Scanning & Capture

A $US1B buyout of leading enterprise capture vendor Kofax by Lexmark adds more weight to the capture and workflow software holdings of its Perceptive subsidiary, following earlier acquisitions ReadSoft and Brainware. It also potentially brings into play the huge channel network of over 850 partners that Kofax has established worldwide in raising the profile of Perceptive’s full suite of information management software.

ABBYY has announced three software development kits (SDKs) designed for applications that retrieve business-relevant knowledge from unstructured information and turn big data into manageable corporate asset. All products are based on the company’s technology for natural language processing, which is claimed to understand the meaning of processed text with almost human precision.

InoTec Australia is launching the new Scamax 8x1 scanner at CeBIT Sydney 2015, a high speed scanner capable of scanning up to 300 Pages per minute or 600 images per minute.

Kofax Mobile ID is a new mobile capture framework that powers the capture and submittal of proof of identity documents.

A2iA has unveiled  its newest software toolkit, A2iA TextReader, which features a new inhouse developed technology for full text transcription. Developed by A2iA’s in-house R&D Team, the same  engine can be used for printed and cursive text recognition, enabling all types of documents be transformed into searchable and editable formats – without the use of a dictionary.

Kodak Alaris is targeting service bureaus, business process outsourcers (BPOs), and large multinational organisations with the launch of a new high speed scanner model offering throughput of more than 200 pages per minute.

Contex has released the SD One, a wide format scanner designed for the desktop and the scanning of oversized engineering and construction drawings for immediate cloud sharing.

Fuji Xerox Australia has signed an agreement with Kofax to act as a Platinum partner and reseller of Kofax’s smart data capture applications in Australasia.

The number of threats targeting software is constantly increasing, making the security of computer systems a key element of business continuity and success. Not only the loss of business-sensitive data poses a threat - there are also fraud, malicious activity, theft of personal data and so on. While the security industry has mostly been focused on finding bugs and viruses, the mistakes in how software is designed, its weaknesses and flaws - such as insecure storage or not validating data properly - can also lead to security breaches.

Top Image Systems is underway on a million dollar project to deploy eFLOW 5 at the Hong Kong subsidiary of one of the five largest international commercial banks in China. 

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