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The Quickest, Most Reliable Way to Add Document Imaging Functions to Your Application!

    PixTools EZ DataSheet.pdf

Paper continues to be the mechanism that drives business. Transactions are based on paper contracts, purchase orders, packing lists, and invoices. Although electronic documents are growing in popularity because of the countless ways they make doing business more efficient, paper still predominates and inefficiencies persist.

Now paper documents can be easily managed just like electronic files-with document imaging systems. Having paper documents on computer offers many advantages...Quickly find all documents in one convenient place, a database, instead of filing cabinets. Track documents at any stage of processing-as they move from station to station, person to person. Plus, have multiple users at various office sites accessing documents simultaneously.

Start with PixTools/EZ: the quickest, most reliable way of adding fundamental document imaging functions to your application.

Paper documents can be easily managed just like electronic files—with document imaging systems. Having paper documents on computers offers many advantages...Quickly find all documents in one convenient place, a database, instead of filing cabinets. Track documents at any stage of processing— as they move from station to station, person to person. Plus, have multiple users at various office sites accessing documents simultaneously. Applications now require browser-based input as well as paper handling distributed throughout the corporate network. So, start with PixTools/EZ: the quickest, most reliable way of adding fundamental document imaging functions to your application.

PixTools/EZ: Superior Functionality, Ready to Integrate

PixTools/EZ offers scan, view, annotate, and print functions that are ready to add to your application, making it a great foundation for your user’s document imaging system.

All of these functions, although simple to integrate, offer broad capabilities. Take our PixTools/EZ scanner support; it goes far beyond any other provider’s, with support for over 300 scanners from market leaders like BancTec, Bell & Howell, Canon, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, Panasonic, Ricoh and others.

Join the Industry Leaders; Make a Solid Investment

The sole business of Pixel Translations is providing professional application developers with superior document imaging functionality. With reliable tools for quick integration, we aim to make your job easy.

You want proven tools you can trust; ones built on industry standards, like ISIS®; and ones that industry leaders rely on to build applications of commercial quality . . . You want PixTools/EZ, with core technology used in creating over 200 shipping products from Adobe, Caere (ScanSoft), FileNET, IBM, Lotus, Tower Technology, Xerox and others.

Scan

With Over 300 ISIS Certified Scanners
With PixTools/EZ, your application can interface transparently with over 300 different scanners from Bell & Howell, Canon, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, Panasonic, Ricoh, Visioneer, and many others—at full rated speeds. PixTools/EZ connects you to any ISIS® certified scanner, including flatbed, sheetfed, simplex, duplex, microfilm, book, or check scanners as well as multifunction devices. ISIS, or “Image and Scanner Interface Specification,” is a leading industry standard that was originally developed in 1990 by Pixel Translations’ scanning experts. Our deep understanding of ISIS is a competitive advantage; no other toolkit provider offers support for more scanners and scanning functions.

PixTools/EZ supports even the most advanced features of all 300+ ISIS certified scanning devices. Special features, like bar code reading for batch processing separation and endorsing for sequential numbering of scanned pages, can be easily controlled through software. Additional features like automatic thresholding, gamma correction, and special filters, are automatically supported when image processing cards are detected in a scanning device. PixTools/EZ scanning functions provide peak performance from every device.

Drive both SCSI and video scanners at or beyond rated speeds—up to 400+ images per minute! Add to this PixTools/EZ’s ScanAhead™ image caching, optimized compression and decompression algorithms, and real-time image rotation, and you have a powerful, high performance scanning solution!

View

With Optimal Speed and Clarity
Once scanned, you’ll want to see your ‘papers’ on screen as quickly as possible. That’s why PixTools/EZ offers exceptional display performance and functionality as well as multipage viewing and sorting. Fast Image Display Document images can be large, 50KB compressed and more than 1MB uncompressed. Superior in-memory image compression and decompression, automatic detection of display accelerators, and image caching and prefetching, ensure that images take less time to display and less space to store.

