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Features

- Document Capture and Pre-processing
- Sorting
- Indexing
- Quality Control and Validation
- Recognition (OCR), Document Creation and Compression
- Export Connectors
- Installation and Integration
- Support & Webinars
- System Requirements

Document Capture and Pre-processing

Scanning

- Scanners
Scan your documents at the highest speeds (up to 200 pages per minute) using a wide range of scanners of all brands. IRISPowerscan™ supports natively TWAIN, TWAIN-VRS and ISIS-VRS. ISIS support is available as an Add-On

- Multi-stream support
IRISPowerscan™ is able to scan and handle multi-stream images, that is a batch of documents, front and rear, scanned simultaneously in color, in grayscale and black & white.

- Multi-mode scanning
Append, rescan, attach and insert.

Import files

IRISPowerscan™ can process any kind of images already scanned and archived in your system. Simply import a batch of scanned documents and process them according to your needs.

Pre-processing

- Automatic pre-processing of the scanned images
Features such as automatic on-the-fly deskew, despeckle (removes noise), cropping/overcropping (eliminates black borders), rotation (supports landscape scanning) and blank page detection and deletion (reduces need to pre-sort) let you scan documents without worries.

- Image adjustment
Adjust images of a complete batch of documents without having to scan them again. You can do some digital rethresholding, rebinarization, rescanning, etc.

- Image manipulation
Merge front and rear of documents into a single image. You can also split front and rear of very long documents into smaller images (i.g. each side of an A3 document into two A4 documents).

- Booklet management and sorting
Imagine a booklet with 2 A3 sheets folded in 2 and stapled together. If you unstaple it and scan it, all the pages are in disorder. The Booklet feature of IRISPowerscan™ will re-order the documents for you.

- Binarization
Extremely fast binarization of color images. Scan all documents in color and create binarized images that can be improved with contrast, brightness, smoothening and despeckle features.

- Complete support of Kofax VRS™ (Virtual ReScan)

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Sorting

- Automatic identification of the document type
  • Documents can be identified according to barcode values or OCR/ICR zones.
  • Thanks to the IRISFingerprint™ Document Identification Technology (Add-on) scan documents and define their images as types of documents so that every incoming document with a similar layout will be identified and sorted automatically. IRISFingerprint™ is extremely fast and easy to set up. Just imagine: no OCR, no Barcodes, no Patch Codes, no separators!

- On-line separation of documents
Automatic batch and document separation input from barcodes, patch codes, OCR/ICR zone, blank pages, page counts and layout identification.

- On-line intelligent sorting of documents
Automatic batch and document sorting from barcodes, patch codes, OCR/ICR zone and layout identification.

- Powerful barcode recognition
Front and rear barcode recognition: IRISPowerscan™ recognizes more than 20 types of barcodes including the PDF 417 high density barcode and the QR two-dimensional barcode.

- Banking Fonts OCR
Enjoy powerful banking fonts recognition: OCR-A1 Alphanumeric, OCR-A1 Eurobanking, OCR-A1 Numeric, OCR-B1 Alphanumeric, OCR-B1 Eurobanking, OCR-B1 Numeric, E-13B Optical and CMC7.

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Indexing

- On-line indexing at batch or document level
While scanning you can automatically index files at batch or document level from OCR/ICR zones, ICR zones, barcodes, MICR codes and patch codes.

- Indexing options
You can set special default values formulas, split barcode values over several fields or validate indexing through masks and checking digit exits (invalid values will be highlighted in red).

- Specific indexation settings for each type of document
With this particular feature, documents can be indexed and processed differently according to their type.

- Manual Indexing
Indexing has been made very fast and easy: you no longer need to key in the data thanks to the drag-and-drop OCR feature, combo lists and last value indexing.

- Document renaming
Several options are available for naming the output files: OCR/ICR zones, barcodes or a fixed string with an incremental counter can be used to rename your files.

- Document numbering
Continuous incrementing of document numbers across batches and incrementing of image numbers across documents.

- Data Link
Any indexing value can be retrieved and/or validated through an ODBC Data Source.

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Quality Control and Validation

- Multi-image display
With IRISPowerscan™ you can quickly and easily verify scanned documents by displaying on your screen more than 8 images at a time. You can also enjoy valuable features such as multi-criteria filtering, dynamic zooming, dynamic filter and a slider to navigate through a batch of documents.

- Treeview
Navigate easily among batches, documents and pages thanks to the treeview. It also allows you to cut, copy, paste and drag-and-drop any objects (batch, document, page).

- Editing tools
The user-friendly interface of IRISPowerscan™ lets you easily rescan, rotate, reorder and delete pages.

