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FAQ's Here are some Frequently Asked Questions:
The OnePoint Imaging workstation does much more than just image capture. It uses multiple processors to perform optical character recognition "real time," i.e., right during the image capture system. This saves users from having to have a completely separate server system to perform production quality and quantity OCR. Further, the workstation contains DocID software that prepares abstracts or fielded data pertaining to the documents. This often enables users to have immediate, meaningful access to the documents even before they are manually coded or summarized.
The workstation is as easy to use as an office copier. There are only four menu items to select from the time the unit is turned on until the operator is ready to start scanning paper.
With documents that have already been prepared, one operator should be able to scan approximately one box of documents per hour, averaging about 2,500 pages per hour.
The scanner scans both sides of the documents at one time when in "duplex" mode. This means that two-sided documents do not have to be fed through twice. Additionally, the feeder mechanism is quite advanced, and handles a broad range of paper sizes and weights. Further, the auto rotation feature permits the operators to feed the best edge of the paper into the scanner because the machine determine the top of the page based on the orientation of the text and then automatically rotates the image so that the top of the page is the top of the image. This saves the operator from having to force the top of a worn-out document into the scanner despite having been repeatedly stapled and/or torn.
DocID enables users to write their own document definitions, establish their own data extraction rules and create their own dictionaries for names or other purposes.
Users are free to distribute as many copies of the DocViewer software as they would like. It is included in the licensing of the workstation.
DocViewer was designed specifically to search OCR'd text files. This stand-alone software uses unique pattern-matching algorithms that often enables it to find occurrences of search terms even where those terms were misspelled in the original document or are misspelled as the result of OCR errors. This greatly reduces and in some cases eliminates the need to perform OCR clean-up! Further, it makes a thesaurus available to users who would like to broaden their search by including logically-related search terms, and it permits users to search on and edit or modify the document abstract information.
DSI's web server technology permits the CD-ROM's produced by the OnePoint Imaging Workstation to be placed on Internet or Intranet servers where authorized users can search and browse the documents using only an Internet browser such as Netscape or Microsoft Explorer.
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