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How Google's Acquisition of JetPac is Relevant to You

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One of the sessions at the upcoming Harvey Spencer Associates Capture Conference is entitled “Photo and Video Understanding: Augmented reality used in transactional information.” It is being presented by (and this is a pretty long title, so get ready) Christopher Surdak, Global Subject Matter Expert, Information Governance, eDiscovery and Analytics, HP Autonomy. Anyhow, Harvey gave me brief explanation of why he felt this is relevant to his audience of mainly capture ISVs.

“[Surdak] is going to talk about some things I think are exciting,” said the principal of HSA. “This includes the ability to lift up the hood for your Nissan, take a picture, and have an application figure out what engine parts you need and then take you to a list where you can order them. The ability to place the order and have it fulfilled is what creates the transaction. The subject matter is basically about capturing photos and video, instead of a static document, to trigger a transactions. Insurance claims adjustment is another example where this is relevant.”

I was thinking about this session (HSA Capture is being held Sept. 3-4 at the Glen Cove Mansion on Long Island), this morning when I read that Google had acquired image recognition start-up JetPac. JetPac apparently makes technology that can analyze facial expressions on sites like Instagram and use those analytics to make recommendations about the best places to go (for example, best bars) in a geographical area. This is interesting because it also combines another topic that was covered at HSA last year, which was “sentiment analysis.” Last year Brian Garr of LinguaSys, presented on how his company analyzed the sentiment expressed in texts on social media sites and is able to let businesses know what people are saying about them. When you think about combining the power of JetPac and LiguaSys and introducing it into current capture applications, the possibilities are fairly powerful. Let’s just say it could make Smart Process Applications even smarter.

As we wrote in a recent article in our premium edition of DIR, the capture market sure has come a long way in 10 years.

 

 

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