excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 100% New storage for digital flicks Summary: TRIADA has contracted with NTEC Media (Brandenburg, Germany) for a project expected to lead to the licensing of Ngram technology for movie and video archival. The new process would allow both extremely high compression ratios for archiving digitized movies, and high retrieval speeds. He characterized Ngram technology as unique worldwide. "The capabilities of Ngram to achieve high lossless... 79% Image alliance pushes compression standards Summary: A coalition of a dozen leading document imaging technology providers is addressing the need for image compression and quality standards. JBIG addresses the pervasive need for smaller file sizes and improved image quality. One of the group's charter members, Cornerstone (San Jose, Booth #1315) extols the advantages of JBIG compression compared to the existing standard of CCITT/ITU Group IV. For... 78% 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... 77% TASC- COLD VERSION 2.0 Summary: TASC www.com Doculabs www.doculabs.com, www.doculabs. 74% 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... 72% Optical disc does flick Summary: Optical disc does flick. 3.5-in. optical disc provided by. The disc's. 71% What makes DVD compelling for users? Summary: What makes DVD compelling for users? Out of 1,199 respondents, 73% said that they would be compelled to buy a DVD-ROM drive if software other than movies or games was available on DVD-ROM discs. When faced with a list of 25 companies, the largest percentage of users (22%) said they would choose Sony (Park Ridge, NJ) if they were to buy a DVD-ROM drive today. The first in the DVD family of drives... 69% A unified Europe? Summary: A unified Europe? And largely speaking, Germany is continental Europe's only good news economy. Now, the rest of Europe wants in on its action. One Europe? No trade barriers? 68% DVD arrives The advent of DVD-Video signals th... Summary: The advent of DVD-Video signals that DVD-ROM discs are just around the corner. DVD-Video drives are out, and DVD-ROM drives appear to be close to release. Encyclopedia Electronica will be bundled with DVD-ROM drives when the drives begin shipping. A number of CD-ROM replicators have established DVD production lines (See box "DVD Replicators." * DVD-R will have a smaller capacity than DVD-ROM. 67% Xionics to provide German MFP drivers Xionics ... Summary: Xionics to provide. German MFP drivers. Xionics (Burlington, MA) has acquired Gesellschaft Computer Anwendung (GCA, Freiberg, Germany), a developer of printer drivers for MFPs (multifunction peripherals). The acquisition gives Xionics printer-driver software for imaging text and graphics with specific printers. "This venture contributes to our strategy to provide OEM customers core t... 66% Spirited clothing retailer manages worldwide records Summary: Esprit de Corp. Today a network of Esprit de Corp. Dusseldorf is the headquarters for Esprit de Corp. Esprit de Corp.' Currently, Esprit de Corp. 66% German giant expands reach into capture market... Summary: Siemens purchase of ElectroCom targets U.S. postal market. The Siemens Automation Group (Nuremberg, Germany) is expected to acquire AEG ElectroCom (Constance, Germany) from Daimler-Benz, (Stuttgart). Of particular relevance to the document processing market, the acquisition would include AEG ElectroCom (Irving, TX). According to Paz Kahana, marketing director with ElectroCom, Siemens has no... 57% Imaging vendors join SAP to grab worldwide mark Summary: Imaging vendors join SAP to grab worldwide marketshare. FileNet (Costa Mesa), whose Document Warehouse product has been SAP certified for nearly two years, has just announced a special version--FileNet Document Warehouse for SAP for NT. With it, users can capture, process and store document images from R/3 business applications. The NT support brings the abilities of a powerful platform for... 55% A perspective on industry leadership Summary: A perspective on industry leadership. Two associations, AIIM and IMC, have clearly played a leadership role in our industry's growth and change over many decades. Today AIIM is the largest association representing our industry. The growth of the IMC exhibition and conference in Europe closely parallels industry growth. That market was estimated to grow to approximately $9.6 billion by 1998. 45% Combined scanning and file format solutions required for care and feeding of hungry intranets Summary: How then does IS bridge the gap from paper to secure, internal electronic distribution? The result is a very compelling return on investment. Agencies have only begun to scan For government agencies, scanning to either the Internet or an internal intranet Web site is practically a matter of survival. Prior to the widespread use of the Internet, scanning documents was entirely focused on getting... 45% Why document management companies cannot sel... Summary: companies cannot sell electronic imaging. electronic imaging. Document management tools and electronic imaging are two very different products. "Now we are the standard imaging technology for the bank," the vendor says. But because the IT department is now doing the selling, the vendor waits. 41% When will COLD get the respect it deserves? Summary: Banking & Financial Services White Paper When will COLD get the respect. TASC Imaging and workflow have gotten all the attention, but what about COLD? Applications for COLD. The primary users of COLD data in TASC applications are the front office staff who speak directly with a firm's customers, and the back office staff who perform paper-oriented workflow tasks.com Craig LeClair, Director of... 40% CD technology complements corporate banking Summary: Banking & Financial Services White Paper CD technology complements corporate banking. Producing CDs in-house. Currently, more than one-third of the nation's leading banks, including Mellon Bank and Bank of Boston, are producing CDs in-house for distribution to corporate clients by combining technology from IBM and Data/Ware Development (San Diego, CA). Along with check images, each CD also... 39% Microsoft and SAP sparkle at Sapphire 96 Summary: Imaging World, September 25th, 1996. Microsoft and SAP sparkle at Sapphire 96. Enterprise applications are a given. SAP introduces Business Frameworks. Now, we are going to 5 million users, and we can never train all of these users." 37% Hybrid systems improve check retrieval productivity Summary: Banking & Financial Services White Paper Hybrid systems improve check retrieval productivity. This is especially true in banking applications such as check storage and retrieval, where billions of checks have been captured on microfilm. Allied Irish Bank. Allied Irish Bank (Dublin, Ireland) has employed a hybrid imaging system to improve productivity in their check retrieval application. Allied...
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