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Visioneer Expands GSA/TAA Compliant Patriot Scanner Lineup for Government Agencies; Document Capture Product-Line Addresses Regulatory Compliance Starting at Under $600.


MCLEAN, Va. -- Visioneer, a leader in intelligent imaging solutions, today announced two new GSA/TAA-compliant high-speed, ADF (1) (Application Development Facility) An IBM programmer-oriented mainframe application generator that runs under IMS.

(2) (Automatic Document Feeder) A paper stacker that feeds one sheet of paper at a time into the unit.
 scanners designed to address desktop and departmental scanning needs for a broad range of government agency applications. The new Visioneer Patriot 680 and Visioneer Patriot 430 scanners were unveiled today at the 13th Annual Washington Technology Top 100 Conference. The new scanners complement the Visioneer Patriot 780 and Visioneer Patriot 470 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 the Visioneer NetScan 2000 scan server, forming a complete line of scanners and network scanning solutions.

"Today's public sector is facing a difficult task in managing the large and rapidly increasing volume of paper and electronic information within various departments," said Don F. McMahan, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Visioneer. "Visioneer's Patriot product-line is designed to improve records management productivity and regulatory compliance requirements Compliance requirements are a series of directives established by United States Federal government agencies that summarize hundreds of Federal laws and regulations applicable to Federal assistance (also known as Federal aid or Federal funds).  utilizing Visioneer's award-winning OneTouch technology for ease-of-use. When a Visioneer Patriot scanner is connected to a NetScan 2000 scan server it creates a highly efficient and cost-effective network scanning solution whereby the user can load their document, press a button to scan their document and retrieve their paper in one visit to the scanner, rather than two trips with conventional devices."

New Patriot Scanners

The Visioneer Patriot 680 is a duplex (communications) duplex - Used to describe a communications channel that can carry signals in both directions, in contrast to a simplex channel which only ever carries a signal in one direction.  flatbed scanner A scanner that provides a flat, glass surface to hold pages of paper, books and other objects for scanning. The scan head is moved under the glass across the page. Sheet feeders are usually optionally available that allow multiple sheets to be fed automatically.  that was designed specifically for departmental use and can be programmed to automatically scan up to 99 different destinations and be customized for each person or workflow in the department. The Visioneer Patriot 680 also has an 8.5" x 14.5" flatbed that can accommodate documents up to legal size and scans up to 80 images per minute (ipm) for double-sided documents.

The Visioneer Patriot 430 is a small, easy-to-use, color sheetfed scanner designed for desktop use that scans double-sided documents at speeds up to 30 images per minute. It is a great fit for enterprises who are interested in distributed scanning solutions and want to place smaller scanners in many locations as an alternative or in addition to centralized cen·tral·ize  
v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es

v.tr.
1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate.

2.
, high-volume scanning operations. The scanner includes X1 Technologies Desktop Search that enables users to scan, store and locate any file, e-mail message, attachment or searchable 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.  scanned document instantly.

Robust Product-Line for Every Budget

Visioneer's complete Patriot product line spans the workgroup to production segments for U.S. Government agencies and private sector users who require GSA/TAA-compliant products that are fast, cost-effective and easy-to-use.
Patriot    Patriot     Patriot     Patriot    NetScan
                430       470(a)       680         780        2000
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Scan Speed @ 15 ppm/30  33 ppm/66  40 ppm/80   40 ppm/80
 200 dpi BW      ipm        ipm        ipm         ipm        ---
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Max Paper
 Size (ADF)  8.5" x 14" 8.5" x 14" 8.5" x 14"  11.7" x 17"    ---
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Max Paper
 Size
 (Flatbed)      ---        ---     8.5" x 14"  11.7" x 17"    ---
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TWAIN Driver    Yes        Yes         Yes         Yes        ---
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ISIS Driver      No        Yes         Yes         Yes        ---
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                                                           10 Base-T/
Interface     USB 2.0    USB 2.0     USB 2.0     USB 2.0    100 Base-
                                                                TX
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ADF Capacity    50         50         100         120         ---
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Size
 (footprint)  6" x 13"   6" x 13"  12" x 17.5" 26.5" x 20" 3.9" x 3.1"
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List Price     $595       $1195      $1995       $4995      $399.99
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                            (a) Also referred to as the Strobe XP 470


Powerful Software Suite

The entire Patriot product-line incorporates Visioneer OneTouch(TM) technology for eliminating multiple steps in sending scanned documents to predetermined pre·de·ter·mine  
v. pre·de·ter·mined, pre·de·ter·min·ing, pre·de·ter·mines

v.tr.
1. To determine, decide, or establish in advance:
 applications or devices. Scanning to searchable PDF maintains the visual integrity of the original document, with a hidden searchable layer. This allows for low-cost conversion from paper to PDF, while permitting easy distribution and ability to search, link, select/copy and index the text.

