Scanning & Capture

Lexmark has upped its bid for enterprise capture specialist ReadSoft, to counter a competitive offer that emerged on June 18 from ECM vendor Hyland Software.

A global express delivery firm has invested an additional $US736,000 in Kofax Capture, Kofax Transformation Modules and KofaxVirtualReScan (VRS) as part of its business transformation initiative. The customer’s objective is to create a shared capture services platform, eliminating manual and time consuming information capture processes at more than 800 widely distributed depot locations.

Kodak Alaris has added two new scanners to its Scanmate range that address specific document capture and management requirements in a transaction-based business environment, the i1150 and i1180 Scanners.

Boston’s Gradient, maker of the GScan document capture and indexing solution, has signed up as a Silver level sponsor for the Australian and New Zealand SharePoint conferences.

Lexmark International, has announced that it has made a $US182 million cash offer for Sweden-based ReadSoft, and the offer has been unanimously recommended by ReadSoft's Board of Directors.

Epson has introduced the WorkForce DS-40, its first wireless portable document scanner. Weighing just over 2kg, it offers Wi-Fi connectivity for point-to-point scanning directly to a PC, Mac or mobile devices, as well as one-touch scan-to-cloud capabilities.

OPEX Corporation has added a mixed document capture workstation, Falcon, to its family of prep-reducing scanners. 

Paragon Software Group has announced the release of PenReader 9.0 – a handwriting recognition technology that allows users to write with a finger directly on handwriting-sensitive touchscreens in any of 42 supported languages. 

A new line of network scanners from Kodak Alaris provides a central scanning solution to allow organisations to efficiently capture information from documents and route it into key business processes without the need for a dedicated PC. 

ABBYY has announced the availability of FineReader 12 Corporate, the next generation of its Optical Character Recognition (OCR) solution.

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