ScanFix Xpress v6

Bitonal Image Enhancement SDK

 When standard enhancement and cleanup just aren't enough, and your scanned documents seem beyond repair, ScanFix Xpress is the SDK for the job. Building on 20 years of image enhancement patents, research, and development, this SDK delivers industry-leading colour, grayscale, and bitonal image cleanup, and boasts an impressive collection of image enhancement options.

By taking advantage of the superior cleanup and enhancement features that ScanFix Xpress has to offer, you can easily improve the results of your scanned images, reduce file sizes, and prepare your images for further processing, such as OCR.
 

Version 6 of ScanFix Xpress has recently been released! Introducing image cleanup on colour and grayscale - as well as bitonal images!

NEW! ScanFix Xpress Activities for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) are now available. All of the ScanFix image cleanup technology, plus image view, save, and conversion found in ImagXpress, are in the separate Imaging Activities download. Use this technology in your own workflow applications or applications which host the WF runtime such as MOSS (SharePoint) using Visual Studio 2005 or higher.

Included Components

ScanFix Xpress, ImagXpress Document, NotateXpress, Thumbnail Xpress, TwainPRO, PrintPRO

Features

• Programming environments: Win32 visual development environments including Vista.
• Sample code is included for: VB.NET, Visual C#, Delphi .NET, VB, VC++
• Deploys within .NET as a managed control (see "Building Robust Imaging Components for the Microsoft .NET Platform" white paper)
• Use ScanFix Xpress Activities for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) in your own workflow applications or applications which host the WF runtime such as MOSS (Sharepoint) using Visual Studio 2005 or higher.
• Can be used in any development environment that hosts ActiveX/COM controls
• Confidence values are available for many operations
• User configurable debug settings to control level of detail
• Free full-featured trial version available for immediate download

Image Input, Image Output, and Image Handling

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

Deskew

• Automatically straighten crooked images and report correction angle
• Deskew images in a fraction of a second
• Uses content of the images, not just the document
• 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

Noise Removal

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

Dot Shading Removal

• 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)

Hole Punch & Blob Removal

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

  HOLE PUNCH REMOVAL
  
    
  
  BEFOREAFTER

Line Removal

• 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

Comb Removal (commonly used in ICR forms)

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

Character Completion & Smoothing

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

Auto Inverse Text Correction

• Detect and automatically convert inverted text zones
• Change white-on-black text to normal black-on-white
• Recognise 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

Auto Negate

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

Auto Binarise

• Automatically convert greyscale and colour images to black and white, and clean up noisy images
• Optimise binarisation results using the user configurable options
  
   IMAGE BINARISATION
  
    
  
  BEFOREAFTER

Auto Border Crop

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

Image Registration

• Register the image "contents" to be a specified distance from the top and/or left side of the page (for example, specify to put the text ½ inch from the top and/or ½ inch from the left side of the image edge)
• Use with zonal recognition to establish the position of the text relative to the edge of the image, to establish the expected location of a zone

Blank Page / Blank Rectangle Detection

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

Sub-Image Processing

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

Additional Image Processing

• Flip
• Mirror
• Rotate
• Smooth-Zoom
• Scale
• Set Resolution

FormAssist Sample Application with Source Code

• Quickly evaluate Pegasus Imaging’s forms processing technology, including:
  • Form identification (FormFix)
  • Form dropout (FormFix)
  • Zonal OCR (SmartZone)
  • OMR mark recognition for check-boxes and bubbles (FormFix)
  • Image display and editing (ImagXpress)
  • Image cleanup (ScanFix Xpress)
• Use FormAssist source code as a foundation for developing your production forms processing application:
  • Modular source code facilitates rapid development of form setup and forms processing solutions
  • Illustrates best practice for integration of Pegasus components and example workflow
  • Included in the FormSuite .NET toolkit download as C# source code
• Quickly set up forms and processing instructions
  • Create, save, and manage form sets
  • Add form templates to form sets
  • Set up and add recognition fields to form templates
  • Configure properties for image cleanup, OCR, ICR, OMR, and processing
  • Process filled images to optimise settings for OCR, ICR,OMR, and form identification

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.

For licensing details please email MicroWay or call 1300 553 313

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