About Us

Tangent Systems is a leader in the field of electronic check clearing software. Tangent’s electronic payment clearing software builds on 25 years of experience providing high-speed remittance and document processing systems. Tangent’s high-speed document capture, image data entry, balancing and check processing software has enabled customers around the world to process many billions of documents rapidly, efficiently, and accurately.

Tangent's facility is located about 20 miles northwest of Chicago's O'Hare Airport in Illinois (click here for a map). This facility is equipped to allow for integration, staging, and testing of all equipment to ensure that all components are operational and the system is functional before shipment to the customer site.


Tangent Systems, Inc.
2155 N. Stonington Ave., Suite 107, Hoffman Estates, IL  60169
Phone: (847) 882-3833 | Fax: (847) 882-3780

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide leading-edge payment clearing and image document processing technologies and solutions.

Our History

•  1984:   Tangent Systems founded to provide specialized document processing systems and software.
•  1986:   Tangent’s OEM check processing software licensed to the largest remittance solutions provider.
•  1988:   Tangent releases the DocuTran software product, an extraordinarily flexible application platform for integrating high speed document processing equipment with a full capture, workflow, data entry environment.
•  1989:   Tangent develops the world’s highest speed bar code reader, capable of reading over 60 bar codes per second.
•  1991:   DocuTran is fully image-enabled.
•  1992:   DocuTran adds Kanji and Katakana display and entry, for Japanese market.
•  1996:   Tangent develops the first PC-based image capture, rotation and compression hardware for 1,000 DPM check/remit transports.
•  2000:   One DocuTran user exceeds one million remittance payments per day.
•  2006:   Deposit21 begins clearing corporate deposits electronically.
   
 
 
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