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ScanFix Xpress .NET by Accusoft (formerly Pegasus Imaging Corp.)

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Scanned image cleanup SDK. ScanFix Xpress .NET improves image quality and increases content recognition accuracy by applying image processing and enhancements to color, grayscale, and black and white images. ScanFix Xpress provides brightness/contrast correction, clean up of noisy colors, color detection, color drop out or color extract, plus many additional image cleanup features. Remove lines and dot shading, smooth and repair characters, and eliminate unnecessary borders. An Auto Binarize operation easily converts images from color or grayscale to black and white. ScanFix Xpress includes the ImagXpress component, and integrates easily with other Accusoft Pegasus components to create document capture systems.

ScanFix Xpress Primary Features:

Fast and effective image cleanup on bitonal, grayscale, and color images.

Color detection, brightness/contrast adjustment, color drop, noise reduction, and various filters applied to 24-bit and 8-bit images.

Deskew, auto-negate, auto-border crop, image registration, blank page and blank rectangle detection, flip, dilate, erode, mirror, rescale, rotate, and shear applied to 1-bit, 8-bit and 24-bit images.

Despeckle, line removal, blob and hole removal, dot shading removal, correction of inverse text, and comb removal applied to 1-bit images.

Confidence reporting on clean up results.

Save batch processing instructions to support application workflow among other components including FormFix, FormDirector, SmartZone, and Barcode Xpress components.

Seamlessly integrate with other Accusoft Pegasus components, including ImagXpress, Notate Xpress, TwainPRO, PrintPRO, ImageGear and others.

Improve content recognition accuracy

Create smaller compressed files

When standard enhancement and cleanup aren't enough, and your scanned documents seem beyond repair, ScanFix Xpress is the SDK for the job. Building on Accusoft's 20 years of image enhancement patents, research, and development, ScanFix Xpress SDK delivers industry-leading color, grayscale, and bitonal image cleanup, and boasts a collection of image enhancement options.

Using the cleanup and enhancement features that ScanFix Xpress has to offer, you can easily improve the results of your scanned images, reduce file sizes, and prepare your images for further processing, such as OCR.

Color Deskew and Crop

Color Detect with Automatic Binarization

Color Drop

Image Detergent

Image Filters

Noise Removal and Character Smoothing

Dot Shading Removal

and more

.NET Technical Notes

Programming environments include: Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008

Deployment environments include: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7; Server 2000 / 2003 / 2008

Sample code is included for:

VS 2005 (VB.NET and Visual C#)

VS 2008 (VB.NET and Visual C#)

AnyCPU deployment supports 64-bit and 32-bit Windows applications

Deploys within .NET as a managed control and is fully compliant with .NET Framework 2.0 and above

Can be used in multi-threaded applications

Confidence values available for many cleanup operations

Includes 6 controls: ScanFix Xpress v6, ImagXpress Professional v10, NotateXpress v10, ThumbnailXpress v3, TwainPRO v6, and PrintPRO v5

Color Detect & Auto Binarize

Color Detect:

Allows for mixed document color scanning applications containing both color and black and white documents

Analyzes 24-bit images looking for significant amounts of saturated color data

Recommends if color images can safely be converted to bitonal

Auto Binarize:

Provides improved automatic conversion of 8-bit and 24-bit grayscale and color images to black and white

Automatic mode analyzes images to determine best binarization methods and settings

Offers user-configurable options to fine tune results

Color Removal

Color Drop:

Locates specified RGB colors in 24-bit images and drops those colors to white or a specified color

Identifies pixels to change based on proximity to user-specified color values

Provides very precise control over color manipulation

Supports color conversion and color blending to target color

Virtual Bulb ®:

Performs software-based HSV color dropout on 24-bit images, emulating a hardware-based dropout scanner through much more powerful and flexible technology

Allows multiple hues and ranges within hues to be dropped to white and adjacent colors to fade into shades of gray

Compensates for variations in color saturation and brightness caused by printing environments

Image Detergent ® & Filters

Image Detergent:

Cleans up noise and variations in specified colors in 24-bit color images

Flattens each color region to a specified color by adjusting each color region to its center point

Offers an automatic mode to clean dominant colors or can specify color list

Removes JPEG compression artifacts commonly found around characters in scanned color documents

Allows multiple colors to be adjusted without increasing processing time

Removes JPEG compression artifacts commonly found around characters in scanned color documents

Filters:

Applies various filter operations to 8-bit and 24-bit images

Offers a variety of options including smoothing filters (Gaussian, median, average), sharpening filters (unsharp mask), morphological filters (dilate, erode, open, close), edge detection filters (Laplacian, Prewitt), and provision for user defined convolution filters

Page Enhancement

Color Deskew:

Automatically straightens crooked 1, 8, and 24-bit images

Reports correction angle in a fraction of a second, based on image contents, not document perimeter or border

Offers user configurable High Quality vs. High Speed setting

Auto Border Crop:

Automatically converts dark borders to white or removes border completely on 1, 8, and 24-bit images

Reduces image file size (physical dimensions and compressed file size)

Automates border crop (user configurable to report or automatically correct)

Use on microfilm/microfiche scans or small document images

Blank Page / Blank Rectangle Detection:

Identifies and reports blank pages, or blank areas of interest, on 1, 8, and 24-bit images

