Infodata Teams with IBM Canada to Build Document Imaging System.

This article reports that Infodata Systems Inc. and IBM Canada Ltd. have selected INQUIRE/Text as the full-text retrieval component of the Canadian Automated Patent System (CAPS), being built by IBM Canada for the Canadian Patent Office in Hull. Bridging INQUIRE/Text with IBM's ImagePlus, CAPS will result in the largest document imaging system in the Canadian federal government and likely the largest technological database in Canada. CAPS, a 10-year, $76 million initiative launched in 1986, was born from a need to cope with the growing volume of applications for patents and the growing paper files associated with issued patents. It is informed that CAPS will automate the process of storing, retrieving, classifying, examining, and publishing patents and patent applications.