Document management software company Applied Docs Inc. has had its product selected by Toronto-based Kuehne + Nagel Ltd. to improve productivity on customs invoices processing.

Ottawa-based Applied Docs's software delivers a secure web-based process for capturing, verifying, managing and delivering data from paper and imaged sources into any business system. The company provides the software as an application service provider or through a perpetual license model.

Kuehne + Nagel, which is the Canadian subsidiary of a Swiss-based company that employs more than 46,000 employees in more than 100 countries, said Applied Docs's solution cut manual entry time on customs invoicing by a factor of four. The company also said that it expects that time to fall further for tenfold times savings over manual methods once it upgrades all of its systems.

"Kuehne + Nagel's success is typical of what we can delivery in a wide variety of document processing applications – from passport processing to human resources forms to purchase orders," said Applied Docs chief executive Claude Paquin in a statement. "Applied Docs software ensures accuracy and relevance to business applications. It also incorporates automatic adherence to regulatory or self-imposed compliance and full audit tracking at every step of a customer's business process."

Applied Docs's software incorporates technologies such as optical character recognition, optical mark recognition, intelligent character recognition, data mining tools and workflow processes.