Case Study: State of Georgia achieves increased transparency and reduces corruption with Captricity

Captricity Helps the State of Georgia Increase Transparency and Reduce Corruption

The Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission, which must collect and publish financial disclosures and campaign contribution forms, faced a sudden mandate (HB143) requiring local filing entities to transmit reports to the Commission by eFiling or eFax. With no additional budget, a large and varied volume of incoming forms (including handwritten and even crayon-filled pages), and inadequate OCR results, the Commission needed a way to capture, structure, and publish these records in its existing eFiling system.

The team integrated Captricity into their eFax workflow to extract structured data with over 99% accuracy—even from handwriting—using its API and intuitive field mapping to populate the Commission’s database. Since January 2014 the system has processed more than 6,800 faxes (and is projected to handle ~40,000 pages per month during peak filing periods), delivering a unified, searchable statewide dataset and meeting the Commission’s transparency goals without extra budget.

State of Georgia

Joel Perkins

IT Lead, Georgia Department of Ethics