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Kodak i780 Scanner vs. Canon DR-X10C Scanner

Kodak i780 Scanner

Canon DR-X10C Scanner

Competitive BenChmarking

Image and data integrity

Testing observations and conclusions

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Lower-quality characters pose a serious challenge for the

Lower-quality characters pose a serious challenge for the

Lower-quality characters pose a serious challenge for the

Canon

Scanner, requiring time consuming trial-and-error brightness/

Scanner, requiring time consuming trial-and-error brightness/

Scanner, requiring time consuming trial-and-error brightness/

contrast adjustments that reduce productivity.

contrast adjustments that reduce productivity.

contrast adjustments that reduce productivity.

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The

Kodak

i780 Scanner exceeds the performance of the

i780 Scanner exceeds the performance of the

i780 Scanner exceeds the performance of the

Canon

Scanner with default settings—even with brightness/contrast

Scanner with default settings—even with brightness/contrast

Scanner with default settings—even with brightness/contrast

optimally adjusted for the

optimally adjusted for the

Canon

Scanner, the

Scanner, the

Kodak

Scanner

outperforms it at default

settings.

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The

Kodak

Scanner, with default settings, maximizes the

Scanner, with default settings, maximizes the

integrity of every document scanned, both for viewing and

integrity of every document scanned, both for viewing and

downstream data extraction in real-world scenarios.

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Perfect Page image processing automatically delivers

consistently high OCR read rates, exceptional image quality, and

a greatly reduced need for rescans.

Competitive knockouts

Key takeaways:

The

Kodak

i780 Scanner provides outstanding image and data

Kodak i780 Scanner provides outstanding image and data Kodak

integrity and OCR read rates, even for real-world imaging challenges,

while the

Canon

DR-X10C Scanner does not perform nearly as well.

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Even challenging documents become productive images

with

the

Kodak

i780 Scanner while the

Canon

DR-X10C

Scanner requires a great deal of time to optimize brightness/

contrast adjustments and eort to rescan documents.

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Kodak helps ensure that scanned images comprise the

best image quality possible—a critical factor in document

management workﬂow—while the

Canon

Scanner can only

make a claim to pleasant aesthetics. Kodak delivers real-world

scanner performance.

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Even with optimized settings,

Canon

DR-X10C Scanner delivers

substandard OCR performance for a production scanner.

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Without adjustments and optimized settings, the

Canon

DR-X10C Scanner performance drops even further.

Methodology

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For detailed information about testing methodology and

laboratory test results, click here

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Table of Contents

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Count on Kodak for consistent and true performance.

Count out Canon.

Reduced-size

versions of the

documents scanned

during testing

Test: Light Document Challenge

OCR Read Rate

for Canon

DR-X10C

Scanner

2

OCR Read Rate

for Kodak i780

Scanner

2

Batch of documents with light text density (8-point type) scanned at 200 dpi

(LO82) with default settings for both scanners

0%

94%

Batch of documents with light text density (8-point type) scanned at 200 dpi

(LO82); brightness and contrast settings optimized for Canon; default settings

maintained for Kodak

67%

94%

Batch of documents with light text density (10-point type) scanned at 200 dpi

(L102) with default settings for both scanners

0%

95%

Batch of documents with light text density (10-point type) scanned at 200 dpi

(L102) with optimized settings for Canon; default settings for Kodak

82%

95%

©Kodak, 2009. Kodak is a trademark of Kodak.

All testing conducted in quality assurance labs at Kodak’s Document Imaging headquarters facility, 2600 Manitou Road, Rochester, NY from November 18th, 2008 – December 11th, 2008.