It's often difficult to identify the right product for your organization. To assist in short-listing and finding the right product with the right fit for you, AIIM--with the help of Harvey Spencer of Harvey Spencer Associates (HSA) and our 65,000 strong community--has developed this product study. Over one-thousand fellow technology users and implementers have shared their experience with available products. Mr. Spencer has combined this community wisdom with his own knowledge and analysis to create a unique report that provides you with in-depth insights into the available products. The study also includes useful tips and strategies for selecting the right software tool for the right business challenge or opportunity.

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Product Study

The new Capture Software Product Study provides detailed analysis of capture software from the leading vendors plus summaries of products from many other vendors. This is the MOST comprehensive overview of Capture Software and solutions ever created. The study covers, profiles, and explains the differences between the following types of capture software:

• Ad-hoc image: The simplest systems rely on manual feeding of pages into scanners, MFP devices, or smart phones with manual indexing of fields to locate the document.
• Batch image: Mid-range systems scan and manage higher volumes of pages as batches of documents
• Batch transaction: Although there are a few freestanding systems based on scanners, many batch transaction systems consist of complex networked systems that scan and automatically extract data from images, e.g. invoice automation.

The study covers products for distributed capture, either as ad-hoc scanning solutions across the enterprise, or as an enterprise capture solution which integrates and allows for centralized control over scanning devices.

Mobile capture is a new area for ad-hoc scanning, and we have also included a few companies offering scanning and OCR-based products from smart phones.

Products/Vendors Covered

The study covers the following capture products in some detail:

Ad Hoc Image

• ABBYY - FineReader*
• Adobe - Acrobat*
• Canon - Capture Perfect*
• Doculex - Office Capture
• EFI - EFI SendMe
• KnowledgeLake - Capture for SharePoint*
• Newsoft - Presto! PageManager
• Notable Solutions - AutoStore*
• Nuance - eCopy ShareScan*
• Nuance - PaperPort Enterprise*
• Nuance - Omnipage*
• Nuance - PDF Converter 
• Omtool - AccuRoute
• Xerox - DocuShare*

Batch Image

• AnyDoc Software, Inc. - CAPTUREit
• Capgen - CapsureDC
• CAPSYS - CAPSYS CAPTURE
• Digitech Systems - PaperVision Enterprise
• EMC Captiva - Captiva InputAccel*
• Hyland - Document Imaging
• IBM - FileNet Capture Professional*
• I.R.I.S. - IRISPowerscan
• J&K Imaging - DpuScan
• Kodak - KODAK Capture Pro
• Kofax - Communication Server
• Kofax - Capture (formerly Ascent Capture)* 
• Kofax - Express* 
• Hyland Software - Document Imaging*
• Laserfiche - QuickFields*
• Oracle - Oracle Document Capture*
• Outback Imaging - EzeScan
• Perceptive Software / Lexmark - CaptureNow
• Psigen - PSI: Capture

Batch Transaction:

• AnyDoc Software, Inc. - AnyDoc for Forms
• AnyDoc Software, Inc. - OCR for AnyDoc*  
• Autonomy - Cardiff TeleForm*
• Brainware - Brainware Distiller*
• Charactell - FormStorm
• Datacap (now owned by IBM) -- Taskmaster*
• EMC Captiva - Captiva InputAccel with Dispatcher
• Esker - Deliveryware
• Foxray - Xbound
• IBM - FileNet ADR*
• Insiders Technologies - Data Verification / Capture
• I.R.I.S - IRISCapture Pro
• ISIS Papyrus - Papyrus Document Capture System
• J&B Software - Remote Image Capture
• Itesoft - ITESOFT Freemind for Business
• Kofax - Capture with Transformation Modules*
• Newgen Software - OmniScan
• Open Text - Open Text Capture Center (formerly DOKuStar Capture Suite)
• Parascript - FormXtra
• ReadSoft - FORMS*
• ReadSoft - INVOICES*
• Top Image Systems - eFLOW*

Additionally, the following products will be grouped into categories and briefly described.

• ABBYY - ABBYY FlexiCapture
• ABBYY - ABBYY Recognition Server
• ArcMate Capture
• Artsyl Technologies - docAlpha
• Artsyl Technologies - ClaimAction
• Artsyl Technologies - SimpleCapture
• Autonomy - Cardiff LiquidOffice eForms
• BancTec - CenterVision
• Canon - Capture Perfect
• Capture Sage - Universal Capture
• Daybreak - eCapture Suite
• Digitech Systems - ImageSilo
• Doculex - Goby Capture
• Doculex - Professional Capture
• Drivve - Drivve | Image
• eDrawer - eDrawer
• EMC - Captiva QuickScan Pro
• EMC Captiva - Captiva einput
• EMC Captiva - Captiva FormWare
• EMC Captiva - Captiva InputAccel for Invoices
• Ephesoft - Cloud Document Capture Platform
• Fairfax Imaging - Quick Modules
• GoScan - GoScan
• iDatix - ScanDox
• ImageSource - ILINX
• ImageTag - KwikTag
• Insiders Technologies - Document Analysis
• Insiders Technologies - Document Im / Export
• KnowledgeLake - Imaging for SharePoint
• Kofax - Express
• Notable Solutions - AutoCapture
• Notable Solutions - OpenForms
• Nuance - PaperPort Enterprise
• OfficeDrop - OfficeDrop
• OfficeDrop - ScanDrop
• Open Text - Capture Document Reader (formerly DOKuStar Professional)
• Open Text - Open Text Imaging
• Open Text Document Server
• Paradatec - PROSAR-AIDA
• Peladon Software - DocXP
• Prevalent Software - Qullix Capture
• ReadSoft - DOCUMENTS
• Ricoh - GlobalScan
• Sharp - Scan  
• Xerox - SMARTsend

*Products with the required 10+ ratings; allowing user ratings to be incorporated into the report.

Products Described

As an aid for decision-making, the study describes all leading vendors and products:

• Company Ownership and Vision
• Sales Channel and Community
• Product Positioning
• Product Functionality
• Pricing and Licensing

User Satisfaction*

The Capture Software Product Study will help you (as a buyer or implementer of technology) choose the right solution partially based on user feedback and expert analysis. Many of the products have been rated by users and implementers based on:

• Ease of use
• Ease of roll out
• Easy of configuration / customization
• Security
• Strategy
• Standards
• Stability / bugs
• Application development
• Integration
• Community and channel
• Support  / maintenance
• Value for money

*AIIM solicited ratings from its user community via surveys distributed via Twitter, email, and Connect at AIIM (AIIM's bi-weekly newsletter). 

Ready to discover how to decide what product is right for you?

Order information

Price: USD 1950 - for a Personal License - no distribution / copying allowed
Price: USD 2950 - for a Corporate License - up to 5 copies within an organization
AIIM Professional Members receive a USD 100 discount when purchasing the study
Format: PDF
Size: 140 pages
Author: Harvey Spencer from Harvey Spencer Associates Inc.

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