Product Functionality Overview PowerBook Application Software
PowerBook Scanning Software gh Performance Digital Image Processing for the FileMaster and FileMaster+ (Book Scanners) PowerBook Scanning Software High Performance Digital Image Processing for the FileMaster and FileMaster+ (Book Scanners)
PowerBook Supports the FileMaster and FileMaster+ Book Scanners
PowerBook Features (Version 5) *Windows NT/ Bit Application *Software Only Solution *Direct SCSI Interface (Adaptec 2940/2930/2904) *Drives the Scanners at rated speeds *Supports all Native Scanner Functionality
*Desktop A2 Flatbed Scanning support *Supports Sheet Mode scanning *Book Compensation functions *Auto Exposure *Auto Masking *Centre Line Erasure *Image Control *Creates Standard CCITT G3 or G4 images *Resolutions DPI *Image Composition - Text, Picture PowerBook Features (Version 5)
PowerBook User Interface
*Start Scanning / Stop Scanning *Press the Green traffic light to start scanning *Press the Red traffic light to stop scanning
PowerBook User Interface *Scanning control parameters available on Control Tabs *Each Control Tab contains settings that can be saved in user defined ‘Configurations’.
PowerBook User Interface *The Image Tab controls Image creation settings, e.g. *Image size *Image resolution *Composition/Compression *Brightness *Use the mouse to define custom scan areas (rubber band)
PowerBook User Interface *The Batch Tab controls output options, e.g. *Output Folder *File naming/numbering *Document Boundaries *Output Format *Document Type
PowerBook User Interface *The Index Tab allows the user to assign index data to images as they are scanned - or post scanning. *Up to 10 user defined index fields *A data file is written in the same folder as the images
PowerBook User Interface *The Options Tab controls book type and scanner options, e.g. *Book Compensation *Auto Exposure *Auto Masking *Sheet Height *Centre-line Erasure *Blank Page Threshold
PowerBook User Interface *Image Display *Images are displayed on the right hand side of the interface during scanning *Images may be manipulated using the controls above the image display
PowerBook User Interface *Image Manipulation *Zoom *Rotate *Image Redaction (blank out) *Define areas of image that should be saved *Go to image number *Cut and Paste
PowerBook Features *Print selected images or range of images in a batch *Scan and Print *Zoom Print *Fax selected images or range of images in a batch *Link to your package send images or range of images as attachments *Print/Fax and
PowerBook Features *All Commonly used functions available via Keyboard accelerator keys/function keys (F1, F2, F3, etc.) *All Settings (image attributes, batch settings, scanner function settings, indexing schemes) saved in recallable configurations *All Processing controls available during scanning (Control Tabs) *Ease of Use
PowerBook Features *All menus, dialogs and messages may be translated to any language without the need for a software programmer ! *Localisation
PowerBook Features *Windows 2000 support - FileMaster+ (PS7000) only *New in version 5 !!!!
PowerBook Features *Suspend Batch Feature *New in version 5 !!!! *Suspend a batch and open it again later to continue scanning
PowerBook Features *Batch Recovery Feature *New in version 5 !!!! *Allows users to recover a batch after a system failure
PowerBook Features *Blank page drop out *New in version 5 !!!! *Allows users to define a byte count threshold below which images should automatically be discarded
PowerBook Features *Adobe Acrobat PDF Output *New in version 5 !!!! *Additional Cost Option *Creates multi page PDF files for; whole batch, document boundaries or every scanned image
PowerBook Features *Kofax Ascent output option *New in version 5 !!!! *Additional Cost Option *Automatically uploads batches to Kofax Ascent for further processing *Release from Ascent to a multitude of Document Management systems
PowerBook Features *Multi Image Viewer *New in version 5 !!!! *Display 1, 4 or 6 images at a time
PowerBook Features *New ‘Save As’ feature *New in version 5 !!!! *Save scanned image(s) outside of PowerBook with user defined file names. *Save individual images or the whole batch (as a multi page tiff file)
PowerBook Features *Integrated CD Publishing *New in version 5 !!!! *CDPublish is now integrated into PowerBook *Allows users to create a database from the index and images created with PowerBook *Users may freely distribute CDRetrieve (on CD) with the database