Large Document Software

Scanning Software

Large Document Solutions sells scanning software for general scanning applications, indexing and archiving, raster to vector conversion, and color graphic generation. Capture your data, then turn it into information that works in order to share knowledge and increase productivity.

 

Index and Archive


Features:
  • Easy to Learn - With the simple to use interface, users can be trained in minutes.
  • Multi-User - Uses a floating concurrent network license activated by a software key-code.
  • Auto Zoom - Select the area of the image to magnify and VB-INDEX automatically zooms to that location so the user can stay focused on data entry.
  • Project Wizard - Makes creating new projects a breeze. The Wizard guides the user through the process of creating index fields and selecting project folders containing the images to be indexed.
  • Project Statistics - Use this tool to check for file/record synchronization. This provides a way to easily add new file references to existing project folders.
  • Flexible - Use VB-INDEX as a front-end indexing tool to capture data for an EDM system, or use VB-INDEX as a stand-alone drawing & image database .
  • Viewer Formats - TIF, PCX, DCX, BMP & JPG
  • Database Format - Microsoft Access 2000.
System Requirements:
  • Pentium processor or equivalent.
  • Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0 & 2000
  • 32MB RAM, 64MB recommended

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VB-INDEX

VB-INDEX makes capturing index data from scanned engineering drawings a snap! The easy-to-use interface automatically displays the drawing title block so drawing information can be entered into the data input window. Since VB-INDEX is a multi-user system, large amounts of data can be captured quickly from multiple workstations. The Indexed data, image path and filename are stored in a VB-INDEX Project File which uses the Microsoft Access 2000 database format.



VB-INDEX has an adjustable split-screen interface to provide flexibility when a larger viewing or indexing window is desired.

Attention Service Bureaus!
Would you like to add revenue AND decrease costs with your next scanning project? That's exactly what VB-INDEX software is designed to do. It's simple to use interface makes capturing drawing information fast and easy! VB-INDEX helps you add value to your scanning projects.

Microsoft Access 2000, Windows, 95, 98, NT 4.0 & 2000 are registered trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation. VB-INDEX, is a registered trademark of Paradigm Imaging Group. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

VisualBASE EDM is a Windows-based engineering document management solution that provides an easy-to-use, secure environment to store, locate, and manage the vital corporate knowledge contained in engineering documents. Through integrated state-of-the-art components, VisualBASE EDM delivers powerful services for viewing, redlining, printing, editing, and converting a wide range of industry standard formats.

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Raster to Vector

Scan2CAD / Scan2CAD Pro V.8


Scan2CAD offers an affordable and professional raster to vector conversion software solution.

Scan2CAD automatically converts scanned drawings into DXF files that can be edited in any PC CAD, CNC, GIS or mapping program.
  • High quality vectorization for quick and easy editing in CAD.
  • NO paper-size restrictions - converts ALL drawing sizes.
  • Converts standard raster file formats (TIFF, BMP, CALS, PNG, JPG, etc.).
  • Converts scan-to-PDF (raster image only) PDF files.
  • Converts monochrome (black/white), grayscale and color raster files.
  • Includes raster and vector editing tools.
  • Pro adds raster PDF / Batch / color conversion + Command Line & OCR Tools.
  • Optional printed manual and free technical support.                   
  • Runs on any PC with Windows '98, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista, or 7 & 8.

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Conversion results vary from one raster to vector converter to another. The best converter is the one that saves you the most redrawing time. Few converters give the same high level of useful results as Scan2CAD. Here are four reasons why it saves more time.

Scan2CAD recognizes more drawing entities than most converters:
  • Continuous lines
  • Dashed and dashed-dot lines
  • Polylines
  • Arcs
  • Circles
  • Bezier curves (which can be exported as splines, polylines or arcs)
  • Lined hatch patterns
  • Arrows
  • Text (OCR)

By recognizing all these drawing entities Scan2CAD saves you more time than converters that make drawings up out of hundreds of short lines or just lines and arcs, as many do.

Scan2CAD resolves many of the difficult recognition problems that produce poor and untidy results in other programs, the ones that take so long to tidy up in CAD.

Diagram (a) below shows a very simple raster image, one that is a lot less complicated than anything you will work with in a real life vectorization.



We converted this image using Scan2CAD and 12 other converters.



Diagram (b) shows the vectorization produced by one of the other converters. In our test 10 programs gave results like Diagram (b) - or worse!

Diagram (c) shows Scan2CAD's conversion. It produced straighter lines and neater joins and corners. Clearly, a result like this will save you more redrawing time.

Scan2CAD works on the basis that every conversion must follow your paper drawing with absolute precision wherever possible.

