Kofax VRS Software Integrated Across Entire Fujitsu Enterprise Scanner Family; Industry First for Fujitsu Enables Both Companies to Expand Strategic Partnership.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 2003 Kofax, the world's largest information capture vendor, today announced that Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. is the first imaging company to integrate Kofax VirtualReScan (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). ) software across its entire enterprise scanner family. After years of successfully integrating joint document imaging solutions, Kofax and Fujitsu will cooperatively deliver the latest version of VRS, Kofax's automated document image-perfecting software, across all levels of Fujitsu's "fi" series of scanners. Fujitsu was the first vendor to offer Kofax VRS technology with its scanners and has since significantly deepened its partnership with the company. Now, Fujitsu will be the first vendor to offer VRS and Kofax Adrenaline 650i SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. scanner connector boards with their scanning solutions in the workgroup, departmental, low-volume production and mid-volume production scanner categories. Kofax's award-winning, patented, VRS technology sets the standard for document image processing See document imaging. Document Image Processing - (DIP) Storage, management and retrieval of images. and scanning productivity enabling customers to achieve high-quality document capture more efficiently and at lower cost. "Our alliance with Fujitsu underscores our philosophy of providing the best document imaging solutions to our users and the channel," said Doug Rudolph, vice president of global sales for Kofax. "Kofax scanning technology has long been widely embraced by the imaging community. This integration with Fujitsu's entire fi product line will deliver exponential value to our joint customers." Fujitsu's first scanner to integrate VRS and the Adrenaline 650i will be the fi-4860C, available in October. VRS field upgrade kits are available now for Fujitsu scanner models fi-4120C, fi-4220C, fi-4990C and fi-4860C. "Fujitsu has, since the beginning, recognized the enormous capabilities that Kofax's VRS technology delivers to customers," said Don McMahan, vice president of sales for Fujitsu's Imaging Products Group. "VRS technology is clearly the standard for document image quality in all types of scanning environments and, just as Fujitsu's first VRS-equipped scanner raised the bar for the rest of the industry then, the new Fujitsu/Kofax partnership will do the same in 2003. "By deepening our relationship and further integrating our offerings, both Kofax and Fujitsu reaffirm their leadership positions in the document imaging industry and, most important, bring an even greater array of world-class imaging solutions to market." VirtualReScan -- Improving Image Quality Patented, award-winning VirtualReScan (VRS) technology delivers significant ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). by greatly improving the readability of scanned documents. It automatically straightens, crops and optimizes images in real time. It also increases the accuracy of data captured from scanned documents, reducing the need for manual corrections of intelligent character recognition In computer science, intelligent character recognition (ICR) is an advanced optical character recognition (OCR) system that allows fonts and different styles of hand writing to be learned by a computer during processing to improve accuracy and recognition levels. (ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition or Image Character Recognition) The machine recognition of hand-printed characters as well as machine printing that is difficult to recognize. ) and 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. ) results. VRS improved OCR results approximately 35 percent in tests conducted by independent research firm Doculabs. With VRS, users can load any combination of document types and sizes into a scanner and simply press the scan button. The use of VRS as part of the document capture process results in lower operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales due to increased recognition accuracy, reduced rescanning, easier-to-read images, and a significant reduction in the manual labor required to presort pre·sort tr.v. pre·sort·ed, pre·sort·ing, pre·sorts To sort (mail) according to Zip Codes before delivering to a post office. documents and change scanner settings. "VRS has emerged as the 'must-have' feature for production document scanners," said J.D. Moons, Kofax director of marketing for image processing products. "It's now a standard feature or an optional upgrade for products offered by all major document scanner vendors." About Fujitsu Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting technologies, highly reliable computing and telecommunications platforms, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6 trillion yen (US$38 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2003. For more information, please see: www.fujitsu.com About Kofax Kofax Image Products, Inc. (www.kofax.com), a division of 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 (www.dicomgroup.com), 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. According to research by Strategy Partners, Kofax is the largest capture software vendor in the world. EDC is essential to helping document-intensive organizations economically, reliably and securely collect, transform and deliver information from all sources into their electronic business processes and archives. VirtualReScan and VRS are registered trademarks of Kofax Image Products, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks belong to their respective owners. |
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