Scanning & Capture

The 2015 ABBYY North America Technology Summit was held in California in November, where a team from ABBYY Australia was joined by local distributor ACA Pacific and channel partners to experience the latest developments in data capture and data analytics.

Ricoh Australia has released its new Flex Series range featuring an integrated cloud platform that connects users of compatible office multifunction devices (MFD) to 15 popular cloud services without requiring any on-site software.

HP has launched five new HP DesignJet technical printers for architect, engineering and construction (AEC) professionals, including the flagship HP DesignJet T830 Multifunction Printer (MFP).

Fujitsu has released new software for its ScanSnap scanner range that provides the ability to synchronise documents across various devices, and also a receipt management capability with multi-currency support.

Australia’s Outback Imaging, the Brisbane-based software developer, has launched a new release of its flagship document capture software, EzeScan version 4.3.

ABBYY has added new facilities for managing SharePoint Libraries to the latest version of its solution for document capture and optical character recognition (OCR). ABBYY Recognition Server 4.0 is a server-based solution for automating document processing in enterprise and service-based environments.

A major program is underway to digitise more than three million pages of paper records recording the history of more than 20 cemeteries dispersed across Melbourne stretching from Lilydale to Werribee. Created in March 2010 by amalgamating eight former cemetery trusts, the Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (GMCT) has begun the vast undertaking in tandem with a move to adopt the ELO electronic document and records management system.

Kodak Alaris was presented with the 2015 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Document Capture Solutions Product Line Strategy Award at this year’s Asia Pacific Best Practices Awards Pro-gram dinner held in Singapore.

Texthelp, a provider of software for the education sector, has incorporated ABBYY’s Cloud-based OCR (optical character recognition) technology to perform text recognition in its Snapverter app for Google Apps for Education users.

Shortly after Lexmark’s $US1 billion acquisition of Kofax, Howard Dratler was appointed head of sales with Lexmark’s Enterprise Software division and placed in charge of the global field organisation. On a recent visit to the region, IDM got the opportunity to quiz Dratler on the progress of merging the operations of Perceptive Software, Kofax and ReadSoft.

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