Visioneer, Inc., a leader in intelligent imaging solutions and Kofax, the world's largest information capture vendor, today announced Visioneer OneTouch® with VRS™ Technology. A joint development project, OneTouch with VRS Technology is an integrated software solution that combines the ease of Visioneer OneTouch® scanning, with the superior image quality achieved with Kofax VRS™ (Virtual ReScan®) technology that results in scanned images that are of the best quality possible in one simple step.
"The tight coupling of Kofax VRS Technology with Visioneer OneTouch is a major breakthrough in the information capture and scanning markets because it will enable users of Visioneer and Xerox DocuMate scanners to automatically improve the quality of every image they scan," said Rob Klatell, chief executive officer of Kofax's parent company, DICOM Group. "We value our partnership with Visioneer and appreciate their commitment to working with us and advancing the information capture market through innovations like OneTouch with VRS Technology."
"Visioneer's and Kofax' commitments to bring simplicity and accuracy to the scanning experience are proven again through the integration of OneTouch with Kofax VRS Technology. The combination of these technologies makes high quality scanning both easy and fool-proof, providing a compelling argument for any end user," said Susan Moyse, president of Moyse Technology Consulting.
"Increased productivity and compliance requirements are responsible for the growth in scanning at the workgroup and department levels. OneTouch with VRS Technology will now help accelerate scanning adoption at all levels. The end user gets an easy-to-use scanning solution without sacrificing access to sophisticated technology. The best of both worlds converge," said Murray L. Dennis, president and CEO at Visioneer. "We are very proud of this technological breakthrough and applaud the dedication of the Visioneer and Kofax teams that made this great idea a reality."
A Foundation of Innovation
In 1998, Visioneer was the first company to put buttons on the front of scanners and introduced OneTouch technology. OneTouch eliminated the multiple steps that were usually required in sending scanned documents to an application by enabling users to set the destination of their images by pressing a button on the front of the scanner and selecting an already configured destination, such as: scan to email, scan to the printer (copying), scan to storage, etc.
However, not all documents are clean laser quality pages. Document quality differs, sometimes dramatically. Some pages look great at one scan setting, and others are illegible. When scanning at 100 pages per minute, there is no time to go back and adjust settings for imperfect originals. To make scanning productive and streamlined, Kofax developed VRS technology which intelligently makes custom adjustments to each scanned page in a stack of mixed quality documents so that every page is adjusted to a crisp and clean image, automatically, without impacting the speed of the job.
As scanning has become more mainstream in general business and vertical business applications, these two technologies found themselves in the hands of the mid-market user. Both were found to be indispensable, but this presented a difficult choice. Scan with Visioneer OneTouch or scan using VRS technology, but not both. Through a joint collaboration, Visioneer & Kofax have successfully integrated OneTouch with VRS Technology.
Roadmap for Success
Now that the technical integration has been completed, Visioneer will begin rolling out OneTouch with VRS Technology to scanners in both the Visioneer and Xerox DocuMate product lines. The first products will begin appearing in the first quarter of 2007 and a staged release will continue throughout the year. Visioneer and Xerox DocuMate scanners that currently bundle VRS Basic will be able to upgrade to OneTouch with VRS Technology through a OneTouch download or CD (details to be forthcoming from Visioneer).
Since VRS is an in-line function of the OneTouch scanning process, all OneTouch scanning links such as scan to eMail, to Xerox DocuShare®, to Ascent® Capture, can benefit from VRS image perfection technology. When combined with the Visioneer OneTouch Links SDK, also announced today, even yet to be developed OneTouch links will use this VRS integration.
Lastly, this implementation of Visioneer OneTouch with VRS Technology supports the most current VRS Basic functionality. Users who require VRS Professional features can upgrade their OneTouch with VRS Technology software to VRS Professional. Upgrades will be made available later in the first quarter of 2007.
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