Regional VAD offers support for major document management project using two major international vendors, Kodak and Kofax
DUBAI, 08 March, 2004: Valuevad, the Middle East’s leading value-added distributor (VAD) for KODAK, recently supplied DocMan, UAE's leading records management and imaging services provider, with KODAK i260 scanners for an extensive scanning project for a major government department. The project, completed recently, took five weeks and involved scanning and capturing data from 600,000 sheets of double sided A3 documents.
“After evaluating various scanners, we (DocMan) chose to use two Kodak i260 scanners,” said Dalip Tripathi, Sales and Marketing Manager, DocMan. “The scanners offered a high throughput, and exceptional paper handling ability. Resultant images were of a high quality while maintaining small file sizes.”
DocMan is the region’s leading records management and imaging services provider, with a uniquely comprehensive suite of services which bridge the gap between physical and electronic records management. DocMan has used Kodak and Kofax products for several other projects.
The data capture requirements of the recent project required the use of software with high reliability in Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) and barcode recognition. Kofax Ascent Capture was used because of it superior recognition engines, and flexibility which resulted in a workflow which was precisely suited to the project requirements.
“The scanners were used for 14 hours a day, six days a week, and were backed up by onsite support by Valuevad,” added Tripathi.
“Along with the software, the scanners performed seamlessly, and resulted in the project being completed a week ahead of schedule.”
The KODAK i260 Scanner (part of the KODAK i200 series) delivers the fastest colour scanning in its class, up to 134 images per minute. Its electronic colour dropout feature lets the user easily eliminate lines and shaded boxes for non-essential background objects, making automated data extraction more accurate.
“These scanners offer virtually trouble-free operation,” pointed out Lars Jeppesen, MD, Valuevad. “Whether you need to scan 30,000 or more documents every day or 1,000 documents in the shortest time possible per day, there's a scanner with the volume capacity and speed to support cost-effective processing.”
The i260 (duplex) model, like the one used by DocMan, comes with KODAK’s exclusive Perfect Page Scanning. This suite of built-in technologies automatically makes colour, greyscale and bitonal scans incredibly clear, for excellent readability, both by people and OCR software alike. It also comes bundled with ISIS and TWAIN drivers and KODAK’s Capture Software, Lite.
Kofax Ascent Capture is the most popular information capture application worldwide. It accelerates business processes by collecting paper documents, forms and e-documents, transforming them into accurate, retrievable information, and delivering it all into your business applications and databases. It offers unmatched compatibility with scanners and other capture devices, plus content and document management systems, workflow applications and databases.
“Ascent Capture delivers powerful, production-level document and data capture,” said Jeppesen. “For document capture, it boasts the fastest, most flexible scanning and indexing solution around. For data capture, it can extract important information such as hand-printed words, machine-printed text, bar codes and even checked boxes.”
Kofax Ascent Capture can use the same powerful indexing and validation process to capture information that doesn’t start on paper, such as electronic documents, multimedia files and even XML feeds from other systems. That means that any workflow or content-management system gets consistently indexed content – no matter what the source – and enterprises get reliable, easy and fast retrieval of all information.
According to Jeppesen, Kofax has sold over 50,000 Ascent Capture licenses worldwide into industries as diverse as state and local government, manufacturing, transportation, financial services, insurance, healthcare, accounting, and legal.
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About Valuevad
VALUEVAD is a Value-added Distributor (VAD) dedicated to Imaging & Storage distribution and services – we distribute our products through a network of authorized System Integrator (SI) and Value Added Re-Seller (VAR) partners throughout the Middle East, Sub-continent and Africa. Based in Dubai, VALUEVAD is the regional master distributor for Kofax, Kodak, Fujitsu, Bell & Howell, Plasmon, Legato and Mediaform.
For more information, please visit www.valuevad.com.
About DocMan
DocMan is the UAE's leading records management and imaging services provider. DocMan provides a uniquely comprehensive suite of end-to-end document management services. Its portfolio of services include Paper Records Storage, Document Imaging and Scanning, Tape and other media Storage and Rotation, Marketing Collateral Fulfilment, Records Management Consulting and Facilities Management.
As the only purpose built and most technically advanced records management facility in the UAE. DocMan also provides services to bridge traditional document storage and electronic document management.
For more information, please visit www.docmanco.com.
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Valuevad:
Market Buzz International:
Blessy Varghese
Mita Srinivasan
Tel: +971 4 3197553
E-mail: blessy@valuevad.com
Tel: +971 4 3914873
E-mail: mita@themarketbuzz.net
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