excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 99% 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... 97% Grayscale standard about to take the stage Summary: The obvious solution seems to be to scan documents at higher resolutions to provide users with higher quality images. However, the higher the scan resolution, the larger the file size. The JBIG Solution. Because the optimal number of shades of gray is 8, the JBIG Alliance promotes 3-bit JBIG as the standard. JBIG Alliance. 96% 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... 95% Smashing the traditional roadblocks of ... ... Summary: For OCR or other recognition applications, grayscale images contain much more data to work with than bitonal images. The two major roadblocks for grayscale scanning have traditionally been scanner technologies and computer technologies. Technology advances. Previously, scanner technology could not effectively handle grayscale because it was not designed for grayscale output. There are plenty of... 93% The Latest News in ... Grayscale Image Processi Summary: The Latest News in ... Grayscale Image Processing. Ralip Imaging (Minneapolis) has brought its grayscale image processing scanning solution to the United States. The company says it has designed the solution to be as easy to use as a copier. The solution will be ISIS-compatible in May. Start looking this summer for advanced grayscale image processing in check processing. 91% 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." 90% The fine balancing act of buying displays Summary: Because the high-production image worker is also by definition a high-productivity worker. high-res color displays--call it 85% to 15%. A seventeen-inch monitor draws 110 watts per hour; a 21-in. can draw as much as 135 watts per hour. Expect higher air conditioning costs and/or the cost of new ducting. 90% 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... 90% The latest news in ... Scanners Trend Applicat... Summary: Speed. * Is the scanner simplex or duplex? For the OCR accuracy test, we scanned sets of test documents of varying weights, qualities and text sizes. All scanners provide default settings to simplify configuration. Some scanners can detect misfeeds and doubles. 89% Multimedia meets the office Summary: and 17-in. So what's the hold-up? But it's more the deployment of it that's the hold-up as opposed to the technology." or 17-in. The 17-in. 89% 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... 88% large-format capture Color brightens the sca... Summary: CalComp 800-932-1212 www.calcomp.SGI-scanners. Feeder scanners offer a maximum resolution up to 400 dpi. It is suitable for use in high volume production environments. 88% High-res barking up a low-res tree Summary: Much of the time those other applications are word processor or spreadsheet applications, neither of which use color. Edge acuity and grayscale critical to readability. Technology and patents. In 1991, Document Technologies Inc. The patent on an ultra-high resolution technology (called equivalent resolution technology or ERT) was granted in 1996. 88% ABCs of high-speed document scanners Summary: ABCs OF HIGH-SPEED DOCUMENT SCANNERS. A high-speed scanner can be justified when more than 500 pages a day are scanned; large installations scan 10,000 or more pages a day. To compress or not to compress. The key to high-speed scanning is high-speed feeding. There is no such thing as a high-speed feeder that can reliably feed all sizes and thicknesses of paper like those found in acco... 87% IBML's ImageTrac making the grade(s) in Sweden Summary: IBML's ImageTrac making the grade(s) in Sweden.ibml.com) will be grading papers for Swedish students. IBML is shipping a batch of the scanners to the National Agency for Higher Education in Sweden to process Swedish SAT tests. IBML develops high-speed color document-imaging systems capable of handling many applications. 87% 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." 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." 86% 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... 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. 86% html-ssi Summary: DOCULABS' CERTIFICATION TEST
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