About

For 70 years, Kern has been helping companies get their valuable and time sensitive documents into the mail stream for delivery to residential and business mailboxes on 6 continents.  What was an idea, paired with the engineering skills of founder Marc Kern in Konolfingen, Switzerland, has grown into a worldwide mailing technology leader. 

While Kern is best known for delivering the fastest and finest production inserting equipment in the world, we have expanded our reach into complete end to end solutions that include:  Document Mail Finishing systems for inserting and mail production, Document Finishing on Demand for the automated process of printed material and documents through complete production solutions, Document Logistics Systems for the traying and handling of finished mail, and Kern’s Automated Document Factory System, mailFactory, which is a comprehensive suite of web enabled software designed to optimize the management of a complete production print and mail center.

Today, Kern enjoys a global presence with a direct worldwide distribution through 15 subsidiaries and over 60 distribution partners.  Our U.S. headquarters has been in Columbus, Ohio for over 13 years with Kern employees throughout the country at field offices and customer sites.

Every Kern system is backed by our Customer Success Guarantee to deliver 10 years of production grade output, when maintained under a Kern full service maintenance agreement.  From premier high speed inserting systems to complete Automated Document Factory Systems, Kern is a global leader in production mail and document management solutions that is truly committed to helping customers succeed.

Kern EDGE Data Sheet
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Take Control of the Documents You Need to Run Your Business

Kern EDGE Customer Testimonial
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Hereʼs What Kern and Accu-Imageʼs Customers Have to say

Kern EDGE Security
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Document Security as a Priority. How We Secure Your Documents.

Kern EDGE White Paper
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The AP Guide to Electronic Invoice Management


Trail Offer: Free 30 Day Trial

Accounting departments have discovered the difference that digital document management can make.  Kern's customers are already saving thousands of dollars every month with our SaaS applications for AP and we want to make it easier for you to try it. Sign up TODAY for a free 30 day trial of Kern EDGE.

Your Trial Includes:

  • AP Workflow Assessment
  • EDGEline accounts payable workflow
  • EDGEport for document uploading and indexing
  • EDGEdock archive
  • 10 Business Intelligence Reports
  • Secure Cloud (tier 4 hosting)
  • 10 User Accounts
  • Process up to 5,000 documents

Document Scanning Services

Kern EDGE is more that just Cloud services.  Kern offers complete document scanning and indexing services at our office or yours.

In any electronic document output management solution, efficiency in managing the input is a critical step. For legacy, paper-based applications, that means physically scanning the documents into electronic form and applying the right indexes to them to make them support the business process. Kern EDGE is a complete solution tailored to your business application.

We offer the services to handle your physical documents and usher them across the gateway to the electronic world. We can arrange for pick-up at your site and delivery to one of our regional production sites for processing or we can complete all necessary tasks at your site. All scanning and indexing services are completed promptly with a focus on accuracy, giving you a clear path to supporting your business applications.

Professional, confidential, and secure document scanning services from a trusted document management company.
Call 614-317-2600 for a scanning quote.

Additional Services:

  • Document preperation, include staple removal and re-stapling
  • Wide Format Scanning for Blueprints and other wide format documents
  • Microfilm / Microfische Conversion: cut sheets or on a role, we can convert paper or electronic images to microfilm or microfilm to electronic images

Kern EDGE Scanning Facility

Serving Central Ohio and beyond.  We also have a second scanning location in Santa Clara, California. Our facility or yours, Kern provides fast and economical scanning services.

Two Service Locations:

  • 3940 Gantz Road, Suite A
    Grove City, OH 43123

  • 2360 Owen St.
    Santa Clara, CA 95054

News (5/9)

Kern is delivering the last new Kern 2600 inserting system to a customer in Japan, which is operating in the energy sector.
8/Mar/2024

This marks the end of a particularly significant era that began with the Kern 2000.

Three questions for...Udo Schäfer, Head of Outputmanagement, ITERGO Informationstechnologie GmbH
9/Feb/2024

Interview series in which we ask our employees, customers and partners about Kern solutions and products. They are each asked three questions to highlight their view of current topics. We continue with three questions about the Kern 3200 for Udo Schäfer, Head of Outputmanagement, ITERGO Informationstechnologie GmbH

Three questions for...Markus Burmeister, Head of Printing and Inserting Centre, Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (German Pension Insurance Association) in Berlin
9/Feb/2024

Interview series in which we ask our employees, customers and partners about Kern solutions and products. They are each asked three questions to highlight their view of current topics. We continue with three questions about the Kern 3200 for Markus Burmeister, Head of Printing and Inserting Centre, Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (German Pension Insurance Association) in Berlin.

Hans Put is the new Sales and Business Development Manager at Kern N.V. Belgium
25/Jan/2024

Competent and experienced: Hans Put has been the new Sales and Business Development Manager at the Kern subsidiary in Belgium since January 1.

Kern Group repositions itself for the future.
5/Sept/2023

Personnel and structural reorganization at all levels. A spirit of optimism at the Kern Group: With the new management trio in the strategic and operational business, Caroline and Barbara Kern, together with Stefan Wüthrich, want to continue the success story of the traditional Swiss family business.

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