Outback Imaging, the developer of EzeScan document scanning software, has announced the addition of Microsoft Office file formats to its list of possible output file types.

As well as saving PDF files (image only, or text searchable) to EDRMS system, EzeScan users now have the option to output their scanned documents as editable MS Word or MS Excel files (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx).

Mike Kirkby, managing director of Outback Imaging, said, “Our customers can now create MS Office files from either our WorkStation or SERVER product without the need to switch to other software applications.

“Having the ability to scan documents and output into an editable format means our customers who would traditionally have had to retype these documents, can now save time and with many companies today being time poor and short staffed this is an important feature.

“We recently did a demonstration on this product to a customer who had a 50 page price list sent to them which they needed to retype for further costing analysis. Within a few minutes the document was scanned and converted to MS Excel format ready for the next stage, saving this customer hours of work.” said Kirkby.

EzeScan has also upgraded its  OCR capabilities to now include support for 100+ languages and improved OCR accuracy on small fonts.

“Many companies here in Australia deal internationally and our global market is increasing exponentially. Having the ability to OCR in any of 100+ languages means that our product is now even more useful to our customers.” said Mr Kirkby “Previously EzeScan supported 13 languages, whereas the new OCR capabilities dramatically increases this number and also allows multiple selections of OCR engines at any one time.” said Kirkby.