News from QAI’s Partner Network

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Visioneer recently announced the Strobe XP 220, Visioneer’s most advanced sheetfed scanner that scans a full page in merely 6 seconds and is the only mobile scanner to include Kofax® VirtualReScan (VRS) technology. Kofax VRS technology is not simply bundled in as a separate application but, more important, directly integrated into the Visioneer OneTouch scanner software. As a result, just inserting a document into the Strobe XP 220 will automatically initiate scanning and VRS image enhancement; providing the user with superior quality scanned images, in one simple step.

The Strobe XP 220 scans a wide variety of materials including letters, receipts, business cards, photos and legal sized documents. It is compact enough to fit neatly on a desk and portable enough to pack easily alongside a laptop or in a briefcase. With the power of Kofax VRS technology, the Strobe XP 220 is now able to simplify the deployment of enterprise content management applications to the desktop and on the road where they are needed.

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., recently introduced its first network scanner into its award-winning line of scanning solutions. The Fujitsu fi-6000NS Color Duplex Network Scanner is the first Fujitsu scanner to combine the intuitive, easy installation of a desktop scanner with the productivity of a network scanner for sharing documents in today’s multi-location, global business environment.

The Fujitsu fi-6000NS is the quickest, easiest way to get an organization scanning and sharing documents. In the past, businesses needed centralized printers, copiers, faxes and storage discs to enable others in the organization to share documents and collaborate on projects. With the new fi- 6000NS, network document sharing, emailing and faxing just got a lot easier.

Simply load documents into the automatic document feeder (ADF), log into the system, type in the destination using the built-in US 101 keyboard, and press the scan icon on the large touch-screen display. The documents will be easily accessible and immediately available to the rest of the organization within seconds as the scanner distributes documents directly to a network folder, email, or fax machine. Moreover, the fi-6000NS creates secure, searchable PDF files allowing users to password protect their scanned documents to ensure files can only be opened by the intended recipients.

BÖWE BELL + HOWELL recently introduced the Sidekick 1400u with Ultrasonic Multifeed Detection. The Sidekick 1400u was designed to deliver high-performance document imaging to medical, legal, insurance and financial offices, as well as departments of hospitals, government agencies, law firms, educational institutions and other midsize-to-large businesses.

The Sidekick 1400u scans up to 43 pages per minute and has a daily duty cycle of 4,000 pages. It has color and bitonal scanning options and can handle documents ranging from 2 inches x 2.8 inches to 8.5 inches x 14 inches (legal size). In addition to the scanner hardware, the bundle includes everything an end user needs to operate a desktop scanning solution:

• USB 2.0 cable for easy connectivity
• Kofax’s VRS 4.1 image enhancement technology for auto-cropping, deskew, and brightness and contrast control
• Kofax’s Capio™ 1.5 capture software (in the United States only), to easily scan to PDF, file, retrieve and email high-quality document images
• Power cord, roller cleaning paper and startup CD (with a direct ISIS driver, and for the first time, a direct TWAIN driver for Sidekick)

Eastman Kodak Company recently introduced the KODAK i1840 Scanner. The new scanner joins the recently introduced KODAK i1860 Scanner, which just last month won the GCN Best of FOSE 2007 award for the scanner category.

All about maximizing productivity, the KODAK i1840 Scanner captures images at up to 160 pages per minute, and offers a variety of ergonomic features including a user heightadjustable base to maximize productivity while either sitting or standing. An intuitive color touch-screen display simplifies on-the-fly performance by putting a variety of controls at the operator’s fingertips and the scanner has the capability of pre-scan or post-scan printing. The KODAK i1840 Scanner is an ideal solution for paper-intensive environments such as service bureaus and insurance companies that centrally process claims, or financial institutions that handle volumes of transactions such as loan and mortgage transactions that have a wide variety of document types, colors, weights and demanding duty cycles.

Kofax recently unveiled the Document Exchange Server, a new software solution that is designed to facilitate the exchange of documents and information between standard document input devices within an organization such as multifunction peripherals (MFPs), scanners and e-mail—and transactional business processes such as invoice processing, new account openings, claims processing and sales order processing.

The Kofax Document Exchange Server plays an essential role in the company’s strategy to help organizations streamline business processes by capturing documents in the front office, where they originate, and move such information in real time to transactional business processes. As a result, organizations can improve the efficiency of their document-centric business processes, offer better access to information, reduce operational costs and offer superior customer service.

To help organizations make better use of their existing information technology infrastructure, the Kofax Document Exchange Server is designed to support multiple document input devices, including MFPs, document scanners, e-mail and fax systems. This flexibility allows organizations to standardize on a single-system to process both paper and electronic documents, and rapidly respond to changes in their business environment. For example, an organization may find that due to increase in document volume it makes more sense to use a dedicated document scanner rather than an MFP for scanning.

In this case, they can swap out an MFP for a document scanner connected to the already available Kofax Document Scan Server. Further changes to the underlying document processing infrastructure created by the Document Exchange Server are minimal.

The Kofax Document Exchange Server features a thin client application—the Document Exchange—where users can easily retrieve documents sent from an input device. Users access the Document Exchange from a standard Web browser where they can preview documents, combine them with others, enter index information and send them to a desired destination. For further ease, destinations can be saved as shortcuts to reduce the number of steps necessary to submit a document to a particular destination point.

Kofax Document Exchange Server utilizes Kofax VRS to improve image quality as well as improve processes like recognition and transformation. VRS also offers intelligent features that enable users to “blindly” scan documents with confidence knowing that VRS will correct the orientation or the document, eliminate blank pages, and improve the overall quality of the image.