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 There are many advantages to using SDMS including:
| • | Document types compatibility - SDMS supports many document types including unidentified documents. The following file formats are supported: |
| o | Microsoft Word (.doc, .docx) |
| o | Microsoft Excel (.xls and .xlsx) |
| o | Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx) |
| o | Comma separated values (.csv) |
| • | Extensibility - The system can be easily extended using custom parsers to extract and index required information from other binary formats. |
| • | Speed - It is faster than comparable software and requires no programming knowledge. Processing times are dramatically accelerated. |
| • | Intuitive - Elements are easy to work with because: |
| o | Each object in the document has a unique color so it is easy to identify. |
| o | User friendly functions, such as zoom-in and zoom-out. |
| o | Easy to modify and update. Users need not learn complex data extraction applications. The laborious task of producing data extraction scripts is simplified. |
| o | Versioning for templates, with check-out, check-in and activation processes. |
| • | Multi-page document support - Includes documents that have different page sizes and orientation. |
| • | Allows adding cross-page objects - When a text file is broken into pages and a table or another object in it expands beyond one page. The system creates a linked table, such as a table that extends to more than one page. Cross-page objects are visually marked with an icon on bottom-left and top-left corners of the split object. After the system identifies a cross-page object, it can: |
| o | Ignore the headers and footers inside the document (using lime light colored boxes on top or bottom of each page). |
| o | Modify part of the cross-page object to be reflected in all instances immediately. |
| o | Applies the same column adjustments made in the first page to the other pages. |
| • | Reconstructing complex tables - When a text file breaks a data table from one row into two or more, the system has the ability to reconstruct it. |
| • | No dependency on application software - When extracting data, an intermediate representation of the document is created in the background and the system logic is placed on top of it. This way, there is no dependency on the system that uses these parses of files. There is no need to have specific software (Microsoft Word, for example) on the server to view parsed files. |
| • | Multi-threading and Multiple CPU support - The the SDMS parser divides the document recognition process into several tasks and performs them asynchronously. This feature dramatically improves performance for such calculation-intensive task as visual pattern recognition. To support multithreading, only thread-safe structures are allowed. |
| • | Ability to correct data extraction if needed - Any inaccuracies can be adjusted with simple drag-and-drop manipulations and the corrections are integrated into the algorithm in an automatic self-correcting mechanism. |
| • | Ability to construct composite documents - Creates composite documents using a simple drag-and-drop functionality from Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power Point. |
| • | Ability to connect to laboratory instruments - Enables to exchange (and translate) medical data messages with instruments and data analyzers. The system allows designing the templates which define the rules for the communication and the translation. The content sent between various instruments is parsed into meaningful, predefined fields so it can be further processed and used. For more information, see section Instrument Protocol Translation Objects. |
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