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What happened in the process of moving the scanning equipment from "two-handed" to "imported bag"?

Recently, Xinhua News Agency released the "Atlas of China's scanning Ten-year Development" (abbreviated as "Atlas"), which made an in-depth inventory of the development history of scanning equipment, technology and application fields. The "photo guide" shows that the scanner was once a "luxury" with a price close to 10,000 yuan. During the decade from 2013 to 2023, the popularity of scanning technology in China has greatly increased, realizing the leap from "mobile" to "intelligent". The omnipotent scanning king, born in 2010, is the representative APP of intelligent scanning.

Screenshot of the Ten-year Development Map of China (Source: Xinhua News Agency)

As soon as the "map guide" was released, it aroused the resonance and discussion of the public, and a number of old users sent "scanning stories" to the scanning omnipotent king. From these stories, we can see how the advances in science and technology represented by scanning affect individual lives and witness the development of the industry.

In the days when there was no scanning almighty king, scanning files took more than a dozen steps.

Today, scanning has become a simple task that can be done by moving your fingers and turning on your phone. However, for a working party like Wang Bei, who entered the workplace more than a decade ago, scanning used to be a big project that required a battle of wits and courage.

Wang Bei, from Shandong, is a senior accountant who has been "dealing" with various documents and bills for a long time. In 2008, Wang Bei joined a small company that "couldn't even afford a scanner." Wang Bei mentioned that in order to meet the need for document retention, he had to travel frequently to the copy shop, copying backup files one by one.

Since then, he has tried to buy a digital camera instead of a scanner and electronically store each paper document by "taking pictures-- importing the computer-- PS rotating, trimming, and adjusting color levels." the whole process takes more than 10 steps. If the camera is not horizontal when taking pictures, or if the camera is too close to produce lens distortion, and the document is not even rectangular, use the "Free change" function to drag and adjust repeatedly. Even if the company later configured a flat-panel scanner, it could not meet the scanning needs of multiple people at the same time.

Wang Bei used to use picture editing software to manually "electronic" documents (pictures provided by users)

"after you put the file in, you have to scan it for 8 to 10 seconds, and it will take a few seconds for the scanner to be transferred to the computer, and then you need to save each one manually on the computer." Wang Bei is miserable about this. Until the launch of the omnipotent App scanning king, which supports mobile scanning, Wang Bei finally did not have to "go through five hurdles and six generals" to digitize documents. "it can take continuous photos, automatically trim edges, automatically adjust color levels, sync cloud to the website and share in real time. Scanning a dozen pages of documents will be done in a minute or two." Wang Bei said.

Burst single, raise salary, scan the almighty king to witness the take-off of the industry in the past ten years

The Picture Book shows that since 2013, China has entered a "mobile" era in the field of scanning. The scanning software in the mobile phone often acts as a "photo album", witnessing personal growth and the development of the industry over time.

Liu Gong used to be an executive in the construction industry, working in the snow in the north, and it is normal for him to be temporarily stationed in a hotel. Working outside, the absence of a scanner made it impossible for local technical data files to be transmitted to the company's headquarters, which was one of the most troublesome things he encountered. It is true that uploading to the computer after taking pictures with a mobile phone can solve some of the urgent needs, but when it comes to complex pictures, it is difficult to achieve the desired results even if you try different shooting angles over and over again. In the end, the scanning Almighty King solved his difficulty of scanning in different places.

According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics and the China Construction Association, the total output value of the national construction industry exceeded 31 trillion yuan in 2022, nearly three times that of a decade ago. With the continuous expansion of the industry, more and more "Liu Gong" will run on local projects, allowing lines of production and changing information to be collected and synchronized in time through mobile phone scanning, which will be transformed into the thrust of the project.

The e-commerce industry is also one of many industries showing an explosive growth trend. At the regular policy briefing of the State Council in April this year, according to Li Xingqian, director of the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Commerce, in recent years, our country's cross-border e-commerce has maintained a momentum of rapid development, increasing nearly 10-fold in the past five years.

Li Lin is one of the practitioners in the cross-border e-commerce boom. When he joined the industry in 2013, it coincided with the rise of mobile e-commerce. A large number of contracts, orders and financial statements appeared in a variety of foreign trade places at any time. A variety of document storage management has made him nerve-racking. On the recommendation of his peers, he came into contact with scanning APP and could sort out all the materials in a few minutes with his mobile phone.

Also engaged in cross-border business is Lao Yu. From materials preparing to study abroad to dealing with contract documents at work, Lao Yu has been using scanning Almighty King for more than a decade, and one-click conversion of contract documents to PDF format is his favorite function. "the frequency of opening the scanning Almighty King determines the amount of my year-end bonus. The more scans, the better my performance this year." Lao Yu said with a smile.

From 2015 to 2021, Lao Yu needs to use the scanning Almighty King to process and receive all kinds of documents (pictures provided by users)

AI upgrade opens a new era of intelligent scanning

Witness the development of the industry at the same time, the scanning industry has also experienced vigorous growth and "reshuffle" stage. According to statistics, in the past decade, more than a thousand document scanning products have appeared on the domestic and foreign market. Scanning all-around King, which was launched in 2010, is one of the first App to apply scanning technology to mobile phones and other mobile phones, with users in more than 200 countries and regions, and still maintains the first place in the list of tools and business App, bringing convenience to 300 million users.

Cao Chaoyang, head of scanning omnipotent king's business department, said in an interview that previously, scanning omnipotent king and its parent company combined information was the first to solve the technical problem of scanning mobile terminal, bringing users a recognition experience of high accuracy, high efficiency and high stability. Now the industry has entered an intelligent era, we need to constantly embrace new technologies, explore new features, and meet the new needs of users, such as the newly launched "Intelligent HD filter" this year, which automatically detects image problems with the support of AI technology, intelligently determines the way of image optimization, and one-click processing of interference factors.

Scan the omnipotent king's "Smart HD filter" to shoot the PPT processing effect (provided by users)

Mr. Chen is one of many "initial users" who have been using scanning Almighty King for more than a decade. In App, he carefully collects hundreds of paintings of his children from 4 to 14 years old, from magnetic board drafts to gorgeous watercolors. You can see that the child's painting skills have made amazing progress, and the scanning results have also undergone earth-shaking changes in line accuracy, color fineness and clarity compared with a decade ago.

From 2013 to 2023, Mr. Chen used the scanning Almighty King to organize his children's "portfolio" (photo provided by users).

"from the popularization of scanners, to the rise of mobile phone scanning, and then to the advent of the intelligent scanning era, the omnipotent king of scanning, like children, is growing and making progress with the pace of the times." Cao Chaoyang said that the tide of AI has arrived, and the release of "strong AI attributes" features such as "smart high-definition filter" gives users a firsthand feeling that cutting-edge technology is merging with application scenarios in a more ingenious and innovative form. The upgraded application of AI technology in the industry will also open up more imaginative space for the intelligent scanning era.

(at the request of the interviewer, the above interviewees are all aliases.)

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