Vivid-Pix www.vivid-pix.com, a technology leader specializing in scanning, restoring, and archiving treasured memories, announced today that the Memory Station™ software one-click scanning software designed to scan, restore, and record audio memories and save multiple images, documents, and memorabilia will be launched this week on Friday, October 27 at an event at the Allen Country Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Made to accompany Vivid-Pix’s recently announced Memory Station lightweight overhead scanning solution, the software features user-friendly, extra-large buttons and a fast, easy-to-use interface – specially designed for seniors and the mobility-challenged. Memory Station software makes it fast and simple for everyone to archive up to 10 photos, documents or keepsakes at once; and its small footprint makes for easy setup anywhere – homes, libraries, community centers, schools, and adult home care centers. See: https://www.vivid-pix.com/memory-station/ for more info.
Throughout October, in recognition of Family History Month, Vivid-Pix is sharing its new Memory Station solution with consumers, professionals, and community storytellers while on the Vivid-Pix American tour crossing from South Carolina to Utah, culminating with this week’s event on Friday, October 27th at 2 PM at the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center (ACPL), 900 Library Plaza, Fort Wayne, Indiana, a mecca for genealogy research in the U.S.
“What makes the Memory Station groundbreaking? Its speed, quality, versatility, and low price,” said Rick Voight, CEO & Cofounder, Vivid-Pix. “With its large buttons and clean interface, the user can quickly understand what each button does and can tap the large buttons to scan, restore treasured photos, documents, and keepsakes, and voice record their memories as they reminisce; even someone with unsteady hands – think Parkinson’s or Essential Tremor.”
“While creating the new innovative Vivid-Pix Memory Station software, we were inspired by our ‘Kodak roots’ and Kodak’s historic marketing slogan: ‘You press the button, we do the rest,’” said Randy Fredlund, co-founder, Vivid-Pix. “Since our first patent, ‘You click the mouse, we do the rest’ has been our design goal, and it’s integrated into Vivid-Pix’s latest user experience, Vivid-Pix Memory Station Software.”
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Availability
The Vivid-Pix Memory Station solution is available immediately at: https://www.vivid-pix.com/memorystation, priced at $629.95 – $1299.95. For more information, see: www.vivid-pix.com.
Memory Station Features:
Memory Station Home Edition:
• ScanSnap SV600 multi-image scanner and software.
• Multi-image capture/one-click navigation software for Windows.
• One-click scan, fix, and voice record.
• Voice Record: Record stories and memories of the image as MP3 files.
• Scans high-quality 600 dpi JPEG images.
• Overhead allows scanning of objects and delicate items: artifacts, memorabilia, and trinkets.
• Vivid-Pix RESTORE software corrects and restores images (included).
• Integrates with included ScanSnap software to create PDFs and OCR capture.
• Affordably priced.
• Output options: Save to computer, archive to FileShadow, voice-to-text, and print to Vivid-Pix.
Memory Station Educational Bundle:
• ScanSnap SV600 multi-image scanner and software.
• Vivid-Pix RESTORE image restoration software.
• Vivid-Pix Education 4-Course bundle includes classes on photo organization, storytelling, Photo Reminiscence and digital photography.
Memory Station Professional Edition (Commercial/Community Capabilities):
Includes all Home Edition features and functions, plus:
• Archival quality 600 dpi lossless 24-bit TIFF scan/output (Windows) for highest quality image.
• Saves TIFF, JPEG and MP3 to external drive locations.
• Memory Station Home Edition and RESTORE for patron use.
• Perfect for patrons, members, customers, societies, libraries, archives, and museums.
• ScanSnap software creates PDF and OCR capture.
Vivid-Pix RESTORE Software:
• Patented one-click-fix image science improves color, black-and-white, and sepia photos, as well as treasured records and documents.
• Improves JPEG, TIFF, PNG, DNG, BMP, and RAW images.
• Original image unaffected/automatic fixed image creation.
• Outputs full-resolution JPEG and TIFF images.
• 9-option image-fix selection, easily fine-tune
• Crops/Recalculates applied fix to selected areas.
• International metadata standards-compliant inserts metadata into image file for searching and sharing.
ScanSnap SV600 Scanner:
• Advanced optics and illumination produce consistent image quality across image.
• Scans up to 10 images at one time.
• Corrects book-curve distortion.
• Resolution up to 600 dpi JPEG or PDF.
• Large 17 x 11.8 inches / 432 × 300 mm scanning area.
• Auto Book Correction / Point Retouch scan improvement, Page Turning Detection and Time Mode.
• ABBY® OCR creation software included.
• Compatible with Windows and Mac.
About Vivid-Pix
Vivid-Pix helps individuals, families, friends, and organizations with their most treasured memories by inventing and harnessing technologies. Vivid-Pix Solutions helps family historians, as well as caregivers, to assist with cognitive decline and dementia through Photo Reminiscence Therapy (pRT). Vivid-Pix patented software has been sold in over 120 countries, improving old, faded photos and documents. For more info, visit https://www.vivid-pix.com/.
About Allen County Public Library
In 2020, the Allen County Public Library (ACPL) celebrated 125 years of enriching the community through lifelong learning and discovery. The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library is the second-largest family research center in the United States. Visitors from around the world rely on the Genealogy Center for its international collection of physical resources, free access to numerous databases, and knowledgeable staff. ACPL has also joined with the Friends of the Lincoln Collection to build the Rolland Center for Lincoln Research, showcasing the immense collection of lectures, photos, and other original documents related to our nation’s 16th president. In 2020, the library was visited 1.2 million times. The library’s holdings consisted of almost 2.9 million items, with a circulation total of ~2.6 million and an electronic usage rate of almost 5.9 million. For more information, see: https://acpl.lib.in.us/.