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  • SKU: SCANFIX


ScanFix Xpress is delivered as a .NET and ActiveX/COM software development toolkit, offering bitonal document image enhancement technology.

ScanFix Xpress is designed to clean up bitonal, grayscale (8 bit) and color (24 bit) images, in preparation for capture processing or archive of image contents. You will be able to save development time using ScanFix Xpress with its easy to use cleanup operations that require less code to be written. Testing time to achieve improved images is reduced by decreasing the complexity of selecting the appropriate cleanup settings. It will let you lower document preparation time, create cleaner scanned images, reduce file sizes and improve OCR and ICR results.

Key Features:

  • Rotate document images to upright orientation.
  • Despeckle bitonal images.
  • Adjust brightness and contrast on color and grayscale images.
  • Remove hole punch marks on bitonal images.
  • Smooth backgrounds on color and grayscale images.
  • Correct inverse text i.e.white text on black background.

ScanFix Xpress benefits:

  • For developers: building archival systems or content management systems that need to produce cleaner images with less manual interventions during the capture process.
  • For organisations: building forms processing solutions or indexing solutions that need to improve their recognition accuracy.
  • For enterprises: building web services in the Cloud that are capturing a large number of images which cannot be manually processed.

ScanFix Xpress - Features

ScanFix 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 binarization, auto border crop, blank page detection, image registration, and rotate. ScanFix includes ImagXpress Professional.

Features

  • Programming environments: Win32 visual development environments
  • 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 Environment" white paper)
  • 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 colored backgrounds (gray, blue, etc.)
  • Reduce files sizes caused by additional pixels, without destroying text

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

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

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

Auto Inverse Text Correction

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

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 Binarize

  • Automatically convert grayscale and color images to black and white, and clean up noisy images
  • Optimize binarization results using the user configurable options

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

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

Reporting of Process Results

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

Additional Image Processing

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