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Product Information
Cobra Technologies has been working comprehensively with Lotus Notes, a leading groupware product, since its early releases. Notes has a compound document structure, allowing it to accept many kinds of data including: text, rich text, sound, images, graphics, and video, making it a wonderful data store for scanned images. Notes also has powerful routing capabilities, ensuring quick and secure delivery of an object. In a Lotus Domino environment, Notes documents can be easily and rapidly published to a web site for viewing by a client browser over an intranet or an extranet. Cobra Technologies uses the strong store and forward document capabilities of Notes in harmony with Cobra Image Router to rapidly scan, route, and deliver paper-based information electronically.
Cobra Image Router (CIR) works very closely with devices offered by Hewlett-Packard -- HP 9100C Digital Sender and Xerox - Xerox Document Centre family. These devices have control panel displays which are populated by CIR. Destinations are configured in a Lotus Notes database in CIR. A user selects a destination from the control panel and presses the start or send button on the scanner. A destination can be any destination reachable by the Lotus Notes server which could be:
- A Lotus Notes mail address
- An Internet address (with Lotus SMTP/MTA)
- A facsimile destination (with Lotus Fax Server or Domino Fax Server)
- A web site (with Lotus Domino)
- A Domino.Doc binder within a file cabinet
In addition, the image can be directly placed into a Notes database, perhaps to initiate a workflow application.
BENEFITS OF COBRA IMAGE ROUTER
The greatest benefit that CIR offers is the ability to break the barriers of paper-based documentation viewing and storage issues.
- CIR places images directly into the Lotus Notes environment.
- CIR documents can be accessed by anyone with access to a Notes network, using a Notes client or a browser.
- Multiple sites can view the image, eliminating the need for multiple, paper-based copies.
- CIR can improve efficiency and save system resources, as all users can view one copy of the image, rather than multiple, stored copies.
- CIR documents and images can be used and view while working remotely, increasing productivity.
- CIR can be a key complement to any workflow involving the use of paper-based information.
- CIR records its usage, which can be reviewed and monitored for an optimal implementation.
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