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copied!<p>There are many vendors of scanning products that can do what you want - scan, index, generate PDF with OCR overlay (personally, I prefer OCR underlay in a PDF). Those requirements are pretty trivial for a vendor that specializes in scanning. To name just a few other vendors/products in addition to Kofax:</p> <ul> <li>EMC/Captiva's InputAccel product</li> <li>Datacap</li> <li>eCopy ShareScan</li> <li>Verity/Cardiff/Autonomy</li> </ul> <p>Many document management solutions also have built-in scanning front ends but they're typically not as functional as the specialized capture products. Nearly all of these solutions have COM/ActiveX API support. I don't know of any open source solutions for scanning but I haven't ever really searched for any either.</p> <p>Most of the scanning software vendors do use a "volume" or "capacity" license. Typically the volume renews at the end of the term (i.e. 1M pages a year - auto renewing each year without additional cost). Thus, you don't pay strictly "per page" in the sense that if you purchase a capacity of 1M images per year and you only end up scanning 500K pages you don't get a refund. It is possible, although much less common to have a one-time volume that doesn't automatically renew and when it runs out you would be required to purchase additional volume. Most vendors are moving away from dongles to control the volume and are moving to software licensing.</p> <p><strong>A side note about Kofax:</strong></p> <p>Kofax has historically been sold through a system of Value Added Resellers so the quality of various implementations can vary widely. In addition it is highly customizable and comes in a variety of flavors with lots of add-on modules so one customer's Kofax system can be significantly different from other systems. </p> <p>Kofax is used in enterprise-grade systems for scanning and automatic capture of millions and millions of documents a year. It has a significant chunk of the document scanning market share. No, I'm not a Kofax fanboy, if I was I wouldn't have mentioned competitive products; however, I am very familiar with it. Like the other products on the market, it has strengths and weaknesses. I realize that Michael was just relaying what he had heard but I just couldn't let that sweeping generalization pass without comment. Saying a product that has a significant percentage of market share is "not useful or user friendly" for scanning is kind of like saying "Windows isn't a useful server operating system". It's just too broad of a generalization. </p> <p>Cheers, </p> <p>Brian</p>

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