The Canon CR-180 is an compact front-counter cheque-scanning device that captures MICR data with images of the front & back of cheques at speeds of up to 180 cheques per minute. Loaded with advanced back-office functionality, it rapidly delivers Canon’s proven high image quality and superior document handling for faster, more efficient cheque processing and electronic image exchange at the first point of presentation.

High-Speed Check Scanning
Scans check on both sides at up to 180 checks per minute (cpm). It is almost twice as fast as other compact check scanners. You can choose between black & white or grayscale. To value-add, it also comes with an advanced text enhancement and color dropout features. CR-180 allows you to load up to 200 checks on the tray at any one time.

Compact yet Durable
While its compact size is catered perfectly for desktop use, its superb durability is just like any other Canon’s production scanners. CR-180 boosts a shelf life of 24 millions scans*, with an average daily volume of up to 200,000 checks.
Priced very affordably, it is a must-have device for back office use in banks, check-clearing houses, back up machine in process center application or for other mission critical tasks.
*Maintenance and parts replacement are required

Advanced Text Enhancement & Color Dropout
With this value-added feature, letters, signatures or checks printed with illustrated or faint colored backgrounds can be emphasized for higher legibility.Color Dropout is another useful feature to improve OCR and text recognition by removing “unwanted” colors in the electronic images.

Over 99.99% accuracy in MICR Data reading
CR-180 reads the MICR line found at the bottom of each check with a high precision magnetic reader, and can also read this data simultaneously with OCR software.
Canon Scanning Utility software lets you save MICR data in different ways: save as a filename, tag of a tiff file, log file. The log file serves as a detailed and quick reference, containing fields like dates, file names, MICR data.

Double Feed Detection
This function automatically detects when two or more checks have been fed into the scanner at the same time. CR-180 is able to detect double feeds either by the thickness or length of your documents.

Built-in Imprinter
This function allows you to print up to 48 characters on the back of each check as they are scanned through the CR-180. Four different inks’ colors are available: black, red, green and blue.

Built-in Jogger Unit
A stack of checks loaded on the feed tray can be aligned before scanning. This is extremely useful so as to achieve a high MICR reading accuracy. It saves you the time and hassle to physically prepare each stack of checks prior to scanning.

Two Output Pockets
Not just one but two pockets so that you can sort scanned checks into two output pockets based on information printed in the MICR line. For example: Read and Error checks are sorted into Pocket 1 and 2 respectively.

Ease of Maintenance
The CR-180 opens on the side, which makes it easy to change the imprinter’s ink cartridge, clear a paper jam, or perform maintenance tasks such as cleaning the scanning glass and feed rollers.

Wealth of Software Bundling
Canon Scanning Utility is bundled with every CR-180. It is an application that does scanning, file saving, image viewing, printing, etc.

The ISIS/TWAIN driver is also bundled with the device and a Software Development Kit (SDK) is available for customizing scanner operation.

Silver Bullet’s Ranger Transport API™ Software Tool. As the industry standard, Silver Bullet’s Ranger Software allows customers to use virtually any item processing software with virtually any check scanning hardware. And Canon CR-180 is one of them. The inclusion of Ranger with the CR-180 enables most banks to upgrade to the new Canon Check Scanners without having to replace their current software solution.

With this inclusion, regardless of the software being used by a bank, CR-180 will most likely work in their environment. This is certain delightful news for both application developers and users alike.

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Designed to replace USB 3.0 the “omnilink” is a genuine ‘next-gen’ digital interface that features real innovations in digital interface technology.

Unlike all other traditional coupler designs the omnilink is both bi-sexual and symmetrical. Meaning that it can be coupled or connected from any orientation, to any other omnilink. This eliminates over 50% of materials and tooling required for manufacture and doubles the usability of the physical interface.

Connectivity and bandwidth are maximized with a 2 mm Fiber Optic Core ~100 Terahertz, copper contacts are also available for legacy systems and power, see features list below for details.

For a specification draft, download the PDF here:

http://neotoy.tripod.com/omnilink.pdf

Features:

1. One symmetrical, fully bi-sexual hardware interface, no male female bullshit, no fumbling to find the right direction for the plug, no unnecessary adapters.

2. Hybrid fiber optic / electric interface, fiber for data at speeds exceeding 1GB/s, can be updated indefinitely via DSP, electric for legacy data and power to supply energy dependent devices.

3. 12 Volts, 3200 mA max distributed power via the bus. This is enough to power standard 3.5″ disk drives, CD/DVD drives, scanners, printers, and other small devices that USB does not support.

4. Backwards compatible with Ethernet, and all 8P8C / RJ45 variations- requires adapter.

5. Intelligent connectivity, full data/power link is not established until hardware determines the appropriate device settings and requirements.

6. Small enough for use with micro devices like flash memory, MP3 Players and mobile phones yet pragmatic enough to endure in adverse environments.

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Winning technology grants requires more than filling out an application. Grants are increasingly tied to long-term strategies that demonstrate initiative in reaching the grantor’s mission.

If you want to be first in line for technology funding you must understand how to allocate and manage your funds. Grasp the following four technology expenditure areas and you’ll be ready to submit well documented and well reasoned proposals.

Hardware

Hardware is usually the primary focus in technology funding. It includes computers (workstations), printers, scanners, and fax machines. If your organization is large enough, you might have different servers, backup systems, or extensive networking equipment.

Because of typically large initial cash outlays, hardware will include 50% or more of the total project costs.

Software

Software includes the programs you need to run your hardware. Typically, software will comprise 15-20% of your total hardware budget. Be mindful of upgrade costs versus new costs. Look for lower priced opportunities if you buy software licenses in bulk.

For general office equipment like printers and scanners, software will usually be included in the hardware cost. For thoroughness, go through your hardware list and determine if software is needed. Or if an upgrade rather than an outright buy will do.Duration : 0:1:12

We have built a system for acquiring and displaying high quality graphical models of objects that are impossible to scan with traditional scanners. Our system can acquire highly specular and fuzzy materials, such as fur and feathers. The hardware set-up consists of a turntable, two plasma displays, an array of cameras, and a rotating array of directional lights. We use multi-background matting techniques to acquire alpha mattes of the object from multiple viewpoints. The alpha mattes are used to construct an opacity hull. The opacity hull is a new shape representation, defined as the visual hull of the object with view-dependent opacity. It enables visualization of complex object silhouettes and seamless blending of objects into new environments. Our system also supports relighting of objects with arbitrary appearance using surface reflectance fields, a purely image-based appearance representation. Our system is the first to acquire and render surface reflectance fields under varying illumination from arbitrary viewpoints. We have built three generations of digitizers with increasing sophistication. In this paper, we present our results from digitizing hundreds of models.
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Fujitsu is targeting corporate desktop computer access with new versions of its palm vein biometric scanner.Duration : 0:1:4