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BSCAN's workflow facility offers a simple approach to the tracking and processing of batched documents, along with the management of its associated work queues. Building its workflow from standard network and operating system facilities, BSCAN eliminates layers, improves performance, and provides an open system that any technician or network administrator can grasp.

begins when the scanned images are passed through the system in batches. Whether all processing is performed as a single step or as many steps, each batch maintains its own state in the workflow as well as the state of each of its images. Below is a template for workflow with optional steps for each phase:

Until recently, document imaging has been complex; involving expensive optical storage, specialized databases, customized software and document scanners. Document image management software vendors were required to support the specialized scanning of documents and the storing of the images.

Today, vendors can chose from a number of standards (allowing these vendors to focus on the central features of their products.) The results have been the rapid advancements in performance, features, and emergence of high-quality products.

Vendor specialization is the mark of a mature industry. In each area of commercial technology, monolithic systems are eventually replaced with modular component systems.

BSCAN brings this modularization to the document scanning market! BSCAN empowers simpler management software and forms the basis of back-file conversion!

In document imaging, cleaning up images can entail any or all of the following:

Rotate - sometimes as a matter of quality control, it is necessary to rotate documents that have been scanned in upside-down or sideways (landscape) mode so that they appear upright (in portrait mode). It also can improve scanner throughput to scan documents in landscape mode and rotate them all automatically before they are written to disk. BSCAN is capable of automatically determining whether a document is oriented correctly and rotating it to its correct orientation if necessary.

Crop & Deskew - Scanners and copiers with black backgrounds behind the pages sometimes produce skewed or crooked images with unsightly black borders. BSCAN straightens the image and eliminates these unsightly borders automatically as a user option. In addition, crop and deskew functions can also be used independently of one another.

Despeck - Poor contrast or improper scanner settings can produce document images with speckles of various sizes on them. Despeck refers to the act of removing these speckles from the images of these documents. BSCAN has various, user-controlled speckle filter sizes that can be applied to single document images or group of images. However, as with any despeck function, if its is possible to solve the problem at its root rather that treating its symptoms, its better to check your scanner settings and resolve the problem there.

Line Removal - This image clean up function is typically used to remove any lines that interfere or overlap hand-written or machine printed characters or marks that will be read automatically (OCR, ICR, Mark Recognition).

Redaction - This feature is just to eliminate certain information from a document image for security and legal purposes, or because a portion of the image is superfluous. This feature is used to black out (or white out) a character, word, paragraph or any designated area(s) on a form, for example the legal boilerplate on a shipping form.

Invert - Images scanned from microfilm result in white characters on a black background, and this function is used to change the image to normal, black characters on white background.

Mirror - If you're stuck with images that were accidentally scanned from the wrong side (microfilm for example), it is possible to mirror the image so that the characters appear normally.

"Workflow" refers to the order in which work will be done, where it will be done, who will do it, etc. Capture Workflow, that is, the workflow for a document capture solution, requires designing the workflow for all aspects of a capture solution, from preparing documents to scanning them, extracting data from them, and exporting them to a database for storage and future access.

BSCAN has several options for setting up custom capture workflow, including

Third-party scanners are scanners that are manufactured by third-party companies for use with software made by other companies. They use an open architecture, a standard computer connection, so other companies can easily sell software solutions that use their scanners.

The scanners that are used in the field of document capture are typically made for mid to high-volume use (ranging from 15 to 200 pager per minute scan rate), range from $1,500 to $80,000 in price, and produce document images at resolutions of 200 to 400 dots per inch. Some examples of scanner manufacturers include Kodak, Fujitsu, Panasonic, Ricoh, Canon, and Bell + Howell, all of whom produce a range of document scanner models targeted for various work loads.