I saw some really cool technology this week at a demo our scanning distributor arranged. It was a joint demonstration with Fujitsu and Kofax. The capture side was the soon to be released Kofax Express. Kofax has built a really powerful capture and imaging application for the consumer on a limited budget. But note, this application has many of the features of a full-blown capture application. Separation, barcode index field population, and release to several formats, inlcudig Microsoft Sharepoint. Along with that, it will include all the image processing features of Kofax VRS 4.2. All this for a price between $495 and $2000, depending on the speed of your scanning device.

Along with the software, demonstrations of the Fujitsu fi-5900C, fi-6140 and fi-6770A were performed. The new Fujitsu line is pretty incredible. The fi-6670 and 6770 are replacements for the previous workhorses, the fi-5650C and fi-5750C. The scanners can also be bundled with built in hardware VRS, as denoted by the “A” in fi-6670A and fi-6770A. So what is new in this product? First of all, the speeds are at 90 ppm now, which places these scanners in a whole new class. Secondly, they have implemented a new multifeed technology that allows the scanner to learn from scanned documents, and ignore sticky notes, or other items like checks which are pasted/taped onto a sheet of paper. This can be a huge time saver.

For more info check out the links at ScanGuru Capture and Scanner Links.

Looking for a way to get case documents onto the network quickly?  Want to create a case coversheet and have scanned documents go into their appropriate folders with no intervention?

I have written a review on PSIGEN PSI:Capture herePSIGEN PSI:Capture Review. Great, flexible piece of software.

The legal environment is fast paced, and efficiency can be key to processing paperwork in a timely manner. Psigen’s PsiCapture is the perfect tool for the scanning law firm.

The product allows for the creation of case cover sheets, which will auto-file scanned documents based on case, matter and document type. You have a wide variety of choices for output, and the product will convert scanned files to several searchable formats using OCR: Adobe with hidden text, word, html, etc.

The product can be mapped to your existing case folders, or you can enable several different types of output, also called migrations. Export your files to summation, images with csv, and to a wide variety of document management formats including Microsoft SharePoint/MOSS 2007.

From a document imaging perspective, the product has some powerful features, and you can view pages as they are scanned or imported from a folder/cd. Replace, insert, delete and even adjust your image enhancement settings through an easy to use interface.

You can also post-process your images, allowing for the removal of pages, or even Bates Stamping.

All-in-all the product simplifies the scanning process, and takes away the manual steps required to scan, process and file documents.

For more information on the product see the link below:

Psigen PsiCapture Review

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