Scanning & Capture

Texthelp embraces ABBYY’s Cloud OCR

Texthelp, a provider of software for the education sector, has incorporated ABBYY’s Cloud-based OCR (optical character recognition) technology to perform text recognition in its Snapverter app for Google Apps for Education users.

Kofax stays agile under new ownership

Shortly after Lexmark’s $US1 billion acquisition of Kofax, Howard Dratler was appointed head of sales with Lexmark’s Enterprise Software division and placed in charge of the global field organisation. On a recent visit to the region, IDM got the opportunity to quiz Dratler on the progress of merging the operations of Perceptive Software, Kofax and ReadSoft.

Optical Character Recognition Can Mean Bad Analytics

Even in today’s digital world, documents proliferate in every part of an organisation – from accounts management (invoices, checks, and remittances) and human resources (employment applications and benefits forms) to engineering and manufacturing (design documents) and sales and marketing (sales plans and marketing collateral). Documents remain a key vehicle for making transactions and business processes work, and so document management continues to be a challenge. Optical character recognition (OCR) was the initial answer to many document-management woes, but in the age of big data analytics, OCR shortcomings can result in bad analytics.

ABBYY helps global logistics company automate document processing

ABBYY has announced its role in helping Rhenus Assets & Services – the Shared Services Centre of the global logistics company – to process up to 1.8 million documents annually in the form of incoming invoices, delivery notes, and many other paper documents. Following central processing and classification of the documents, data from incoming invoices are read according to business rules and then passed to the workflow-based approval process in SAP.

Konica Minolta Australia launches two bizhub MFPs

Konica Minolta Business Solutions has launched two new office colour multifunction printers (MFP), bizhub C368 and bizhub C308. Loaded with multiple remote and mobile printing technology standards, both the bizhub C386 and bizhub C308 series can be used to print from an exhaustive range of devices without the need for software drivers.

Brother’s new inkjet MFCs are cloud ready

Brother International has introduced a new Inkjet Multi-Function Centre (MFC) family that works with your favourite smart devices and cloud services.

Brother scans the future

Brother International has signalled its intention to climb further up the food chain in professional imaging workflow following the launch of two new desktop scanners and with plans for further development of scanner technology in the works.

nQueue simplifies scanning with iA Scan Desktop

nQueue has announced the release of iA Scan Desktop to allow legal and other professionals to easily and properly route scanned documents to a personal folder, email address or document management system, whether the scanning is done personally at a desktop scanner or remotely at a multi-function device or copy centre.

Kodak Alaris offers Windows 10 scanner drivers

Kodak Alaris has announced that its desktop, workgroup and departmental scanners can now be upgraded to support the new Windows 10 operating system from Microsoft. Customers can perform the free download by visiting the Kodak Alaris website and installing new drivers on their scanners.

Nuance unveils AutoStore 7 and eCopy 5.4

Nuance Communications Australia has announced the introduction of new versions of its capture software products, Nuance AutoStore 7 and eCopy ShareScan 5.4.

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