Phew!  Another major project behind us.  Amid the ice and snow storm here in St. Louis, our teams released KnowledgeLake Capture 2008 (4.3).  I've been working on a feature by feature comparison between this product and our competition and I can honestly say, on the client side, this is the best document scanning application produced.  Yeah, I know that sounds biased, but I've used the latest version of our competition and I really believe we have them beat (for now).

Some of the new features include:

• ISIS support
• 2D Barcode support
• 32-bit & 64-bit Windows Vista support
• Ability to index and release to using any character set

We added these to the pre-existing (major) feature set:

• Twain support
• Barcode/Patchcode Separation
• Barcode Indexing
• Automatic index configuration from SharePoint
• Automatic classification into SharePoint Content Types
• Zonal OCR
• Image Cleanup (Deskew, Black Border, etc)

We'll also be adding a full blown PDF plug-in module in March that allows import, exporting and viewing of Searchable or Image only PDF documents.

You can download a trial version of this software at http://www.knowledgelake.com.

- Chris