Move Over Desktop Fax, Scanners and Copiers:
Qipit Pioneering New Technology for Camera Phones That Scans Text,
Improves Photo Quality in Same Document

San Francisco, CA – October 17, 2007 – For decades moving a document quickly from one person or office to the next meant scanning a document and emailing it at a PC or powering up the old fax machine. Now Qipit, the inventor of mobile scanning, is leading a Scan-on-Demand movement that is quickly making desktop scanners and fax machines obsolete. Qipit is a free online and mobile service that turns photos of handwritten or printed documents into clear, crisp digital copies. Today the company made yet another leap forward with the release of technology that maximizes the readability of scanned text and preserves the integrity of photographs in “qipit” copies.

Original Image taken with a Camera Phone

Image after processed by Qipit

(Qipit copies in color enhancing the readability of text while preserving the integrity of photographs)

Click to see live published document and to download a PDF version of the qipit.

Whether used for reports with graphs, magazine articles or real-estate fliers with pictures, Qipit is the first and only scan-on-demand service capable of converting photos of color documents into high fidelity copies. The company accomplishes this by combining patented ink extraction with automatic picture detection and enhancement. The result is vibrant, easy to read, easy to print color copies of documents that preserve all significant information from the original document.

“Consumers’ desire for color is what led to a color TV revolution, to the growth of the desktop publishing industry and an explosive growth in color printing, “said Conrad Hametner, Vice-President, consumer marketing, Qipit, Inc. “Now Qipit’s color scan-on-demand capabilities are shinning a bright light on the outmoded black and white fax machine.”

Already a crucial service for many mobile users, Qipit works with any digital camera or 1 mega pixel (or higher resolution) camera phone. Qipit’s mobile document acquisition capabilities can also be easily integrated into enterprise applications such as ERP, CRM and document management applications, filling a void and providing an additional, efficient new data stream into these powerful business systems, which are so often only fed with digital documents. With Qipit’s new technology, even information that was difficult to capture and transmit, such as white board and paper meeting notes, single-copy contracts or print articles can now be easily captured, stored and shared through enterprise IT infrastructure.

“Qipit has the potential to progressively reduce the need for fax machines and scanners,” said Ron Glaz, Program Director for IDC’s Digital Capture Devices and Photofinishing research. “Qipits mobile document acquisition now offers people the ability to create, acquire and share documents digitally in an environment that will change the way people share, understand and interact with their documents.”

“Mobile document acquisition frees us all from common faxes and scanners. Qipit gives consumers a mobile option for document sharing and collaboration that significantly simplifies their work and personal lives,” said Benoit Bergeret, CEO and president of Qipit, Inc. “We initiated the mobile copy revolution two and a half years ago at 3GSM 2005. Today we are unleashing the full potential of mobile document scanning; with high fidelity color capabilities, we are expanding the market potential dramatically, making mobile copying a reality even for the most demanding personal and professional users.”

How to Use Qipit

To use Qipit visit www.qipit.com, or for Facebook users apps.facebook.com/qipitnoteshare/. Once signed up simply take a photograph of a handwritten or printed document and send the picture to copy@qipit.com or color@qipit.com. Qipit’s patented ink-extraction technology then automatically transforms it into a high contrast, easy-to-read digital copy or “qipit” that can be sent back to your phone emailed to an email address stored anywhere or shared online.

About Qipit

Qipit turns camera phones and digital cameras into mobile copy centers so people can turn photographs or written and printed materials into scan-quality digital documents they can share and store on the go. Based on advanced, patented image processing technologies developed by Realeyes3D, Qipit provides consumers with convenient communications services that enhance and enable their increasingly mobile lifestyle. Qipit, Inc., is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, and is a wholly owned affiliate of Realeyes3D S.A.

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