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Kofax ImageControls software
Product Information
High-Tech #A28K718
Kofax Toolkits -- Production
Imaging Made Easy
ActiveX controls for building
production document imaging applications
Kofax offers the industry’s most comprehensive set of ActiveX controls for building production-level document imaging applications. ImageControls and StorageControls are easy-to-use visual programming tools for commercial developers, VARs, integrators, and corporate developers needing to rapidly create powerful imaging applications for Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows NT environments.
Both ImageControls and StorageControls are fully compatible with Microsoft Visual Basic (version 4.x, 32-bit), Visual C++ (version 4.x, 32-bit) and ImageControls is also fully compatible with the 16-bit versions of Visual Basic and Visual C++. Applications developed with ImageControls v2.0 are supported by the complete Kofax family of Adrenaline software engines and hardware accelerators. Applications developed with StorageControls v1.0 are fully compatible with the optical devices supported by Ascent Storage.
ImageControls v2.0
ImageControls v2.0 is a set of ActiveX and VBX controls necessary for adding high volume scanning, advanced image processing, rapid viewing, and networked image printing to 16-bit and 32-bit Windows applications. With its powerful feature set, ImageControls lets developers create applications that speed the document indexing process through automated recognition techniques, increase OCR accuracy and reliability with sophisticated clean-up and enhancement features, and decrease overall storage costs by generating smaller image file sizes. The ImageControls formula for success is the basis for thousands of production-level imaging applications in use today.
There are three versions of ImageControls v2.0 available, each providing varying degrees of functionality.
Standard
Using ImageControls v2.0, you can develop production-level applications that speed the indexing of images, increase OCR accuracy, and decrease overall image file size to make your application a cost effective and efficient document management solution. ImageControls provides ActiveX and VBX controls for scanning, automated recognition, image clean-up, forms processing, viewing, and printing of images. ImageControls v2.0 comes complete with the five 32-bit ActiveX controls and five 16-bit VBXs; a Visual Basic and Visual C++ demo program; complete documentation; and a royalty-free version of the Adrenaline Retrieval Engine. End users running applications based on ImageControls will need to have one of the three Adrenaline SW engines or a Kofax hardware accelerator installed.
Scanning
ImageControls v2.0 supports all of the industry’s
leading production document scanners at rated speed. ImageControls supports
color, grayscale, and black and white scanning. Images can also be imported
directly from disk in a variety of file formats. There are ten common dialogs,
ready for integration, for users to set scanner settings. Other features
include support for:
Patch Code Recognition.
ImageControls will detect and recognize up to six unique patch code types.
Patch
codes can be used to
recognize changes in batches, stop the scanner for manual setting adjustment,
update scanner
settings on the fly,
or to signify any unique attributes in a set of documents.
Bar Code Recognition.
ImageControls recognizes ten different bar code types, including
situations where there
are different bar codes
on the same page. ImageControls can process up to 64 different bar codes
on any
document, no matter
their orientation on the document.
Image Cleanup
ImageControls provides improved image quality
for OCR processing through a variety of image clean-up features.
Black Border Removal.
Performed simultaneously with scanning, this feature eliminates
the black edges
generated by scanners
with black backgrounds. Performing this process reduces the image file
size while improving
legibility.
Deskew. In
order to correct image skew created during scanning, the deskew feature
employs an algorithm that
compensates for image
skew resulting in images with zero degree skew. The deskew feature does
not require lines
or leading edge borders
to operate.
Speckle, Shade,
and Streak Removal. These features eliminate random noise (speckles
and streaks) as well as
shaded backgrounds either
present on the original document or generated at time of scan.
Line Removal and
Character Repair. Implementing this feature serves to eliminate
all unwanted horizontal and
vertical lines. Features
within the module enable developers to provide automatic character repair
when desired
text and unwanted lines
intersect.
Image Filtering.
This module can be used to perform a variety of enhancements on
lines and characters. Lines
and characters can be
smoothed, thickened, thinned, filled, or outlined in order to make them
more legible and
recognizable.
Forms Recognition
Forms Recognition.
ImageControls v2.0 can match scanned images against sets of known
forms by comparing
each scanned image against
a catalog of master forms. Complex algorithms enable ImageControls to learn
the
properties of each master
form, perform page registration, and return a list of the most likely matches.
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