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Application example: Scanners and OCR reduce screening time by more than 40%.
(Disease Control Division, Health and Welfare Department, Shizuoka Prefecture)

The Shizuoka Prefectural Government conducts work improvement activities as part of its efforts to reform work style. As a part of these activities, the Disease Control Division of the Shizuoka Prefecture Health and Welfare Department adopted PFU's fi Series image scanners and DynaEye series (*1) OCR (optical character recognition) software for business use to streamline the renewal certification process for subsidized medical expenses for designated intractable diseases (*2).
The "Individual Clinical Survey Form" is converted into text using a scanner and OCR software to automatically determine whether medical expenses can be paid, thereby preventing errors in decision-making in the certification screening process, which has traditionally been performed manually. Because this also significantly reduces the time required for screening, the workload of the staff is also reduced.

• DynaEye is only supported on Japanese-language operating environments.
• The Act on Medical Care for Patients with Intractable Diseases (Intractable Diseases Act) was promulgated on May 30, 2014 and came into effect on January 1, 2015. Diseases that were previously covered by medical subsidies as "Specified Disease Treatment Research Program" diseases are now covered by this law, and there is a greater number of diseases that are covered. Under the Intractable Diseases Act, diseases that are eligible for subsidized medical expenses are called "designated intractable diseases." In order to receive a subsidy for medical expenses, the prescribed application form, a medical certificate written by a doctor appointed by the prefecture, and accompanied documents must be submitted. The following 15 diseases are now eligible. The 15 eligible diseases: Parkinson's disease, myasthenia gravis, multiple sclerosis/neuromyelitis optica, multiple system atrophy, spinocerebellar degeneration (excluding multiple system atrophy), systemic lupus erythematosus, dermatomyositis/polymyositis, systemic scleroderma, idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, osteolytic disease of the posterior longitudinal ligament, idiopathic osteonecrosis of the femoral head, sarcoidosis, retinal pigmentary degeneration, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis.

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Streamlining Data Entry by Converting Printed and Handwritten Text into Data

The DynaEye OCR software, which improves operational efficiency through highly accurate character recognition, streamlines data entry from forms and other documents by converting printed and handwritten characters, barcodes, and other text into highly accurate data. The use of OCR and RPA with DynaEye streamlines data entry tasks such as payment processing and helps to reduce our customers' environmental burden through a reduction in power consumption in places of business due to shorter work hours.