Captiva Announces Integration with Eastman Kodak Products; Provides Seamless Interface between Document Capture Software and Scanning Technology.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2000 Captiva Software Captiva Software is now part of EMC Software Group, a division of EMC Corporation.[1] Captiva makes software solutions for document information processing and data capture from paper and electronic documents and provides related services. Corporation, the market leader in enterprise information capture software, and the Document Imaging division of Eastman Kodak Company, the leader high-speed digital document scanning technology, today announced a strategic alliance and cooperative marketing agreement. The alliance focuses on the integration of Captiva's automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. document capture and forms processing capabilities with the production scanners and scanning software of the Kodak Document Imaging division. The two companies will provide a standard, supported interface between Kodak production 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. and Captiva's FormWare(TM) products. The integration will provide a complete scanning and document capture solution, allowing channel partners and customers to avoid costly custom programming and making deployment faster and easier than ever before. Kodak's Digital Science(TM) Capture Software provides a production-ready application to integrate any of Document Imaging's production document scanners into Captiva's FormWare software. Kodak's Capture Software will provide FormWare compatible output and eliminates the need to devote extensive development resources to customize the image capture software. It simplifies the preparation and transfer of batches of images to the FormWare system, complete with associated index data. Captiva's award winning FormWare software will provide image enhancement See image editing. , quality assurance, and additional document indexing methods in addition to its award-winning form processing capabilities to all Kodak scanner (1) See also antivirus program. (2) An optical device that reads a printed page or transparency and converts it into a graphics image for the computer. The scanner does not recognize or differentiate in any manner the content of the material it is scanning. users. Through these applications, FormWare will complement Kodak scan solutions by enhancing document content, including data elements, as well as providing the gateway to a variety of back-end document management solutions. With a component based architecture that is modular, scalable, work-flow controlled and open to third party products, FormWare is designed for a variety of user needs for capturing and processing from several hundred to hundreds of thousands of documents each day. &uot;Our partnership with Kodak gives us the opportunity to leverage the expertise of Kodak's Document Imaging within its own product set to provide a better solution to our end-users and partners,&uot; states Tony Caputo, Vice President of Sales at Captiva. &uot;When coupled with the newer scanner offerings from Kodak, this alliance also helps Captiva position our products for the middle markets.&uot; &uot;Our alliance with Captiva supports our mission to increase market share by applying the most innovative digital technologies to our product lines,&uot; said Stephen Archer, director of business strategy at Document Imaging. &uot;As two market leaders, the joint efforts of Captiva and Kodak will provide customers with easier access to a more complete, robust scanning and capture solution than ever before.&uot; Kodak, through its Document Imaging Division, offers components and media for a variety of imaging and document management applications that require micrographics The production, handling and use of microfilm and microfiche. Images are created by cameras or by COM units that accept computer output directly. The documents are magnified for human viewing by readers, some of which can automatically locate a page using indexing techniques. , digital or hybrid solutions. For information, call Kodak Document Imaging at 1-800-243-8811 (U.S. and Canada), contact the Kodak-authorized representative nearest you, or visit the Kodak Document Imaging worldwide web site at www.kodak.com/go/docimaging. Captiva Software Corporation is the leading provider of information capture software. Since 1989, the company's award-winning products have been used to manage business-critical information from forms, documents and electronic data streams into the enterprise in a more accurate, timely and cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. manner. These products automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. the processing of more than 5 billion forms and documents annually, converting their contents into information that is usable USable is a special idea contest to transfer US American ideas into practice in Germany. USable is initiated by the German Körber-Stiftung (foundation Körber). It is doted with 150,000 Euro and awarded every two years. in database, document-management and Internet-publishing systems. Captiva's technology serves more than 25,000 users in financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , healthcare, insurance, government, legal and other markets. Captiva is privately held with headquarters in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , CA. For more information, please visit: http://www.captivasoftware.com Captiva and FormWare are trademarks of Captiva Software Corporation. All other companies and products mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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