Kofax releases VirtualReScan 4.0

Kofax has announced a major upgrade to VirtualReScan (VRS). The company reports VRS 4.0 makes scanning more efficient and enhances the quality of scanned images by expanding the existing capabilities of VRS to include color processing and features that further automate document preparation.

Kofax claims Version 4.0 improves both image quality and OCR accuracy, eliminating the need to rescan document images because of its automatic check for and adjustment of alignment (skew), brightness, contrast and image clarity. With color processing and capabilities designed to significantly reduce document preparation by automatically handling blank or rotated pages, as well as white- or black-background scanners, VRS 4.0 accelerates the processing of documents and cuts the amount of time that knowledge workers spend on rescanning.

Kofax adds that VRS 4.0 significantly speeds document preparation, which otherwise could take twice as much time as the scanning process itself. Prior versions of VRS enabled users to avoid sorting documents by quality or size, and VRS 4.0 eliminates additional time-consuming manual tasks, such as sorting documents to face in the same direction or inserting separator sheets to differentiate black-and-white and color documents.

Kofax believes the color capabilities of nearly all scanners are underutilitized and, thus, offers intelligent color detection and color saturation features in Version 4.0. The company explains the new offering quickly and automatically processes mixed black-and-white and color documents in a batch--for example, it can recognize that a document captured on color paper should be captured as a black-and-white image, while still capturing individual color elements on other documents.