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Now Available: More Customer Benefits With Expanded KODAK Capture Pro Software Portfolio

Monday 07. February 2011 - Kodak begins shipping new versions of Capture Pro Software with richer support for MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT Server and expanded support for enterprise installations

Kodak announces the immediate availability of KODAK Capture Pro Software Network Edition for enterprise applications, and the next generation of KODAK Capture Pro Software, v3.0. Each product advances the capture software capabilities of Kodak’s complete document capture solution—scanners, software and services. These new products introduce additional benefits, address new use cases and focus on helping organizations to more quickly and reliably capture data from documents to initiate a critical business process.
“We announced these products in October as part of an expansion of our capture software portfolio,” said Robert Bijster, Worldwide Director, Software Products, Document Imaging, Kodak’s Business Solutions and Services Group. “We are pleased to make them available right on schedule to help our customers optimize and transform the way they can deliver more meaningful information to key workflows, applications and processes.”
KODAK Capture Pro Software Network Edition
Capture Pro Software Network Edition makes it more efficient and cost effective to deploy Capture Pro Software across an enterprise, where there is a need to centrally manage and monitor multiple capture and indexing stations. The Network Edition comprises three separate product components:
KODAK Capture Pro Server Software
KODAK Capture Pro Software Output Server Module
KODAK Capture Pro Client Software
At the heart of any Network Edition implementation, Capture Pro Server Software enables centralized licensing and administration, as well as batch monitoring. Capture Pro Client Software brings all the power of the current Capture Pro Software to a client workstation without the need for a hardware key at the workstation. The optional Capture Pro Software Output Server Module includes multiple deployment options, which help users to off-load batch processing to different servers and increase their overall scanning efficiency.
“The network version of Capture Pro is a robust low maintenance solution that allows configuration of jobs to be synchronized across all workstations in our operation,” said Anthony Lamb, Operations Manager, Capita Total Document Services, Darlington, England. “Additionally, the networked version allows greater contingency in the event of any local PC failure and features such as batch reporting have proved to be of real use. Choosing Capture Pro and moving forward with Kodak as a supplier has been a feature of the continued growth and success of our business.”
KODAK Capture Pro Software, v3.0
Capture Pro Software, v3.0 provides customers with close integration to MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT Server (2007 and 2010 versions). A new MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT Server set-up wizard greatly improves the ease, speed and accuracy with which customers can import existing MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT Server library column definitions directly into Capture Pro, reducing set-up errors and enabling better data integrity.
Comprehensive support and compatibility for third-party content management software enables Capture Pro Software to also serve as an effective front-end capture platform for MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT Server and other digital environments. Integration between Capture Pro Software and these systems assists businesses to more efficiently process and distribute digital documents and metadata to specific locations.
Capture Pro Software, v3.0 also introduces Kodak’s Intelligent Quality Control (QC) capability, an image quality control and enhancement tool, which can automatically identify images with challenging noise characteristics that may need additional adjustments. A simple, but powerful post-scanning quality control tool makes it easy to re-process those images, even when the original source document is not available, providing more consistent results across a range of input sources. All of this allows customers to improve downstream data recognition processes and human image readability, and thus helps to speed up important business processes.
The new Intelligent QC, SHAREPOINT Server integration and other advanced capabilities of Capture Pro Software, v3.0 allow end users to easily scan, index and extract data from paper-based documents. Capture Pro Software also readily prepares these scanned images for use in business processes related to storage, organization and preservation.
Capture Pro Software fits easily into a wide range of capture environments, from departmental to production batch- and transaction-level workflows, and interfaces seamlessly with numerous document scanners from many different vendors. Typical scenarios include accounts receivable departments for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs), claims processing departments in insurance companies, or back-file conversion for service bureau providers.
“We’re committed to helping our customers implement easy-to-use, accurate, and cost-effective ways to transform documents and information for immediate use into collaborative, digital environments such as MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT Server 2007 and 2010,” said Tony Barbeau, General Manager, Document Imaging, Kodak’s Business Solutions and Services Group. “As more businesses, from small to medium to large, incorporate MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT Server for information management processes, whether as part of a larger ECM deployment or as a standalone, all are looking for convenience and straightforwardness to shorten complex information capture processes.”