Some of the many Features and Benefits of iScan are as follows

Speed

• 8x FASTER THAN MANUAL AND 2x FASTER THAN ANY COMPETITIVE PRODUCT

  • Validate applications in as few as 10 seconds

    • Skips unneeded areas of the application based upon application content (foster, food-stamp)

    • No student number required

    • Automatically ignores ‘scribble-outs’, dashes, or other irrelevant or extraneous characters.

    • iScan downloads a copy of the Student Database

      • matches names not validating letters to make words/names

Checks for errors

• USDA and DOE guidelines are built into iScan to avoid validating Application incorrectly

• Automatic confirmation that the application data load successfully into Free & Reduced

• Displays if child has been selected for Verification

Training

• It takes about 40 minutes to train a new user to properly validate application,

• Can validate an applications in about 10 seconds for an error free applications to less then one minute with an application full of errors

Cost

• LICENSED TO THE DISTRICT- NOT PER COMPUTER

  • No additional cost to upgrade (add additional users)

  • Other systems charge by user

ICR (Intelligent Hand-Print Recognition)

• Ignores invalid characters (Dashes, ‘X-outs’, scribble-outs, etc.)

  • With most other systems you have to validate each letter (not complete names) and in cases of scratch out the users must delete each cell/letter of the scratch out which slows the validation process up to as much as 5-10 minutes per application