December 1997

Technology
	Don't Let the Grinch Steal Your Christmas by Mike Gumaer	The holiday season is fast approaching. This means spending time with family and friends. It also means overeating and a massive increase in credit card fraud. Imaging can't prevent overindulgence, but it can reduce illegitimate transactions on your plastic money.
Law Enforcement
Imaging Helps Keep Crime Under Control by Mark Young	Police Departments use imaging to improve productivity. Reducing paperwork means more police on the streets. This cuts crime and improves safety.
Florida Links Law Departments Together	The Florida Department of Law Enforcement uses imaging to provide more than 600 government agencies instantaneous access to a person's prior convictions.
Middlesex County Uses Imaging to Track Criminals	Middlesex County Sheriff's Office puts imaging to work to identify physically altered inmates.
Atlanta Police Department Improves Public Access to Documents by Gordon Hoke	Imaging helps Atlanta Police Department organize incident and accident reports.
Hand Scanners
Handy Hand Scanners Make Imaging Your Own by Joni Blecher	Hand scanners have come a long way. They're no longer the cheap, dinky alternative to flatbed and sheetfed scanners. They work in multiple languages. They're handy for contact management and small scans. They're the first step to personal imaging.
Large Format Optical
Large Format Optical Saves Big Users Time and Money by Lowell Rappaport	Not many users need terabytes of data storage. Those people that do often encounter problems with other technologies. Large format optical systems offer a unique solution.
Enterprise Imaging Goes Global by Penny Lunt	Enterprise imaging software is running on more platforms than ever. Whether you're an MVS/ESA, Unix or NT organization, there's enterprise imaging software for you.
1997: The Year In Products
OCR/ICR
OCR Finally Gets the Recognition it Deserves by Lowell Rapaport	Not so long ago OCR was an exotic application found in government computers and large corporations. Since hitting the desktop OCR has become an important part of data entry systems. It won't be long before ordinary desktop computers can read your handwriting. See the test results of six top OCR packages.
How Big Does the Box in Back Have to Be?	Enterprise computing has long been associated with a big mainframe in a backroom, pumping through vast amounts of data and thousands of transactions a day in a non-stop, fault-tolerant way.
ISYS for IntraDisk Searches Sites	Have you ever tried to search a document you saved from a Web site? It's hard to do sophisticated searches without a special engine. The same is true for your customers.
How To Print and Read Barcodes What to Look For in a Departmental Imaging System HighGround Breaks New Storage Ground with SRM Imaging For All What's New in Image Processing Grayscale Image Processing Backfile Conversion and Microfilm: So Happy Together. Color Scanners Work Harder And Cost Less Color Printers Mean Business