An Important Update
Regarding Our ScanCraft Scanner and Digitization Solutions
After many years of developing and providing ScanCraft — our patented ScanCraft Scanner hardware together with the software and technologies that support it — we have made an important decision about the future direction of our digitization business.
We have decided to discontinue our ScanCraft Scanner hardware business, which has been an integral part of our Digitization Solution. This decision follows careful consideration of changing market conditions, product demand, and the resources required to continue providing the level of hardware support and service that our customers have come to expect from us.
This does not, however, mean that Webgenic is leaving the field of digitization.
On the contrary, we intend to carry forward the knowledge, experience and technology we have accumulated over the years and make it accessible in a form that can serve a much broader community of digitization users.
A New Direction
Our experience has shown us that there are many individuals and organizations with valuable books, documents and collections to digitize, but who may not have the budget or infrastructure required for large, expensive digitization systems.
We would like to help change that.
We are therefore working toward a new generation of affordable, practical and accessible digitization tools and technologies — designed for users ranging from individuals undertaking their own DIY digitization projects, to libraries, archives, educational institutions and businesses of all sizes.
Our plans include:
- Making ScanCraft scanning and image-processing software available as an affordable downloadable product.
- Continuing development of software tools for document scanning, image processing and digital collection management.
- Exploring ways to make the ScanCraft scanner technology available as user-assembled DIY kits, for those who wish to build their own digitization setup.
- Developing software and tools that can be used independently of specialized hardware, allowing users to build digitization workflows around equipment they already have.
We are currently working on these plans and will announce the availability of the new offerings on this website as they become ready.
Taking Our Experience Forward
ScanCraft was developed from the ground up based on our own experience with real-world digitization projects. Over the years, this has given us a deep understanding of the practical challenges involved in converting physical books and documents into useful, high-quality digital collections.
We believe that this experience should not be limited to large institutional projects.
Our goal going forward is to make capable digitization technology available to a much larger number of users — including those working with limited budgets.
Whether you are digitizing a personal collection, preserving books and documents in a library or archive, building a digital repository for an organization, or undertaking a large-scale digitization project, we hope our future products and tools will help you accomplish it more effectively and affordably.
We are not leaving digitization. We are changing the way we participate in it.
We look forward to bringing these new offerings to you.
For existing ScanCraft users, product manuals, user and administrator guides, training materials and other documentation remain available on our product website.
Customers with active hardware support contracts will continue to receive support and assistance in accordance with the terms of their contracts during the contracted support period.
For further information, please contact us at contact@webgenic.com.
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