Exceptional Readability
ScaleToGray™ dramatically improves image quality. Using software or hardware to display image content in relative shades of gray, images are much easier to read.

Multipage Viewing and Sorting
Users working with multiple page documents must have the ability to easily move, insert, or delete pages. Implementing multipage document manipulation can be very complex and time-consuming, so PixTools/EZ includes preprogrammed modules for organizing pages.

Store documents in a single multipage file or multiple single-page files. It’s all transparent to your users. What they see is an intuitive tree view with miniature (thumbnail) images of each page in the document. Inserting, deleting, and moving pages is as simple as using the same select, drag and drop standard familiar to every Windows user. Behind the scenes, PixTools/EZ automatically detects standard file naming schemes (e.g., PAGE001.TIF, PAGE002.TIF, …,PAGE100.TIF) and reorders, renames, and displays the files correctly according to your user’s actions.

Annotate

Text, Highlight, Redaction and More! Optimal document imaging provides for the most clear means of communication—a means to emphasize what’s important and deemphasize what’s not. Users can do just that, using the annotations in PixTools/EZ.

Annotations are text, graphic or color additions made to a document image. All annotations can be saved to TIFF tags or to separate files, or made permanent using the “Merge with Image” function.

PixTools/EZ also supports Wang-annotated TIFF files, so your product can read and write annotations created with products from Eastman Software.

To draw attention to words or sections, Highlight them; put a Box around them; and add Pointers (arrows) or Text. For longer text annotations, use a Sticky Note, which is a pop up text container represented by a small icon. Use a Custom Stamp (or bitmap graphic), like “Rush”, to draw attention to the whole document. And for further emphasis, color your annotations—using any available color from your Windows palette.

To make corrections, circle or cross out areas using the Freehand Line; strike out text with the Pointer Line (minus the arrowheads); or black out words or sections using Redact.

Why Professional Developers Choose PixTools/EZ!

The reason so many industry leaders choose PixTools/EZ is because our number one goal is to make professional developers, like you, successful! We do this by offering superior document imaging functionality that you can implement into your application quickly and easily.

We Mean “Quick”
The faster you bring your product to market, the sooner you’ll enjoy success. That’s why we offer the following to ensure faster development:

• Working sample applications demonstrating key toolkit features.
• “How To” tutorial to build a simple imaging application—in just 30 minutes!
• Context-sensitive on-line help and complete documentation.
• Select, drag, drop, and enable methodology made available through ActiveX/OCX.
• Pre-built dialog boxes.
• Simple, versatile Meta-Controls™: one control bar icon represents a group of related imaging functions which you can choose from when configuring a control. Imagine configuring one control, like ViewSettings, 38 different ways...One click makes the control a ScaleToGray check box, another a Contrast scroll bar, another a Rotation dropdown list box, and so on.

All PixTools/EZ controls automatically interact with each other, instantly updating the display to reflect the current state of the image. This means that controls dim themselves when inactive, and list boxes only display valid choices. You get all of this without writing a single line of code.

We Mean “Easy!”
All the features of PixTools/EZ that make development quick, make it easy. And because our tools prove reliable, we mean easy to the finish. Fast and easy only count when you have the flexibility and support to develop the application you envision. That’s why PixTools/EZ offers over 260 properties, methods, and events.

For additional flexibility, PixTools/EZ’s support for ActiveX/OCX makes it easy to work with other toolkits, including third-party ISIS Pipes supporters. Pixel Translations would like you to think of us as an extension of your engineering department. So if questions arise, you’ll find responsive support is only a call away.

