Established in 1985, Indus manufactured microfiche readers for the Defense Department and private-labeled readers for companies such as 3M, Eastman Kodak and NCR Corporation.

With the advent of electronic imaging, Indus became the North American marketing arm for a UNIX optical disk-based archiving and retrieval system called Life*ODIN.

To serve the needs of the networked PC market, Indus developed a DOS-based system, V.O.I.C.E. (Virtual Office Information for Corporate Environments). In addition to the inherent cost benefits of electronic records management, the system is built on a standard, modular nonproprietary hardware configuration for the best possible value. V.O.I.C.E., now called Virtual Office Information, is listed in the GSA schedule for purchase by federal government agencies. Today, Virtual Office Information is a MS-Windows based system running on Windows '95, Windows NT, Novell Netware and other popular network environments.

Almost half of Indus' manufactured products are exported to the European Economic Community, South America and Pacific Rim countries.

Archive easily. Retrieve instantly.

If every piece of information in your company were right at your fingertips... Just think what you could accomplish. But partial information is only partially valuable; unwieldy documents such as faxes, oversized drawings and correspondence sometimes elude paper-based or less sophisticated electronic archiving systems. With VIRTUAL OFFICE INFORMATION, you'll have the means to store everything... from spreadsheets, letters and invoices to E-size drawings. Microfilm or microfiche. Aperture cards. Photographs. With the proper interface, even files from a mainframe, mini, another PC, or fax line. Sound files, video clips and digital photographs can also be stored in the system. Anything that can be scanned, and any electronic information that is imported is accessible and instantly retrievable.

Tame the information monster. In seconds.

No matter what business you're in, time is a valuable resource. The cost of retrieving information can be immense, causing expensive information bottlenecks that impede your ability to get things done. VIRTUAL OFFICE INFORMATION lets you spend more time managing your business and less time hunting for information.

Anyone who recognizes the term "backup"knows valuable data needs to be protected.

You may not want to think about disaster recovery, but it's all too easy to imagine the effect on your business if suddenly, years of financial records, engineering drawing and other information were irretrievably lost. Worse yet, an unreliable records system can be damaging to your company... without you being aware of it and without a catastrophic event. VIRTUAL OFFICE INFORMATION's rebuild feature writes index information along with the file on the optical media, so that the database can be easily restored if lost due to a disk crash or other disaster.

Why waste time training?

VIRTUAL OFFICE INFORMATION is easy to use. Anyone with experience using MS-Windows word processor programs can become efficient in the use of VIRTUAL OFFICE INFORMATION within a few hours. As long as your PC supports the application, the document is there in seconds. Using simple key words, you can access the document you want and view it in its native format, with almost no training required.

Organize any way you like.

VIRTUAL OFFICE INFORMATION emulates a manual filing system. Select a filing cabinet. Place documents of any kind in a folder. Scanned files coexist with CAD drawings, ASCII files, spreadsheets or word-processed files, color images or digital color photographs. Folders archived on optical media can be reopened as many times as you like in order to add additional documents to the archived folder. VIRTUAL OFFICE INFORMATION allows simultaneous access of data by everyone on your network.

All the security and dependability you want.

VIRTUAL OFFICE INFORMATION provides a secure, easy-to-use system that doesn't complicate your everyday operations. In addition to the inherent security provided by your network, VIRTUAL OFFICE INFORMATION provides group level security for accessing folders and the contents within it. You'll have the dependability of industry standard optical media, including 5 1/4-inch (erasable or WORM) and 12-inch (WORM). They can be used in stand-alone drives or with a jukebox. And you're protected with VIRTUAL OFFICE INFORMATION's Rebuild Feature... it writes index information along with the file on the optical media, so the database can be easily restored. Multiple security levels assure that documents are accessed only by authorized users.

Scanners. OCR. Bar Code. COLD. Virtual Office Information supports them all.

Low end scanners such as the HP Scanjet line, medium speed Fujitsu and Vision Shape scanners and high speed scanners such as the Bell + Howell Copiscan II are supported. Dual sided scanners are supported. VIRTUAL OFFICE INFORMATION will even scan two sides of a document using a simplex scanner. Engineering drawing scanners for E-size drawings, including Contex, WideCOM, Anatech and Houston Instruments, are also supported.

VIRTUAL OFFICE INFORMATION supports aperture card scanners, microfilm scanners, and a combination scanner/filmer that allows unattended scanning at very fast speeds.

Through the use of OCR software, VIRTUAL OFFICE INFORMATION supports conversion of raster images to ASCII. This provides the ability to automatically index the document.

The built-in COLD module allows importing of COM reports from mainframes, minis or other PCs. Automatic indexing of the COM report is done by user defined fields. Output of COLD reports can be merged with an optional forms overlay module giving the COM report the look of the original form.

VIRTUAL OFFICE INFORMATION supports the CCITT Group IV compression for bitonal, and other industry standards such as CALS, JPEG and color TIFF.

Bar codes affixed to a document can provide indexing whether placed in a predefined position, or with random orientation using an optional bar code indexing module. Most standard MS-Windows printers are supported for TIFF images.

Expand as you grow. Economically.

VIRTUAL OFFICE INFORMATION is powerful, modular, and uses off-the-shelf hardware. IT IS A PROVEN SYSTEM. It is scalable, and can expand with the needs of the user. Add more scanning stations, stand-alone or network printers or whatever peripherals you need. If you decide to move from PCs to a UNIX based solution, Indus can provide migration to the Life*ODIN enterpise-wide solution.

VIRTUAL OFFICE INFORMATION is available in the form of an API to image enable any existing software application. It has already been integrated with county government software systems for Land Management (Register of Deeds) applications, Zoning, Treasurer, and with records center/records management software solutions.

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