ROCHESTER, N.Y. , September 19 - Reinforcing its commitment to leading the desktop document imaging market, Eastman Kodak Company today announced a series of enhancements and new features for its KODAK Capture Software for the newest members of its desktop scanner portfolio, as well as the rest of the Kodak scanner family.

The new version of KODAK Capture Software brings several additions to the KODAK i55 and i65 Scanners, launched earlier this year, as well as to the KODAK i30 and i40 Scanners that debuted in 2004. These desktop scanners help small and medium businesses and government offices better capture, manage, archive, and deliver business information. Additional output options and support for the Button Manager function for the i30 and i40 Scanners are among the key enhancements. For example, users who want to scan documents into PDF files can launch KODAK Capture Software (a Lite version is included with the scanner) using this one-button feature. “Capture software continues to evolve, bringing new innovative features to the market, says Craig Beattie, Marketing Manager, Document Imaging Greater Asia Region. “Customers scanning in colour now have a wider variety of compression algorithms available to them within the software. In addition to these features, our new products to the Distributed Capture market emphasize on easy of use. The Button Manager supported in Capture Software makes it even simpler for user of Kodak’s i30/i40 desktop scanners.”

One of three new output options is LuraDocument M/PDF for KODAK Capture Software, which combines Kodak’s high-quality imaging with compression software developer Luratech’s colour compression expertise. The result: greatly reduced file sizes from colour and bitonal images.

“The use of this function saves end-users time and money because they can export their documents directly from the capture application to either LuraDocument M or PDF format,” said Carsten Heiermann, CEO of LuraTech GmbH.

Other added output options include an enhanced post-scan Split function, which allows customers with long forms such as questionnaires and surveys to automatically split these up in individual images for more convenient processing and retrieval. There is also an update to the Kofax Ascent output option, which now provides an XML output option for automatic import into Ascent.

Further maximising both the KODAK i30/40 and i55/65 Scanners’ capabilities are three additional features supported by Capture Software:

• Increased maximum document length – The maximum document length is now 34 inches.
• Image edge fill – Reduces jagged edges for a crisper image edge.
• Blank page deletion (also included in Capture Software Lite)

For more information on Kodak Capture Software and for free downloads, click on www.kodak.com/go/capturesoftware.

About Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, print, and view images – for memories, for information, for business, and for entertainment. With sales of $13.5 billion in 2004, the company is committed to a digitally oriented growth strategy focused on four businesses: Digital & Film Imaging Systems – providing consumers, professionals, and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services; Health – supplying the medical and dental professions with traditional and digital imaging and information systems, IT solutions, and services; Graphic Communications – providing customers with a range of solutions for prepress, traditional and digital printing, document scanning, and multi-vendor IT services; and Display & Components – supplying original equipment manufacturers with imaging sensors as well as intellectual property and materials for the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and LCD display industries.

Kodak is a trademark of Eastman Kodak Company.
LuraDocument is a trademark of LuraTech GmbH.
Ascent is a trademark of Kofax.