Scanning & Capture

Lexmark finds Chinese buyer for $US4B

A Chinese consortium led by Apex Technology, which manufactures ink cartridge chips, has agreed to acquire Lexmark for approximately US$4 billion in cash

A2iA TextReader expands language support

Text recognition developer A2iA is expanding its list of supported languages and character-types, to allow English, French, Arabic, Portuguese, German and Spanish documents to be automatically transcribed without a dictionary, regardless of whether written in machine print or cursive handwriting, and transformed into searchable and editable electronic data.

Q&A With Tony Barbeau Kodak Alaris

Tony Barbeau is a products and services general manager, and vice president of the Information Management division at Kodak Alaris. He is responsible for business management, strategic planning, product development and commercialization for the Kodak Alaris information management products and solutions. Barbeau knows firsthand the challenges that business process outsourcers (BPOs) face today in meeting customer demands for faster, lower cost document processing while working to help their clients leverage the advantages of digital transformation. I had the opportunity to speak with Tony regarding the new Kodak i5250 and i5650 Scanners, and how they help service providers keep pace.

Making financial data talk sense

Optical character recognition (OCR) technology from ABBYY is helping Melbourne-based financial software developer FinSuite to ease the burden on financial institutions in extracting and standardising data for business loan risk evaluation and processing.

CaptureOnTheGo enables field force automation

A new field force automation solution called Capture OnTheGo provides organisations inundated with transactional forms an automated and portable solution for their employees to access and update crucial documents while in the field.

Foxit acquires PDF software tools developer

Foxit Software has announced the acquisition of Debenu, a provider of software developer and end-user solutions for the global PDF market. Debenu’s CEO, Karl De Abrew, a long-time entrepreneur and visionary in PDF technology, was also a Founder of Nitro.

MFP integrates high speed colour scanning

Konica Minolta has integrated dual sided, high speed colour scanning and a flexible OpenAPI interface into its new bizhub PRO 1100 multifunctional printer (MFP)

Brother MFCs pump up scan rates

Brother International (Aust) Pty Ltd has launched a new series of laser printers and Multi-Function Centres (MFCs). The new Brother L5000 and L6000 Series add advanced scanning capabilities, mobility features and access to business cloud services.

3 steps to streamlining government workflows

Too often, government agencies are not adequately dealing with the pervasive and expensive problems of security, control and access in their document-related workflows

Is digitising your physical records worth the financial investment?

The short answer is: no. Before I explain why, let me take you through a real world (and very common) scenario that I recently encountered.

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