Case Study: Technical Chamber of Greece achieves automated, accurate election vote counting—reducing result publication from 6 months to 1 week—with ABBYY FlexiCapture

Technical Chamber of Greece Automates the Count of Election Votes with ABBYY FlexiCapture®

The Technical Chamber of Greece (TCG) is the official technical adviser to the Greek state and licenses practicing engineers; its elected administration is chosen in triennial elections with over 150,000 paper ballots across many ballot types. Until 2007 the Electoral Commission manually checked and compiled results—a repetitive, error-prone process that could take up to six months before publication.

IID implemented ABBYY FlexiCapture to automate ballot scanning and recognition, using specially designed ballot templates, barcodes and extraction/validation rules (FlexiCapture Form Designer and Document Definition) to handle Greek scripts and complex vote patterns. The solution integrated with the Chamber’s results system, processed 150,000+ ballots each election, cut processing time from months to about a week (with exports under an hour and final publication within hours after approvals) and materially reduced the risk of counting errors.

Technical Chamber of Greece

Andrew Mikonios

Software Development Manager, IID Interlease Dsa