July 1998

Add Imaging Across Enterprise Desktops

Diamond Head Software (Richardson, TX 972-479-9205) worked with PC Docs (Toronto 416-497-7700) to develop Docs Imaging 3.7, a new 32-bit imaging solution for the Docs Open integrated document management system. Docs Imaging lets you control and manage image-based documents alongside native electronic documents.

Docs Imaging provides a user-driven way to capture, control and make accessible multiple sources of information. You can bring a variety of documents into the system -- including color and grayscale images from sources such as faxes, scanned documents or imported bitmap images -- and then integrate them into the full document management environment of Docs Open. Users can index, search, retrieve and route the images just as they would any document in a Docs Open repository. Built-in OCR technology based on Xerox's TextBridge engine lets users index and retrieve these documents by their contents.

Docs Imaging 3.7 has new features including thumbnail views, which save time and bandwidth during searches. Multi-document creation capabilities let you capture multiple files together in a single batch. You can also view and print images created by FileNet's Watermark imaging system, complete with any embedded annotations. At this writing, Docs Imaging 3.7 was to begin shipping in late June. Prices start at $149 per viewer. Discounts and site licenses are available for quantity purchases. A toolkit version lists at $5,000.

Eastman Software's (Billerica, MA 978-967-8000) Imaging for Windows Pro 2.0 is the upgrade of Imaging for Windows, the Eastman product bundled with Microsoft Windows 95 and NT. With version 2.0, Pro provides ActiveX controls that let you navigate images as hyperlinks through any standard Web browser. This transforms scanned documents and faxes into electronic files that can be viewed, searched and distributed via Windows and the Internet.

Pro provides integrated image viewing for Microsoft Exchange users running either Eastman Software WorkFolder for Microsoft Exchange or Eastman Software Document Manager for Exchange. The combination yields enterprise desktop imaging at affordable prices. Pro 2.0 starts at $89 for one copy. A 100-user pack costs $6,000.

With Imaging Pro, users can scan, view, enhance and annotate paper documents and faxes, and then OCR and edit them. Used with the Eastman product for Exchange, Imaging Pro provides image management and routing to Exchange Public Folders through a powerful "flow" capability. ý Arthur Gingrande

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