Intelligent Imaging Solutions: Visioneer Announces The RoadWarrior — Receipt And Business Card Scanning Solution For Traveling Professionals
Google Desktop Search and Google Earth Software Bundle Allows Road Warriors to Find Important Documents and Locations of Key Contacts
Visioneer, Inc., a leader in intelligent imaging solutions, today announced the Visioneer RoadWarrior, an easy-to-use, yet powerful mobile scanner for handling all the document needs of the business traveler, from expense receipts to business cards and documents for only $199.99. The RoadWarrior software enables scanned receipts to be combined with virtually any expense report form. Business card software provides capture, recognition and exporting to leading contact managers, PDAs and smart phones. The RoadWarrior is also an ideal solution for scanning and converting documents into searchable Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files that are easily organized, shared and better protected. Visioneer also signed a distribution agreement to bundle Google Search Tools that allow road warriors to quickly find documents and maps for important business meetings.
"Today's road warriors demand that every item in their bag do double or triple duty and it needs to integrate with their existing tools. We designed the RoadWarrior to handle business cards, receipts, expense reports and business documents; as well as provide search and retrieval of all files on your PC," said John Capurso, vice president of marketing at Visioneer. "We constantly survey mobile professionals for their wish list."
The Visioneer RoadWarrior, based on Visioneer's award-winning Strobe design, measures only 2" x 1.5" x 11.4" and weighs a mere 10 ounces. The mobile scanner is powered through the USB port and incorporates Visioneer's patented AutoLaunch technology that automatically begins the scanning process when a document is inserted into the scanner. The combination of size, mobility and software allow the Visioneer RoadWarrior to be the perfect traveling companion for mobile professionals. It comes bundled with the full-versions of leading software to scan receipts, business cards and documents for only $199.99.
Visioneer also announced today that they have signed a distribution agreement with Google Inc. to bundle Google Desktop and Google Earth with Visioneer scanners. Google Desktop is a client application that allows users to easily search their computer, providing full text search over email, files, music, photos, chats, viewed web pages, and more.
Combined with Nuance OmniPage Indexer, scanned document images are OCR'd in the background and indexed to Google Desktop making both paper and "born digital" files on a PC, searchable by content. Google Earth is the only program that can deliver a 3D digital map and directions of the entire earth via the Internet, "because every road warrior needs to know where they are and where they're going." Users can point and zoom to anyplace on the planet. Satellite images and local facts zoom into view, enhanced by Google search to show local points of interest and facts. "Visioneer recognizes the profound impact that Google has had on the industry and has added these powerful search, indexing and mapping solutions to enhance its product line," said Capurso.
Visioneer RoadWarrior - The Solution for a Paperless Road
Business professionals want the best easy-to-use products and full
function solutions whether on the go or in the office. Unlike other
receipt scanners, the RoadWarrior is compatible with virtually any
company's expense report form whether in Excel-format, a customized
application or web-applet. With Nuance PaperPort, receipts and expense
reports are "stacked" as searchable PDF files, ready for digital
signature and retrievable later by simply searching on keywords such
as city, airline, hotel or restaurant name. Now any document
encountered by the business traveler (receipts, business cards, notes,
office documents, or directions) can be scanned, organized and shared.
- SCAN - Users can scan receipts, business cards, articles, newspaper clippings, handwritten notes and photographs. The RoadWarrior can scan documents up to 8 1/2" wide and 14" long.
- ORGANIZE - The RoadWarrior software bundle allows users to stack their scanned receipts and expense report to make submissions and approvals fast and paperless. In fact, when combined with digital signatures and electronic reimbursement, the receipt may be the last piece of paper touched by the business traveler.
- SHARE - Because documents are scanned into a searchable PDF format, users can easily send and share information that is accurate and secure. Scanned receipts are now accepted by the IRS and most corporate accounting departments.
Scanner Specifications
The RoadWarrior is a fast, mobile scanner that can be connected to
computer quickly via the Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface and has a
resolution of 600 x 1200 dpi with 36-bit color. With Visioneer's
patented technologies, the RoadWarrior is Paper Driven and
automatically scans documents when inserted into the scanner. Users
can scan regardless of location because the RoadWarrior is powered
through the USB port. The RoadWarrior is designed to automatically
convert, at the user's option, any scanned item into a text-searchable
PDF file while maintaining the visual integrity of the original
document.
The RoadWarrior scanner comes with a generous software bundle for mobile professionals, including Google Desktop; Google Earth; award-winning Nuance PaperPort document management software that provides the fastest way to scan receipts, expense reports, documents, and photos to create electronic expense reports ideal for electronic submission, record keeping and retrieval; Nuance OmniPage precision OCR analysis software with advanced layout detection and logical form recognition, which allows users to create Text Searchable PDF files without having to retype them; and NewSoft Presto! BizCard, reads and imports business card information with accuracy and imports them to your favorite contact manager such as Outlook, ACT, Goldmine, or your favorite PDA or smart phone. The RoadWarrior includes Visioneer's award-winning OneTouch software and TWAIN and WIA drivers.
Minimum System Requirements
Minimum system requirements are a Pentium II 300 MHz or equivalent
processor or higher and Windows 2000 or Windows XP, 256MB of RAM
(512MB RAM for Windows XP), 200 MB available hard disk space, a CD-ROM
drive and a USB port.
Price and Availability
The Visioneer RoadWarrior is currently available at a suggested
retail price of $199.99, through authorized VARs and retailers,
computer super stores and online services, mail order catalogs and
from Visioneer's web site at www.visioneer.com.
About Visioneer
Visioneer provides a broad range of scanning solutions for the
desktop, distributed and departmental document imaging markets as well
as the mobile and remote business scanning segments. In 2003,
Visioneer combined its leading scanner technology with the Xerox brand
recognition to develop the Xerox DocuMate product line. Visioneer and
Xerox DocuMate high-performance business scanners and imaging software
solutions offer users speed, image quality, advanced paper handling
and ease-of-use with exclusive Visioneer OneTouch technology.
These products have received numerous awards including AIIM Best of
Show in 2004 and 2005, as well as consecutive PC Magazine Editors'
Choice Awards in 2005 and 2006. For additional information on
Visioneer and Xerox scanning solutions, visit www.visioneer.com or
www.xeroxscanners.com.
Visioneer offers both product lines under a single reseller partners program. The 20/20 Perfect Vision program optimizes VAR margins and sales opportunities through volume incentive rebates, sales support and marketing tools. Additional information can be found at www.visioneer.com/2020.