What is MEAP™?

MEAP™, or Multifunctional Embedded Application Platform, enables Canon's MFP devices to support document and other services above and beyond the standard function of digital copy, print, scan, and send-to-E-mail/File/Fax/Mail Box.

In functional terms, MEAP™ provides application developers the following features to build higher-level document and workflow applications:

• Graphical User-interface (GUI) development
• Job control of print and scan operations
• Files, data, event control, and networking services
• Authentication, security, device interface, encryption, and other utilities

Companies spend plenty of time, money, and human resources developing a document management strategy and investing in document imaging technologies. Yet one challenge remains: How to implement that strategy and enable users to effectively utilize technologies such as multifunctional peripherals, or MFPs.
Smart, user-friendly applications, developed for—and delivered on—MEAP-compatible MFP devices, is the answer.

MEAP enables solution developers to think outside-the-desktop-box, and towards a platform, such as the imageRUNNER MFPs, for building document application. With MEAP applications, businesses can finally unleash the full potential of their MFP infrastructure, and produce, retrieve, and manage their information on demand.