Technical Specifications

PaperFlow facilitates high-volume scanning and indexing and interfaces with hundreds of desktop and production-level scanners to create a departmental or corporate-wide solution. As an optional, separately licensed product, it works as a standalone system, as an integrated part of PaperVision^® Enterprise or ImageSilo^SM or with a wide variety of other document management systems.

System Overview

• Scan to any media, on any network configuration, providing full storage and network independence
• Simple point-and-click interface requires minimal training
• Simple navigation, scaling, searching and rotation options for accurate and detailed image verification
• Extensive use of keyboard shortcuts greatly improves operator productivity
• Barcode and zonal OCR automate indexing, eliminating the need for manual data entry
• Powerful scanning options allow you to define automatic page dropout, rotation and document breaks
• Efficient index manager reduces keystrokes and errors
• Multiple indexes can reference a single image
• Effortlessly merge multiple documents into a single document
• Image cleanup operations, including line and noise removal, de-skew, border removal and character enhancement, ensure the best quality image
• Optional QCFlow™ ensures the highest quality of scanned documents
• Optional OCRFlow™ enables full-page OCR processing of scanned documents
• All upgrades are included with annual maintenance, ensuring access to the latest product features and benefits
• Toll free, legendary technical support is eager to assist with any questions you may have

Security

• User login is required and protects the system from unauthorized use
• User- and group-level security limit access to system functionality and control user activity
• The system verifies user rights to ensure access is provided only to authorized users
• Only system administrators can alter security settings, enhancing security and accountability

Scalability and Reliability

• Support for over 300 scanners running at their full-rated speeds
• Centralized project setup and security eases administrative overhead
• Unlimited clients, projects and images can be handled from a single station
• Extensive configuration options allow you to tailor the system to fit your scanning needs
• Powerful automation engine performs routine operations during off-peak hours
• Built-in FTP engine provides for distributed scanning environments
• Detailed production reports keep track of productivity
• Detailed summary reports provide general billing statements

Integration

• Direct integration with PaperVision^® Enterprise and ImageSilo^SM eliminates the headaches of implementing a multi-vendor solution
• Import existing images from archives or from other applications with or without existing index information
• “Match and merge” function automatically populates index fields with data from existing databases
• Customized exports to over 100 different document management and imaging systems

System Requirements

• Microsoft^® Windows^® 98 or higher, excluding Windows Vista x64
• Available memory as specified by operating system manufacturer
• 145MB available disk space for installation of program files

Technical Specifications

System Overview

• Direct integration with PaperFlow ensures the highest quality of scanned documents
• Access multiple data sets from one station to improve productivity
• Easy-to-read, comprehensive user manuals include step-by-step instructions to get you started quickly
• As with all Digitech Systems products, initial annual support and maintenance are included, lowering your cost of ownership
• All upgrades are included with annual maintenance, ensuring access to the latest product features and benefits
• Toll free, legendary technical support is eager to assist with any questions you may have

Administration

• Integrated security with PaperFlow eases administrative overhead
• Simple point-and-click interface requires minimal training
• Maps directly to active PaperFlow data groups to provide seamless integration
• Extensive use of keyboard shortcuts greatly improves operator productivity
• Support for command-line operations provides integration with external processes

Automated Operation

• Completely automated “lights-out” processing of image validation
• Systematically reviews image file sizes and tags documents that fall outside of user-defined parameters
• Examines document page counts to ensure that all relevant data has been captured
• Verifies that image dimensions are accurate to catch double-feeds

Index Quality Control

• Checks for indexing errors and flags values that do not meet predefined criteria
• Checks numeric sequence to ensure that all documents in a series are present; useful for check scanning and more
• Inserts or removes leading zeros to automate proper formatting of barcode-read or manually indexed values
• Strips leading or trailing characters to easily remove superfluous index data
• Easily finds index discrepancies from a simple, integrated search interface

Manual Image Quality Control

• Thumbnail and full image views allow you to easily toggle multiple images and detailed view of a single image
• Easily navigate across thousands of documents in full-page or thumbnail modes
• Easy-to-identify, color-coded denotation of corrupt or missing images
• Automates image viewing process to display a user-defined number of images within a user-defined time frame
• Easily zooms, rotates and scales images to display detail of your scanned page
• Inserts and removes document breaks quickly and effortlessly
• Moves pages quickly from one document to another
• Tags pages and documents with user-defined tags to notify PaperFlow users of actions required

System Component Requirements

• Microsoft^® Windows^® 98/2000/ME/XP or Windows NT^® 4.0 (SP3) or higher
• 64MB Memory
• 40MB available disk space for installation of program files
• VGA or higher resolution monitor
• CD-ROM Drive

Technical Specifications

System Overview

• Direct integration with PaperFlow™ ensures full-text processing of scanned documents
• Integrated quality control engine ensures conversion accuracy
• Access multiple data sets from one station to improve productivity
• Easy-to-read, comprehensive user manuals include step-by-step instructions to get you started quickly
• As with all Digitech Systems products, initial annual support and maintenance are included, lowering your cost of ownership
• All upgrades are included with annual maintenance, ensuring access to the latest product features and benefits
• Toll free, legendary technical support is eager to assist with any questions you may have

Administration

• Integrated security with PaperFlow eases administrative overhead
• Simple point-and-click interface requires minimal training
• Maps directly to active PaperFlow data groups to provide seamless integration
• Support for command-line operations provides integration with external processes

Automated Processing

• Recognize all documents in a "lights-out," automated process
• Automatically determines and maps text, graphics and tables and retains overall document layout for output
• Full-text processing of all text and tables ensures accurate translation of source documents
• Automated output processing maximizes efficiency without increasing labor costs
• Activity logs track job start and end times, errors that may occur during processing and job status

Quality Control (QC)

• Completely integrated quality control process allows verification of recognized data
• View original image and recognized text at the same time, simplifying verification
• Alter recognized text “on-the-fly” for quick corrections and greater accuracy
• Highlights suspect words and characters to draw user's eye to potential changes that must be made
• Easily zoom-in on processed image section to focus on suspect words
• Image section also receives highlights as user makes changes on recognized text to simplify consistency
• Easily navigate between documents and pages without taking your fingers off the keyboard

System Output

• Native output to PaperVision^® Enterprise significantly reduces costs associated with manual indexing
• Integrated outputs to over 35 external file formats, including ASCII, HTML, Rich Text, Microsoft^® Word and Excel,
  and Adobe^® PDF
• Full array of output options for external file formats allows you to "fine-tune" the resulting documents
• Output only QC'ed documents or all documents to ensure only completely processed documents are delivered
• Output single- or multi-page documents, depending on preference for delivery
• Easily define output file name schema for simple file organization

System Component Requirements

• Microsoft^® Windows^® 98/2000/ME/XP or Windows NT^® 4.0 (SP3) or higher
• 64MB Memory
• 65MB available disk space for installation of program files
• VGA or higher resolution monitor
• CD-ROM Drive

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