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This was a question I asked myself the other day when I learned that the new imagreRUNNER Advance systems will be able to navigate from the MFP screen to nested folders on the network and then send as a searcable .pdf or convert to OCR.

What is the future for DigiDoc Flow, eCopy and NSI?

Would like to hear from others
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With the latest version of the Kyocera data base link you can do this and also run OCR using Omnipage and also do barcode processing for document separation and data capture. This is a very low cost addon with no ongoing licensing cost. Very similar capabilities to some of the middle ware which has been popular to now.
So pressure on the software market as well as the hardware market.
The Toshiba approach to this would be to create a "One Touch" template to scan directly to the target folder.

Current eBridge X Operating Systems allows you to navigate a network to find a specific "nested" folder but that can take a few minutes to complete.

I agree with Anders that MFPs have limited computational power. The conversion of scanned documents from one format to another is faster processed by a Network PC.

Can anyone comment on the length of time in seconds it would take a Xerox, Canon or Konica Minolta copier to process a 1 MB PDF file via native on board processing capability? How long for a 10 MB file?

This requirement is showing up in RFPs and Tenders a lot more.
take for example, I have a customer interested scanning to sub folders and of course with the Ricoh's we have to achieve this with either NSI or ecopy. In our company I have to reach out to our Pro Services department, believe it or not we are now recommending Global Scan, reasoning counts towards our quota, and I'm told easier to support.

I'm sure at some we'll have a standard feature with scanning to nested folders, but as technology moves forward do you not think that the manufacturers will increase the computing processors in the MFP's. I for one believe they will and they have to in order to stay relevant.

Would it fair to say the writing is on the wall for the likes of ecopy share scan, digi docflow, NSI, and fabsoft?
Toshiba seems to be taking the position of developing customized processors that are optimized for MFPs. The benefit is much smaller size, faster processing (measured by quicker FCOT) and lower power consumption.

Many manufacturers use "off the shelf" PC processors due to lower cost and less complicated to develop.

Xerox commonly convinces buyers to include the spec, "must have a minimum of a 1.2 Ghz processor" for their Black only copiers as a "knock-out" feature.

The MFP industry will always be involved in a spec race.

I am sure eCopy Share Scan, Digi Docflow, NSI, and Fabsoft have a good value position for some resellers. I have never had a need to pitch their products except for some niche applications. In fact, we declined to quote these products rather support another product that might be an "orphan" sale.

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