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What is Kofax and ISIS?

I am familiar with TWAIN scanning methods, but I would like to find out about the terms ISIS and Kofax. First of all, I believe that ISIS is a "communication protocol" for connecting to high speed scanners... is this correct? What are some specifics about ISIS? What type of hardware is needed (SCSI, Parallell, etc.)? Are there special scanners that are ISIS compatable? Will these scanners necessarily state that they are ISIS compatible?

Secondly, what is Kofax. I have visited their site, but can't make sense of it. I don't know if Kofax is a driver, a PCI board, a scanner, software or what? Does Kofax use ISIS, or is it an alternative to ISIS? If it's an alternative, then what are the differences? If I wanted to use Kofax, what would I need?

Any help is appreciated!

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KOFAX:
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KOFAX is a privately held California corporation established in 1985 to create and market hardware and software products needed to bring document image processing technology onto personal computer platforms. Today the company is one of the industry's leading developers of component software applications, component development tools and hardware accelerators used to build production-level document imaging solutions for the PC LAN environment. Panasonic's line of high-speed scanners is compatible with KOFAX Image Accelerator cards

Kofax Adrenaline Accelerators
For uncompromising speed and ease of integration, we recommend Kofax Adrenaline image accelerator cards for most installations. Check out the new VRS - Virtual ReScan - capabilities available using Adrenaline.

Kofax is the world's leading provider of information capture solutions. No other company has the same global reach, depth of experience, or breadth of technology devoted to capturing vital business information -- from VRS (VirtualReScan) and Adrenaline for maximizing scanning productivity and quality, to the powerful Ascent platform for automatically transforming documents and forms into retrievable information.

Visit both Urls:

http://www.kofax.com/products/virtualrescan/index.asp

http://www.kofax.com/products/adrenaline/index.asp

Kofax is both software and hardware. Software in the sense of virtualrescan and hardware as in Kofax Adrenaline image accelerator cards.

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Sorry for the delay. That was great information. Thank you!