Award-Winning Software VRS 2.0 From Kofax Arrives for TWAIN and ISIS-Compatible Applications.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2001 Kofax today shipped Version 2.0 of its award-winning Software VirtualReScan (SVRS SVRS Statewide Voter Registration System (Indiana) SVRS Statistically Valid Random Sample SVRS Shrouded Ventilated Rotary Sander (construction) SVRS Solvent Vapor Recovery System ) automated document image perfecting solution. The new version now supports the popular TWAIN (Technology Without An Interesting Name) A programming interface that lets a graphics application, such as an image editing program or desktop publishing program, activate a scanner, frame grabber or other image-capturing device. and ISIS standards for communications between scanners and a wide range of software applications. Kofax has also greatly expanded the number of workgroup and departmental scanners which have been certified for SVRS. SVRS 2.0 won Transform Magazine's "Best of Show" award at AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management International, Silver Spring, MD, www.aiim.org) A membership organization founded in 1943 devoted to creating industry standards and disseminating information about the document management industry. 2001 for its unparalleled document image quality without user intervention. It is also a finalist for the magazine's "Product of the Year" competition. Winners will be announced later this month. With VRS (Video Relay Service) A communications service for the hearing or speech impaired. A VRS is the video counterpart of a TTY relay service, in which the user types on a terminal, and the relay operator speaks the messages to the recipient (see TDD/TTY). , anyone can load any combination of document types and sizes into the scanner and simply press the scan button. SVRS will automatically straighten, crop and optimize exposure in real time. A just-released white paper from Doculabs, an independent analyst firm, has also confirmed in lab tests that VRS reduces the time needed to prepare documents for scanning, increases optical character recognition optical character recognition (OCR), method for the machine-reading of typeset, typed, and, in some cases, hand-printed letters, numbers, and symbols using optical sensing and a computer. (OCR OCR in full optical character recognition Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry. ) accuracy by more than 30 percent and eliminates expensive, time-consuming document rescanning. Read it at www.kofax.com/learning/whitepapers/. Now Version 2.0 gives TWAIN and ISIS-compliant OCR applications such as Adobe Acrobat Document exchange software from Adobe that allows documents to be displayed and printed the same on every computer. The Acrobat system created the Portable Document Format (PDF), which is widely used in commercial printing and on the Web. See PDF. , OmniPage and TextBridge the same accuracy-enhancing image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished . "Like the original VRS, SVRS 2.0 produces perfect images on the first try, without being a scanning expert," said Kofax Director of Marketing J.D. Moons. "This makes it a good fit for remote, distributed, scanning operations where employees add scanning to their other duties." Multi-part forms such as shipping airbills, or any documents that are difficult to scan effectively, benefit most from VRS. A comparison of such documents scanned with and without VRS clearly shows that VRS scans are easier to read than non-VRS images. Examples may be viewed at www.kofax.com/products/virtualrescan/. Now Available for More Personal and Professional Scanners The new TWAIN and ISIS support brings these benefits to inexpensive personal and professional scanners from Canon, Epson, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, Panasonic and Ricoh. A high-speed, hardware-assisted version remains available for production-class document scanners An optical scanner geared to office documents rather than photographs. Also called "office scanners," "enterprise scanners" and "business scanners," desktop models have automatic document feeders that can scan in the range of approximately 15 to 100 pages per minute. from Bell & Howell, Fujitsu and Ricoh. Compatibility and Availability VRS operates automatically and invisibly between the scanner and the PC scanning application. It does not require any integration with the software application. It can be used with any Kofax ImageControls, TWAIN, or ISIS-based application as well as various scanners from the manufacturers listed above. SVRS 2.0 can be obtained now from authorized Kofax distributors worldwide. End-user pricing starts at well under $400. For specific pricing and volume discounts, contact your Kofax reseller or distributor. Version 2.0 is a free upgrade for registered end users of Software VRS Version 1.2. Upgrades may be downloaded at www.kofax.com/products/virtualrescan. About Kofax Kofax Image Products Inc. (www.kofax.com), a division of the DICOM (medical, standard) DICOM - (From Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine) A standard developed by ACR-NEMA (American College of Radiology - National Electrical Manufacturer's Association) for communications between medical imaging devices. Group plc, is a leading developer of application software and image processing products for the Electronic Data and Document Capture (EDC EDC See: Export Development Corp. ) market. EDC is essential to helping paper-intensive organizations economically, reliably and securely incorporate paper-based information into their electronic business processes. Note To Editors: VirtualReScan is a trademark of Kofax Image Products Inc. Adrenaline, ImageControls and Kofax are registered trademarks of Kofax Image Products. ISIS is a registered trademark of Pixel Translations, a division of ActionPoint Software Inc. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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