Nuance eCopy Connectors and Services

What is a Connector?

A Connector provides native integration from eCopy ShareScan or eCopy PaperWorks to virtually any back-end application.

eCopy and members of the eCopy Connections Alliance Program (eCAP), offer a series of Connectors and Services that provide additional integration capabilities. These connected solutions enable paper documents to be scanned and distributed into selected document management systems and other enterprise applications, directly from the copier or scanner.

Connectors for ShareScan

How does it work?

A client application resides at the MFP or scanner, allowing paper documents to be scanned and distributed into selected document management systems and other enterprise applications. Furthermore, API level integration lets the Connector communicate directly to a server in its language and receive information back instantaneously.

What is the user's experience at the scanning device?

Highly flexible, each Connector can be configured to give the user as much or as little flexibility when scanning and delivering or storing documents. This flexibility allows each button or configuration to be tailored to the type of document being stored and the appropriate level of user interaction.

Benefits:

• Easy administration

  Changes to back end applications are immediately and automatically reflected at the eCopy ShareScan-enabled device

• Support compliance and security initiatives

  Enable audit trails and ensure security through authentication and file encryption files for scanned documents

• Standardize on a single document capture platform

  Users work with a familiar interface at any of the networked copiers/scanners

• Create customized workflows to store and index documents based on the users' needs

• Increase operational efficiencies

  Easily access, modify, distribute, and share paper-based documents

• Leverage investment in backend applications

  Quickly and easily get paper into any backend application

Connectors for PaperWorks

How does it work?

Connectors for eCopy PaperWorks extend eCopy PaperWorks's functionality by providing users native integration between backend business applications and eCopy PaperWorks. Within eCopy PaperWorks, users can manage and modify PDF documents then store them directly into a specific backend application; conversely, they can pull documents from a backend application directly into eCopy PaperWorks.

Connectors for eCopy PaperWorks can be designed in such a way to allow direct access to image data for manipulation (e.g., PDF, Annotation, Searchable Text, Add/Split Pages).

Benefits:

• Makes available tighter integration into document management systems, storage, OCR, and fax applications not currently supported in the standard eCopy PaperWorks offering
• Provides the ability to gain access to eCopy PaperWorks viewing and document manipulation capabilities
• Enhances eCopy PaperWorks role as a universal client for scanned documents, ultimately increasing workflow efficiencies for an organization and improving the user's experience

What is a Service?

A Service is a process that is applied to a scanned image, and is used in conjunction with eCopy ShareScan and Connectors for ShareScan. A Service modifies, enhances or classifies a document (image) without regard for end destination. Services can provide functionality such as encryption, searchable text, a variety of File Formats (TIF, PDF, eCopy, PDF/A), file naming, blank page removal and document tracking. Available Services include:

• Cost Recovery
• Bates Numbering
• ID Services
• Document Services