allows a '''Grooper''' user to leverage the native text of files generated in the Microsoft Office Suite such as '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word Microsoft Word]''' documents and '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel Microsoft Excel]''' '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Storage_Table spreadsheets]'''. This feature can pull the native text from and perform type-specific activities on these files.
+''PDF Generate Behavior'' is a new feature in the upcoming version of '''Grooper''', '''Grooper 2021'''.
+The ''PDF Generate Behavior'' is a '''Content Type''' '''''Behavior''''' designed to create an exportable PDF file with additional native PDF elements, using the classification and extraction content of a '''Batch Folder'''.  This includes capabilities to export extracted data as PDF metadata, inserting bookmarks, and creating PDF annotations, such as highlighting, checkbox and signature widgets.
+The ''PDF Generate Behavior'' (or ''PDF Generate'' for short) allows Grooper users to more fully leverage the capabilities of the PDF file type.  The standard PDF '''''Export Format''''' in Grooper will use the page image files and their text data to create a multipage PDF file for each document folder upon '''Export'''.  However, this is just the "display information" required to open and read the document.  There's a lot more to what a PDF can be than just a multipage document with page images and machine readable text.  PDF content can also include metadata, keywords, bookmarks, annotations, and more!
+The ''PDF Generate Behavior'' creates an exportable PDF file that includes some of this additional content available to the PDF format.  This is part of Grooper's evolving "Smart PDF Architecture".  This is a design philosophy striving to more fully utilize the capabilities of the PDF file type and merge them with Grooper's own document processing capabilities.
-===Supported File Types===
+The expanded ''PDF Generate Behavior'' functionality can be divided into three categories:
-* Microsoft Word documents (.doc and .docx)
+* '''''Annotations'''''
-** For Word documents, you can generate a Grooper-usable document with the '''Execute''' activity, using the ''Word to PDF'' command for the '''Word Document''' object type.  The PDF will contain all the native text from the Word document, obtainable for further Grooper processing using the '''Recognize''' activity.
+* '''''Bookmarks'''''
-* Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (xls and xlsx)
+* '''''Metadata'''''
-** For Excel documents, you can generate a Grooper-usable document with the '''Execute''' activity, using the ''Excel to CSV'' command for the '''Excel Document''' object type.  CSV files are natively readable by Grooper in version 2.90.  The '''Recognize''' activity is ''not'' required.
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 The earliest examples of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) can be traced back to the  1870s.  Early OCR devices were actually invented to aid the blind.  This included "text-to-speech" devices that would scan black print and produce sounds a blind person could interpret, as well as "text-to-tactile" machines which would convert luminous sensations into tactile sensations.  Machines such as these would allow a blind person to read printed text not yet converted to Braille.