Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., recently announced that the Fujitsu fi-5110C compact desktop scanner was named a midmarket “Product of the Year” by CMP Media's VARBusiness magazine. The Fujitsu fi-5110C scanner leverages the industry-leading technology found in departmental and production-level scanners.

The Fujitsu fi-5110C scanner is featured and profiled in the special May 2 VARBusiness “State of the Midmarket” issue. VARBusiness, a biweekly magazine that provides strategic insight to technology integrators solicited input from information-technology (IT) vendors and solution providers to determine which products and services were best suited for midmarket customers - companies with between 100 and 999 employees. Entries were considered and reviewed by VARBusiness editors who selected only 100 of the more than 400 nominated products.

The Fujitsu fi-5110C scanner features reliable paper-handling from business cards and checks to legal-sized and other long documents, as well as high-speed USB 2.0 connectivity, a 50-sheet automatic document feeder (ADF), and double feed detection. The scanner has fast scan speeds up to 15 ppm (simplex) / 30 ipm (duplex) and excellent image quality with 600 dpi optical resolution and dual-CCD scanning arrays to capture fine details in color or monochrome.

The Fujitsu fi-5110C scanner comes standard with Adobe® Acrobat® 6.0 Standard and ScandAll 21 which allow users to quickly and easily integrate the scanner into existing workflows. The scanner also comes with TWAIN and ISIS driver support included.

Source:  www.fcpa.fujitsu.com

QAI is very excited about our new partnership with A2iA. A2iA (Artificial Intelligence & Image Analysis), founded in 1991, headquartered in New York and Paris, is the worldwide leading developer of Intelligent Word Recognition (IWR) technology for reading natural handwriting, including cursive handwriting from paper documents. The company's technology has been helping paper-intensive industries reduce data costs and improve processing automation for 14 years. A2iA's products combine the company's OCR, ICR and IWR technologies with its artificial intelligence and neural network systems, making it the most comprehensive advanced recognition engine on the market today. Bundled with Kofax Ascent and one of QAI's hardware partners, this new document imaging solution is ideal for many vertical markets.

QAI is very excited about this new hardware partnership. Visioneer provides high-performance business scanners and imaging software solutions. In 2003, Visioneer combined scanner technology with Xerox' brand recognition to develop the Xerox DocuMate series of workgroup scanners. Visioneer and Xerox branded products provide a family of hardware solutions for the distributed/desktop and mobile/remote business scanning/storage segment.

Captaris, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAPA), a leading provider of Business Information Delivery solutions recently acquired Information Management Research (IMR) Inc., a major software vendor in the archiving and records management market. IMR's Alchemy product line helps organizations capture, archive and retrieve business information. The combination of IMR and Captaris will enable the company to provide complete solutions for Business Information Delivery. IMR is one of the industry-leading Integrated Document Archive and Retrieval Systems (IDARS)vendors. The company's Microsoft-based solutions complement other Captaris solutions including the RightFax enterprise fax and e-document delivery, Teamplate business process workflow and Interchange information automation products. With a combined base of almost 100,000 system shipments worldwide, Captaris and IMR offerings can now be jointly deployed and integrated reaching even more impressive returns on investments for its customers within their existing IT infstructure and Platforms.

Source:  www.imrgold.com

Scanners displayed at QAI & Kodak

Open House on April 22, 2005.

Kodak introduced two new easy-to use Department Scanners to meet the needs of customers with scanning volumes up to 3,000 documents per day. For color and black-and-white documents alike, the KODAK i150 Scanner, a simplex scanner, captures documents at speeds up to 40 pages per minute (PPM), while the KODAK i160 Scanner, a duplex scanner captures both sides of documents at speeds up to 80 images per minute (IPM).

Kodak and QAI showcased these two new scanners as well as the entire product line of Kodak scanners at an Open House held on April 22, 2005 in Arlington, VA. The Open House brought over 20 customers to view the latest Kodak products as well as software technology from Kofax. This Open House was part of an ongoing partnership and series of joint events between Kodak and QAI. Stay tuned for details about the next QAI and Kodak Event.

Kofax, the world's largest information capture vendor, today announced a new version of its award-winning VirtualReScan (VRS) technology, the de facto industry standard for image processing. VRS 4.0 makes scanning more efficient and enhances the quality of scanned images by expanding the existing capabilities of VRS to include color processing and features that further automate document preparation.

VRS improves both image quality and OCR (optical character recognition) accuracy, delivering unmatched image quality and eliminating the need to rescan document images because of its automatic check for and adjustment of alignment (skew), brightness, contrast and image clarity. With color processing and capabilities that significantly reduce document preparation by automatically handling blank or rotated pages, as well as white-or black-background scanners, VRS 4.0 greatly accelerates the processing of documents, cuts the amount of time that knowledge workers spend on rescanning and improves their productivity.

VRS 4.0 significantly speeds document preparation, which otherwise could take twice as much time as the scanning process itself. Prior versions of VRS enabled users to avoid sorting documents by quality or size. Now, VRS 4.0 eliminates additional time-consuming manual tasks, such as sorting documents to face in the same direction, or inserting separator sheets to differentiate black-and-white and color documents.

VRS 4.0 taps into the widely under-utilized color capabilities of nearly all scanners by offering intelligent color detection and color saturation features. VRS 4.0 quickly and automatically processes mixed black-and-white and color documents in a batch; for example, it can recognize that a document captured on color paper should be captured as a black-and-white image, while still capturing individual color elements on other documents. Regardless of the scanner used, Version 4.0 delivers consistent image quality and color processing that extends the scanner's onboard image and color management software.

Source:  www.kofax.com

The new Spectrum production scanner performs up to 30 percent faster than previous models, and is ideal for high-volume document imaging in the financial services, insurance, service bureau, government and healthcare industries.

Made in the United States, the new Spectrum XF includes sophisticated camera technology that supports faster speeds, and Kofax's VirtualReScan® (VRS) 4.0 image enhancement with Auto Color Detect - onboard.

Fast and reliable, Spectrum XF is available in three main speeds of 140, 120 and 90 pages per minute (reflected in the new model numbers: 8140D, 8120D and 8090D), with optional color and imprinting on all models, and optional simplex scanning on the 8090 model. Spectrum XF can capture up to 140 pages per minute, with a daily duty cycle of 60,000 pages, which is up to 20 percent faster than most scanners in its class, to provide better throughput performance for both capture and forms processing users.

Spectrum XF now features the industry's most advanced camera. Its TriLinear 7.5K CCD camera provides sharp images at faster speeds, capturing 40 megapixels per second.

With Spectrum XF, scanning documents in color is as efficient as scanning in grayscale or bitonal. In addition, the scanner's accelerated bitonal speeds, combined with enhanced image quality and onboard image enhancement from VRS, deliver the highest optical character recognition (OCR) and intelligent character recognition (ICR), as well as superior barcode recognition rates for cost-effective forms processing.

Source:  www.bowebellhowell.com