New Code Signing Certificate Required
1st September 2008
The Code Signing Certificate used to sign the Dark Blue Duck ActiveX Control has expired. The new Certificate has been used to sign the version of the .cab file used in the Online Trial site. Please download a copy of the new .cab file from here.
TechEd Australia 2008
21st August 2008
Dark Blue Duck are exhibiting at TechEd Australia in Sydney next month. Come along and say hello. Our brochure is available here.
IT-Dev partnership agreement signed
30th July 2008
We congratulate IT-Dev for agreeing to distribute and support the Scanning EnablerTM 2007 products in Poland.
Please contact IT-Dev for details
Scanning EnablerTM Capture application released
26th May 2008
Use our Scanning EnablerTM Capture Desktop application to bulk load your paper documents to SharePoint. Select a Content Type and specify "Indexing" Site Column properties for multiple scanned documents at one time. The intuitive user interface reduces your training costs.
Use barcode pages to specify a SharePoint Content Type and one or more Site Column Values (metadata)
8th May 2008
Use our Content Type and Site Column Value sheets to add metadata to your paper documents.
Multifunction printers welcome here
31st March 2008
Want to Share your Desktop Scanner with others?
15th March 2008
Do you have only one desktop scanner in the office? You can now use the Dark Blue Duck Scanning EnablerTM Scanner Sharing program to share it. Our Scanner Sharing program allows others to use the Scanning EnablerTM at their desk even if they don't have a desktop scanner of their own.
We have added the Scanner Sharing program to our online tryout site and created a step by step guide.
MOSS MySite Support
14th March 2008
We have added support for MOSS MySites.
Image stamping added to Scanning EnablerTM
29th February 2008
We have added a number of options to the Scanning Settings page. One of these new options allows users to specify a "stamp" that will be applied to pages in all scanned documents.
Thumbnail view added to Scanning EnablerTM
28th January 2008
View your scanned pages as thumbnails using this enhancement.
Small and Medium Business Editions
30th December 2007
Batch scanning now supported
2nd December 2007
The Dark Blue Duck Scanning EnablerTM now supports batch scanning. This feature allows you to upload multiple scanned documents to SharePoint at one time. Separate scanned documents with blank pages or use a Dark Blue Duck scanning separator page. We will be adding batch scanning to our trial edition in the New Year.
Add Scanning Enabler to your Hosted SharePoint Site
26th November 2007
SharePointHosting.com are providing the Dark Blue Duck Scanning EnablerTM on their hosted SharePoint sites. They have produced a sliverlight video to introduce their customers to be benefits of the the Dark Blue Duck Scanning EnablerTM.
Attach a scanned document to a SharePoint List Item
5th November 2007
You can now use the Dark Blue Duck Scanning EnablerTM to attach scanned documents to SharePoint List Items. Click here to try.
Microsoft Office OCR added
1st October 2007
At Dark Blue Duck we have added Optical Character Recognition support to our Scanning Enabler product (allowing the Scanning EnablerTM to create SharePoint "searchable" scanned documents out-of-the-box). For a demo of the new feature click here and login to find all of the pdf files in our online demonstration site with the words 'blue duck' in them.
Multilingual support
12th September 2007
Dark Blue Duck are adding support for French, German and other languages to our Scanning EnablerTM product. Click German or French.
Online tryout
29th April 2007
Dark Blue Duck have created a way for you to try our Scanning EnablerTM product from the comfort of your laptop. Click here to learn more.
SharePoint 2007 product line launched
31st March 2007