Advanta Technolgies Recent News

Perfect Voting System purchases demo software

Indian Harbour Beach, FL May 16, 2007. David Biddulph, Inventor “Perfect Voting System”, engaged the professional services of Advanta Technologies to develop software to demonstrate his concepts for improving the voting system using inexpensive computing equipment to provide trustworthy voting - with a paper trail. This software produces a ballot-on-demand that includes the exact races that a specific voter is allowed to cast a vote. After the voter has marked his or her preferences on the selection ballot, the ballot is scanned using a Kodak document scanner and the voter's choices are determined from the scanned image. An official ballot is then printed that summarizes how the ballot will be recorded (such as "Charlie Crist for Governor"). Other features of the Perfect voting System are described at www.PerfectVotingSystem.com.

This demo software will be developed using Microsoft Visual Studio.NET and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Barcode software components from AllMyPapers.com will be used to read barcodes from scanned images that are used to identify the races contained on each ballot. Optical mark recognition software from Mitek Systems will be used to process the scanned ballots.

Circles of Care implements transcription application

Indian Harbour Beach, FL May 1, 2007. Circles of Care, Inc., Melbourne, FL, purchased custom software development and training services to add transcription processing to their OurLibrary document management system. Approximately 250,000 existing documents and their index information were migrated to the OurLibrary repository from an older system used for storing medical transcription notes.

The Capture Document application was enhanced to support to facilitate the creation and importing of transcription documents. Microsoft Word can be launched from the Capture Document form with the click of a button. Other features were added to maximize the productivity of Circles of Care staff when preparing and saving transcribed documents.

Circles of Care is one of the leading behavioral health care providers in the State of Florida. The organization provides quality behavioral health care programs that include hospital, residential, outpatient, mobile crisis, in-home, on-site, professional consultation and public information/education services.

Public Defender's Office implements custom barcode indexing

Indian Harbour Beach, FL December, 2006. The Public Defender's Office - 8th Judicial Circuit of Florida - purchased the software and services needed to implement custom document indexing using bar-coded index sheets. A staff member can create an index sheet by entering a case number. The case number is used to determine the client name and appointment date. This information is associated with the printed index sheet. When the case file is scanned and presented for indexing, the indexing process is automated.

Bar-coded index sheets will be used in Gainesville, as well as the remote offices in Bronson, MacClenny and Starke. These remote offices will transfer case files to the OurLibrary server at the headquarters facility in Gainesville, Florida.

The primary benefit of this barcode indexing is improved accuracy. Errors are substantially reduced when the index values are obtained from a database table and are not subject to keyboard errors and inconsistent names.

City of Indian Harbour Beach utilizes large format scanning service

Indian Harbour Beach, FL October 5, 2006. The City of Indian Harbour Beach outsourced the scanning of approximately 5000 drawings that represent the building department archives. Advanta Technologies scanned these drawings with a Vidar scanner and saved the results as as indexed image files to an OurLibrary document management system at the Indian Harbour Beach City Hall. These drawings can be retrieved using street addresses or building permit numbers. As digital images, these documents can be preserved forever.

Pitney Bowes purchases FileNET document migration

Indian Harbour Beach, FL June 6 , 2006. Pitney Bowes of Canada purchased the Canadian copier business from DANKA in St. Petersburg, Florida. Pitney Bowes hired Advanta Technologies to develop custom software to locate and migrate approximately 400,000 electronic documents from DANKA to their FileNET server in Ajax, Ontario. These documents include contracts, orders, invoices and correspondence associated with Canadian customers.

Advanta Technologies will develop the software needed to export the documents from the DANKA repository and to import the documents to the Pitney Bowes repository. We will closely monitor the process to verify that all documents are properly migrated. The export and import processes are expected to require several weeks of processing at each location.

Private Case Management purchases OurLibrary with Kodak i65 scanner

Indian Harbour Beach, FL January 28, 2006. Private Case Management, West Melbourne, Florida, purchased an OurLibrary document management system to capture and store their client files. A Kodak i65 document scanner will be used to capture paper documents that will be converted to searchable Adobe PDF files. An Iomega REV drive serves as the backup device to prevent document loss.