- Post-scanning features
Easily split and merge documents or batches and modify the position of pages across documents or documents across batches with a simple drag-and-drop.

- Workspaces
Define workspaces by customizing your own interface (panes, toolbars, etc.) according to your specific needs and the user privileges you want to grant.

- Multi-criteria filtering
Select only white pages.

- Drag-and-drop OCR, ICR, barcode
Data can be captured from any page of documents using the drag-and-drop OCR tool. Simply select the text on the image and the information will be automatically captured.

- Security
Easily and quickly define user groups with different working rights for each project and allow access or not to certain features.

- Application Programming Interface
IRISPowerscan™ is an open application thanks to the possibility to use numerous APIs: Export connector API, Extended Connector API, Indexing API, Event Handler API, etc.
The Indexing API is used to define new formats for indexing fields and new validation/evaluation rules.
The Event Handler API can be used by an external application to interact with the general workflow of IRISPowerscan™.

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Recognition (OCR), Document Creation and Compression

Recognition (OCR)

- Recognition engine and full page OCR
IRISPowerscan™ includes IRISDocument™ to bring you the latest recognition engine and formatting technology. The page analysis is done on the color image, resulting in better zone segmentation. This new engine also recognizes the color of the text and keeps it in the output file.

- More than 137 languages supported
All European languages are supported, including Central-European, Baltic, Greek and Cyrillic ('Russian') languages. An Asian Add-on module is available for the recognition of 4 Asian languages: Japanese, Korean, Traditional and Simplified Chinese. Hebrew and Arabic add-on modules are also available.

- Multilingual recognition
IRISDocument™ (embedded in IRISPowerscan™) recognizes up to 5 languages on the same document, even with mixed alphabets.

- Partial recognition of a batch of documents
Choose the pages of a document to be OCRed and keep the rest of the document as an image file. This will speed up the process and reduce the amount of data stored.

- OCR accuracy report
OCR accuracy report provides a graphical view of the OCR accuracy results on your documents. With this new tool you can compare the quality of the OCR process done with different settings to define the parameters you need to get the best OCR results on your documents.

Output Formats

- Multiple output formats
Generate several output files with different file formats in one single process and from one image file.

- Wide number of file output formats
The following output formats are available:

>> PDF (4 different file modes: Image, Image-Text, Text, Text-Image, with many options: PDF/A compliance for long-term archiving, certification, encryption)
>> PDF with iHQC™ hyper-compression (3 different compression levels, many options: PDF/A compliance, certification, encryption)
>> XPS (4 different file modes: Image, Image-Text, Text, Text-Image)
>> XPS with iHQC™ hyper-compression (3 different compression levels, many options)
>> Common file formats such as TXT, RTF, DOC, OpenDocument text, HTML, XML, WordML, SpreadsheetML
>> Image file formats such as TIFF (single or multi-page), BMP, JPEG, JPEG2000 or PDF image (with possible iHQC™ hyper-compression)

- Other available output formats
>> PDF/A 1b: Stricter than a regular PDF, this is the ideal PDF format for long-term archiving. (NB: PDF/A is not available when an Asian language is selected)
>> PDF Security Method: Create protected PDF files that require a password to be displayed, modified, printed etc.
>> OpenDocument Text (*odt): OpenDocument Text is a fully-documented open format based on XML. It can be read into OpenOffice and StarOffice.



- XML output
There are two types of XML files: compact and detailed. Compact files contain input and output file paths, barcode content (if any) and text content. Detailed files contain, for each character, its coordinates as well as its confidence level.

- Formatting options
Many reformatting parameters are available to respond to the most common needs. E.g. Word and RTF output files: “retain color of text”, “retain color of background”, “keep paper size”, etc.

- Standard Image compression
Modify JPEG compression rate and image resolution when generating PDF files (with or without text files) and highly compress all your images with JPEG2000 technology.

- Image output
Save the processed document in different image file formats: TIFF (also Multi-page TIFF), JPEG, BMP or image PDF (including PDF iHQC™).

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Hyper-compression technology

iHQC™ (intelligent High Quality Compression) is the hyper-compression technology from I.R.I.S. This feature dramatically reduces the size of your color or black & white PDF or XPS without compromising the color quality of the images and the legibility of your document. You will get a better quality than in JPEG2000 with a much smaller file.

iHQC™ offers several levels of compression. IRISPowerscan™ 9 comes standard with the basic level, for unlimited volumes of documents.

