ScanFix Application v4

Bitonal Image Enhancement Application

The ScanFix Application provides powerful document image enhancement technology to create smaller file sizes and cleaner images, ultimately resulting in higher OCR rates. Clean up images using deskew, rotate, black or white border removal, noise removal, dot shading removal, line removal, and text repair. ScanFix supports a wide variety of popular bitonal image file formats including TIFF G3/G4, PCX, DCX, CALS, and more.
 

The ScanFix Application interface features tabs and slider bars to make it easy to apply customer preferences. Access to advanced options is provided for situations where detailed settings are required.

Please Note: Colour and greyscale support currently found within Prizm Gray is planned for a future release of ScanFix Application, to be called ScanFix Spectrum.

Benefits

ScanFix Application will

• Create smaller compressed file sizes
• Produce Clearer, easier to view image
• Improve OCR accuracy

Features

• Full featured application for Microsoft Windows XP/2000/NT/98
• Easily clean up images
• Easy to use interface
• Free full-featured trial version available for immediate download

• Enhance up to 32,000 images in a single batch
• Support high-volume scanning and service bureaus needing multiple image processing
• Process multiple directories of images automatically within a single batch
• Apply multiple sets of parameters in defined order
• Batches can be daisy chained for unattended processing overnight

• Automatically straighten crooked images
• Handles up to 20% skew
• Deskew images in a fraction of a second
• Uses content of the images, not just the document edge

• Remove random specks or noise from images
• Configurable user specification of speck size
• Special Isolated Despeckle algorithm prevents removal of desired dots such as punctuation

• Automatically remove dot shading surrounding text for improved OCR accuracy
• Remove scanner noise caused by coloured backgrounds (gray, blue, etc.)
• Reduce files sizes caused by additional pixels, without destroying text
  
  DOT SHADING REMOVAL
  
    
  
  BEFORE (file size: 157k)AFTER (file size: 16k)

• Remove large areas of specks and noise
• Use to eliminate larger areas of black
• Remove hole punches
  
  HOLE PUNCH REMOVAL
  
    
  
  BEFOREAFTER

• Automatically remove solid or broken lines (both horizontal and vertical) from scanned forms and documents
• Automatically repair text that intersects with lines (fill broken characters), essential for forms processing

1. Repair, smooth and thicken incomplete characters
2. Repair broken characters
3. Improve poor dot matrix text
   • Smooth ragged edges on letters
   • Thicken or thin letters as needed
     
     ENHANCED CHARACTERS
     
       
     
     BEFOREAFTER

• Detect and automatically convert inverted text zones
• Change white-on-black text to normal black-on-white text
• Recognize inverse zones in any shape, including circular
• Remove the fill colour of text
• Reduce file sizes by eliminating unnecessary black pixels
  
  INVERSE TEXT CORRECTION
  
    
  
  BEFOREAFTER

1. Supports a wide variety of popular bitonal image file formats
2. TIFF (non-tiled): Uncompressed, 1-D & 2-D Group 3, Group 4
   • Single Page
   • Multi-Page, including those created by major forms-processing applications such as: Calera, ScanSoft, OCRON, ExperVision, Xerox
3. PCX (bitonal only), DCX
4. CALS Type 1 (Group 4 raster)
5. Maximum image size: 20,000 x 20,000 pixels
6. Any image resolution
7. Input/Output: TIFF, CALS, PCX, or BMP

• Automatically straighten your image
• Automatically position an image (horizontally or vertically) to specific pixel distances
• Enhanced algorithm allows you to ignore hole punches or logos
• Add margins for reprinting and binding documents
• Enables field and zone data to be extracted with extreme accuracy
• Positions the image to within 1/100 of an inch on average
  
  IMAGE REGISTRATION
  
    
  
  BEFOREAFTER

• Automatically convert black borders to white
• Remove excess white borders
• Reduce image file size (both physical dimensions and compressed file size)
• Use on microfilm or small document images that have been overscanned
  
  BITONAL IMAGE CROPPING
  
    
  
  BEFORE (file size: 100k)AFTER (file size: 15k)

• Separate out an area from the original document image prior to image processing
• Speeds up processing and outputs only the smaller area of interest

• View example images to help configure your batches
• Magnify images in a variety of ways to see fine details
• Measure spec and character sizes to ensure accurate settings
• Zoom in/out at any increment (25% default, configurable)
• Stretch box zooms on a selected portion of the image
• Flying magnifier works just like a magnifying glass over paper by magnifying the area directly beneath the magnifier tool

For licensing details please email MicroWay or call 1300 553 313

For more information please contact the MicroWay sales team:
Head Office MicroWay Pty Ltd PO Box 84, Braeside, Victoria, 3195, Australia Ph: 1300 553 313 Fax: 1300 132 709 email: sales@microway.com.au ABN: 56 129 024 825	Sydney Sales Office MicroWay Pty Ltd PO Box 1733, Crows Nest, NSW 1585, Australia Tel: 1300 553 313 Fax: 1300 132 709 email: sales@microway.com.au ABN: 56 129 024 825	New Zealand Sales Office MicroWay Pty Ltd (NZ) PO Box 912026 Victoria Street West Auckland 1142, New Zealand Tel: 0800 450 168 email: sales@microway.co.nz
International: call +61 3 9580 1333, fax +61 3 9580 8995