PRINTITRESELLER.UK 25 can talk to various AI engines in the cloud or even on-premise as well, we can now integrate with AWS Query and AWS Bedrock. To give you an example, with AWS Query you can scan documents and you can query them, like ask them a real question, so you can then understand the sentiment of the document you’re receiving. So, if you’re running a customer services helpdesk, you’ll receive a lot of documentation either via mail or via email. Info Input can work with email as well as paper‑based documents, it can scan through those documents and understand the sentiment of the person that’s written the letter, and then you can decide on where that should go. For example, if it’s a change of address, it’s quite simple, but if it’s a complaint, it might go to a different area in customer services. So having that automatic understanding and the sentiment of a document, helps route it a lot quicker. Another feature that an AI engine is capable of is Azure AI Vision, you can scan a 100 page legal contract, and the AI engine can automatically give you a summary of all of the important points within that contract. We are also integrating with Google Gemini, it’s great, it can do so many things. MR: Thanks Hemel it sounds like it’s been a busy year for you, anything else you’d like to share? HT: Yes, we’re really keen to get people to see the new S5000 series, so we’re going to be hosting open days at our offices in Hemel Hempstead. We’re also going to have events throughout the year where we will take the scanners to different areas of the country and have partners and customers bring their own documents and see all of the benefits that it can offer. scaling as the original. Another more important one is colour, tonal and luminescence on the actual scanned page. So, if you scan something that’s red and then reprint it and it comes out pink that hasn’t represented the original document. Another initiative is to make sure that all of the colours and the brightness and the contrast and the tones within the original document are represented in that digital image. We’ve been discussing this a lot with National Archives as well. I cover the whole of northern Europe and we speak to all of the National Archives in all of the individual countries, and they really like the fact that these new scanners will be FADGI compliant, because they’re looking for that true representation of the original. MR: You’ve explained how Kodak Alaris isn’t just a hardware company; you also provide complementary software solutions. About 12 months ago we spoke about Info Input Solution and since then there have been several enhancements, particularly leveraging GenAI to improve document processing. I’d love to hear more about those. HT: KODAK Info Input Solution is what we call an opensource solution, so it connect this high volume scanner to your Ethernet network. A lot of the features in the new S5000 series are all around making life easier for the operators. Traditionally, if you’ve got a high volume scanner, you would do all of the document prep removing staples, inserting separator sheets and so on, away from the scanner. And then you’d bring this big stack of documents to the scanner and feed it all in one go. But some customers like to do what we call prep and scan, where they open up folders at the scanner, remove staples at the scanner, and manually input pages so they go through individually. We’ve introduced a shelf that you can have at the front of the scanner where you can do this prep work, and it makes life a lot easier for them. When we talk about high volume production environments it’s typically customers who want to scan a large volume of work. But there are also customers that need to scan smaller volumes and need to scan it quickly. It needs to get into their line of business applications almost instantaneously so that they can work on those documents without any delay. In addition, all three models have FADGI capabilities. MR: So, what’s FADGI? HT: It is a US initiative. The Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative for digitising archival documents. Documents that are going to be archived for the long-term need to represent exactly the same structure as the original, it’s made up of eight different elements, and I’ll talk about some of them now. Size is an important one. So, for example, if you’re scanning a technical drawing, and that technical drawing is to scale, you need to ensure that the digital image has the same ONE-TO-ONE To watch the full interview, please scan the QR code
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