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According to both companies,
the Epson/Nuance collaboration
brings together the low running
costs, reduced intervention and
environmental impact and high
reliability of Epson printers, with
Nuance software’s ability to control
and manage print and capture to
enhance productivity while reducing
operational expenses.
Under the terms of the partnership,
Epson will sell and distribute eCopy
ShareScan and Equitrac Office/Express
software on its family of inkjet MFPs,
including its high speed Workforce
Enterprise WF-C20590 and LX-
10000/7000 series of linehead technology
for SMB and corporate workgroups.
Epson will also integrate the Nuance
OmniPage SDK into its scanning
applications for better OCR accuracy when
automating document workflows and will
bundle Nuance Power PDF software with
select lines of Epson document scanners.
Koichi Kubota, Chief Operating Officer,
Epson Printing Solutions Operations
Division, said: “Nuance solutions and
global support will allow our customers
to optimally and securely manage their
document lifecycles. Together with Epson
MFPs and scanners, Nuance will help
customers gain control over increasingly
complicated business processes by
streamlining capture workflows and print
management to enhance productivity,
collaboration and business efficiencies.”
Chris Strammiello, Vice President of
Lexmark recently announced that it is to provide Nuance
document imaging solutions worldwide via a newly formed
agreement to sell and distribute the Nuance AutoStore, Equitrac
Office/Express and SafeCom solutions. Nuance will provide
service and support to qualifying customers.
In a statement, Lexmark said that partnering with Nuance reinforces its
commitment to provide world-class enterprise-ready workflow solutions
that enable organisations to increase productivity and enhance document
security.
Toshiba TEC, too, has added Nuance’s flagship AutoStore and Equitrac
solutions to its solutions portfolio.
Marketing Director Jeremy Spencer said: “With AutoStore and Equitrac,
we offer additional enterprise-level products to our customers, which help
them manage their documents and workflows with utmost flexibility and
efficiency. These new solutions perfectly complement our latest range
of MFPs that are designed to support workflow automation and help
businesses work more effectively.”
Earlier this year, Toshiba TEC entered into an agreement with Kodak
Alaris Information Management to provide the latter’s scanners and
software solutions to automate specific business applications. It will also
take on and service legacy scanners, providing customers with a single
point of contact for scanner fleets.
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Global Alliances & Strategic Marketing,
Nuance Document Imaging, added: “Epson
stands out in the office market with its
inkjet innovation and adding Nuance
software advances its ability to deliver
high quality, high value and environment-
friendly customer solutions. With Nuance
software, Epson customers can improve
document workflows to enhance
productivity and create efficiencies.
Organisations are also able to gain control
of document security to secure protected
information against unauthorised access
by individuals in and outside of the
organisation.”
Nuance has formed a worldwide strategic partnership with Epson, following
recent agreements with Lexmark and Toshiba (see box)
Nuance’s partnership with Epson follows similar agreements with Lexmark and Toshiba.
Nuance adds Epson
to OEM partner line-up
And two makes three
Epson stands
out in the
office market
with its inkjet
innovation
Solutions now available with Epson
Workforce Enterprise and Pro printers
include:
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Equitrac Office.
With Hybrid
Print Control, Equitrac Office delivers
organisational versatility and control
and reduces IT complexities by removing
dependencies on print servers, print drivers
and complex print fleets, while managing
every printed page in an organisation.
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Equitrac Express.
Gives IT
administrators the flexibility to let
students, faculty and staff print what they
need, when they need it, wherever they
are located. At the same time, it helps
to reduce total print output and costs,
accurately allocate print costs, implement
print quotas and enable guest printing
through pay-for-print.
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eCopy ShareScan.
When employees
use an MFP within the workgroup
area, eCopy quickly and simply guides
workgroup members through the process
of properly capturing documents. This
solution will also be made available with
Epson document scanners.
The agreement also covers the
following software packages for Epson
document scanners:
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OmniPage.
The OmniPage Capture
SDK has the world’s most accurate optical
character recognition (OCR) technology. It
provides developers with everything they
need to add robust imaging, OCR, and
PDF creation and conversion capabilities
into applications, as well as barcode
recognition technology, intelligent character
recognition, zonal recognition and more.
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Power PDF.
This software makes it easy
for businesses to gain control over PDF
workflows with the ability to create, convert,
edit, assemble and securely share PDF files.
It provides all the tools needed to annotate,
mark up, sign, secure, redact and compress
PDFs, and create and work with PDF forms,
making it easy to edit and publish PDF files.
Users can quickly convert files from Word to
PDF and from PDF to Word with excellent
compatibility, accuracy and reliability.
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