Plustek, one of the global leaders in imaging and communication products, has announced the launch of Plustek SmartOffice PS286. Targeted at the front office usage of the SMEs, hospitals, law firms, CPA firms, BFSI, education, health care, government, hospitality industry, service centers etc., it is a highly versatile and affordable duplex color scanner in the sheet-fed range. Since it is sheet-fed, the SmartOffice PS286 becomes affordable and versatile scanner option for all the customers who are involved in high-volume documentation.
There is a huge dearth of storage space for the paper documents in the government, BFSI and insurance sectors because of the alarming growth in the customers' base. Besides, if some body visits the government offices he will definitely see shabby-looking racks everywhere filled with dogeared, moth-eaten and dust-filled brown files. Using SmartOffice PS286, the offices will surely be paperless as it can very quickly scan the documents of various size till A4 size and thickness up to credit cards.
The government of India has issues a directive to all nodal bodies to turn their paper based documents to digital format through the eGovernance initiative. Now, with SmartOffice PS286, the official will have a great relief as it can turn piles of documents within seconds and archive the same with a press of button.
The BFSI and insurance sectors, which take a lot of paper documents of their customers find it very difficult to manage the documents despite incurring huge amount. Using SmartOffice PS286, they can feel respite. They can easily scan the credentials of the customers and save those in various file formats be it PDF, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, TXT, HTML etc. quickly. The documents can also be sent through email from the machine complying with their process of escalation. Only thing the users will have to do is to define the processes within the machine.
Among the work group scanners available, today, in the market, the SmartOffice PS286 is absolutely smart, small and compact. One should not go by its size, because it has capability to offer high-speed scanning - up to 25 ppm in simplex or duplex mode. With an optical resolution of 600 dpi, one can get the output of the highest quality image in Black & White, Grayscale or Color. The 50-sheet automatic document tray accepts a variety of documents from business card to legal papers. If that is not enough, it is also specially designed for plastic cards such as embossed insurance ID cards and driver licenses. The inbuilt TWAIN and Windows WIA drivers enable the scanner to be compatible with virtually any imaging software(DMS/OMR solution etc). On top of every thing, SmartOffice PS286 Network support to share files over a network.
Dr. Karen Ku the Vice President of Plustek says, “ The biggest advantage of Plustek SmartOffice PS286 is its compact size, which allows the users to accommodate this product in a limited space on their desktops. Secondly, the inbuilt capability of scanner compressing files helps the users to save loads of documents in the Local Hard Drive of their PCs in a fairly smaller space. ”
“ SmartOffice PS286 offers diverse functionalities like letter to A3-size documents scanning, business cards and plastic cards scanning. It also functions as digital filing solutions for different types of documents scanning need, ” he adds.
This small foot print, sheet-fed scanner can easily be taken to the events and expos in order to scan the identification documents of the walk-in potential customers and the sales cycle can be cut short.
The SmartOffice PS286 is called a smart scanner as it easily creates digital documents and manages files created from the notes, receipts, financial records and other documents. So, you need not have to write the piece of information of the slip or spend time to scan in bigger scanners. You just need to insert the piece of paper on to the scanner and turn it into PDF and save it within seconds with proper indexing so that in future you can retrieve the information.
SmartOffice PS286 provides brings OCR functionality and user-friendly interface to documents scanning. Hi-accurate OCR recognition for documents and plastic cards scanning makes it easy to tag and store in an intelligent and searchable database. It really helps the users edit and reorganize the text. The award winning ABBYY FineReader 6.0 Sprint plus, which comes along with the scanner, supports up to 177 languages and easily creates the scanned documents into Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, TXT, HTML files.
Finally, PS286 comes with pre-set nine customized functions for different scanning needs. For example, one can create searchable PDFs, scan to e-mail, OCR, or file documents by simply pressing a button. The powerful suite of software applications that includes Plustek DI Capture, which helps you scan, import and organize your document images in an efficient way.
The Presto! PageManager offers color OCR and full-text indexing functions. Similarly, the ImageFolio is a powerful document management software for OCR, PDF creation or conversion to Microsoft Word or Excel etc maintaining color and images. It also helps to browse image conveniently by the SlideShow applet. Advanced features such as blank page deletion, color dropout for forms, auto-crop and de-skew enhance image quality really enhances the quality of the scanned document and enhances productivity of the user. |
