excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% 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... 94% 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% 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. 91% 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. 91% 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. 91% Adobe Systems Summary: Adobe offers a market-leading line of application software for creating and distributing visually rich communication materials and licenses its industry-standard technologies. 91% The New Document Summary: Documents were created one-by-one, and depending on the number of pages, were bound in some way. The New Document 2:. Virtual Document. The New Document 3:.com, www. 90% 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... 90% 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? 89% 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. 89% There's an Acrobat in Infodata's file cabinet Summary: There's an Acrobat in Infodata's file cabinet.infodata. Infodata will provide a virtual file cabinet (VFC) enabler plug-in for Adobe Acrobat. VFC-enabled Acrobat software customers can access and share documents from either an Internet or Acrobat client. With the integration, VFC customers have technologies to provide a single point of searching, viewing and accessing a variety of file formats and... 89% Document conferencing easy, inexpensive and i... Summary: Dominick Segrete:. Segrete says document conferencing is better than video conferencing because it allows inexperienced people who would not normally be present in face-to-face meetings to attend. "Everyone feels they have been in a meeting. Overall, Segrete is a happy document conferencing user. using document. 88% Hot Products 4-7-97 Summary: Faster microfilm scanning. Imaging system on Web.pixel. The software features scanner controls and a batch function that allows multiwindow scanning of several images. Remittance processing scanner. 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... 88% 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." 88% Desktop imaging redux Summary: Upon installation, Imaging Pro automatically creates scan icons in the Word and Excel toolbars. * Runs in a Web browser. Imaging Pro not only runs as a Windows 95 or NT desktop executable, it runs inside the Internet Explorer Web browser, too. * Web link annotations. Clicking on the link annotation in the image viewer displays the linked document, if necessary launching the browser and retrieving... 87% 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." 87% 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. 87% Sound familiar Why hardware leads to imaging... Summary: . Why hardware leads to imaging success. In fact, the very notion of imaging as a hardware "system" business has been almost forgotten. Like the WIIS and ImagePlus systems of old, DG's software is designed to pull hardware and services. What the user is buying, however, is a business solution--not just low-cost hardware and software. Most vendors have worked too hard to separate their hardware... 87% Imaging and retrieval software for Mac users Summary: Imaging World, October 21st, 1996. Imaging and retrieval software for Mac users. A new Macintosh-based document imaging and management system for small businesses has been introduced by Dominion Software (Newton, MA, 617-332-1144). WorkingPapers enables users to scan, catalogue and cross-reference documents into unlimited searchable collections that each hold up to 32,000 pieces of information....
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