The following table illustrates the compression capability of iHQC™ on a variety of color images of different kinds. Two settings are proposed to optimize the picture quality (Best Quality) or the file size (Best Size):

Images

Uncompressed

JPEG Compressed
TIFF Black & White Group 4
PDF - IHQC Best Size
(Image+Text)
PDF - IHQC Best Quality
(Image+Text)

 

Kbytes

Kbytes

compression

Kbytes

compression
Kbytes
compression
Kbytes
compression

byte_a

19,978

1,445

14

119

168
350
232
sojournc_son
19,158
23
211
325
218

eos03noise

33,836

1,024

33

89

380
583
338

fnac01

7,795

474

16

30

260 
312
223
lion_a

8,196

759

11

35

234
273
186
park_a

4,303

436

10

30

143
172
134
scenic_b

13,540

619

22

76

178
315
222
time_france

19,429

904

21

106

183
341
243
invoiceTDI

26,092

1,259

21

29

900
502
307

This table is showing that iHQC allows to generate fully-searchable PDF files (containing both the color image and the full-text index) that are more than 200 times smaller than the original color image and smaller than the black & white Tiff Group 4 image (which doesn’t contain the full-text index).

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Export Connectors

- Export to Document Management Systems
Export files as well as the freshly created indexes into Document Management Systems such as Microsoft SharePoint

- New SharePoint connector
Export documents and their indexes directly into SharePoint and, based on their type, automatically to the right document libraries.

- Application Programming Interface (API)
Any API and those developed for Kodak Capture Software 6.0 that support the sorting of document types are compatible.

- Image output
Save the processed document in different image file formats: TIFF (also Multi-page TIFF), JPEG, BMP or image PDF (including iHQC™ compression).

- IRISDocument™ Export Connectors
The full standard features of the IRISDocument™ Export Connectors are also included in IRISPowerscan™.

- IRISCapture Pro
IRISPowerscan™ can be easily integrated with the IRISCapture™ Pro software suite, I.R.I.S.’ professional solution to sort, index, encode and export all the data of scanned documents.

- New background processing
Use IRISPowerscan™ 9 as a Windows Service! You will no longer have to wait for your Export Connectors to stop processing before scanning again

- Create connectors to your own application
On top of the available SharePoint connector (Add-on) and the available Connectors, you can develop your own thanks to the onboard API (available in C++ and .NET) to integrate IRISPowerscan™ seamlessly into your own system, so you can send searchable, compressed documents to your pre-existing applications. Programming resources are available at I.R.I.S. if needed.

- Event Handler SDK
Add your own code within the workflow of IRISPowerscan™ through the available APIs (C++ or .NET). Now you can create your dll and call it from IRISPowerscan™. Capture events such as the Batch creation, Batch updating… document events, image events, process events, scanner events, login… Act on those events with a list of Actions, and access the batch data and possibly modify it, etc…

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Installation and Integration

Easy to Install

IRISPowerscan™ software and its software options are delivered on an auto-running CD-ROM, in combination with a dongle. Simply run the installation process and you are done! Installing IRISPowerscan™ is as easy as any classic software. It does not require any technical knowledge.

- Custom installation
You can easily customize the installation by putting in your set of pre-configured projects, your Export Connectors, Event Handlers… For example, make one CD with everything pre-configured, and use it to make the installation on all your machines, thus eliminating the need to reconfigure all the PCs!

- Multi-user centralized configuration management (Add-on)
Export configurations, projects, images… Both the IRISPowerscan™ Settings and Data can be saved in a central network location. A manual or automatic push/pull system synchronizes the IRISPowerscan™ data and settings (project setup, security and scanner settings)

- LDAP user authentication through Active directory
IRISPowerscan™ is a multi-user application and therefore has the notion of Users and Roles. This information can be stored on your Active Directory and accessed by IRISPowerscan™. This makes for much easier centralized security management. Two solutions are available: Automatic login using the Windows User Credentials and Semi-automatic login where the Windows User Credentials are prefilled in the login window.

Easy to Use

A detailed user guide is provided IRISPowerscan™ to help you get started. It is very easy to set up and use after a few minutes, you will be ready to launch your first batches! For advanced features, we organize webinars with product specialists. These webinars will help you get the most from your product.

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Support & Webinars

Technical Support

Our technical support team is available worlwide for any trouble you may have to get started. For advanced features and advices, you may need to get registered to a webinar with ou product specialists.

Webinars

We organize webinars with product specialists to teach you everything you need to know to take the most of your IRISPowerscan™. These webinars can be attended by anyone, no matter where they are located!

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System Requirements

Recommended
- Intel™ Pentium™ or equivalent. Intel™ Pentium™ IV 2GHz or equivalent is recommended
- 512 MB RAM. 1 GB RAM is recommended
- 400 MB free disk space for the software, plus the space necessary for the image files
- Operating system: Windows™ Vista, Windows™ XP, Windows™ 2000


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