Capgen was formed when the owners of a successful scanning bureau decided to leave the actual scanning to others and concentrate on helping clients to help themselves. As a bureau, The Capture Centre Ltd specialised in capturing high value, high quality documents on behalf of major clients such as the oil companies and newly privatised utility suppliers.

These documents described major assets of the companies and as such were themselves classified as assets. Established repeat business came from British Aerospace, BT, Shell, BP, Texaco, Rover, Lucas Aerospace, Powergen, Thames Water, Raytheon, Wessex Water, Zeneca Agrochemicals, and many others.

Since 1997 the Capgen partnership has been able to provide high-quality, experience-rich consultancy to both bureaus and corporations looking to embark on new scanning projects or enhance and improve their operations with established ones.

During this time, Capgen have developed their own comprehensive and affordably priced document capture and eBible solutions designed to meet and often exceed requirements found in the current industry.