ISIS PIPES - Component Imaging
Using ISIS Pipes connectors, you can easily integrate compatible toolkits from other technology vendors that comply with the Image and Scanner Interface Specification (ISIS) standard. Use the technology you need from the provider you choose. ISIS technology is embodied in the AIIM MS61 specification since 1996. ISIS is a defacto document imaging standard. Pixel Translations originally developed the specification for ISIS in 1990 because we believe that open industry standards lead to freedom to choose what’s best for customers in their ever-changing environment. In creating ISIS Pipes, we continue to build on the cooperation that began with the ISIS standard and the ActionPoint (InputAccel®) open client architecture.

PixTools/EZ FEATURE LIST

Scan

• Full-speed and full-featured support for more than 300 ISIS certified scanners from: Bell & Howell, Canon, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, Panasonic, Ricoh, Visioneer, and many others. Supports PixTWAIN™ for low-end desktop scanners that do not have ISIS drivers.
• Drivers available for SCSI, serial video, parallel, serial, and proprietary scanner interfaces from companies such as Kofax, Seaport, Xionics, and Dunord.
• Scanning from flatbed or automatic document feeder devices.
• Simplex (single-sided) and duplex (double-sided) scanning support.
• Turnover-mode scanning to correctly scan double-sided stacks of pages on a simplex scanner.
• Different settings on duplex scanners for front/back sides of page.
• Support for transparency, microfilm, and check scanners, and multifunction devices.
• Full support of standard data types, image compression, color depths, and dither patterns.
• All available scanning resolutions supported.
• Save settings and parameters specified in Scan dialog(s).
• Automatically generated filenames with user-definable naming schemes, for auto batch scanning.
• Batch scanning support for job separators.
• Complete support of other scanner functionality through dialogs that are built into ISIS Drivers.
• MultiStream™ support; handles color and bitonal images produced at Scan time

High Performance Scan Features

• ScanAhead™ enables the scanner to keep scanning even if the application isn’t ready for the image data. Image data remains in the pipeline until the application requests it.
• Scan-and-rotate. Scan letter-sized pages sideways and get faster throughput! PixTools/EZ correctly orients the image as it is received. With fewer linear inches, landscape pages scan faster!

Special Enhancement Support

• Bell & Howell ACE levels 3 and 5.
• Fujitsu Image Processing.
• Hardware bar code detection.
• Document endorsing.

Annotate

• Multi-colored Highlight.
• Redact (rectangle with solid fill).
• Box (rectangle with no fill).
• Text and Sticky Notes (pop up container for longer text annotations, represented by icon).
• Custom Stamp (bitmap graphic).
• Freehand Line.
• Pointer Line (line or arrow).
• Make annotations, like redact, permanent or save to separate files.
• Wang annotations support for TIFF files

System Requirements:

• Intel Pentium (or higher) microprocessor, or 100% compatible.
• Windows 98, Me, 2000 or Windows NT 4.0
• Visual Basic 5.0 or higher.
• 32MB of RAM, 50MB of free disk space.

View & Print

• High speed image display.
• Caching and prefetching of images. Background pre-rotation and decompression.
• High-speed image scaling and rotation.
• Color and grayscale support, and color depth reduction through dithering or grayscale display.
• Settings variations: apply settings to current page or all pages of a document.
• Multipage document: support for multiple single-page files or multipage files.
• Tree view of multipage documents: move, insert, and delete pages represented by thumbnails.
• Definable mouse actions for zoom, pan, rotate, define regions, and switch to thumbnail view.
• Independent red, green, and blue (RGB) color channel brightness and contrast controls.
• Print scaling allows images to be printed actual size, pixel-for-pixel, or fit-to-page.

Additional Features

• Over 260 properties, methods, and events for excellent flexibility.
• Built in support for most popular image file and compression formats, with very fast compression and decompression: BMP, CAL (CALS), DCX (FAX), JBIG, JPEG, MO:DCA (IBM), PCX, PDA (Calera), Image-only PDF (Adobe Portable Document), Plexus TIFF, TIFF, and others.
• Ability to open multiple file types as one document.
• Open Internet files with or without browser. HTTP:// and FTP:// protocol support in I/O routines.
• Long filename support.