Yes, paper. While fostering in digital lifestyle, Microsoft is making sure that its next-generation Windows is capable of handling “legacy” products beyond software and hardware solutions.
In this regard, Windows 7 has been designed to play nice with paper. This because of the Web Services for Devices (WSD) Distributed Scan Management implemented in Windows Server 2008 R2 (Windows 7 Server). WSD Distributed Scan Management was created in order to streamline management capabilities for scanning services in corporate IT infrastructures.
“Distributed Scan Management is a new Windows 7 feature that will make it easier and more efficient for corporations to use scanners to create and route documents in their business networks. In the past, corporate IT departments often found it difficult to include paper-based scanned documents into their electronic communications. Distributed Scan Management is an innovative new technique that makes it possible to easily use scanners to integrate paper information into corporate computer-based networks more effectively than ever before,” revealed Seth McEvoy, WDK senior programmer writer.
Essentially, users would be using WSD scan devices that would be configured to function in the context of a WSD distributed scan server. In this regard, a WSD distributed scan server is nothing more than a machine running Windows Server 2008 R2 and featuring the Windows scan repository service. Users would be able to find all scanned documents processed and stored as images on the scan server.
“For example, this could be used when a corporate employee has to submit paper receipts for business expenses. With Distributed Scan Management, an employee could use a scanner to submit them electronically. They would first put the receipt into the scanner and the scan management system would be able to authenticate the employee's status and then offer them a set of choices on where to deliver the receipt information, such as an email address, a SharePoint server, or a file server,” McEvoy added.
Source:Softpedia
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