25 September 2005
The new version of the Arabic document management system automates workflow, scans and converts documents into text, enabling processing and archiving

Sakhr Software Co. launches its highly sophisticated Arabic document management system at "Gitex Dubai 2005." Fifth generation "ArabDox" is Sakhr's most advanced multilingual document management system, and the only Arabic system to be approved by stringent testing at Intel's laboratories which assessed the software's performance, behavior, and capability to process millions of files & documents in record time.

"Organizations throughout the Middle East, and the world as a whole, continuously seek the best in Arabic document management. To help our clients maximize benefits and optimize management of all the Arabic information, documents & data available within their organizations, we introduced a new version of "ArabDox" further enhanced with an embedded workflow system. This will greatly simplify the management of millions of files and documents. "ArabDox" also boasts search and retrieval capabilities which fulfill the unique demands of the Arabic language. Gitex is the perfect opportunity and Intel the perfect platform for Sakhr to launch this solution's latest version to regional markets," commented Moatasem Mohaisen, Regional Director-Gulf, Sakhr Software Co.

ArabDox 5.0 is a qualitative leap forward in the world of Arabic document management & archiving solutions, mainly because ArabDox 5.0 also includes an automated workflow system as well as its OCR capabilities which reads scanned text, recognizes it, and then converts the figures and characters into a text document. This technology is based on Diacritization and Omni technologies which quickly and accurately recognize characters and diacritics, and which provides full support for all Arabic fonts.

"ArabDox is the first enterprise knowledge management system to revolutionize the way organizations draw one complete, accurate and intelligent view of all of their Arabic information existing across their enterprise," commented Mohaisen. He added, "Sakhr has established a reputation as the Arabic Knowledge Management leader in providing optical character recognition, search, text mining, machine translation, and Arabic speech solutions. With the launch of its new 64-bit version of its knowledge management solution, Sakhr offers its clients in the Arab world the opportunity to optimize performance in a way which no other solution can offer."

It is worth noting that under stringent testing carried out by the international giant Intel both "ArabDox" and IDRISI 64-bit - the integrated search engine - were able to demonstrate exceptional qualitative performance, unparalleled in other similar Arabic, and non-Arabic, software, as the solution was able to process millions of files and documents in record time.

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About Sakhr:
Sakhr Software Company was founded in Kuwait in 1982, and was relocated in Cairo in 1990.

A leading Arabic software Co., Sakhr develops software specifically tailored to the needs of the Arabic market and Arabic language users. It has developed cutting-edge technologies that have had a strong impact on the Arabic IT industry. The company has also pioneered a new generation of Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies.

Sakhr opened a branch in the UAE in 2001, located at DIC (Dubai Internet City). Sakhr's list of clients includes giants such as Intel, Oracle, L.G, Tejari.com, in addition to many other well established global & region companies, governments & ministries, and central banks. For further information, please visit the company's website at www.sakhr.com

For more information, please contact:
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Office: +971 4 391 1555
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E-mail:media@sakhr.ae

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