excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% 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." 87% 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. 85% New hardware, software abounds at ImagingExpo'9 Summary: A number of hardware and software vendors announced new or upgraded products at ImagingExpo'96. DTI (Document Technologies Inc. After the show the agreements endure. New versions and hot new products. This was certainly true at ImagingExpo'96, where a flurry of new software versions was released. 85% Handwriting recognition gets real Summary: Handwriting recognition gets real. These enable ICR integrators to cope with the idiosyncrasies of industry-specific forms. What's new? What about handwriting recognition? The new company was formed to concentrate solely on recognizing natural handwriting. 85% 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... 85% 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." 85% Automated cleanup rids systems of worthless im... Summary: Future forms will be measured against that form and will be adjusted for skew and other attributes against the original form. "This is especially important when you are doing recognition on particular zones on a form," says Macciola. The forms recognition capability will also scale the image to match the form. For example, contrast may be more important than skew, but OCR readabiliy in a... 84% 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... 83% Maturing market clarifies document capture choi Summary: "We saw that there were a lot of places to get equipment, and lots of companies that wanted the technology, but most system integrators and VARs were doing enterprise systems," he says. "But there weren't that many people in between, doing departmental systems." Where Cornerstone comes in, she says, is when the user wants to do unique things with its systems. The veteran of the three, the company... 82% TELEform tackles cyber-forms Cardiff Software ... Summary: TELEform tackles cyber-forms. Cardiff Software (San Marcos, CA) has taken its forms processing software beyond paper forms and onto the Internet. The TELEform Internet Solution ($4,995) automates the creation, distribution and processing of HTML forms. Running in conjunction with an existing TELEform product, this latest release can convert either an existing TELEform document or paper form... 82% Integrating ICR with document imaging Summary: Integrating ICR with document imaging. Additionally, complete data entry of the form can be automated through this process. Integrated with document imaging, ICR revolutionizes forms processing through automating the data capture process. An integrated ICR system should use a document image system's workflow software. FileNet provides an integrated ICR system with workflow and document imaging... 82% 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. 81% 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." 81% HP replaces network scanner Summary: Imaging World, March 3rd, 1997. HP replaces network scanner. Billing the new ScanJet 5 as "the digital on-ramp" to a network, Hewlett-Packard (HP, Palo Alto, CA) offers not only document conversion (at 15 ppm) but also logical routing directly into applications on a networked user's desktop. The 300-dpi Network ScanJet 5 ($3,000)­a 4Si replacement­ offers an enhanced control panel, a... 80% Caere to acquire Recognita Summary: In addition, the acquisition advances its goal to be a source of OCR technology for strategic manufacturers worldwide. A global OCR strategy. With the acquisition, Caere will be positioned as a global OCR provider with recognition technologies for more than 100 languages, from Arabic to Swahili. The acquisition will provide Caere a local office in Eastern Europe, the first step in leveraging... 79% IW editor to moderate data input panel Summary: IW editor to moderate data input panel. One forum session, titled Key to Disk vs. Key from Image vs. Character Recognition, will be moderated by IW News Editor Dan Bolita. They will discuss the shifting balance between labor-intensive manual data entry and the accuracy of fully automated character recognition systems. 78% 1996: the year in business Summary: Component imaging. Document management explodes. Also, several different approaches are maturing, such as a component imaging "build" approach, vs. An NT option has. Storage options:. 78% 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. 77% Users create demand for imaging Desktop documen Summary: Desktop document image. The fact is, the demand for desktop image management originates from a market segment that is not composed of traditional document imaging users.. DOCS Imaging gets. DOCS Imaging challenges Watermark. In comparison, Watermark only notes-edits. 76% 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...
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