Scanning & Capture

Police may soon have a new way to catch paedophiles who distribute child abuse photos anonymously online. The technology could also help law enforcement agencies in other ways, such as identifying smartphone thieves who take pictures with the stolen gadgets and then post their snapshots on the Internet.

Kyocera Document Solutions has launched four new colour, multifunctional devices in its  ECOSYS range - the M6026cdn, M6526cdn, M6026cidn, and M6526cidn – suitable for small to medium sized workgroups typically printing up to 6,000 pages per month. 

ABBYY has announced FineReader 12, the newest version of its Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and document conversion software application. 

Kyocera Document Solutions has launched four new colour, multifunctional devices in its  ECOSYS range - the M6026cdn, M6526cdn, M6026cidn, and M6526cidn – suitable for small to medium sized workgroups typically printing up to 6,000 pages per month. 

Insurance companies, government agencies and healthcare facilities face a constant storm of paper documents that threaten to flood business processes and impede the flow of critical information. In these busy work environments, batches of paper such as insurance claims, vehicle registrations and patient records can be obstacles to productivity. To stem the tide, enterprises need to quickly extract data from paper-based documents and route the information to the right places at the right time to serve customers.

Konica Minolta Australia has launched a number of new monochrome devices to extend its MFD line offering high speed scanning capability.

The TWAIN Working Group, a not-for-profit organisation which provides the leading royalty-free image-capture API, has announced its release of the TWAIN Specification Version 2.3 and Data Source Manager Version 2.3.

Kofax has announced the availability of a Mobile Capture Platform, which it says dramatically transforms how businesses can extend capture capabilities to their mobile customers. 

Nuance Communications has announced OmniPage Capture Software Developer Kit (SDK) 19, for developers wanting to add sophisticated optical character recognition (OCR), imaging, and PDF creation and conversion capabilities to business applications. 

Fujitsu has announced PaperStream IP (PSIP), a new intelligent image enhancement driver designed for its "fi-series" document imaging scanner line in order  to maximize automation, productivity and efficiency throughout their document capture processes.

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