Founded in 1988 to provide systems design and software development services, Vividata has become an internationally recognized source of expertise in graphics and imaging products. The company is a leader in supplying UNIX imaging software that excels in productivity, ease of use and technical support.

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ScanShop® - the de facto standard of UNIX scanner interfaces.

PostShop(TM) - a breakthrough for low-cost, high quality color printing for UNIX, using SCSI & GPIB dye sub printers and the newest generation of ink jet printers.

FaxShop(TM) - the answer for UNIX faxing on stand-alone workstations or client/server networks.

OCR Shop(TM) - a powerful optical character recognition application with high accuracy, versatility and speed, and supporting over 80 applications formats.

More on Vividata, Inc.
Located at 1250 Addison Street, Suite 213, Berkeley, CA 94702
Phone: 510-841-6400
Fax: 510-841-9661
Email: info@vividata.com
President: Mark Liebman

PostShop(TM) - Low Cost, High Quality Color Printing for UNIX

Taking advantage of the latest high-quality, low-cost color printers popular in the Windows market, PostShop enables the highest-quality PostScript color printing at a fraction of the cost expected in UNIX environments. It greatly simplifies and streamlines printing onto a wide variety of color and black & white printers, including the new generation of low-cost, non-PostScript, ink jet printers. It enables the printing of many image file formats directly from its print queue - something that no PostScript printer alone can do. PostScript fully supports UNIX's familiar print queues, tools, and administration utilities, under both System V and BSD printing systems, in either stand-alone workstations or network servers.

Automatic recognition of file formats simplifies assembling and printing of different graphics files combined into a document, for example mixing of line art, gray scale, palletized color, etc., in formats like Sun raster, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, EPS, and PostScript.

"Plug and Print" - Our PostScript Level 2 compliant RIP provides accurate, fast printing for all UNIX applications including Netscape, Word Perfect, Applixware, FrameMaker, WABI and Interleaf. For graphical applications that don't know how to print, you can get instant screen shots printed using a facility like Sun's screendump or snapshot to send images to the print queue.

PostShop comes in versions for all current operating systems from Sun, HP, and Digital, and includes drivers for many printers. The range of printers supported includes the most popular models from many manufacturers. Some examples are: Epson's Stylus color inkjets, Canon's Bubblejet series (BJC-300, 600, etc.), Hewlett Packard's DeskJet 500 and 600 series, HP's large format DesignJet 650C and 750C, the LaserJet 3, 4, and 5 series, Kodak's XL-7700 and 8600 dye sublimation printers, Canon's CJ-10/CLC-10 combination color scanner/printer/copier, and many others. Please contact us for the latest list.

Specific features:

• Print Postscript levels 1 and 2 files to non-Postscript printers.

• Autodetection of file formats enables batch printing of mixed documents.

• Print screen shot images easily from any application.

• Compatible with all UNIX tools that generate, monitor and control print jobs, e.g. brightness, contrast, scaling, and orientation.

• Just like a PostScript printer, the 35 premium printer fonts are built in.

• Handles line art, gray scale, palletized color, and palletized gray images.

Sun Microsystems selected PostShop for the thousands of x86 and SPARC notebooks used worldwide by their own sales force. A demo version of PostShop can be downloaded from Vividata's Web Site for evaluation.

FaxShop(TM) - Fax from and to your UNIX workstation

Outgoing Faxes

Sending a fax from a computer is as easy as clicking a button. Your document, including graphics and text, is simply faxed to the number that you either type in or recall from an address book of individuals and groups. It avoids having to first print out a copy of a document, then feed it into a fax machine. What are the advantages?

1. Saves extra steps of printing, going to fax machine, etc.

2. Copies look cleaner and sharper; there is no scanning needed

3. No waiting in line at the fax machine at bigger companies

4. Cost savings in not having to buy additional fax machines; each client essentially has a fax machine in his or her own computer

5. No mechanical jams e.g. pages stuck together, papers feeding crooked

6. No waiting or worrying to know if all pages fed through OK

7. No splitting up of long documents into small stacks for some machines

8. Broadcast fax to large groups of people with one set up

9. Very large format documents can be automatically faxed from the computer in pieces that can be assembled together at the other end

10. Basis of automated "fax-on-demand"

Receiving faxes on a computer also has many advantages:

1. You do not need to worry about running out of paper, nor even need paper

2. Incoming faxes can be forwarded to another fax machine without another generation of scanning, so they are clearer

3. OCR processing can take place directly in the computer so that faxed text can be entered into an application as ASCII text. (With Vividata's OCR Shop, the result can be text already formatted for your application.)

4. With the fax in electronic form in the computer, it is possible to remotely instruct your computer to have it forwarded to a hotel or a lap computer

5. An administrator at a network hub can forward faxes directly and immediately to a client's own computer; there is no need to collect and collate paper faxes, then deliver them individuals' desks.

