Scanning & Capture

ABBYY, the provider of recognition, data capture and language-based text analytics technologies, has joined the Laserfiche Professional Developer Partnership (PDP) program. Laserfiche will integrate ABBYY’s FlexiCapture recognition and data capture software with its Enterprise Content Management (ECM) products.

PSIGEN Software has released PSIcapture 6.0, a new version of the company’s flagship capture product featuring a new user interface.

Brother International has signalled its intention to climb further up the food chain in professional imaging workflow, with the launch of a new range of high speed network scanners.

BreastScreen Victoria has developed an automated data capture solution to improve its interactions with women seeking to obtain early detection of breast cancer, resulting in a major improvement to workflow.

A Chinese consortium led by Apex Technology, which manufactures ink cartridge chips, has agreed to acquire Lexmark for approximately US$4 billion in cash

Text recognition developer A2iA is expanding its list of supported languages and character-types, to allow English, French, Arabic, Portuguese, German and Spanish documents to be automatically transcribed without a dictionary, regardless of whether written in machine print or cursive handwriting, and transformed into searchable and editable electronic data.

Tony Barbeau is a products and services general manager, and vice president of the Information Management division at Kodak Alaris. He is responsible for business management, strategic planning, product development and commercialization for the Kodak Alaris information management products and solutions. Barbeau knows firsthand the challenges that business process outsourcers (BPOs) face today in meeting customer demands for faster, lower cost document processing while working to help their clients leverage the advantages of digital transformation. I had the opportunity to speak with Tony regarding the new Kodak i5250 and i5650 Scanners, and how they help service providers keep pace.

Optical character recognition (OCR) technology from ABBYY is helping Melbourne-based financial software developer FinSuite to ease the burden on financial institutions in extracting and standardising data for business loan risk evaluation and processing.

A new field force automation solution called Capture OnTheGo provides organisations inundated with transactional forms an automated and portable solution for their employees to access and update crucial documents while in the field.

Foxit Software has announced the acquisition of Debenu, a provider of software developer and end-user solutions for the global PDF market. Debenu’s CEO, Karl De Abrew, a long-time entrepreneur and visionary in PDF technology, was also a Founder of Nitro.

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