excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% AIIM's best-kept scanning secret The TWAIN Com... Summary: AIIM's best-kept scanning secret. Could it be a new and improved TWAIN, not to mention a TWAIN toolkit? "What we have now is a standard that can't be implemented," says Wright. In addition, he says, "TWAIN allows the scanner to talk to an application ... but it only does scanning--after you acquire an image you have to do compression." With TWAIN being a committee--some of these function calls... 97% ISIS EZ-Imaging: "Pipes" are calling Summary: ISIS EZ-Imaging: "Pipes" are calling. ISIS EZ-Imaging is the first toolkit to support an open architecture for integrating imaging toolkits. Called "Pipes," it allows the toolkits of other vendors to share image data within an application. Application developers simply choose the compatible toolkits they want and build them into their application. Using the Visual Basic architecture, ISIS... 87% AIIM's ODMA expands document management standa Summary: AIIM's ODMA expands. document management standard. AIIM (Silver Spring, MD) has expanded the ODMA (Open Document Management API) specification. A new set of extensions enables users to search for documents in different repositories from within their desktop applications. Over 100 ODMA-compliant applications now shipping could benefit from the new extensions. 87% Editorial 10-21-96 Her left foot Summary: Her left foot. She gave me her left foot. "No honey, that's your left foot." "No, it's my RIGHT foot." "No, sorry, it's your left foot." 86% What new monitors will Cornerstone display F... Summary: What new monitors will Cornerstone display?. Following the across-the-board reduction in the price of its line of color displays, Cornerstone's ImageAccel division will introduce what the company calls "revolutionary monitor technology." AIIM may show how far Cornerstone has succeeded in its effort to have the industry adopt standards. The success of FIS will be revealed at AIIM in part by the... 86% 1996 the year in products Summary: From 1996 we've chosen a dozen (or so) products that burned brightly. Imagination Software (Silver Spring, MD) was another vendor embracing ActiveX in '96. A late-year hardware introduction (also by Kofax) was a product standout in 1996. Still, he sees production imaging's dominance continuing in the coming year. That, she points out, "is sort of dichotomous." 86% Open architecture encourages cross-pollination Summary: Software developers are the winners with the adaptation of open standards. "Cardiff's multiple engine approach is simply superior." Kofax will continue to rely on Caere to provide text recognition. "We have a really good relationship with Caere," said Anthony Macciola, KIPP product manager. "We think that our approach will offer customers more freedom of choice." 86% Expressly for Plexus Summary: Expressly for Plexus. A trio of developers' toolkits. Three new developers' toolkits from Monarch Imaging Systems (Iselin, NJ) offer Plexus (Dallas) developers access to a wider range of hardware. Philip Basile, director of product development for Monarch, explained to IW, "Monarch has developed Plexus toolkits for years." An Express display toolkit allows Plexus developers to deploy... 85% Component Imaging Summary: Standalone applications and toolkits emerge. Those that sell a more standalone application approach are represented by Kofax and Cornerstone (San Jose). Cornerstone's Pixel Translations products fit more into the toolkit category. COMPONENT IMAGING MARKET. The market moves toward components. 85% News Shorts 10-21-96 Summary: Imaging World, October 21st, 1996. Walk-up imaging. Initially, customers would only be able to hold their records on CD, but the company envisions having the banks store records for remote customer access.. Storage management for Windows NT. Microsoft is excited about the new offering for the NT platform. 84% ElectroCom Imaging: The Big Secret Summary: At this time ECI offers two major product lines: AEG Recognition, a world-renowned family of integrated ICR/OCR engines, and the IntelliScan 120/240 family of high-performance document scanners. The AEG Recognition offers commercially the underlying technology that automatically reads the myriad pieces of US mail at very high speed. If the mail is readable, the machines apply ICR/OCR to it. A... 84% News Shorts 3-3-97 Summary: Plasmon VARs check out Double-Checked. TASC allies with Sybase. Document management provider TASC (Reading, MA) has teamed up with Sybase (Emeryville, CA) to join TASC's COLD technology with the Sybase System 11 relational database. As a Sybase application partner, TASC will market and distribute Sybase products in conjunction with TASC-COLD. First Data takes Kodak's COM. 82% 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... 82% Hot Products 11-18-96 Summary: . Harmonious disc. However, creation must be accomplished working on a Unix or Windows workstation. CDs caught in the Crossfire. More, better, faster removable storage. serious scanning. 82% 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. 82% 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." 82% Internet imaging--an incipient art Summary: Internet imaging--an incipient art. ActiveX is Microsoft's new development tool for writing applications in Visual Basic. They have to be ActiveX-compliant, but many applications are or will be. At ImagingExpo there was more talk about Internet imaging than actual products being demonstrated. It uses Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) to store and retrieve documents through the Internet. 81% Forms processing A market takes shape As the... Summary: In fact, the paper forms industry now refers to itself as the forms and systems industry. The forms automation marketplace. Pricing: the new differentiator. There is also an annual maintenance fee of 15% of system cost. Prices vary. 81% Scanners the digital gateway Summary: The Xerox (Rochester, NY) DocuImage 620S is designed for print on demand, forms-processing and document-imaging applications. DocuImage 620S ($12,000) is an open-system implementation of Xerox's DocuCS scanner that processes 40 ppm at 200 dpi, 32 ppm at 300 dpi and 20 ppm at 600 dpi. Both models offer 400-dpi resolution and a 1,000-sheet document feeder. The M3099EX/GX handles 11-in. These... 80% Standards at work Summary: One of the major thrusts of the AIIM organization is to help facilitate industry standards.This year, for the first time, AIIM will have a booth devoted specifically to its various standards efforts including the Document Management Alliance (DMA) and the Open Document Management API (ODMA) group. "Last year the DMA and ODMA did demonstrations," says Marilyn Wright, AIIM's VP of standards and...
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