In yet another sign that document imaging is on the inexorable rise, Nuance has acquired eCopy. This is going to be an interesting combination of companies.
Nuance makes all sorts of interesting products, including Dragon speech recognition products, mobile texting applications, and PaperPort document management software.
The acquired company, eCopy, has more narrowly focused on document scanning, imaging, and general "workflow" solutions, including multi-function printers.
The joining of these companies indicates the continued integration of various types of communications data and equipment. Document imaging providers traditionally have cornered the "input" side of things as far as scanning documents into the digital world, while speech input software has been another, not especially related niche industry.
Now that so many documents are already digital, with millions upon millions becoming digital by the day, it's time to put it all together. Nuance and eCopy will look to do just that.
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I agree that there will be some interesting technology coming out of the Nuance acquisition of eCopy, but more than that, it is recognition that MFPs are everywhere and can be used to scan documents into electronic workflows. Nuance technology combined with eCopy software at the MFP will open up the world of document imaging to the average office worker.
This new document imaging frontier will bring about change with the Document Imaging Solutions model system become more efficient in many ways.
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