Question: What do 3½ -inch floppy disks and microfilm scanners have in common? Answer: Both are technologies that have been overtaken by events. It happens all the time: a new technology is invented to better support a particular need, it generates much buzz and often...
Dedicated use device for scanning documents No need to wait for the copy machine to become free for use Versatile functionality without compromise of added complexity Advanced scanning functions performed transparent to user Ability to...
One of the nice things about having tracked the use of process and information technology for so many years is that my contempt for gaudy headlines and showy marketeering is something that I have come by honestly. There is plenty of revolutionary talk that I do believe in, such as the buzz...
Building an effective capture solution – Part 1 of 3 (User Experience/Device/Interface) In this three part series of blog posts I would like to walk you through building a highly-effective, yet extremely agile and surprisingly affordable document capture solution. Not a piece-part of...
Like the proverbial dead horse, the “paperless office” is a term that still elicits endless beatings. What a sad state paper is in. We love it. We hate it. Some days we even love to hate it. Some claim it’s renewable, it’s clutter, it’s a major cause of pollution or it’s nostalgic....
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Leveraging an investment in scanning hardware and software should always be a priority. Afterall, these are typically not cheap investments although the ROI can be outstanding if implemented properly. In this blog I would like to share some little known, yet extremely useful, features...
I have seen quite the plethora of news about scanners with embedded OCR recently. Seeing the term “OCR” come across in my Google news feed is quite exciting, and a great way to start my day. Let me share some of my recent findings, and what they mean in the larger scope of automation. ...
AIIM and Harvey Spencer of Harvey Spencer Associates have been working on the creation of a Capture Software Evaluation Report, which (we are both EXTREMELY happy to say) is done. Harvey is tremendously knowledgeable and conversant with the myriad uses of capture technology, understands the...
The concept of remote scanning is not new. The implementation of the concept is morphing. In the old days -- which was not that long ago -- the “remote” scanners were connected to the centralized processing system. Effectively it was a “Master & Slave” model. The new model of remote scanning...
After a few false starts, and probably an industry getting ahead of itself, document scanner hardware vendors and document capture software vendors finally seem to grasp the opportunity of network scanning. However, and certainly more importantly than the vendors themselves better...
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