Data Migration

Le Crossing Company Limited – responsible for the Dartford Crossing traffic management systems – had important data ‘locked away’ in a legacy redundant eCabinet network office appliance no longer supported by manufacturer Ricoh. They needed to extract the data and migrate it to SharePoint.

Rob Davis, Avanquest ProcessFlows:

eCabinet is a 1990’s document imaging system; it automatically captures documents from a variety of sources – email, fax, printouts and paper documents – and stores and retrieves them.

The data at Le Crossing was also corrupted. Image files (scanned files) and metadata had become separated, so documents could not be opened/viewed and made sense of.  They could use the system for lookup, but nothing else.

Using Open Text Document Server, Alchemy Edition and the Open Text Document Server DataGrabber module as a ‘convertor tool’, we were able to extract and capture at source the corrupted image files and the metadata created by eCabinet.  The files were then recombined and imported directly into the Document Server data repository so they could once again be opened, viewed and understood. Read image extraction case study.

Document Imaging is a technology that has been available for some 30 years and there have been many entrants to this market (eCabinet, Hummingbird, Filenet, Xerox DocuImage). Some have thrived whilst others have discontinued developing and supporting their products.  As a result, companies have document images stuck there.

So if you need to migrate legacy data, or want to reinstate lost image index/meta data … we can probably help – for more information please click here or call us on 0800 988 5543.