Searchable PDF's

Two thoughts:

1) Use OmniPage to OCR it and save the result as a new pdf. Nuance (formerly ScanSoft) has been a good software partner through our Konica side of our dealership. http://www.nuance.com/omnipage/professional/

2) Later versions of Adobe Acrobat (I have Acrobat 7) have the ability to do OCR. The file retains the OCR results, so you can reopen it again later and search without having to re-do the OCR.

Shaja is responding to a post from January 2006 but I think it is a good subject to resurrect. If you haven't looked into eCopy 9.0 you need to. Arrange for a free NFR copy and use it. It is a much cheaper way to get searchable OCR, PDF creation as well as mark-up capability and it's a product Ricoh dealers can sell.

Thanks for the input

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Originally posted by Old Glory:
Shaja is responding to a post from January 2006

I'm responding to IT Dude's post of October 4, 2007.

I'm going to take this opportunity to go off on a slight tangent on this thread.

Old Glory, I'm puzzled and need your help. This is not a sarcastic message, I genuinely want to know.

I've been to an eCopy seminar, and we passed on selling it because it looked like price was a problem. For some units, it looked like acquisition of eCopy would double the price of their copier. How do you get the cost down to make it an affordable acquisition?

On the Ricoh Dealer price list dated 09 20 07, I see suggested retail of $3,444 for eCopy ShareScan OP v4.1 10 lic DT w/ 1 yr M&S. They told us some desktop client licenses are bundled with the hardware unit but you couldn't get the desktop client without the eCopy unit. Are you configuring it differently from what was presented to us?

By comparison, OmniPage retails at $499.99 and Acrobat Standard at $299.00.

I came away from the seminar thinking that the people who need eCopy the most are the people who can afford it the least. What am I missing?

Well, Some of the features that help me sell eCopy are...

Direct integration with other applications (imaging packages mostly). eCopy has "connectors" that allow you to drop documents directly into over a hundred packages and you can even do your indexing at the copier.

Exchange/AD authentication. With eCopy, first, I have to log into my network. As long as I'm a valid user on the network, I'm a valid user on eCopy. Then when I click "to" I can see the entire Exchange user list. When I type Sh the eCopy screen prompts me with Shaja?

When I send that document, I get a copy of it in my sent items folder and I can request read receipts.

If I have the OP version, I have a full (real, live physical) keyboard and large touchscreen to work from, much easier than typing on the copier. This means I can actually type a message at the copier.

That all that comes to mind off the top of my head .

e-copy desktop software resells for $799 or $899 for a 5 user license, this comes in cheaper than adobe and cheaper than Omni. The idea is to bundle the 5 user license with the sale.

Art, sounds like you are saying you sell the desktop client without the actual eCopy unit attached to the copier?

Thats correct< I sell more licenses than the embedded or OP Share scan. It really is awesome software!