Review: Xpaper eases digitizing of paper documents

By DIRK LAMMERS , Associated Press Writer, Electronic Devices / Consumer & Gadgets

A document printed and singed using the Xpaper PDF system by Talario Inc. is shown Sept. 22, 2008, in Sioux Falls, S.D. The software package eliminates the need for scanning signed documents by allowing users to print forms with a special coding, sign them with a digital pen and then transfer the handwritten information by docking the pen in a USB cradle. (AP Photo/Dirk Lammers)

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(AP) -- Promises of the paperless office have been circulating ever since the first IBM clones started showing up on desks in the early 1980s. Yet we're still tied to printed documents and there's no sign that's going to change.

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Posted by seversky 10/01/08 14:02

Rank: 5/5 after 5 votes

Placing an artificial fee on the use of a product is a bad business model. Unless I'm reading it wrong, Talario isn't providing any continuing service that needs to be paid for after the hardware is purchased. It's like BIC charging me every time I write a note with my inkpen.

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Posted by jplur 10/01/08 14:29

Rank: 5/5 after 2 votes

This sounds like a failed product from 2002.