Many low cost programs trace blindly over the image. Others try to make sense of this mess by post-processing the trace. In juggling it around they produce vectors that no longer follow the detail on your drawing. Scan2CAD stays true to the original detail.

Scan2CAD converts quickly. In an independent test (CAD&CG Magazine, Japan), Scan2CAD vectorized a drawing in 7 seconds with more accuracy than a rival "professional" program that took 1.03 minutes.

Programs that are slower than Scan2CAD waste more of your time. They waste more time again when you do a second or third conversion in an attempt to improve on the first results.
 

Upgrade to Scan2CAD Pro


Scan2CAD Pro provides increased support for PDF conversions, color conversions, text handling, and much more!

Scan2CAD Pro supported features:

Scan2CAD Pro loads and saves raster PDF files.

If the PDF file you are loading contains a single raster image, it will be loaded in the same way as any other raster image. If the PDF file contains many raster images, you can step through them and select the one you want to load. Scan2CAD Pro can save any raster image type as PDF.

Dictionary spell check

Scan2CAD Pro includes a 30,000 word US and UK Design Dictionary that searches vectorized text for unrecognized words. These are highlighted for quick editing.  You can add your own words to the Dictionary or even create your own Dictionary in any language.




Color vectorization

Scan2CAD Regular loads color raster images but can only convert them to black and white DXF files. Scan2CAD Pro can create color DXF files from color raster images. You can convert one, some or all of the colors on a color raster image.

Some raster to vector converters create color DXF files by vectorizing color images as though they were black and white and applying color to the vectors afterwards. Scan2CAD Pro uses color information while vectorizing, which means it is able to create more accurate color DXF files.

Batch vectorization

Scan2CAD Pro has a batch conversion facility that converts multiple raster images automatically. It will vectorize all the raster files in a specified folder.  The batch run can include pre-conversion raster tidying up commands, like despeckle, hole removal, smooth, etc., and includes options to run OCR and color vectorization.

Command line support

Scan2CAD's command line support allows you to run Scan2CAD from other applications and automate virtually any sequence of Scan2CAD commands.

Font training

When you buy Scan2CAD, its OCR text recognition is able to recognize a range of standard fonts commonly found on many drawings.

However if your raster images contain fonts that Scan2CAD cannot recognize or does not recognize well, you can train Scan2CAD Pro to recognize them. This will save you hours of time, particularly if you have many drawings from a common source containing a specific font.

By training Scan2CAD Pro to recognize text automatically you can save yourself much of the hassle and time of having to edit unrecognized text later. And, of course, Pro's Spell checker with Design Dictionary goes a long way to resolving, simplifying and speeding up this task!

You can train Scan2CAD to recognize as many fonts as you like. You can even train it to recognize handwritten text so long as it is not "joined up".

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For demo software or more information, visit the Scan2CAD web site .

Color Graphics

DaylightRIP

The powerful RIP for large format printing 
 
DaylightRIP™ is a highly versatile product that supports a wide range of raster files. It turns your large-format printer into a powerful productivity machine, ensuring superb output quality. 

DaylightRIP offers solutions for every wallet with an attractive upgrade range. This exciting new software version 4.0 has many changes compared to version 3.8. For example the Client/Server functionality has been greatly enhanced. Two new product lines – „DaylightRIP Simple Queue“ and „DaylightRIP Open Server“ allow completely new uses like Plot-Management. 

In addition to SCP´s own closed-loop calibration, DaylightRIP also supports ICC profiles and offers the possibility of calibration with a spectrophotometer. The profiles, which are cost-free provided with the software, were produced with this calibration method.

Color adjustment and calibration
  • A new calibration method: Linearization
  • Two calibration methods to choose from: 3D Closed-Loop calibration with a standard scanner or professional calibration with a photospectrometer
  • Color management in L*a*b color space
  • Gamut warning function to identify and solve color problems
  • Different printing patterns depending on the source file
  • No line-artifacts (Floyd Worms) in light image areas
  • New dithering for 4, 6, 7 and 8 color printers
  • Full support of L*a*b, sRGB, CMYK and HKS colors
  • Global exchange of colors with selectable intensity

Image enhancement
  • Sharpen fuzzy images
  • Clean up scanned files, remove dirt and specks
  • Seamless scaling
  • Rotate, mirror, paneling
  • Archive processed files
  • Batch- and overnight processing

Output options
  • Unattended (overnight) printing
  • Support for 4, 6, 7 and 8 color printers
  • Nesting is used to optimally place the images on the paper roll


Client/Server architecture

The Daylight Server turns your network into a productivity center! Using the Daylight Client, an unlimited number of users can issue RIP jobs. The PPD drivers for Mac OS and Windows make the creation of correct Postscript files even more easy!

