Fujitsu's New ScanSnap Fi-5110EOX Scanner - For High Performance Digitisation of Paper Documents

Singapore, May 31, 2004

Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd, a leading regional IT and communications solutions provider, today launched the new ScanSnap Fi-5110EOX - a revolutionary high performance ENERGY STAR® compliant scanner that will make quick work of digitising the largest of documents.

"The ScanSnap Fi-5110EOX brings to the user many versatile and advanced features to facilitate the digitisation of large batches of documents in any size for single-sided as well as double-sided prints. It comes with sRGB technology that ensures superb colour quality. It is powerful, yet easy to use. It definitely makes scanning and document management as easy as snapping one's finger." said Mr Loh Chong Shing, Vice President, Volume Products Group, Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd.

This innovative creation is environmental compliant and carries the ENERGY STAR® eco-logo. One of ScanSnap's energy saving features is the automatic power shut off when its automatic document feeder (ADF) cover is closed. The international ENERGY STAR® programme is jointly administrated by the US Environmental Protection Agency and Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry. This programme promotes energy-efficient office equipment.

Compact and stylishly designed, the ScanSnap Fi-5110EOX is equipped to digitise both sides of standard and custom-sized documents in a single pass, in colour and at an amazing speed of up to 15 pages per minute for single-sided documents and 30 images per minute for double-sided documents. The ScanSnap ADF can easily handle large quantities, up to 50 documents continuously in normal mode, thus freeing the user to handle other jobs. It thus saves precious time for busy professionals. This revolutionary scanner produces excellent quality scans by employing the sRGB technology to define the original document colour standard and reproducing this at even higher definitions.

ScanSnap Fi-5110EOX is configured to be highly automated. It boasts an automatic function to allow the scanner to easily detect and eliminate blank pages, even when scanning combinations of one-sided and two-sided documents. It is also automated to separate colour documents from black & white ones and saves the information in highly compressed files, thus minimising the memory space required. In addition, the ScanSnap is equipped with the intelligence to auto-de-skew any misaligned text and to auto-image rotate to its proper orientation. The auto-de-skew application permits aligned scans (plus or minus 5 degrees) to be made from poor quality documents.

Another standard feature of the ScanSnap application is the "PDF Thumbnail View" function, which permits users to view miniature images of the scanned documents. This enables users to verify the contents of a PDF image without activating the Acrobat Software.

Bundled together with the ScanSnap Fi-5110EOX is the latest Adobe Acrobat 6.0 (Standard Version) & Cardminder, an application designed to capture images & information contained on business cards. This information can then be fed directly into a database for future reference.

Designed with the user in mind and with its ergonomic space saving feature, users will find the installation fuss-free and simple. In addition, its small footprint allows it to be unobtrusively placed in a corner on a working desk or next to the PC.

The ScanSnap Fi-5110EOX is indeed a powerful scanner that will provide the user with the speed and excellent production quality to digitise, store and manage massive amounts of paper documents in a snap.

For more information on ScanSnap Fi-5110EOX, visit http://www.fapl.fujitsu.com/scanner