Jeff Shuey thinks the next billion dollars for SharePoint and their partners is in Document Capture. I submit that SharePoint can add another $1 Billion dollars to this by focusing on [the Document Capture section] of the ECM market alone. […] which includes scanning, faxing, and otherwise importing paper based documents. Jeff has written ...

The 8 Things series on AIIM’s Digital Landfill blog is still going strong. Today, they published my contribution, 8 Ways to Reduce your Storage and Bandwidth Costs for Document Imaging Solutions. If you’d like more imaging information like that, sign up for Atalasoft’s Imaging e-Course, where you’ll learn about the different image formats, how ...

Jeff Shuey thinks Document Capture in SharePoint is up for grabs: Companies that had a chance to own this space have faltered. The leading vendor of document capture for 20+ years is Kofax. They have fallen flat and cannot seem to get out of their own way to make anything significant happen. I’m sure there are wins in various places across the ...

One of the big advantages that SharePoint has is that it’s tightly integrated with Microsoft’s Office suite. This is something that some vendors (like Alfresco and us with Vizit Scan to SharePoint) have recognized and have worked to implement the same APIs that SharePoint does to integrate with Office. Oracle now controls the #2 and #3 products ...

About a year ago, I wrote about some of the technical issues around image storage in a database – mostly I concentrated on some of the implementation issues. Over at, Never Talk When You Can Nod, Andrew Chapman has been laying out the case for taking blobs out of the database and storing them on the filesystem – specifically with regards to ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog entry on the ISV perspective of CMIS, and made this statement of when I thought we could reasonably rely on it:The current version of SharePoint doesn't support CMIS and maybe even the next one won't (no commitment yet from MS).  I have to keep SharePoint specific code until we want to drop support for ...

In case you're wondering if your industry is too boring to spawn a viral video, I want to share this one from mine. ScanRobot -- the automatic book scanner. The thing that's interesting, is that Part I has 100k+ views on youtube, but part II has about 14k (Part III has ~2k) -- they abandoned the joke, and lost their audience. To be fair, I don't ...

John Mancini reports on Ralph Gammons's (Document Imaging Report) capture predictions.MORE DISTRIBUTED CAPTURE.  Infrastructure and networks getting better. Applications themselves improving.  Channel better understanding the opportunity moving beyond the batch capture mentality.MORE SHAREPOINT.  Comes up in every ECM conversation ...

I read this kind of funny story about a kid who got himself into a little trouble reading and writing barcodes by hand. After reading it, I figured if he's going through the trouble of getting graph paper and markers to write Code 39, I can certainly provide the code to doing it with DotImage. Code 39 is a simple barcode format -- it supports ...

Google's underground army of PhDs is secretly cranking out huge numbers of really useful and interesting libraries and tools. Within the next few years, these tools are going to drastically change the landscape of much of the software industry. The reason: Most of these tools are available as open source with very non-restrictive licenses. Things ...