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Introducing KODAK Info Input Solution 7.1: Better data. Better decisions. Better outcomes.

Jeff Munn
Global Solutions Marketing Manager
Kodak Alaris

It takes time for humans to read and interpret lengthy, complex, unstructured documents, and that time translates to high labor costs, lower margins, and delayed decision-making.

But imagine if a claim letter, for example, were automatically routed to the right adjuster based on context buried in paragraph 12, with a priority flag automatically attached. And imagine if a 200-page contract could be summarized in 1-2 pages—with validated data, in mere seconds.

With KODAK Info Input Solution 7.1, all of this is possible and more.

How we got here so quickly

Since 2023, we’ve been sharing our Open Intelligence™ approach to AI with partners, clients, and analysts. The time, money, and resources needed to create reliable document AI is immense. That’s why it makes more sense to leverage the best of the best—Microsoft, Amazon, and Google—rather than build your own.

Intelligent document processing (IDP) vendors with their own proprietary document AI will not likely be able to keep up with—or even catch up to—these AI hyperscalers and their enormous resources, including huge volumes of training data, massive budgets, and teams of expert staff. IDP analysts have been hailing our Open Intelligence approach as the winning recipe for adaptive, trustworthy, reliable, and future-ready IDP.

Now, a couple years later (eons in technology time), everyone is trying to figure out how best to take advantage of generative AI, and anyone ignoring this trend is getting left behind. There’s plenty of worry and an abundance of questions: Which AI is best for me to use? What are my use cases? Is it worth the investment? What are the risks?

And the big one: Can I trust it?

For IDP, the answer about generative AI reliability is the same as it was for document AI. IDP vendors creating their own generative AI tools will likely face many challenges keeping pace over the long term. It’s hard to predict the future of technology, but the trend we’ve seen is that it’s impractical for most businesses to try to compete with the rapid technology advances of the big AI hyperscalers. There are legitimate concerns around generative AI, but these concerns can be assuaged with clear guardrails—namely focusing the AI on a specific use case, like IDP.

That’s precisely what we’ve done with Info Input 7.1. Since our 7.0 release in March 2024, we’ve added querying, summarization, model-free extraction, and sentiment analysis via Microsoft Azure OpenAI and Amazon Textract Queries. When we showed some results at our recent Kodak Alaris Analyst Day, we had to help them pick their jaws up off the floor. “Wow” was an understatement.

Where we are now

With Info Input 7.1 you can go well beyond what the data is to understand what it means—from any document, in any context. Through Info Input, our clients can delegate more work to trusted AI services and discover how to make better decisions from better data faster than relying on teams of humans to read and interpret long, tedious documents. They can deliver better outcomes for their people, their clients, and their businesses.

What’s possible with Info Input 7.1

The ways in which this AI-powered IDP software can unlock new value are practically limitless. For starters, you can:

  1. Validate data and make logical decisions, fast.

    Leveraging the world’s leading AI technologies in an Open Intelligence IDP platform means that you can automatically extract, validate, summarize, and query the data in lengthy unstructured documents like legal contracts, loan applications, and claim letters. Deliver accurate data, impactful summaries, and consistent decisions further upstream to save time, money, and resources.

  2. Easily specify and extract valuable information with near-perfect accuracy.

    Say goodbye to delays and hello to faster, more impactful decisions with Amazon Textract’s query capabilities available directly within Info Input Solution. Simple question and response functionality quickly extracts relevant data from any document, reduces post processing, and drives logical decisions based on those answers—like prioritization and workflow routing—before the data even leaves the IDP platform.

  3. Interact with your data to drive greater accuracy and insights.

    Say goodbye to backlogs, overwork, and delayed client communications with the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Connector. Info Input can accurately extract hard-to-find data in highly unstructured documents, summarize data in long documents, and identify anomalies with extracted data. This is truly the future of IDP!

This is why we are as excited as our clients and partners to announce this milestone in our IDP leadership. KODAK Info Input Solution 7.1 is paving a new path forward for businesses of all kinds, helping to make sense of the complex and rapidly changing AI technology landscape. We are making it easy for our clients to trust these unprecedented automation capabilities with their business-critical workflows and processes, all accessible with lightweight, browser-based software that’s easy to use.

Reach out to our IDP experts to get started, and discover how quickly your business can achieve significant ROI that is consistent and sustainable, no matter where AI technology takes us.