• Custom Modules. Choose from dozens of plug-and-play custom modules to adapt Ascent precisely to your business processes. From powerful forms-processing modules to postal mail scanning to vertical-industry applications, Ascent Custom Modules give you powerful, off-the-shelf alternatives. Or you or your consultant may write your own. Ascent's XML Backbone™ architecture makes it possible.
  
  Import Controller. The import Controller lets you create front-end scripts to link Ascent Capture with enterprise applications such as financials, human resources, manufacturing, and management decision support. And Ascent Capture 5.51 comes packaged with an XML auto-import controller.
  
  Ascent Capture COM Interface. The built-in COM interface enables you to modify the Ascent Capture user interface via Visual Basic, Visual C++, or any language that supports COM.
  
  Database Lookup Interface. This new interface lets you set up sophisticated database lookups without scripting.
  
  Flexible Export Options. Ascent Capture exports to workflow and content management systems via release modules written in Visual Basic. You can choose from Kofax's unrivaled library of release modules, or you can use our source code to write your own. And Ascent Capture 5.51 lets you release to multiple systems at the same time.
  

Ascent 5.51 includes additional features designed to enhance the ability of users to more effectively capture and process data:

• Latest Microsoft SQL Server (MSDE) database technology ensures the fastest, most robust batch catalog management.
  
  Extended Custom Module setup and Administrative API capabilities make it possible for developers and integrators to achieve significantly tighter integration between Ascent Capture and other applications.
  
  Auto polling allows Ascent Capture to automatically accept input from other applications as XML data streams or in other forms. This capability can now be run as a service rather than a script.
  
  Enhancements to SmartGroups enables testing of more setup functions including those associated with group optical mark recognition (OMR).
  
  Ascent Capture's built in mark-sense recognition strengthens its forms processing capabilities with group OMR, intelligent zones and other enhancements.

• Ascent Capture 5.51 is available in five languages: English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

  The Japanese version is available in Ascent Capture 5.5 and the Chinese version is available in Ascent Capture 5.0.
  

• Ascent Capture 5.51 user interface maintains its acknowledged reputation for operator ease of use and fast, simple installation. It can be up and running in hours, rather than days or weeks of expensive installation and configuration. And when the job changes, Ascent Capture's Test Mode and point-and-click batch editing makes setup a breeze

Ascent Capture can export to any ODBC-compatible database or to a delimited ASCII file. But what really sets Ascent apart is its library of custom release scripts which seamlessly connect it to more than 90 back-end systems from IBM, FileNET, Microsoft, Gauss, Documentum, Legato (formerly OTG Software), Open Text, Hyland, Hummingbird, and many others. This flexibility makes Ascent Capture the perfect front end for any system

Scanning a few hundred thousand pages a day? Still no problem. A networked installation of Ascent Capture can be easily expanded by simply adding more scanning, recognition, validation, or release stations. And the Ascent Capture Internet Server, Ascent Ricochet and the Web Validation Server let you expand even further by installing remote scanning and indexing stations anywhere around the world, all linked to your central site via the Internet or your corporate network.