Configures settings to accommodate bleed-through or noisy images (i.e. ignore hole punches)

Increases storage capacity by eliminating blank pages

Image Registration:

Registers the image "contents" to be a specified distance from the top and/or left side of the page

Applies to 1, 8, and 24-bit images

Use with zonal recognition to establish the position of the text

Character Enhancement

Character Completion & Smoothing:

Repairs, smoothes, and thickens incomplete characters on 1-bit images

Performs well on poor dot matrix text

Smoothes ragged edges on letters

Dilate and Erode:

Thickens or thins objects in 1, 8, and 24-bit images

Apply horizontal, vertical, or diagonal adjustments

Increases recognition accuracy in lightly printed or very thick text

Hole Punch & Line Removal

Hole Punch & Blob Removal:

Removes hole punches and larger areas of black on 1-bit images

Enables user configurable threshold settings

Line Removal:

Automatically removes solid or broken lines (horizontal and vertical) from scanned forms and documents on 1-bit images

Automatically repairs text that intersects with lines (fill broken characters), essential for accurate OCR / ICR and forms processing

Comb Removal (commonly used in ICR forms):

Automatically removes data entry combs from forms in 1-bit images

Automatically repairs text that intersects with lines (fill broken characters), essential for accurate ICR

Background Cleanup

Noise Removal:

Removes random specks or noise on 1-bit images

Performs speck removal based on user-specified speck size

Dot Shading Removal:

Automatically removes dot shading for improved OCR accuracy on 1-bit images

Removes scanner noise caused by colored backgrounds

Significantly reduces compressed file sizes without destroying text

Text Correction

Auto Inverse Text Correction:

Detects and automatically converts inverted text zones on 1-bit images

Changes white-on-black text to normal black-on-white

Auto Negate:

Analyzes 1, 8, and 24 bit images to determine if they are inverted (light text on dark background, dark text on light background)

Offers automated correction to reverse colors, if needed (user configurable to report or automatically correct)

Adjust Brightness & Contrast

Analyzes and corrects the brightness and contrast of 8-bit grayscale and 24-bit color document

Corrects the image using either a globally applied brightness remapping or adaptive remapping

Additional Image Processing

Performs Flip, Mirror, Rescale, Rotate, and Shear on 1, 8, and 24-bit images

Offers Smooth-Zoom to double the width and height of a 1-bit image and smooth objects for better recognition (ideal for improving barcode and OCR results)

Sub-Image Processing

Applies to 1, 8, and 24-bit images

Separates out an area, from the original document image, prior to image processing

Speeds up processing and outputs only the smaller area of interest

ScanFix Xpress includes the following components:

ScanFix Xpress for image cleanup

ImagXpress for image compression/decompression and display

NotateXpress for adding image annotations

PrintPRO for printing

ThumbnailXpress to view thumbnail images

TwainPRO to acquire images from TWAIN devices

What's new in ScanFix Xpress Version 6

Automatic Color Detection - analyzes image content then recommends if images should remain color or can safely be converted to bitonal

Automatic Binarization - greatly improved for color and grayscale images

Brightness and Contrast Adjustment - on color and grayscale images

Color Drop - to remove specified colors from an image

Image Detergent - reduces color noise and variation - great for removing JPEG compression artifacts around characters

Virtual Bulb - emulates a color dropout scanner

Deskew, Border Removal, Blank Page/Rectangle Detection, Dilate/Erode, and more - now available for color and grayscale images

64-bit (AnyCPU) Support for .NET - Build applications targeting both 64-bit and 32-bit Windows .NET architectures

Scanned image cleanup SDK.

Pricing: ScanFix Xpress .NET V6.0 1 Developer License, ScanFix Xpress .NET V6.0 Deployment Licensing(A minimum of 5 client licenses is required for first time purchases) 1 Client Runtime License, price per client (5 to 9) (minimum quantity 5), ScanFix Xpress .NET V6.0 Deployment Licensing(A minimum of 5 client licenses is required for first time purchases) 1 Client Runtime License, price per client (10 to 24) (minimum quantity 10), ScanFix Xpress .NET V6.0 Deployment Licensing(A minimum of 5 client licenses is required for first time purchases) 1 Client Runtime License, price per client (25 to 49) (minimum quantity 25), ScanFix Xpress .NET V6.0 Deployment Licensing(Servers are licensed per core, annually. Minimum 2 core per server.) 1 Server (CPU) Deployment License (Minimum quantity 2 per server)

Evals & Downloads: Read the ScanFix Xpress .NET help file, Read the Accusoft End User License Agreement, Download the ScanFix Xpress V6.0 .NETevaluation on to your computer - Expires after 30 days

Operating System for Deployment: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51

Architecture of Product: 32Bit, 64Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: .NET WinForms, .NET Class, .NET WF

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual Basic 2008, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET, Microsoft Visual C# 2008, Microsoft Visual C# 2005, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, Microsoft Access 2003, Microsoft Access 2002, Microsoft Access 2000, Watcom C/C++, .NET Framework 3.5, .NET Framework 3.0, .NET Framework 2.0

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Part numbers: PC-516269-282815 516269-282815 PC-516269-282817 516269-282817 PC-516269-282818 516269-282818 PC-516269-282819 516269-282819 PC-516269-282820 516269-282820