VirtualReScan

There are five versions available to match the speed and interface of your scanner:

For High-Volume Scanners (typically 80 pages per minute ppm or faster) VRS Professional Production for USB / FireWire scanners VRS Professional Production for SCSI scanners

For Mid-Volume Scanners (typically 35 ppm to 80 ppm) VRS Professional Workgroup for USB / FireWire scanners VRS Professional Workgroup for SCSI scanners

For Low-Volume Scanners (typically 10 ppm to 35 ppm) VRS Professional Desktop for USB / FireWire and SCSI scanners

The Production and Workgroup versions of VRS Professional include all the functionality of the Desktop version, plus add AIPE (Adrenaline Image Processing Engine) and EBC (Enhanced Bar Code) at scan time capabilities. The SCSI versions of VRS Professional Production and VRS Professional Workgroup are sold bundled with an Adrenaline 650i SCSI controller.

Desktop Productivity works with many leading email programs, such as Outlook 2007 / XP / 2003 and Lotus 6.x.

When used with an email program, Desktop Productivity adds scanning options to the menu bar or drop down menus atop the screen. Say, for example, your job entails sending scanned images of purchase orders to multiple vendors. Currently, if you're in the midst of composing an email message to accompany the P.O., you'd have to leave the email program and switch to a scanning application. You might have to adjust the scan several times before generating a legible image. Then you'd have to name and save this image, return to your email program, select the attach command, navigate to where you stored the image, attach it, then resume composing your message.

But with VRS 4.2 Professional's Desktop Productivity feature, you never have to leave your email program. Instead, simply select one of two menu options now available from atop your email program's screen: Fast Scan or Scan with Preview. Fast Scan scans, corrects, names and saves a digital image of a document based on defaults you previously selected. Scan with Preview shows the scanned image in a viewer, and allows you to adjust its appearance and name before saving. With Desktop Productivity, you now can scan documents as quickly and as easily as you can print them.

While working on the desktop, you can invoke Desktop Productivity's options simply by right clicking your mouse. Likewise, while working in Windows Explorer, select a folder, right click, and you can deliver perfectly scanned documents to this location.

Advanced Clarity is the image enhancement feature you use when nothing else seems to work. With it, there's no reason to fear working with items previously thought to be unscannable. Difficult source materials such as blueprints, documents printed on security paper (checks, birth certificates, car titles, etc.), documents with dense, textured background – even crumpled documents rescued from the trash – can be turned into crisp, highly legible scanned images that in many cases are easier to read than the original paper document.

You'll find the VRS 4.2 Professional version of Advanced Clarity improved so that it is even faster and more accurate than before.

Not at all. In fact, if you currently use VRS 4.0 Plus or VRS 4.1 Professional, they're available as free upgrades.

Not if you compare it to the cost of hiring people to do the work of VRS. Some large volume customers claim that VRS Professional's productivity enhancements pay for themselves after a single day's use.

You can if you live in North, Central or South America. Customers in these locations can buy the full version of VRS 4.2 Professional, or upgrades from other versions of VRS. Visit www.kofaxshop.com for details. Products are sold as downloads only; retail boxed versions are not available on this site.

No. You can install 4.2 on top of an existing 4.0 or 4.1 installation.

No. The upgrade path and options for both are the same.

Eventually, you will be able to do so. But you need to have a bit of patience. Kofax always releases the retail version of VRS first, then goes to work on the scanner manufacturer-specific versions it prepares for its bundling partners. Typically, the scanner manufacturer-specific versions of VRS are available within three months of the retail version.

Possibly. But if you run into problems, Kofax tech support will not be able to assist you.

You can speak to a tech support representative Monday through Friday from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST).

Yes, by visiting the Knowledgebase found in the Support section of the Kofax website. There you can search by the version of VRS you use, your scanner's manufacturer and model, and/or keywords. You'll see a list of previously reported issues similar or identical to yours, as well as the suggested resolutions provided by Kofax's tech support. It also may be helpful to visit Kofax's VRS Forum, also found in the Support section of the website. There you'll find numerous questions submitted by current VRS customers, as well as responses supplied by Kofax employees, resellers and power users.

VRS 4.2 currently does not work with Kodak i600 scanners that use the version 8.x TWAIN driver (there's a workaround). And VRS 4.2's Desktop Productivity features do not work when used with Windows 2000, or with InoTec scanners. And Kofax Capture (formerly Ascent Capture) 8.0 customers who activate VRS 4.2 on the same license do not have access to Desktop Productivity features (but if they install a separate VRS 4.2 license on top of Kofax Capture 8.0, they do). See the Release Notes for full details.

There is one more of note: We've extended the list of file and compression formats VRS can work with to include PNG, GIF, DCX, LZW and TIFF Technical Note 2.

Yes, but no major changes have been made to it.

No. There are separate part numbers available to purchase an upgrade from VRS Basic to the Desktop, Workgroup and Production version of VRS 4.2 Professional. These are sold at a significant discount off the full version price.

No. Only software downloads are available from this site. No physical product is shipped for purchases made through the Kofax Shop online.

Activation typically occurs during the installation process when VRS is installed on a computer with an Internet connection. VRS must communicate briefly with the Kofax licensing server to activate all of its features. If VRS is installed but not activated, it will run in demo mode, stamping the Kofax logo on each scanned image.

No. Localized versions of VRS 4.2 are available in German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese. We also plan to release localized versions in Hungarian, Polish, Czech and Brazilian Portuguese. Check the download section of the Kofax support website for these language packs, which will be posted as soon as they're available.