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DaylightRIP gives you full control over your output options.
 
Supported Import File Formats
Extensions Name
BMP Windows Bitmap
CAL CALS Group 4
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
IFF Interchange File Format
JP2 JPEG 2000
LDF Lura Document File
PCD Photo-CD Format
PCT Macintosh PICT
PCX Zsoft Paintshop
PNG Portable Network Graphics
PPM Portable Pixel Map
PSD,PDD Adobe Photoshop File Format
PSP Paintshop Pro Image
RAS,SUN Sun Raster Images
RLE Intergraph RLE
TGA True Vision Targa
TIF Tagged Image File
WMF Windows Metafile
XBM Windows Bitmap

HPGL-Import
Type Name
HPGL HP Graphic Language
HPGL/2 HP Graphic Language / 2
HP-RTL HP Raster Transmission Language

Postscript/PDF-Import
Type Name
EPS Encapsulated Postscript
PDF Adobe Portable Document Format
PS Postscript

Onyx RipCenter

Easy to Install, Easy to Use
With RIPCenter, getting up to speed and producing professional color is as simple as install, open file, and print. Yet despite its simplicity, RIPCenter contains a bevy of production tools that outperform bundled RIPs and Windows printer drivers.

Professional Color, Every Time
Default color calibration and ICC profiles – optimized for a variety of ink and media combinations – provide consistent, accurate color “out of the box” for those who are just getting into large format printing.

Easy to Use Interface
Simple and easy to navigate, the RIP-Queue interface lets you manage all your printing from a single window.

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Onyx Production House

Full-Featured, Universal Workflow Solution
How many different software RIPs does your shop use? More than one is too many! If you have different RIPs for different print devices, then who is your expert on each RIP? How do you get the same results across multiple print devices?

With ProductionHouse, you have one easy workflow that gets you great color on all of your devices. All of your jobs follow the same easy workflow and all of your printer operators use the same workflow, regardless of the output device.

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Onyx PosterShop

Very Easy to Use
  • File-Open-Print is all it takes to get great output
  • Automatically install the program and printer drivers in one easy step
  • Print directly from creative applications on the Mac or PC
  • Printer Operator-friendly job preflight and printer queue
  • Easy quickset selection for automated job setup
  • Get all the media profiles you need for free from the Onyx Graphics website
  • AutoUpdate system keeps you automatically updated with the latest RIP features and drivers
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PosterArtist

Poster Creation Made Simple - Little Effort
  • 200 Pre-defined Templates
  • Over 1000 Royalty free images and clipart
  • Over 150 Backgrounds
  • Over 150 Frames
  • Variety of text graphics
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Scanning Software

Batch Scan Wizard

Batch Scan Wizard is a fast and easy-to-operate software solution. This software increases data throughput while reducing operational tasks substantially. Batch Scan Wizard is ideal for processing large volume scanning jobs but is just as useful for smaller volumes in which more advanced operations like page splitting or extracting specific areas on a document is required.

The operator creates a job and configures a template for the job. Then, all images scanned are collected in the job until the job is closed by the operator. In addition to the standard scan parameters like brightness, contrast, color mode or file format.
Batch Scan Wizard supports all Scan2Net® scanners and their functions. Using Batch Scan Wizard’s rescan function, a previously scanned image is held in memory. Color mode, file format, rotation, mirror and camera settings can be modified without having to rescan. The new settings will affect the image immediately, without having to physically rescan the document. When you have optimized your scan parameters, you can save the new images or replace an image in your batch.
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Features:
  Indexing scan jobs
  Create multipage PDF and TIFF files
  New Keyboard shortcuts, file menu, and mouse context menus
  Integrated full-screen display with new tools and features to configure templates
  Supports all functions in Scan2Net version 5.80 and highter

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Perfect Stitch by Image Access

The PerfectStitch software is the easiest, most intuitive solution for fast and accurate stitching of two JPEG and TIFF images.  Double the scan area of your large format scanner.  Just grab your images, tell the software where the stitch point is and let the software do all the work.  No need to purchase expensive software to perform this task all you need it Perfect Stitch

Specifications:
Resolution Any
Formats JPG TIFF
Stitch Count Stitching is done with two graphic files.  Combining more than two can easily be accomplished by combining 2 files with another and another and another.
File Naming User definable
    

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SmartWorks Pro

SmartWorks Pro is a single interface, three-application suite. Using a Mouse or Touch Screen enabled display, the intuitive Graphical User Interface guides you quickly through the single-scan workflow, making rapid changes to the image quality where required. Use the 10 Preset Filters for quick pre-selection of your key scanning parameters. Intelligent Adaptive Thresholding allows the automatic removal of unwanted background to provide clean copies. The fully integrated ICC color management in the SmartWorks Pro viewer provides accurate representation of scanned and printed output.

