Some v4.x licenses include Downgrade Rights. Downgrade Rights allow customers to use prior versions of our products.

The v3.x Software Assurance license offer comes to an end this month.

We are delighted to announce that our Scanning Enabler 2010 products are now available in Beta and for online trial. Login to our demonstration web site and test out our new products online.

UK local government case study now available.

We have been working on a SharePoint 2010 version of our Scanning Enabler products for a few months now. Here is a Sneak Peek.

We have added a Customer and Partner Case Study section to our web site. See what other Dark Blue Duck Customers and Partners are up to.

The Scanning Enabler now has integrated support for Editing Scanned documents. Open an existing Scanned document, modify it, update the column values and save back to SharePoint without leaving the SharePoint web page.

The Scanning Enabler now Supports Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Business Data Catalog (BDC) Columns.

The Scanning Enabler Capture Application now supports Resampling. Reduce Color Depth, Resolution and File Size of Scanned Documents as they are saved to SharePoint.

Dark Blue Duck have launched a Partner Program. Partners qualify for price discounts.

The Dark Blue Duck Scanning Enabler Capture application includes Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) to read the values of check boxes on scanned documents and forms. See our Optical Mark Recognition screencast to see how this new feature can be used.

Review our updated screencasts to see how we have updated the Scanning Enabler Suite to work better together.

You are uploading a scanned Affidavit to your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (recognising and then adding OCR text in the process). At the same time you are scanning in a Statement of Claim using your desktop scanner. Then someone uses the network attached Multifunction Printer to drop a third document into a Watch Folder on your desktop.

The Scanning Enabler Capture application will start loading in the third document while it keeps the first two tasks going without missing a beat. The Scanning Enabler Capture Application status bar will keep you informed of how all three tasks are progressing. See: here

Our online tryout site has been relaunched. The site is now hosted on a Windows Server 2008 (x64) machine running MOSS 2007. Use your Dark Blue Duck web site credentials to access the site. The online tryout site has the main Scanning Enabler product installed and the Routing Coversheet Service running.

With the Routing Coversheet Service on the online tryout site it is now possible to e-mail or fax documents directly to user defined document library folders (and SharePoint list items) using Dark Blue Duck barcode coversheets or barcode labels. E-mail test documents to anyone@demo.darkblueduck.com. The fax number for the online tryout site is: +1-206-600-7351.

Create a Dark Blue Duck web site login (if you don't already have one) and use the new online tryout site to test out the Dark Blue Duck products using your office fax machine or your e-mail enabled Multifunction Printer.

Dark Blue Duck are delighted to announce availability of our 3.x product licenses. Customers who have purchased 2.x Software Assurance licenses will be pleased to know that a 2.x product license plus a matching 2.x software assurance license is equivalent to a new 3.x product license.

Customers purchasing 3.x licenses and customers with existing 2.x Software Assurance can now purchase 3.x Software Assurance licenses that will protect their Scanning Enabler product investment through to the end of 2010.

Notice that we will provide customers who purchased 2.x licenses this month (December 2008) with an upgrade to the 3.x licenses at no cost.

Attach a printed barcode label to an existing document and use a Multifuction device to send the document to exactly the right part of your SharePoint Site. See how here.

Architectural Guidance is now available. We have created a Hardware and Software Recipes guide.

A Scanning Enabler^TM Software Development Kit (SDK) is available. A sample project is described here.

Specify the Optical Character Recognition Language with the Dark Blue Duck Scanning Web Page.

The Code Signing Certificate used to sign the Dark Blue Duck ActiveX Control has expired. Please download and install the latest release to address this issue.

Dark Blue Duck are exhibiting at TechEd Australia in Sydney next month. Come along and say hello. Our brochure is available here.

We congratulate IT-Dev for agreeing to distribute and support the Scanning Enabler^TM 2007 products in Poland. Please contact IT-Dev for details

Use our Scanning Enabler^TM 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 our Content Type and Site Column Value sheets to add metadata to your paper documents.

Use your shared Multifunction printer (MFP) with the Dark Blue Duck Scanning Enabler^TM Coversheet Routing Service.

Do you have only one desktop scanner in the office? You can now use the Dark Blue Duck Scanning Enabler^TM Scanner Sharing program to share it. Our Scanner Sharing program allows others to use the Scanning Enabler^TM 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.

We have added support for MOSS MySites.

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.

View your scanned pages as thumbnails using this enhancement.

The Dark Blue Duck team have launched a small business edition and a medium business edition of the Scanning Enabler^TM.

The Dark Blue Duck Scanning Enabler^TM 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.

SharePointHosting.com are providing the Dark Blue Duck Scanning Enabler^TM 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 Enabler^TM.

You can now use the Dark Blue Duck Scanning Enabler^TM to attach scanned documents to SharePoint List Items. Click here to try.

At Dark Blue Duck we have added Optical Character Recognition support to our Scanning Enabler product (allowing the Scanning Enabler^TM 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.

Dark Blue Duck are adding support for French, German and other languages to our Scanning Enabler^TM product. Click German or French.

Dark Blue Duck have created a way for you to try our Scanning Enabler^TM product from the comfort of your laptop. Click here to learn more.

Dark Blue Duck have released the Scanning Enabler^TM 2007.