ScanFix Xpress v4

Bitonal Image Enhancement Toolkit

ScanFix Xpress is delivered as a .NET and ActiveX/COM software development toolkit, offering powerful bitonal document image enhancement technology. Create smaller file sizes and cleaner images, ultimately resulting in higher OCR rates. Clean up images using deskew, noise removal, dot shading removal, hole punch removal, line removal, text repair, auto inverse text correction, auto negate, auto binarisation, auto border crop, blank page detection, and rotate. ScanFix includes ImagXpress Professional.
 

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

 

Features

1. Programming environments: Win32 visual development environments
2. Sample code is included for: VB.NET, Visual C#, Delphi .NET, VB, VC++
3. Deploys within .NET as a managed control (see "Building Robust Imaging Components for the Microsoft .NET Platform" white paper)
4. Can be used in any development environment that hosts ActiveX/COM controls
5. Confidence values are available for many operations
6. User configurable debug settings to control level of detail
7. Free full-featured trial version available for immediate download

1. Provided through the included ImagXpress Professional .NET component and ActiveX/COM control (Read the Full ImagXpress Professional v7 Product Description)
2. Features include image viewing, compression, conversion, TWAIN scanning, annotation, printing, image processing, and more

1. Automatically straighten crooked images and report correction angle
2. Deskew images in a fraction of a second
3. Uses content of the images, not just the document
4. User configurable High Quality vs. High Speed setting
   • High Quality sets a higher number of places to check around the image, ultimately providing the highest level of deskew accuracy, but the image processing speed is slower
   • High Speed sets a lower number of places to check around the image, ultimately providing the fastest image processing speed, but offers a slightly lower level of accuracy

1. Remove random specks or noise from images
2. Configurable user specification of speck size, or use automatic settings
3. Special Isolated Despeckle algorithm prevents removal of desired dots such as punctuation

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

1. Remove hole punches and larger areas of black
2. User configurable threshold settings
3. Specify full page or a specific area of interest
4. Reduce file sizes and storage requirements with cleaner pages
5. Return count of objects found
   
    

   HOLE PUNCH REMOVAL
   
     
   
   BEFOREAFTER

Line Removal

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

1. Automatically remove data entry combs from forms
2. Automatically repair text that intersects with lines (fill broken characters), essential for forms processing
   
    COMB REMOVAL
   
     
   
   BEFOREAFTER

1. Repair, smooth and thicken incomplete characters
2. Repair broken or incomplete characters to create complete characters
3. Especially good on poor dot matrix text
   • Smoothes ragged edges on letters
   • Thickens or thins letters as needed
     
      ENHANCED CHARACTERS
     
       
     
     BEFOREAFTER

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

1. Automated reporting of black on white (normal) or white on black (negative) images
2. Automated correction (user configurable to simply report or to automatically correct)
3. Creates black on white images, which are often required for many other ScanFix image processing actions

1. Automatically convert greyscale and colour images to black and white, and clean up noisy images
2. Optimize binarization results using the user configurable options
   
    IMAGE BINARIZATION
   
     
   
   BEFOREAFTER

1. Automatically convert black borders to white
2. Reduce image file size (both physical dimensions and compressed file size)
3. Automated border crop (user configurable to simply report or to automatically correct)
4. Use on microfilm or small document images that have been overscanned
   
    BITONAL IMAGE CROPPING
   
     
   
   BEFORE (file size: 100k)AFTER (file size: 15k)

1. Identify and report blank pages, or blank areas of interest
2. Configure settings to accommodate bleed-through or noisy images (i.e. ignore hole punches)
3. Reduce file sizes and storage requirements by eliminating blank pages

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

1. Reports the location of lines, shaded regions and inverse text regions for forms recognition
2. Useful in forms processing solutions for form identification and registration

1. Flip
2. Mirror
3. Rotate
4. Smooth-Zoom
5. Scale
6. Set Resolution

For licensing details please email MicroWay or call 1300 553 313

For more information please contact the MicroWay sales team:
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International: call +61 3 9580 1333, fax +61 3 9580 8995