B & W VRS Workflow

1. B & W VRS Workflow Richard Anderson Director of VRS OEM and Domestic Sales Email : Richard_Anderson@kofax.com

2. Business Process Automation P P P Increase Productivity - The 3P’s Effective Scanner Throughput Paper P eople rocess

3. What is the raw image a scanner produces ? What is… • A true color image? • A 24-bit color image? 8-bit grayscale image • A grayscale image? • A 256-level gray image? • An 8-bit gray image? • A binary image? • A black and white image? • A single or 1-bit image?

4. What is the raw image a scanner produces ? 8-bit grayscale image Storage space ! Nobody wants to store 8 bit grayscale images !

5. What is Thresholding? Thresholding • The conversion of a multi-bit grayscale image into a black and white image is called thresholding.

6. Why is it called Thresholding? Threshold Level 75 Threshold Level 55 Threshold Level 35 Threshold Level 15 Threshold 15 35 55 75 95

7. Basic Thresholding = Compromising Threshold 15 35 55 75 95 • This concept of simple thresholding results in a compromise. • Whatever threshold level, there is always some content sacrificed. • What we need is a thresholding technology that preserves all the content of the original without compromises. VRS is that Technology

8. Introducing VRS Dynamic Edge Thresholding Single-bit B&W VRS Dynamic Edge Thresholding 8-bit grayscale image Single-bit B&W Simple Thresholding

9. User setting 200dpi, B&W, letter 8-bit grayscale image

10. CROP & DESKEW 8-bit grayscale image

11. Traditional Deskew VRS Deskew • Traditional deskew corrects the black & white image, resulting in jagged edges and artifacts. • VRS deskews the gray image first and then converts it into a black & white image. • VRS grayscale deskew produces crisper text. • Combined with VRS’ automatic text enhancement, OCR forms processing systems produce up to 20% less questionable characters !

12. 8-bit grayscale image

13. Provides a single, easy-to-use interface,minimizing operator training and confusion in mixed scanner installations. Creates cleaner, smaller bitonal images, speeding network traffic and improving response time of document management applications. Creates perfect images automatically every time, eliminating costly rescans.

14. Crops and deskews scanned images automatically, even from white background scanners. Reconnects broken characters with Edge Fusion feature, dramatically improving OCR and ICR recognition rates. Creates smaller but remarkably better-looking PDF files.

15. Avoids scanner control conflicts by showing only relevant options. Enables documents of varying size and quality to be scanned together in a single batch.  Issues automatic alerts when paper jams or equipment conflicts occur.

16. Detects color and automatically changes scanner settings.  Scan mix of color and black and white documents in the same batch without any manual intervention. Intelligent blank page deletion and bleed through detection allowing mixing double and single- sided documents in a single batch and eliminates any presort prior to scanning. Produces smaller, better-looking color image files, speeding up network traffic and reducing storage requirements.

17. Uses Advanced Clarity feature to scan documents previously considered unscanable.Complex patterned backgrounds disappear.Extremely faint text becomes crisp and clear.Text superimposed with watermarks remains perfectly readable. OCR and ICR results are unsurpassed. Rotates pages intelligently.  Feed a document in virtually any direction and still get perfect results.

18. Business Process Automation P P P Increase Productivity - The 3P’s Effective Scanner Throughput Paper P eople rocess

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