One thing that I would like to see added to both eCopy’s SSOP and their Paperworks product is Nuance’s Dragon Naturallyspeaking voice recognition capabilities for Indexing!!! If it worked as advertised that could revolutionize indexing documents before committing them to a document Management system. Now with Nuamce strengthening their OCR engine, as well as possibly other Nuance technology making its way into the eCopy product line this could help them stay relevant even as the manufactures close the gap on their own scanning solutions. For dual line dealers (for instance we sell & support Canon & Konica Minolta) this can be a powerful arguement to lead with an embedded eCopy solution. Their other strength is a unified End User Scanning interface across platforms. There have also been a lot of other companies nipping at eCopy’s heals with similar Scan stations (like EFI’s SendMe).ĮCopy’s strengths are their extensive connector catalog for their SSOP product (over 250) and now an emerging connector catalog for their Desktop\PaperWorks product. There has been increasing pressure on eCopy to separate their offerings from what the MFD Manufacturers now include in their own embedded scanning solutions. I am not sure that they will have a choice, because from what I am hearing ReadIRIS dropped eCopy (like Canon droped Ikon) once their chief rival bought them. Now that Nuance owns both OmniPage & eCopy I am hoping that the default OCR engine will be greatly improved. And the “answer” has always been that you can use OmniPage if you want, the problem has always been the cost to upgrade.
It’s no secret that I have NOT been a fan of the ReadIRIS OCR capabilities. The first thing that came to my mind is finally eCopy will get a better OCR engine. Here is the link so you can read it for yourself.