AnyMedia is a PC-based document imaging and delivery solution that automatically inserts navigational hyperlinks into raster page images. Its multimedia nature gives users incredible flexibility in the ways they can process and retrieve information, including sound, graphics, still photographs, and full motion video. For seamless movement between files, ANYMedia directly launches applications, such as spreadsheets, word processing documents, and database systems.

  • Provides hyperlinks for quick navigation within and between documents
  • Provides hyperlinks to other applications, including graphics, visual and audio information, including animation
  • Offers word search across a library of documents or full text search within a document
  • Allows user-created electronic notes and folders
  • Compatible with Windows DDE.
  • Meets a broad range of user needs, such as on-demand training, automated parts ordering, document cataloging, and interactive maintenance
  • Compatible with a broad range of electronic storage devices, including networks, CD-ROM jukeboxes, and optical drives
  • Easy to administer and use
  • Uses storage media that takes less space than paper and is capable of withstanding environmental factors.

 

ANYMedia uses a rule-based engine to automatically hyperlink raster documents. The software consists of two major modules: ANYMedia AUTHOR and ANYMedia DESKTOP.

ANYMedia DESKTOP is the end-user interface module. DESKTOP provides users the capability to access, retrieve, display, and print information. It also offers several other indispensable features:

  • High-speed page image access and display
  • Pan and zoom of oversized pages
  • Print zoomed image or page range on demand
  • Document library maintenance
  • Ability to create and maintain file folders containing pages from one or more documents
  • Use of page "sticky notes" to flag individual pages
  • OCR, word, and card catalog search capabilities
  • On-line help
  • Individual alias pathing
  • User rights.

ANYMedia AUTHOR is the essence of this powerful tool. With AUTHOR, you can process, format, create, maintain, and deliver information for subsequent use with the ANYMedia DESKTOP module. AUTHOR takes paper-based documents and other electronically formatted files and converts them to raster images using commercially available scanning hardware. These documents are converted to CCITT group 4 TIFF files.

AUTHOR provides users the same features as the DESKTOP module with these additional high-end capabilities:

  • Document and database management
  • Document scanning and conversion
  • CCITT group 4 raster file compression
  • Ability to store text, graphics, visual, and audio information
  • Automatic rule-based hyperlink mastering
  • Enhanced learning capabilities.

What you need to operate DESKTOP:

  • Microsoft Windows or Windows '95
  • At least 8MB of memory
  • At least 2.5MB of local hard disk storage.

What you need to operate AUTHOR:

  • Microsoft Windows or Windows '95
  • At least 8MB of memory (16MB is preferable)
  • At least 6MB of local hard disk storage
  • Calera WordScan Plus (OCR software)
  • At least 6MB of storage space per one hundred pages of data (network or local)

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