Advanced Professional Solutions (APS) has announced the release of Advantage Scan 4.0, a specialist scanning solution for the legal and accounting market.

Advantage Scan 4.0 allows each user to decide whether to automatically direct all scans back to his or her desktop, email inbox, shared drive or a document management system, or rather to "claim" the scan and review the image while still at the multi-function device.

APS Advantage has evolved from scanning technology developed in Australia by Billback, purchased in 2009 by APS' parent company, the locally listed Reckon Group. In 2009 Reckon also purchased US competitor nQueue, and the solution is now marketed in that market under the name nQueue Billback.

"Some users like to enable 'autoclaim' because it saves time at the MFD and allows full review at the desktop," says Peter Morris, Chief Technology Officer of APS.

"Other users prefer to have the opportunity to review the scanned image right at the MFD. Only Advantage Scan 4.0 provides this option."

The choice to enable autoclaim can also be made globally by the firm's IT team, with all users reviewing their scans at their own desktop.

The new release also provides users with additional flexibility by allowing them to make a number of decisions right at the MFD, including:
File format: Users can save the scan as a Microsoft Word, PDF or Tiff file.
OCR: Users can decide whether to OCR the document or leave it as an image.
Express routing: With one touch, users can route the file to an email inbox, shared drive or document management system such as Open Text ECM Suite, Autonomy Interwoven iManage Worksite and World Software Corp.'s Worldox.
Naming: Users can name the scanned image based on any convention.

Advantage Scan 4.0 can be deployed in standalone mode or integrated with solutions from eCopy, EFI and Omtool for document capture and workflow.