The company has said it will combine the VirtualReScan software produced by Kofax with its own Topcall MFPConnect system which links multi-functional peripherals to the enterprise fax server used for centralized archiving, monitoring, and logging of all incoming and outgoing messages.
The Kofax VirtualReScan product is an electronic check-point for scanned images. As a document passes through the scanner, the software carries out multi-point inspection, checks and adjusts for document alignment, brightness, contrast, and image clarity. Scans of paper documents are easily skewed. Some images will be unreadable because they were poorly scanned, others because they were scanned at incorrect brightness or contrast settings. Any inconsistencies are corrected automatically by the software, or if the image is beyond a fix, it will flag the image and send it for rescan.
Vienna, Austria-based Topcall and Kofax of Irvine, California were both bought by the acquisitive UK-listed electronic document capture company, Dicom Group Plc.
Over the last couple of years Dicom has also snapped up Learning Computers International GmbH, which provides algorithms for image classification, forms processing, and document analysis; Neurascript Ltd, a Cambridge, UK-based company that provides software to automate the recognition, extraction, and indexing of information from business documents and forms; and Valuevad, a Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based distributors of electronic capture products.
Its plan is for product sets that combine unified communication and information-capture technologies that better help automate business processes, and moving it beyond its traditional smaller systems into enterprise systems which sell for over $100,000.
