Cornerstone announces 24 document imaging vendors to supply InputAccel-compatible products; Leading Technology Providers Simplify System Integration with Plug-in Modules.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 18, 1995--Cornerstone Imaging, Inc. announced that InputAccel-compatible products will be available from an additional twenty-four leading document imaging technology providers. This group of providers joins the original eight announced in September 1994, bringing the total to 32. Included in the announcement were suppliers of scanners, 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 products, recognition products, workflow and groupware Software that supports multiple users working on related tasks in local and remote networks. Also called "collaborative software," groupware is an evolving concept that is more than just multiuser software which allows access to the same data. software, and specialized forms processing and data entry application software. The announcement was made at the annual Association for Information and Image Management The Association for Information and Image Management or AIIM (pronounced aim) is an international industry association focused on enterprise content management (ECM). (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. ) conference. InputAccel is an open integration platform for the technologies and products used in the document capture process. Its compatible "building block" approach makes it easier for system integrators and application developers to create robust systems for the conversion of paper documents into electronic images. Importance of Automating Document Capture According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Thomas van Overbeek, Cornerstone's President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , "The lack of automation in the document capture and data extraction Data extraction is the act or process of retrieving (binary) data out of (usually unstructured or badly structured) data sources for further data processing or data storage (data migration). processes has inhibited the growth of the document image processing See document imaging. Document Image Processing - (DIP) Storage, management and retrieval of images. industry. "InputAccel offers an open, standardized way of easily integrating document capture technologies, which we believe will expand the industry. Considering the depth and breadth of industry support for InputAccel, others seem to share this view." Kimra Hawley, Vice President and General Manager of Software Tools and Input Subsystems, stated, "We are extremely pleased that InputAccel has been adopted as a standard by so many leading suppliers of document capture technologies. Such early support is unprecedented in the imaging industry and is indicative of the great need to easily integrate available technologies into cost-effective, tailored systems." InputAccel: The Open Standard for Document Capture InputAccel (see Figure 1) is a client/server-based system comprised of: - An open integration platform. The InputAccel Integration Platform (server) is a framework for designing, controlling, and managing the document capture process. - Functional "plug-in" modules that manage specific document capture tasks. InputAccel-compatible modules (clients), available from Cornerstone and from other suppliers, can be integrated into the system without programming. Only the modules required for the specific application need be installed. InputAccel-Compatible Products The following vendors participated in the InputAccel-compatible announcement. - Scanner Products - Image Processing Products BancTec Technologies Dunord Technologies Eastman Kodak Company Picture Elements, Inc. ElectroCom Automation Seaport Imaging(a) Fujitsu Computer Products Sequoia Data Corporation(a) Improvision Research T.i.S. Ricoh Corporation - OCR/ICR Products - Forms, Data Entry Products Comspec Corporation Caere Corporation(a) Datacap, Inc.(a) ElectroCom Automation GTESS Corporation Mitek Systems(a) Recognition Research, Inc. Nestor(a) TeraForm Corporation Prime Recognition, Inc. TextWare Corporation(a) Wheb Systems - Special Modules Diamond Head Software, Inc.(a) - Applications ICONOVEX Corporation Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. IMR IMR - Internet Monthly Report , Inc. Imagery Software Lotus Development Corporation (company) Lotus Development Corporation - A software company who produced Lotus 1-2-3, the Symphony spreadsheet and Lotus Notes for the IBM PC. Disliked by the League for Programming Freedom on account of their lawsuits. Quarterly sales $224M, profits $10M (Aug 1994). Recognition International, Inc. ViewStar Corporation Zylab (a) indicates vendor is a charter member of the InputAccel Developer Program Support from Industry Leaders "InputAccel's open architecture, hardware independence, and scalable approach really cuts the time required to create customized high performance document capture systems," said Dean Cruse, Vice President of Marketing at Recognition International. "Interoperability with InputAccel means our customers can easily take advantage of these systems, and will get the right solution at the right time." "By providing a high speed document imaging front end for 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. Capture, InputAccel can make it easier to get a high volume of paper-based information into PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. ," said Dave Emmett, Director of Recognition Technologies, Adobe Systems. Scott Cooper
"Both InputAccel and ViewStar have two distinct advantages -- unparalleled scalability and the ability to rapidly create highly customized solutions" said Shirish Hardikar, Vice President of Marketing at ViewStar. "This translates into a fast return on investment for our customers." "InputAccel and Kodak is a winning combination," said Michael Bida, Kodak's Business Imaging Systems Product Manager. "As Cornerstone demonstrated at the 1995 AIIM exposition, users can now create customized, easy-to-manage document capture systems that can process images as fast as Kodak scanners can scan them." About Cornerstone Imaging Cornerstone Imaging, Inc. is the technology and market leader in image display products for document image processing. The company's products and services focus exclusively on optimizing productivity in document imaging applications. Cornerstone's subsystems and software products are based on proprietary silicon and software to improve the scanning and display of digitally-stored images, processes critical to imaging user efficiency. Cornerstone's InputAccel is an open integration platform for the technologies and products used in the document capture process. InputAccel makes it easier for System Integrators and application developers to create document capture systems. -0- Note to Editors: Cornerstone, the Cornerstone logo, and InputAccel are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cornerstone Imaging, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Cornerstone Imaging Inc. Nancy McCluskey-Moore, 408/325-3318 nmccluskey@corimage.com |
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