Ricoh & Nuance add personal touch to MFPs
Ricoh & Nuance add personal touch to MFPs
April 3, 2009:Nuance Communications and Ricoh have announced the “Personal Paperless Document Manager” (PPDM), a new desktop application for document scanning and conversion with network multifunction printer (MFP) devices.
PPDM scans documents directly to folders on a desktop and into ECM solutions. It makes scanning personal by letting users customise the MFP touch-screen menus directly from their PC, without the need for IT resources or intervention.
The user experience is enhanced due to the seamless integration of a powerful desktop application with intuitive icon-based selections on the MFP touch-screen. The solution allows scanning at the MFP with single icons for scanning to the desktop, network locations and content management systems such as SharePoint. It can accomplish many tasks – such as scanning to the desktop, creating a searchable PDF and converting to a formatted Word document – with one selection at the MFP.
PPDM simplifies scanning with features that allow users to combine scanned documents with existing Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint content – all with drag and drop ease.
Nuance’s patent-pending PaperPort PSP server component is leveraged to provide users with clear icon-driven selections on Ricoh MFP devices, with automated delivery directly to the user’s PC.
With the PPDM server in place, users can directly customize their MFP scanning menus on any Ricoh MFP on the network, eliminating IT customization requests and freeing the time of busy IT staff.
PPDM includes both PDF-MRC, which compresses scanned colour PDF to be up to eight times smaller than image PDF files, as well as PDF Converter Professional, which adds allows users to create PDF from any PC application, and provides robust support for viewing, annotating and editing industry-standard PDF files. PPDM also supports advanced PDF features such as redaction, form-filling and digital signatures.
Robert Weideman, general manager and senior vice president, Nuance Document Imaging Division," said “PPDM isn’t simply a scanning application, but rather a document desktop that makes it easy to use, share and store all the documents on a user’s PC. With this new solution Ricoh has made it possible for organizations to provide their staff with everything needed to save hours every day by instantly turning paper into online digital documents.”
PPDM will be available in early mid 2009 from Ricoh.