CASE STUDY
Vanden Broele Productions managed to save hours of manual document processing
Vanden Broele Productions, a subsidiary of the Vanden Broele Group NV, is working for multiple local governments and institutions with regard to the digitalisation of physical documents and files. These archives, containing documents dating back from the 1970’s until the present, are typically stored in large carton boxes, containing a variety of documents that are in no way structured or organised.
In order to facilitate efficient archiving, Vanden Broele was forced to manually process these huge amounts of documents. Concretely: they had to open all the boxes one-by-one, take the documents out, and organize them manually.
Tedious and mind-numbing tasks
Taking into account the different steps that needed to be performed, this was a tedious and mind-numbing task:
- Physical cleaning of the documents to prepare them for scanning
- Segregation and classification of different document types based on first visual inspection
- Manually inserting QR codes per document type
- Scanning of the documents
- Archiving of the documents based on the document type, by reading the QR code that was given to it by the document handler
Future proof with IDP
It soon became clear that this process was not future-proof nor scalable in any way, something that could easily be fixed by implementing the Metamaze Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) solution.
No-code platform
Although there was no previous experience with Intelligent Document Processing solutions, the teams at Vanden Broele were astonished by the steep learning curve that was enabled by the intuitive User Interface.
“Even without any prior coding or AI experience we were able to quickly adopt the new skillset that was needed to implement and handle this new technology, thanks to the professional and continuous support of the Metamaze experts.”
“Ever since the implementation of Metamaze, the archiving process has been simplified and became significantly more efficient. No more manual segregation and classification of documents and we were able to say ‘goodbye’ to the manually generated QR-codes.”
Results
All that is needed now, is to put these piles of documents on the scanning device and Metamaze takes care of the rest:
- Thanks to ‘Smart Page Management’, Metamaze automatically recombines and segregates pages and documents that belong together.
- The trained AI models automatically detect the document type
- Based on the document type, off-the-shelve integrations with a Sharepoint environment facilitated easy archiving based on the requirements of the customer.
Results are remarkable. We were able to achieve an automation level of over 85% (!) in just 3 weeks, freeing the Vanden Broele teams of hours and hours of manual and boring work, so they can now focus on what really matters.
Conclusion
- From start to go-live in less than 3 weeks
- Straight Through Processing of over 85% reached
- No more manually generated QR-codes
- No more manual segregation and classification of documents.
Technologies used
- Intelligent Document Processing (IDP): Metamaze
- Document Management & Archiving: Microsoft Sharepoint
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