Visioneer
Visioneer, Inc. is a privately owned company based in Pleasanton, California. Visioneer is a developer of a way to capture documents and photographs and integrate them with popular Microsoft Windows and document imaging applications." Founded in March 1992 by Pierre-Alain Cotte, Visioneer introduced a sheetfed scanner called the PaperMax. The scanner weighed barely 2.5 pounds and fit between a keyboard and monitor. A typical document could be scanned in about six seconds. Visioneer's proprietary software application known as PaperPort was spun off and sold in 1998. The hardware side of the business was sold to Primax Electronics  in January 1999, but later bought back by a private investor. In March 1999, Visioneer acquired ScanSoft from Xerox to form a new public software company with ScanSoft as the new company-wide name. In August 2003, Visioneer announced an exclusive licensing agreement with Xerox to develop and market Xerox-branded document scanners and digital projectors under the Xerox DocuMate brand name.