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Pixily at 21st Annual NAPO Conference

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Expect to see Prasad, Vikram, and Cassandra of the OfficeDrop team at booths 400 and 402 at The National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) 21st annual conference this week in Orlando, Florida. Please be sure to stop by those booths for a free mail-in scanvelope and other goodies.

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Partnered with Fujitsu, the team will promote OfficeDrop’s simple and efficient document management service with Fujitsu’s ScanSnap scanners. Small personal scanners capable of generating Pdfs with the push of a button.  Tell us what you think of this collaboration. Dynamic duo?

And the conference? Greener?  This year NAPO has created a Green Task Force to carry out new  “green” initiatives at the 09 conference.

Promoting green practices, Prasad, our CEO will will also be delivering a talk titled  Achieving the Paperless Dream:

Has the paperless dream been elusive?  Have the solutions you tried been more a hassle than help? Are you thinking about adopting paperless
solutions but are overwhelmed by the choices? In this session, he will distill the solutions available in the market and share tips and tricks on how
to achieve the paperless dream.

Not at the conference? A list of preregistered exhibitors can be found here.

Were you at the conference? What did you think of it? What booth or booths were most captivating and for what reasons? What speakers or keynote addresses hit home most, were most insightful? Please,  share your thoughts.

Left to right: Vikram, Cassandra, Derek, Prasad. Photo: Melanie McClurkin.

Left to right: Vikram, Cassandra, Derek, Prasad. Photo: Melanie McClurkin.

Fingerprinting paper (a.k.a Blank sheets are not really blank)

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Macworld reports that researchers at Princeton University and University College London say they can identify unique information, essentially like a magnifying-glassfingerprint, from any sheet of paper using any reasonably good scanner. Their findings will be presented at the IEEE security conference in May, 2009.

“We’ve found a way to identify documents even when there was nothing additional printed on them,” said Alex Halderman, who was part of the Princeton team. “This is like an invisible serial number printed on every piece of paper ever made.”

Isn’t this exciting? In addition to finding obvious applications such as detecting counterfeited currency notes, there could be other interesting main-stream applications related to legal contracts etc,. too. We are quite intrigued by this technology and its possible applications to our customers.

Xerox sacrifices duplex scanning to lower DocuMate Scanner to $400

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Xerox\'s least expensive sheet-Fed Document Scanner - DocuMate 150 Xerox sacrificed the most important duplex scanning (two-sided) feature on their sheet-fed scanners in order to break the $400 price barrier. Announced on June 23, 2008 and priced at $399, the Xerox DocuMate 150 is their cheapest sheet-fed document scanner. Announced on June 23, 2008, the DocuMate 150 is priced at $399. You can find it for around $350 by searching on price comparison sites like pricegrabber.com. If you buy this scanner, you will have to scan each page twice to be able to digitize both sides of the page. Considering this being a significant limitation, I am not sure how many units of this model that Xerox will sell.

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