excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% Wang Payback in a day Summary: Wang: Payback in a day?. By Tony McKinley Wang Software's Pro Imaging for Windows package is aimed squarely at meeting the needs of millions of desktop users. Selling software on the Web. Wang selling personal software is a stunning departure from Wang's heritage. Wang's mission with this product is to sell it directly over the Web. 90% 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... 88% 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. 88% Wang takes a Vantage Summary: Wang takes a Vantage. Wang's Service Business Unit will continue to partner with PC Docs, providing services to DOCS Open software customers. But everyone thought it would be PC Docs." "Wang got the technology they were after," said Frappaolo, "and they got a vendor strong in the standards arena." Standards-based Wang is committed to open architecture. 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% Desktop document imaging comes of age Summary: Wang and Visioneer. Wang (Billerica, MA) and Visioneer (Palo Alto, CA) have announced an agreement that will bring together Wang's imaging software and Visioneer's leading desktop paper-scanning PaperPort. The agreement will provide users of Windows 95 with tools for transforming and managing paper documents as digitized images. By the end of the year, support for PaperPort will be added to... 86% The product beat Summary: Imaging World, June 1st, 1996. The product beat. No manual intervention or rewriting of code is necessary. ScreenScan Systems released Image Processor Version 2.3 software and Image Handler Software Version 2.3. The new software expands the current capabilities of ScreenScan as an add-on microfilm or microfiche scanner to include full electronic folder support. Symbus Technology announced... 86% Kodak set to buy Wang's software Summary: Imaging World, October 21st, 1996 Kodak set to buy Wang's software. For Kodak, it's a missing piece, for Wang it's $$$ and focus. On the other hand, he continued, "Kodak may be offering a reasonable sum, which Wang can then turnaround and subsequently complete an acquisition of its own." David Yockelson, director of the Meta Group is skeptical, and hopes Kodak holds its offer below $200 million.... 86% Bigger, better, faster, cheaper High-speed s... Summary: Image quality is affected by image enhancement. * a background concern that producing the images will increase the cost to unacceptable levels. * cost. * Better image enhancement. Data prep is reduced if pages can be automatically turned. 85% Wang is no lame duck Although the presence of ... Summary: Imaging World, March 17th, 1997. Wang is no lame duck. Although the presence of Kodak is expected to be felt at AIIM, Wang's software unit will still be owned by Wang and could have a hard time not coming off as a lame duck, given the impending acquisition by Kodak. At any rate, Wang will be demonstrating its newly released Imaging for Windows Professional Edition as well as its other imaging... 85% 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." 84% Openimage for AS400 Summary: Open/image for AS/400. An open, client-server solution uniting fax documentation and image management is being introduced jointly by Wang (Billerica, MA) and Biscom (Chelmsford, MA). Open/image for AS/400 unites document imaging and workflow in the AS/400 environment and provides imaging capabilities to applications running on IBM's AS/400R host system. Wang is using Biscom's FaxCom fax server... 83% Tucci says no to Novell Summary: Tucci says no to Novell. Wang (Billerica, MA) CEO Joseph Tucci was handed an $8 million thank you note from his board of directors following the $260 million sale of Wang's software unit to Eastman Kodak (Rochester, NY). Under the premise of a "retention bonus" because Tucci declined an offer to head Novell (Orem, UT), Wang acknowledges Tucci's role in the recent divestiture. Analysts speculate... 83% Search specialization The leading text retrieva Summary: Imaging World, April 7th, 1997. Search specialization. The leading text retrieval vendors all offer a different spin on searching. The same interface and index is used throughout, scaling from the desktop to the Web. Dataware is also one of the few vendors to offer semantic searching through thesaurus and dictionaries. 82% 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? 82% No company is an island Summary: Wang also has a seat on Microsoft's ISV advisory council that no other imaging vendors have. jukeboxes. ViewStar was the first of the enterprise image and workflow vendors to forge a relationship with Microsoft and port its software to NT. Capture and component imaging. The hot area in storage is CD jukeboxes. 80% Merging principles of Web software pricing Ne... Summary: Gradually, out of the chaos a few principles are emerging: 1. Some level of access has to be free. 5. Writing costs more than reading. Consequently, write access to the database costs more. If Web access is free, support is not. With the Web, user support is starting to be decoupled from the software price. 79% 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. 79% ActiveX: Same interface for both client-server Summary: ActiveX: Same interface for both client-server and intranet apps. For example, an HTML form is served up to a browser client for the user to fill in the data. The Submit Form button re-establishes the connection and sends the entire form back to the server, where it must be processed. This is the antithesis of the client-server model--no processing is done on the client side, but rather all... 78% 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...
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