Time Is Money — ABBYY Software Saves Government Agency Days

What began as a pilot program to improve timesheet-processing is now transforming Montgomery County's invoicing and accounts payable procedures into an adept system that dramatically reduces inefficiencies and greatly improves accuracy.

With more than 10,000 timesheets to process every other week, the Maryland county previously spent two days scanning documents and another three days reviewing them to correct errors in key pieces of data – such as employees' identification numbers – during the process, said Mayland Lin, Department of Technology Services at Montgomery County Government in Rockville, Md.