Is there a way to quickly find similar documents in a Documentum repository? Yes, there is. One approach could be to use the Lucene MoreLikeThis() API. This API call to the Lucene Full Text search engine extracts what it believes to be the most salient words from a...
You may have seen the news that the U. S. Government has established the U.S. Digital Service, a small team designed to “to improve and simplify the digital experience that people and businesses have with their government.” On the heels of that announcement came the...
Armedia has a customer using Captiva 7 to automatically capture tabular information from scanned documents. They wanted to export the tabular data to a CSV file to be analyzed in Excel. Capturing the tabular data in Captiva Desktop proved to be simple enough, the...
I picked up a book in Armedia's technical library by accident the other day, but have come to really appreciate the rewards of that serendipitous event. I first grabbed the book because of its author, Don Knuth, is a well-known innovator in the computer science world....
An approach for enhancing a customers’ satisfaction with Documentum’s built-in full text search capabilities is to provide them with a thesaurus of terms relevant to their industry, region, or business process. For example, suppose a user needs to find all the...
Over the Christmas holiday, a colleague gave me The Go-Giver, by Bob Burg and John David Mann. It’s a charming little parable with huge lessons. While reading the authors’ five laws for success (stratospheric success!), I thought to myself: these are principals I...