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Scannx Signs Software Licensing Agreement with ABBYY to Enable Self Service Book Scanning Center

By Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor

Scannx, a developer of document capture and delivery software for the educational and municipality markets, announced it has signed a software licensing agreement with ABBYY to develop document scanning solutions for the educational market.

ABBYY offers document recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies and software.

Under the terms of this partnership, Scannx will integrate ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 Professional into its Scannx Capture software, allowing automatic conversion of scanned books and documents into searchable and editable file formats.

"We are excited about partnering with Scannx to strengthen our position in the educational market", said Joe Budelli, senior vice president of Sales of ABBYY USA (News - Alert), in a statement. "The Scannx management team is well recognized for its leadership and innovation in document imaging as well as its successful track record in supporting scanning solutions for the educational market.”

The software licensing agreement will allow users to automatically scan and save book pages, documents, contracts, receipts, resumes and photos into digital files. Scanned images can be automatically converted into PDF, searchable PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, TIF, JPEG, PNG and HTML file formats, among others.

The converted files may then be sent automatically to e-mail as an attachment, a USB flash drive, Google (News - Alert) Docs, Smartphone, Tablet, fax or printer, by simply selecting the desired option on the touchscreen, company officials said.

The technology provides librarians, archivists, historians, genealogists and municipalities with a self-service book scanning center thanks to the OCR conversion procedure. The book scanning center includes a 15-inch touchscreen computer preloaded with the Scannx and ABBYY software, and a patented book-edge scanner to protect the spine of the book.

The scanner's beveled edge enables students to scan to the edge of the book spine, producing clear and legible text in the center of the book, said John C. Dexter, president and COO of Scannx. “When the clear image is converted into searchable or editable text by ABBYY'S FineReader technology, the result is unmatched accuracy."

Scannx' patent pending scan-to-smartphone and tablet features, as well as its scan-to-fax services, and integration with credit and debit card payment systems offer increased productivity in research and collaboration as well as revenue sharing opportunities for resellers and libraries, according to company officials.

In other industry news, recently, Flexera Software – a provider of software licensing solutions – sat down with TMCnet to take a stab at what 2012 might hold for the software licensing market. And, according to Randy Littleson, senior vice president of marketing at Flexera, one trend we should certainly expect to see is application usage management taking the spotlight, particularly as the industry contends with implementing new technologies such as virtualization and the cloud.

“While these trends are very exciting and will facilitate many new computing models like user-centric computing and the consumerization of IT – licensing is the key underpinning,” Littleson said. “New technologies can only take hold when application producers are able to bundle, monetize and protect their Intellectual property.  And enterprises must be able to continually assess their Application Readiness to manage those applications and remain in continual compliance by optimizing software spend. And application usage management falls at the heart of all of those issues.”