excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 100% 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... 96% 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... 96% 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. 89% 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." 87% 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... 85% Exhibitor news shorts Summary: The TCO'95-compliant line of 21-in. displays is now shipping. The 21-in. Patent validates display vendor's claims. BancTec announces S-Series distributor. 83% Vendors fine-tuning established solutions at I Summary: established solutions at. IMAGINGEXPO'96. Solutions that work, new products that soar. A selection of offerings from the floor of ImagingExpo'96. Welcome to ImagingExpo'96, where providers continue to polish their solutions. 82% 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. 82% 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... 81% A look ahead document management interoperabi... Summary: Imaging World, January 1st, 1997 A look ahead: document management interoperability. The DMA succeeds at last. Especially when a market comprises relatively small vendors, none of whom has a predominant market share. DMA 1.0 in the context of other standards In the interest of swift time to market, the 1.0 spec leverages other standards like the Open Document Management API for interfacing with... 81% Quality is free (so invest in it upfront) Summary: Quality is free (so invest in it upfront). If it is free, why do we have to invest in it? First, quality must be viewed from a system rather than a technology perspective. Investment in indexing. What image quality is required for viewing or indexing? 81% 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. 80% When will COLD get the respect it deserves? Summary: Banking & Financial Services White Paper When will COLD get the respect. TASC Imaging and workflow have gotten all the attention, but what about COLD? Applications for COLD. The primary users of COLD data in TASC applications are the front office staff who speak directly with a firm's customers, and the back office staff who perform paper-oriented workflow tasks.com Craig LeClair, Director of... 80% 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." 80% Hot Products Summary: Next generation in image-processing toolkits. Sales force automation software. No pricing information was available at press time. The base price for a full-speed model is $14,000. CD-Recorders continue price descent. 80% Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Colorado Imaging Solutions Summary: Each server has a 26-GB RAID subsystem and 160 MB RAM. Records for educators already holding certification are on microfilm. The workstations all have 24 MB of RAM. There also have been reductions in the cost of temporary staff and office space. Collins grows, so will its document. 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... 80% 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... 80% 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... 79% Vendors to visit at Imaging Expo '96 Summary: com.com/scanners. Available in 21-in. Microsystems Technology. and 21-in.
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