Kodak Bundles Captiva's ISIS Scanner Driver with New i30 and i40 Scanners
Captiva Software Corporation Press Release 16/11/04
QuickScan Pro Demo Bundle to Enable Users to Easily Capture Documents
SAN DIEGO, CA, NOVEMBER 16, 2004 - Captiva Software Corporation, (NASDAQ: CPTV) a leading provider of input management solutions, today announced an agreement with Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) to bundle its ISIS scanner driver and a demonstration version of its QuickScan Pro entry-level document capture application with all new Kodak i30 and i40 desktop scanners. Captiva’s Image and Scanner Interface Specification (ISIS) driver will be included with each new i30 and i40 scanner, empowering users to immediately use the scanner with the universe of ISIS-compatible document capture applications. Such applications include more than 300 commercial, custom and privately developed scanning packages.
QuickScan Pro is a full-featured, single-workstation document capture solution with advanced batch scanning capabilities that enables users to better manage paper documents by transforming them into digital content.
“By bundling ISIS with our i30 and i40 scanners, we’re offering our customers immediate compatibility with industry-standard software offerings and a proven path to integrating with best-practice document capture systems,” said Nancy Sherman, US and Canada Marketing Manager at Kodak. ?We are very pleased to include a demo version of QuickScan Pro as part of our i30 and i40 scanner package, as QuickScan Pro is the only product in its price category that supports all the features of these scanners.?
?We’re delighted to help Kodak launch their new i30 and i40 scanners and are pleased to expand the successful relationship between Kodak and Captiva,? said Jim Vickers, Captiva?s Chief Marketing Officer and General Manager of Pixel Translations. ?The long-standing business partnership continues to grow stronger and allows us to provide our customers quality products that work with all levels of Kodak scanners. In addition, the bundling provides users an introduction to our complete suite of input management solutions.”
Captiva?s Image and Scanner Interface Specification (ISIS) drivers have been included in every Kodak scanner launched since 1997. ISIS technology is the industry standard interface for production scanning and enables QuickScan Pro to be the only document capture solution in its price category that supports the MultiStream (delivery of both binary and color versions of an image in a single scan) and endorser functions of the i30 and i40 scanners. Captiva is currently the only software vendor to support all the scanners? features in its software.
Captiva?s Image and Scanner Interface Specification (ISIS) is the industry standard, enterprise-level interface that unites a universe of scanners and applications and enhances scanning functionality. ISIS support will allow peak performance from every scanning device an organization might employ.
QuickScan Pro provides complete capabilities for scanning, processing, viewing, printing and storing images for binary and color pages, and is an effective, one-step solution for high-performance image scanning, image processing and viewing for Microsoft Windows environments. As such, it provides entry-level document capture capabilities and i30 and i40 users will be able to upgrade to a full version of QuickScan Pro. The inclusion of the QuickScan Pro demo with the i30 and i40 scanners introduces the user to a way to reduce costs and experience the advantages of electronic imaging and archiving with industry-standard products by Kodak and Captiva at a very affordable price.
About Eastman Kodak Company
Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, enhance, preserve, print and enjoy pictures for memories, for information, for entertainment. The company is a major participant in infoimaging ? a $385 billion industry composed of devices (digital cameras, scanners, copiers), infrastructure (online networks and specialized imaging software), and services and media (film and paper, online photo storage, CDs). With sales last year of $13.2 billion, Eastman Kodak Company is organized into these key businesses: Digital & Film Imaging Systems, Health Imaging, Graphic Communications, Commercial Imaging and Display & Components. More information can be found at http://www.kodak.com.
About Captiva Software Corporation
Captiva Software Corporation (NASDAQ: CPTV) is a leading provider of input management software solutions. Since 1989, the company’s award-winning products have been used to manage business critical information from paper, faxed and scanned forms and documents, Internet forms and XML data streams into the enterprise in a more accurate, timely and cost-effective manner. These products automate the processing of billions of forms and documents annually, converting their contents into information that is usable in database, document, content and other information management systems. Captiva’s technology serves thousands of users in insurance, financial services, government, business process outsourcing, direct marketing and other markets. For more information, visit http://www.captivasoftware.com.