Office MFP - not just a free printer
In many companies, instead of small personal printers are the so-called multifunction devices: 
In such a box weighing several tens of kilograms, a fast printer and a scanner are combined, often there is an automatic feeder on the scanner.
Usually, employees use the following features of tricky devices:
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Nothing else comes to mind? Then go under the cat!
As British scientists recently found out, the MFP can still scan and send a scan by mail instead of printing - it has a network interface (the one through which documents come to print) and software for communicating with the mail server.
True, the use is dubious. You receive a picture of the page, and all you can do is put it in thefolder for the junk archive and forget it, because you can only find the document by its content using telepathy. Now, if instead of the image would get a document with the text ...
Suddenly (!) They come to the rescue →
ABBYY Recognition Server can retrieve documents from a mailbox (Exchange or POP3) and send recognition results to a mailbox (Exchange or SMTP). The plan is this: a special mailbox is created on the company's mail server (for example, ocr@company.com). Then at any time of the day ...
Everything. No need to put anything on the user's machine. You do not need to configure and update anything on the user's machine. Recognition Server is installed on a machine that is located somewhere in the server, and it works automatically. All that is needed from the user is only to know the address of the special box. This is very easy to achieve by hanging the memo next to the multifunction device.
System administratorsrejoice and drink beer, stroking their beards free from the extra headache and can safely prepare for the coming Friday evening.
Dmitry Mescheryakov,
Recognition Server Development Team Leader
In such a box weighing several tens of kilograms, a fast printer and a scanner are combined, often there is an automatic feeder on the scanner.
Usually, employees use the following features of tricky devices:
- Printing
waste paperbefore meetings - Copying documents for visa / international passport / loan
- Copying materials before class in a foreign language
- Printing essays / coursework / diplomas
- Other similar ways to double entropy and / or GDP
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Nothing else comes to mind? Then go under the cat!
As British scientists recently found out, the MFP can still scan and send a scan by mail instead of printing - it has a network interface (the one through which documents come to print) and software for communicating with the mail server.
True, the use is dubious. You receive a picture of the page, and all you can do is put it in the
Suddenly (!) They come to the rescue →
ABBYY Recognition Server can retrieve documents from a mailbox (Exchange or POP3) and send recognition results to a mailbox (Exchange or SMTP). The plan is this: a special mailbox is created on the company's mail server (for example, ocr@company.com). Then at any time of the day ...
- The employee chooses to send the result by mail in the settings of the MFP
- Indicates your address and that special address ocr@company.com
- The MFP scans the document and sends the result to the user and in the box
- Recognition Server retrieves a document from that mailbox.
- Recognition Server sends the recognized document to the user (“reply all” mode)
- ??????
- PROFIT
Everything. No need to put anything on the user's machine. You do not need to configure and update anything on the user's machine. Recognition Server is installed on a machine that is located somewhere in the server, and it works automatically. All that is needed from the user is only to know the address of the special box. This is very easy to achieve by hanging the memo next to the multifunction device.
System administrators
Dmitry Mescheryakov,
Recognition Server Development Team Leader
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/94818/
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