Rheinner Research Note: Hybrid CIS and CCD's in Document Scanners
The "eyes" of a document scanner are the technology that it uses in order to "see" what is on the page and render a digital image from what it sees. What makes document scanners ¡∫special¡Ö is a number of things, like MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure), duty cycles, quality of components used, construction quality, thoughtfulness of design and myriad other considerations. One significant component of a document scanner is the technology used to do the ¡∫seeing¡Ö. After all, the quality of the image that is rendered depends heavily on that. The way it works is relatively straight forward. The scanner reflects light onto the piece of paper, and the illuminated piece of paper is "seen" by the "eyes" of the scanner, and what the "eyes" see is converted into digital values. Consequently the quality of the image depends heavily on the capability of the "eyes".

Rheinner Research Note: Kofax Document Scan Server (DSS)
There is more than one way to do distributed capture. One option is to make individuals get up from their desks and walk to a copier or MFP, another is to give them their own scanner. Given the large number of workgroup and individual scanner shipments (projected in the 600-700K unit/year range) the idea of a personal desktop scanner for each worker is not a far flung concept: it is happening today.

Rheinner Research Note: Kofax Ascent 7.5
The conventional wisdom says that in order to do electronic document management, you buy a scanner and hook it up to your computer and start scanning. That is reflected by the most common question we are asked: "I want to do document management, what kind of scanner should I buy?" Few, except those who have started in that way, are aware that document capture is far more involved than that. Its safe to say that the "initiated" understand first and foremost, that document capture is a process, and that doing it effectively, productively and cost effectively means making managing the process the primary goal of the application.

Rheinner Research Note: eCopy
Why do we tend to like Borders more than the our public library? Because Borders is more convenient and modern. Why are 75 million people using Microsoft SharePoint versus other applications? For the same reason. Now there is a way to take advantage of SharePoint's information sharing and collaboration features by allowing users to simply walk up to their copier, scan their documents with the touch of a button, and route them to colleagues and into network folders - with ShareScan from eCopy.

Rheinner Research Note: Topcall MFP Connect
Companies looking to consolidate and manage their document communications infrastructure often overlook one of the most important devices in the organization, namely the MFP. One of its most important functions, the sending and receiving of faxes, or the scanning and distribution of documents can be performed without any management control over the content. With MFP Connect, powerful management relating to the sending and receiving of faxes can be implemented across the entire enterprise. Simultaneously the telephony infrastructure required to enable faxing on multiple MFP≠s located throughout the company can be simplified, and document control processes can be electronically established. Topcall (a Dicom Company, just like Kofax) is marketed in the US by Kofax.

Rheinner Research Note: iDatix Progression
For many years, the electronic document management industry has referred to workflow software as a separate and optional component to document and content management software. There is something about the term itself that conjures up visions of complexity, never ending rule definitions, long naval pondering meetings with no resolution on rules, routes and roles. Subject to a variety of interpretations Workflow can mean anything from the steps in a work process to Business Process Automation (BPA). iDatix simply defines Progression as the management layer for the iSynergy document management software suite, thus directly coupling documents with the business process to which the documents are related. Business automation is what iDatix does, and the Progression software product is a product that lets you do that like nothing we've seen before.

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