ScanFix Xpress [5.x]

• ScanFix Xpress [Client Runtime Licencing]
  
• ScanFix Xpress [Server Deployment Licencing]
  
• ScanFix Xpress [Single Developer Licence]
  

Image Input, Image Output, and Image Handling

• Now provided through the included ImagXpress Document v8 .NET component and ActiveX/COM control
• 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 Binarise

• 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

Image Registration

• Register the image “contents" to be a specified distance from the top and/or left side of the page (for example, specify to put the text ½ inch from the top and/or ½ inch from the left side of the image edge)
• Use with zonal recognition to establish the position of the text relative to the edge of the image, to establish the expected location of a zone

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

FormAssist Application with Source Code

• Quickly evaluate Pegasus Imaging’s forms processing technology, including:
• Form identification (FormFix)
• Form dropout (FormFix)
• Zonal OCR (SmartZone)
• OMR (FormFix)
• Image display/editing (ImagXpress)
• Image cleanup (ScanFix Xpress)

Improved Recognition Accuracy
Extensive ScanFix Xpress image cleanup capabilities improve OCR and OMR recognition accuracy by eliminating noise, removing background elements such as lines and combs, reconstructing character features, and reducing distortion. Optimizing cleanup functions to correct the many anomalies caused by FAXing or scanning can yield dramatic results. This reduces the number of exceptions needing human interpretation.

More Legible Documents
FAXed and scanned documents are often required for archive purposes and for human review. ScanFix Xpress can make documents much easier to read, improving the effectiveness of the people for whom they were originally created.

Automated Confidence Evaluation
Most ScanFix cleanup functions return confidence values. This allows your program to automatically determine how well each function performs, and whether to mark a document image for manual review.

Reduced File Sizes
Documents often require significantly less storage space after using ScanFix Xpress to clean them. For example, a compressed TIFF image file containing common dust specks can be two to three times larger than the same file after the noise has been removed using ScanFix Xpress.

Rapid Application Development
With ScanFix Xpress, you can instantly add comprehensive world-class image cleanup technology to your custom document processing applications. Save weeks or months of development and quality assurance effort by simply dropping in our superior technology. We also provide well-integrated toolkits to satisfy your forms processing, OCR, ICR, OMR, and other needs.

Standards-based Solutions
Through extensive testing, and because thousands of successful developers use Pegasus Imaging tools, you can rest assured that our products strictly adhere to the complex details of the specifications defining JPEG, TIFF, JPEG2000, TWAIN, and many other standards. You know that your applications will be compatible with other standards-based software.