excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 100% Exclusive Acrobat 3 preview Summary: By Tony McKinley Acrobat 3 from Adobe Systems (Mountain View, CA) is brimming with capabilities, and everything--including the core Portable Document Format itself--has been improved in this latest release. The functionality packed into Acrobat 3 makes it a superior bargain at SRP of $300, or $1,600 for the 10-user version. Acrobat 3 is primarily a set of tools for creating PDF documents, which... 92% Adobe Acrobat performs even more tricks Summary: PDF and HTML files becoming equally accessible. Adobe claims that Acrobat 3.0 is the fastest way to publish any document on-line. This ability to download and display PDF files as individual pages is one of the upgraded product's greatest strengths. Users will be able to retrieve and view only the pages they want to see in a given document. Further, Amber optimizes documents in Adobe's PDF... 92% New Acrobat 3.0 is a watershed in Web document Summary: The Verity Search engine is then available to Acrobat users on a network to retrieve documents through the Catalog index (Search can be licensed for CD distribution at $500 per title). Forms processing functions. Two completely new functions that have been added to Acrobat 3 are Forms and Dynamic Controls. The forms tool is full-featured and easy to use. The Movie tool applies this same simple... 92% Adobe and 20 vendors team for paper-to-Web so... Summary: Adobe and 20 vendors team. for paper-to-Web solutions. By Tony McKinley On March 31, Adobe Systems (San Jose) announced teaming arrangements with more than 20 vendors to capitalize on Acrobat Capture to bring paper documents to the Web. DOCUMENT CAPTURE. What's completely new and different about the announcement is that huge numbers of Adobe Acrobat users are already in place. 90% Convergence of technologies results in rich We... Summary: "The fastest growing collection of documents in a corporation is its Web site. PDF problem, comparing our content." and fourth is long documents. We believe these applications are better served by Acrobat solutions." Informix's Universal Server. 89% Character recognition vs. content recognition Summary: Imaging World, October 21st, 1996. In Adobe's definition, "imaging" refers to the process of creating page images, bit by bit. In addition, Capture is designed to fit text into the exact space it occupied in the original document. Acrobat Capture is designed to treat unrecognizable text as pasted-in images, and often areas treated this way are not even output to the text file. recognition take? 88% MostImportantProds96 Summary: The most important products of 1996 (so far). Lava Systems' Lava 4.3 release has all three functions available in one software product. Its indexing module creates pointers to any kind of document the same way it creates pointers to scanned images. It's 4.6 GB, 5.25 inches and is rewritable! It was available before, but this year it has really turned into a full-function product. 88% OCR for Win 95: Comparing Caere OmniPage 7 and Xerox TextBridge 96 Summary: OCR is a very demanding task, and multiprocessing is not an option, it's a requirement. After a page or two of checking correct "errors," you have the option of only checking the worst "errors." The display window and the Soundex correction screens are very helpful. This measures every time a user would be faced with an error in a spell checker and the obvious errors that the spell checker... 87% News Shorts Summary: The study found that both the quality of a scanned image and of the hardware affect purchasing decisions. FileNet stock at. to FileNet. Sherpa, Rosetta exchange vows. The FileNet agreement also provides the premiere COLD product, Greenbar. 87% 1996 the year in review Summary: This turned out to be a nightmare­on the good days. Wang ascends ... to somewhere. Long-term impact: Not to worry. Long-term impact: CDIA is just too good an idea to flop, and it won't. Long-term impact: The virtual potential here is so great that it's hard to figure out where to start. 86% Caere MSeries II Production OCR on NT Server Summary: Production OCR on NT Server. The roots of high-performance OCR servers go back to the original Palantir Corp.' The M/Series II Board serves the needs of a large, stable market. NT Server OCR software. WordScan is a proven solution. 85% News Shorts 12-16-96 Summary: .. Giga doles gold. PC Docs partners have ESP. Each of the software companies is delivering solutions that integrate with DOCS Open. ISIS not lacking Imagination. IMAGinE with Pixel engines is available from Imagination Software at prices starting at $1,000. 84% Scanner/Web/VAR Beats Summary: Intrafed continues on the scene. BancTec announced a distribution agreement with TextWare. The Web beat. "We believe that publishing on- and off-line go hand in hand on the Web and CD, and we believe that automating the process is critical to the success of the project." Now they are asking how to solve problems." 83% News Shorts 3-17-97 Summary: Ricoh to market CD-RW hardware. Quickly adopting the new CD-Rewritable (CD-RW) media that can be re-recorded thousands of times, Ricoh (San Jose) has introduced the first CD-RW-capable CD-Recordable (CD-R) drive. Certifiably Artist VARs. Artist Graphics (St. There's an Acrobat in the file cabinet. 82% Web searching: It's a text thing Summary: com.com.com.com.com. 82% 1997 predictions for the future Summary: management." The downside was that custom client software had to be distributed to all users. We want to take advantage of this dynamic new computing environment!" The new document The new document is a rich, multimedia vehicle. The new technology really works. 82% CDR Software & Hardware Shopping Guide Summary: duplication time. The Trans/Corder was developed because of operator dissatisfaction with the time-consuming process of duplicating CD-ROM discs. CD-R duplication. and NT support. New CD-R writer software. 81% JulyHotProducts Summary: an arcane data entry screen. EasyRead 240's 20-in. Data archiving. reaches new level.. New compact digital camera. 80% JBIG: A New FAX Standard? Summary: Group IV, however, proved very popular for the storage of scanned document images. They have Group IV for binary and JPEG for multibit grayscale or color." "Thus the JBIG Alliance promotes three-bit scanning as the grayscale standard for document images. There are no image-processing libraries that you can buy today that work on grayscale images. There are no OCR engines that you can buy today... 79% Revealing the wealth Summary: Corporations' most valuable resource lies buried in their legacy data. There are two measures of information retrieval: precision and recall. Precision refers to the ability to retrieve only the most relevant documents. Recall refers to the ability to retrieve all relevant documents. * How will information be retrieved?
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