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SCANNERS
Fujitsu’s new entry-level document
scanner, the fi-7030, lowers the entry
point for professional information
capture and helps businesses of
all sizes accelerate their digital
transformation.
The 27 pages per minute (54 ipm
duplex) scanner is being supplied with
a full PaperStream Capture 1.5 licence,
which Fujitsu aims to make the first choice
interface for defining processes for capturing
information from paper and feeding into
workflows, repositories or enterprise content
management systems.
The combination of PaperStream Capture
1.5 and the PaperStream IP driver simplifies
the creation of digital processes that mimic
existing analogue workflows and improves
productivity by presenting optimised scanned
images and displaying thumbnails and
previews on one screen for rapid validation
of scanned images during scanning.
Klaus Schulz, Senior Manager Product
Marketing EMEA at PFU (EMEA), says that
making PaperStream Capture 1.5 the most
important point of interaction with end-
users, rather than the hardware, represents
a new approach for Fujitsu and its channel
partners.
“We are moving away from looking
at the hardware first and viewing paper
as the object that needs to be digitised to
focus instead on capturing information.
This means not just sticking to a digital
resemblance of the document, but
scanning and being able to verify that the
digital content presented is actually what
you had wanted to scan. Then, within that
seamless capture process, being able to
extract some information automatically
or semi automatically and present it as
indexing data, as metadata describing
the document, and validate the digital
copy of that document by releasing it into
pre-defined process routines or productive
sub-systems,” he said.
End-to-end capture out of the box
Schulz argues that as the market leader in
scanning Fujitsu has a responsibility to help
businesses on their digital transformation
journey.
“Fujitsu comes from a history of
scanning and placing something into a
static archive. There’s so much more value
to documents if you are able to present that
information and make it retrievable for more
than just one single process or one single
person. Companies are becoming more and
more aware of the requirement to digitise
and capture information, partially because
the legal and socio-economic framework is
imposing a requirement to move forward
with digital transformation. We have always
talked about transforming paper and the
information it holds into a digital state.
What we are doing now is promoting a
complete end-to-end capture solution ‘out
of the box’ to help organisations move
onward with their digital transformation.”
Standard across the range
Henceforth all Fujitsu fi-series scanners
will be supplied with PaperStream Capture
1.5 as standard, providing a consistent
software experience across the range, from
the entry-level 7030 up to the company’s
production devices.
“With PaperStream Capture 1.5, you
can roll out exactly the same pre-defined
routines across different fi-series models.
That adds value, because you only have to
learn a single interface or process routine;
you can ensure the quality of the digitised
document across different seats, across
different individuals; you can plan what will
be provided to your productive information
systems; and you can start to look at
streamlining processes,” explained Schulz.
He added: “If a business’s requirements
change, it is easy to introduce additional
fi-series models without having to change
capture processes or software routines.
It is also possible to roll out company-
With the launch of the fi-7030 entry-level professional scanner, Fujitsu subsidiary
PFU (EMEA) Ltd is encouraging resellers to change their approach to scanner sales.
Data capture made easy
wide standards for capture processes
across different workloads and format
requirements – from a small remote office
to a central mailroom.”
SME digitisation
Schulz says that its new approach enables
SMEs to go further with digitisation than
they have been able to in the past.
“We know from our studies that
a maximum of 30-35% of mid-sized
companies have started to embrace
digitisation and roll digital document
management right out across the company
and multiple departments instead of just
one line of business application or one
single isolated solution, for example,
accounts payable. In companies that have
a systematic approach to roll out scanning,
40% of employees are involved in digital
document management or have access
to digitised documents in a systematic
way. With internationalisation and
globalisation, the pressure on smaller mid-
size companies from global competition
has increased massively. Part of meeting
that pressure is to look at processes and
routines and try to increase efficiency by
transforming them into a digital state or a
digitally accelerated state,” he said.
Schulz added: “With the introduction
of the fi-7030, we can say that for £500
customers get an ‘out of the box’ end-
to-end solution for the complete capture
routine. They can start looking at their
processes and mimic them in an electronic
state so that they gain experience of what
it means to capture information from paper
documents for feeding into their processes.
As time goes by and they gain experience
and understanding of the value of that,
they can start to roll that out across
multiple seats and multiple departments.
They can pick from the fi series and right-
size depending on their speed requirement
– the fi 7030 is 27 ppm but they could
go all the way up to 100ppm or 130ppm.
They could move from a distributed
capture environment at the desktop of the
information worker to having devices on
the production side of document capture,
e.g. back office mailroom applications,
and stick to exactly the same routines,
procedures and capture processes they
have become familiar with.”
