an efficient method and system to enhance digital acquisition devices for analog data is presented . the enhancements offered by the method and system are available to the user in local as well as in remote deployments yielding efficiency gains for a large variety of business processes . the quality enhancements of the acquired digital data are achieved efficiently by employing virtual reacquisition . the method of virtual reacquisition renders unnecessary the physical reacquisition of the analog data in case the digital data obtained by the acquisition device are of insufficient quality . the method and system allows multiple users to access the same acquisition device for analog data . in some embodiments , one or more users can virtually reacquire data provided by multiple analog or digital sources . the acquired raw data can be processed by each user according to his personal preferences and / or requirements . the preferred processing settings and attributes are determined interactively in real time as well as non real time , automatically and a combination thereof .