sceye History

1g2006-2007 1stg

2006 - sceye has created its own new category of scanner. As the first professional document camera (3 Megapixels), it has significant advantages which allow all documents - even stapled - to be scanned, contact and maintenance free! Some of our power users have scanned up to a million documents since 2006 until now, with one single sceye - maintenance free.

 

 

 

 

 

2g2007-2008 2ndg

2007 - Launch of the 2nd Generation with better optics, improved software and drivers. (with Vista support). Autobrightness was also added and the foundation of a new framework for SDK was developed, which is still used today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3g2008-2009 3rdg

2008 - Launch of the 3rd generation with integrated lighting (Still with external power source) and substantial software enhancements, such as Autodetection, and automatic straightening and cropping.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4g2009-2010 4thg

Mid-2009 - Launch of the 4th generation with integrated USB-powered lighting. Launch of sceye Autoscan, a fully automatic solution for document capture without pressing a button. 4th generation devices with 10MP are technically on the same level as a 5th generation device. The new complete sceyeX series were also developed based on the new camera electronics of the 4th generation sceyes.

 

 

 

 

 

5g2010-NOW 5thg

Mid-2010 - extention of the sceye range with sceyeX, which has a new 10 Megapixel high resolution camera. 2011 - Launch of the 5th generation, based on completely new-developed camera electronics. Migration of sceye to a resolution of 5 Megapixels / and the sceyeX to a further resolution of 10 Megapixels. Beside considerable improvements in the basis software, direct support for MAC OS was introduced as well as sceye RACE - a software for windows that allows direct scanning into almost every application with a single Hotkey.Mid-2011 - Launch of sceye Workbench - an application developed  especially for Mac OS, that creates searchable PDFs extremely easily and fast. Perfect for Spotlight.

2012 - ... and our developments continue. We are constantly making technical developments and improvements, that we always provide to customers of older generation sceyes when possible. If you are interested in keeping up to date with our developments and news, feel free to subscribe to our newsletter.