Category: Blogs

Google is sponsoring an Open Source OCR project.

Someone hipped me to this pretty cool post by Alfresco co-founder John Newton, pertaining to Dave DeWalt’s departure from EMC. Newton is a former Documentum

Version One, one of the leaders in the imaging software market in the U.K. has been acquired by what looks like a large accounting/ERP software

Xerox has become the latest digital copier vendor to make an acquisiton to beef up its direct sales efforts. Yesterday, Xerox announced plans to acquire

Israel-based forms processing specialist Top Image Systems has signed on a J&B Software as a U.S. reseller. J&B is one of the largest software vendors

This is an interesting story about document fraud protection technology – basically used to prevent people from reproducing documents that shouldn’t be reproduced.

Couple interesting things related to the Lason deal:1. We reported in July 2004 that investment firm Charterhouse Goup bought Lason, a $140 million company for

ACS is the latest oursourcer to go private. Seems to be some sort of trend. First Lason, then SourceCorp, then the biggest one of them

Dicom has hired a new non-executive Chairman. Interesting because he’s a U.K. guy and also has a high-growth background. High-growth is interesting because Rob Klatell,

Seems to make sense. Focusing their channels a bit. Anybody that does major acquistions like Ricoh has over the years typically needs to make some