Case Study: Kazzinc achieves searchable digital archive of 25,000 pages with ABBYY Recognition Server

KAZZINC, Kazakhstan’s Multi-Million Zinс Processing Company Effectively Digitizes its Archives with ABBYY Recognition Server

Kazzinc, a major Kazakhstan zinc producer with a large administrative archive, faced a growing problem: about 25,000 pages of management paperwork accumulated over ten years were stored only in hard copy, making it slow and impractical to find specific documents or figures. The company needed a reliable way to convert its paper archive into a searchable electronic system.

Kazzinc implemented 1C:Archive together with ABBYY Recognition Server and a Xerox WorkCentre Pro 123 scanner to automate OCR and produce searchable PDF files via a “watched” folder and scheduled processing. The unattended, scalable solution allowed night-time bulk conversion and immediate daytime processing of new documents; most of the backlog was completed in under two months and one operator was able to enter 25,000 pages in a month. Employees can now locate information in seconds, and the archive stays up-to-date across departments.

Kazzinc

Sergey Shimolin

Head of Analysis and Designing Division