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the Free CMSWire NewsletterThis week, Kofax decided to enhance its SDK with the acquisition of Atalasoft, Nuance upgrades to OmniPage 18, Microsoft tells us why Office 365 is good for Mac, First to File extends patent document management reach and Google looks set to introduce Google Docs Offline this summer — again.
Kofax Buys Atalasoft
Document and business process automation vendor Kofax (news, site) this week announced that it is buying imaging software developer Atalsoft, with which it hopes to enhance its SDK and offer it for use with its Capture and Transformation modules software by the end of this year.
After the recent flurry around LinkedIn and Skype, the sums involved are relatively small, with Kofax taking all of Atalsoft’s (news, site) stock for US$ 5.5 million in cash, with US$ 4.7 million to be paid on closing of the transaction and US$ 0.8 million to be paid one year from closing, subject to terms and conditions.
In addition, Kofax may pay an additional US$ 4.2 million in cash to be made during the next two-and-a-half years, subject to the achievement of specific annual revenue growth; in other words, if Atalasoft performs, it will pay the money out then. The acquisition is to close by the end of May.
The combined product will enable users to capture portal and Internet browser-based applications and extend their capture solutions beyond firewalls to include line-of-business applications accessible over the web.
Atalasoft’s flagship product DotImage is one of the better SDKs for document scanning, viewing, annotating and processing in Microsoft .NET environments with over 2,500 end users. Interested in more?
Nuance Upgrades OmniPage
If you missed it during the week, we wondered what Nuance (news, site) could add to OmniPage that it hasn't crammed into any of the 17 previous editions.
Nuance offers a Windows-based document scanning and management solution, with each iteration refining the product for those that are always on the lookout for something new.
OmniPage 18 is no different, with the addition of a cloud connector to allow saving and conversion in any of the popular cloud services.
It also offers improved scanning, claiming to save 15 minutes a page in user time thanks to a 67% increase in layout accuracy and an 18% character accuracy improvement when converting a page into editable documents. Check it out here.
Office 365 is for Mac, Too
In all the hoopla around the release of Office 365 and all the great things that it will be able to do, Mac and the use of Office 365 for Mac users got a bit lost in all the writeups.
However, this week on the Office 365 blog Andrew Kisslo, Group Manager, Office 365, took time to show us how it will work and where it won’t.
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