Private Case Management is a community outreach program that assists elderly, developmentally and mentally disabled clients. Private Case Management and Brevard Guardianship Services, a non-profit sister organization, were founded by Barbara Whitley, LCSW in 1989. OurLibrary represents their first electronic document management system.

Paytas Homes purchases OurLibrary with two Kodak i40 scanners

Indian Harbour Beach, FL December 10, 2005. Paytas Homes of Volusia County, Florida purchased an OurLibrary document management system to capture and store their business documents. Two Kodak i40 document scanners and a Ricoh scanner from Kemper Business Systems will be used to convert paper documents into PDF files. An Iomega REV drive will serve as the backup device to prevent document loss.

Paytas Homes builds 200 to 300 homes annually in communities including Crane's Roost in Ormond Lakes, Harrington at Halifax Plantation, Lakewood Terrace, Pinnacle Parke and Venetian Bay. Paytas Homes was founded in 1970 and remains family business today.

Patrick AFB purchases Kodak i260 document scanner

Indian Harbour Beach, FL October 17, 2005. The 45th Space Wing at Patrick Air Force Base purchased a Kodak i260 scanner with a Dell Precision 380 computer. This scanner replaces a scanner that was installed in 1998. The Kodak i260 is considerably faster and should provide superior images - compared to the six year-old model that is being replaced. The Kodak i260 operates at speeds up to 60 pages per minute with color or B&W documents.

Satcom Direct adds Kodak i260 scanner to capture accounting documents.

Indian Harbour Beach, FL September 7, 2005. Satcom Direct purchased a Kodak i260 document scanner to capture accounting documents using their OurLibrary document management system. Satcom Direct installed an OurLibrary system with a Kodak i50 scanner more than two years ago. This system was recently upgraded to include an Iomega REV drive for document backup.

Based in Satellite Beach, Florida, Satcom Direct provides organizations around the globe with satellite communications services via Inmarsat and Iridium. The activation documents for these communications services are captured to OurLibrary. Most of these activation documents are received as electronic documents, although some are received as paper.

With a successful experience using the activation documents, Satcom Direct recently decided to capture the documents used by their accounting department. The new Kodak i260 scanner will allow these documents to be captured quickly.

Advanta Technologies offers large format scanning service

Indian Harbour Beach, FL January 23, 2005. Advanta Technologies announced a new service. We will scan drawings, blueprints and other large documents – up to 36 inches wide. In most cases, the large format documents will be scanned in color and saved using JPEG compression. We will return the electronic documents as Adobe PDF files on a CD platter – ready for viewing on virtually any computer.

Drawings and documents will be protected against destruction and deterioration. The Adobe Reader software will allow viewing drawings with varying degrees of magnification so that details can be examined. If you can read the small text on your blueprints, you will be able to read the same information on the Adobe PDF document.

Advanta Technologies is an authorized Vidar reseller. We purchased a Vidar Nova XP36 wide format color scanner to demonstrate the large format scanner and to support our scanning service.

Prices for the scanning services will vary based upon document quality, volume and document preparation requirements (such as removing sticky notes). In most cases, the price will be less than $1.50 per page.

CIA Developers purchases OurLibrary with Kodak i40 scanner

Indian Harbour Beach, FL December 2, 2004. CIA Developers of Melbourne, FL purchased an OurLibrary system including a Dell Dimension computer, a Kodak i40 duplex scanner and an IOMEGA REV drive. The staff of CIA Developers plan to scan and capture a wide range of business documents - including leases, payables and work orders.

The IOMEGA REV drive contains backup copies of all documents as well as their index information. If the computer hard drive fails, CIA Developers can move the REV drive to another PC and immediately view their documents - no down time.

CIA Developers manages over 20 different industrial properties in Brevard and Volusia Counties of Florida. The organization focuses on developing, leasing, and managing high-tech business and industrial facilities.