Ripcord announced yesterday its next generation digital imaging robots that scan, index and categorize paper record. These machines build on Ripcord’s market leading ability to quickly convert unstructured content trapped on paper into discoverable, analyzable and manageable information.

The robots, which will be in the company's HQ, are half the size of their previous counterparts, making them highly portable. This portability, together with even faster configuration, will play a key role in supporting the company’s rapid expansion plans at its facilities. With a host of software and mechanical advances, Ripcord’s new robots offer unparalleled levels of automated processing that reduces human contact with sensitive information, cutting potential errors and protecting customer’s data from the heavily manual handling that traditional vendors require.

Despite their smaller footprint, the new robots feature more sheet detectors, cameras and laser measurement systems than earlier versions, combining over 50 sensors to enable unattended operation and ensure leading security and quality. Ripcord’s fleet of robot’s leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence to adapt to the wide variety of unstructured content that customer’s send to be processed every day. The new robots expand on Ripcord’s automated approach to digitization of paper records, now supporting new types of documents like extra-long format well logs, often longer than 25 feet, that are extensively used in the oil and gas sector.

“Ripcord’s new robots represent a significant step forward for the company. Not only do they deliver speed and quality improvements, they’re also less expensive to build and maintain, easier to transport and can be up-and-running in a day,” said Wen Hsieh, General Partner at Kleiner Perkins. “This keeps costs low and predictable for Ripcord’s customers and continues to set the benchmark for the digitization of content in enterprise.”