OTTAWA, ON, and TORONTO, ON, 9 July, 2007 – Toronto-based Kuehne + Nagel Ltd. has redefined productivity on customs invoices processing with a new forms management software solution provided by Ottawa’s Applied Docs Inc.

Available as an ASP service or via a perpetual license model, Applied Docs software delivers an efficient, accurate and secure Web-based process for capturing, verifying, managing and delivering data from paper and imaged sources into any business system. The software incorporates leading edge technologies such as OCR Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) and ICR Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR), data mining tools, and workflow processes.

“Our Applied Docs solution cut manual entry time on customs invoices by 4 times, and with some internal system upgrades we expect that time to fall further for a 10 times savings over manual methods,” said Charles Edwards, Project Manager at Kuehne + Nagel Ltd.

“The productivity gains add up to an absolutely incredible number and Applied Docs has really gone out of its way to make our deployment successful.”

“Kuehne + Nagel’s success is typical of what we can deliver in a wide variety of document processing applications – from passport processing to human resources forms to purchase orders,” said Applied Docs CEO Claude Paquin. “Applied Docs software ensures accuracy and relevance to business applications. It also incorporates automatic adherence to regulatory or self-imposed compliance and full audit tracking at every step of a customer’s business process.”

Kuehne + Nagel Ltd. is the Canadian subsidiary of Swiss-based Kuehne + Nagel Inc. The company, founded in 1890, has more than 46,000 employees at 830 locations in more than 100 countries and is a global leader in international forwarding. Kuehne + Nagel also ranks among the top three worldwide contract logistics companies.

Established in 2005, Applied Docs offers more than 40 years of document management and enterprise IT expertise to bear on intelligent data capture solutions that create dynamic operational data from paper based documents. The company applies both proprietary and off-the-shelf technologies to capture, verify, manage and deliver document capture information to business systems.