Kofax's award-winning VirtualReScan(TM) software improves image quality and increases overall efficiency of the scanning process for document management applications. ScanSoft PaperPort 10 Professional enables PDF files See PDF.  to be created from any Microsoft Windows See Windows.

(operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then.
 application, without the need for additional PDF creation, editing or viewing software. ScanSoft OmniPage Pro is a powerful 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.  productivity tool that delivers accurate and precise image-to-text conversion.

RoHs Compliance

In an effort to meet the RoHS environmental requirements (Directive 2002/95/EC on the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances), Visioneer's entire Patriot line exhibits lead-free power supplies, motherboards and chassis. The directive requires that electronics products shipped in the European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the

European Community
 (EU) eliminate or minimize several chemical compounds, including lead and mercury.

Pricing, Availability

The Visioneer Patriot 680 has a suggested price of $1,995 and the Visioneer Patriot 430 has a suggested price of $595. Qualified government and education customers are eligible for the Visioneer government discount of 5% through all authorized au·thor·ize  
tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es
1. To grant authority or power to.

2. To give permission for; sanction:
 VARs and distributors. Both scanners will ship in August in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  through distributors such as D&H, Ingram Micro Ingram Micro, Inc. NYSE: IM a Fortune 100 company founded in 1979 and based in Santa Ana, California. It is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. , NewWave, Tech Data, solution providers (VARs) and online retailers. All Visioneer and Xerox DocuMate scanners are now available in Mexico through CompuCenter de Mexico. Visioneer offers government and educational discounts to VARs for sales to authorized agencies. For product support and more information on Visioneer scanners, visit www.visioneer.com.

Visioneer is proud to offer both its Visioneer-branded and Xerox-branded products under a single reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers.  partner program. The 20/20 Perfect Vision program optimizes VAR margins and sales opportunities through volume incentive rebates, sales support, marketing tools, access to the 20/20 Perfect Vision extranet and blog. Additional information can be found at www.visioneer.com/2020.

About Visioneer

Visioneer provides a family of scanning solutions for the desktop, distributed and departmental document imaging markets as well as the mobile and remote business scanning segments. Visioneer's high-performance business scanners See document scanner.  and document management solutions offer users speed, image quality, advanced paper handling and ease-of-use with its exclusive Visioneer OneTouch(TM) technology. In 2003, Visioneer combined its leading scanner technology with the Xerox brand recognition to develop the Xerox DocuMate product line. In 2004 and again in 2005, the Xerox DocuMate 252 and DocuMate 272, respectively, were ranked by 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.  as best desktop document scanner. In 2005 the Xerox DocuMate 262 was given an Editors' Choice Award from PC Magazine for its price/performance, ease-of-use and best document management software. For additional information on Visioneer and Xerox scanning solutions, visit www.visioneer.com or www.xeroxscanners.com.

NOTE TO EDITORS: XEROX(R) is a trademark of XEROX CORPORATION (company) XEROX Corporation -

http://xerox.com/.

See also XEROX PARC, XEROX Network Services.
. DocuMate is a trademark of Xerox Corporation and used under license. The Visioneer brand name is a registered trademark. ScanSoft, PaperPort, OmniPage FormTyper, and TextBridge are trademarks or registered trademarks of ScanSoft, Inc. The U.S. Patent No. 6,480,304, (one button scanning) licensed from Nuance Communications Nuance Communications is a computer software technology company. Their current worldwide headquarters is in Burlington, Massachusetts in the United States. Nuance provides speech and imaging solutions and is mainly known for its speech recognition and speech synthesis software that , Inc. All other companies and products mentioned may be trademarks of their respective holdings and are hereby recognized.
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