• Operates up to eight modems from a single server.

• Real-time progress reporting for outgoing faxes.

• Selectable automatic printing of incoming faxes.

• Dynamic queuing, allowing canceling a fax in mid-transmission.

• Full configuration settings, for access numbers, prefixes, number of retries, etc.

• Comprehensive transaction log.

• Integrated preview window.

• Drag-and-drop support for files and raw text.

• Phone book for individuals and groups.

• Support for ASCII, PostScript and other file types.

• Email notification, forwarding, and delivery for incoming faxes.

ScanShop® - The de facto Standard for UNIX Scanning

ScanShop provides a point and click interface for all popular scanners. It is the scanner interface of choice for most UNIX end users, corporate enterprises, computer OEMs, and scanner makers. It has been a proven leader for more than four years.

ScanShop supports all of the popular and important image file formats, including JPEG and GIF for the internet's World Wide Web. For certain printers, ScanShop can execute a direct printout of the scanned image.

• Full control over the characteristics of the scanning process for 24 bit color, 8-bit grayscale and 1-bit art images; fast preview in low-resolution; select scan area before scanning

• Image editing includes cropping, vertical/horizontal mirroring and rotation

• Reads and writes all standard image file formats, inserting into most UNIX applications

• All popular SCSI and GPIB scanners are supported, including models from Bell and Howell, Canon, Epson, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Microtek, Panasonic, Ricoh, Sharp, and Xerox.

• GUI features point-and-click selection of scanner functions including a built-in window for the special functions that are unique to your specific scanner

• Can be a stand-alone application with its Motif and OpenLook GUI, or be embedded within other applications using its Command Line Interface (CLI).

• With the CLI, collating of two-sided multi-page documents in batch mode

OCR Shop(TM) - High Quality OCR for UNIX

OCRShop is a powerful Optical Character Recognition application developed by Vividata for Caere Corporation, whose family of Omnipage® OCR and other imaging have set the standard in the Windows and Macintosh markets. OCR Shop is Omnipage technology applied to UNIX, and is available exclusively from Vividata.

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is the process of deciphering bit map pictures of alphanumeric characters and translating them into ASCII characters usable by word processors and other text-oriented applications. This capability allows printed pages, fax pages and other pictures of letters and numbers to be scanned and deciphered for editing or manipulating in other documents.

OCR Shop goes further. In addition to simply deciphering characters, OCR Shop recognizes fonts and formatting, in 14 different languages, and recreates a document formatted for any of 80 different word processors or applications. In other words, bit map images with italics, bold, indents, underlines, etc., will be so formatted in accordance with the selected application, e.g. Frame, Applix, etc.

Pages of mixed text and graphics can be scanned and automatically OCR'd by OCR Shop, retaining original positioning. Alternatively, the operator can manually select zones for OCR processing. Organizations with standard forms can create masks specifically to OCR portions of the form, translating to alphanumeric characters that are automatically entered into a database. For example, certain forms might be scanned and automatically OCR'd to only retrieve names and birth dates.

Features of OCR Shop:

• Accurately converts printed pages into coded characters, and presents the resulting document fully formatted for any of 80 popular word processors, spreadsheets or other applications, in 14 languages.

• Documents with mixed text and graphics can be manually zoned for faster processing or automatically handled, with original image retained. Pre-zoned templates can be used for forms or other repetitive formats.

• All popular fonts are recognized, with high tolerance for blurry or faded characters. In addition, OCR Shop can be trained to decipher unusual characters, logos or customized graphic elements.

Vividata Inc. -- Company Background

Even at that early stage, the sophistication of software design established Vividata as an exceptional innovator, and in 1991, the Vividriver scanner API was adopted by end users and OEMs alike, including scanner manufacturers, computer manufacturers and their developers. Over the next two years, an end-user product was developed for interfacing all the popular scanners into the UNIX environment: ScanShop® which started the company's growth into the application products described above.

Over ten thousand UNIX users now rely on Vividata software and support for their scanning, imaging, and printing needs For graphics, publishing, and imaging systems, the excellence of Vividata products has earned both favorable and exclusive endorsements from such companies as Canon, Sun Microsystems and the U.S. Government.

Vividata is located in Berkeley, California and can be reached as follows:

Vividata, Inc.
1250 Addison St., Suite 213
Berkeley, CA 94702
Phone: 510-841-6400; Fax: 510-841-9661;
Email: info@vividata.com
Web URL: http://www.vividata.com

The Vividata name and logo, PostShop, OCR Shop, and FaxShop are trademarks, and Vividriver and ScanShop are registered trademarks of Vividata, Inc. All other names are marks of their respective holders.