KOFAX VRS SOFTWARE INTEGRATED ACROSS ENTIRE FUJITSU 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 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 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 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 (ICR) and optical character recognition (OCR) 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 due to increased recognition accuracy, reduced rescanning, easier-to-read images, and a significant reduction in the manual labor required to presort 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: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 Group plc (www.dicomgroup.com), is a leading developer of application software and image-processing products for the Electronic Data and Document Capture (EDC) 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.