SmartWorks Pro has 3 processing levels:

Scanworks Pro Scan – Scan to File only
Scanworks Pro Copier – Scan to Printer only
Scanworks Pro Scan & Copy – Scan to both file and printer simultaneously

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EZ Touch & Pro Product Video  |  Colortrac SmartWorks Pro Software Videos
 

SmartWorks TOUCH

SmartWorks TOUCH is an upgrade from the EZ Touch software which comes bundled with most Colortrac scanners.  This version uses an intuitive interface to simplify and speed up the scanning process. It is included in all professional MFP, SmartLF SC Xpress and Gx+ T56 solutions.

SmartWorks TOUCH has extended functionality while reducing complexity through a single touchscreen interface. Supports 13 output file formats. SmartWorks TOUCH greatly simplifies the creation and management of scanned files with a friendlier interface and help files.  Smartworks TOUCH installs on Windows 7 and 8.x computers.

Specifications:
Resolution 100, 200, 300, 400, 600, 1200 Optical DPI
Formats PDF, PDF/A, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, TIFF G4, TIFF LZW, BMP, Autocad DWF
Supported Scanners SmartLF SC Xpress series, SmartLF SC mpf series, SmartLF Gx+T56
File Naming User definable with numerical suffix
Scan to: File, USB, and Email  

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SmartWorks EZ Touch

SmartWorks EZ Touch Plus is very simple to use and is designed for easy operation. The innovative interface allows you to choose your preferred method for controlling the SmartLF scanner with keyboard, mouse or touch-screen modes, while providing the entire basic scan to file and scan to copy functionality you need. SmartWorks EZ software saves your scanned documents as PDF, TIFF or JPG files individually or as a batch, and makes document copies to any printer through standard Windows printer drivers.

Supported file formats:
Format  Description
TIFF black and white, grayscale or color, no compression
TIFF/G4 black and white, lossless, fixed compression
JPEG grayscale or color, lossy, fixed compression
PDF black and white, grayscale or color, lossy, fixed compression


Runs on any PC with Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7.

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EZ Touch & Pro Product Video  |  Colortrac SmartWorks Pro Software Videos
Colortrac SmartWorks EZ Touch Plus Software Video | Smartworks EZ Touch Help File
 

SmartWorks EZ Touch Plus

SmartWorks EZ Touch Plus is very simple to use and is designed for easy operation. The innovative interface allows you to choose your preferred method for controlling the SmartLF scanner with keyboard, mouse or touch-screen modes, while providing the entire basic scan to file and scan to copy functionality you need. SmartWorks EZ software saves your scanned documents as PDF, TIFF or JPG files individually or as a batch, and makes document copies to any printer through standard Windows printer drivers.

Supported file formats:
Format  Description
TIFF black and white, grayscale or color, no compression
TIFF/G4 black and white, lossless, fixed compression
JPEG grayscale or color, lossy, fixed compression
PDF black and white, grayscale or color, lossy, fixed compression

Runs on any PC with Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7.

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EZ Touch & Pro Product Video 
 

Colortrac Software Comparison Matrix

Compare the SmartWorks Pro (all versions) , SmartWorks TOUCH, EZ Touch, EZ Touch Plus, and the SmartWorks MFP versions all in one place!
 

NextImage 4

Wide-format Scanning + Copying Software
Why just scan?  With NextImage 4, you can copy, print, email and edit, in addition to scanning.  This intuitive software brings all your imaging tasks into one user-friendly interface, creating the perfect link between scanner, digital storage, existing applications, and printers.

Intuitive and powerful, Nextimage makes your workflow more productive and more connected than ever before.  

Key features
 
  • Integrated Multi-Function Software 
  • Touch-screen compatible - perfect for MFP use 
  • Scan to multi-page PDF or TIF 
  • Track scans and copies per account 
  • Simple and Powerful GUI with clear controls 
  • 64-bit Windows compatible • Real-time image adjustments – no re-scanning 
  • Built-in printer support for HP, Canon, Epson, others 
  • Batch mode for higher volume jobs 
  • Check final scan quality with a single click 
  • Auto file-naming templates for easy indexing 
  • Scan-to-email sends images to anyone, anywhere 
  • Undo/Redo buttons and keyboard shortcuts 
  • ICC and Closed-Loop Color copying 
  • Auto palette creation for 8-bit indexed scanning

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PLOTBASE 3.74

Plotbase is a software RIP solution for Wide Format LED & Ink Jet Plotters, adding batch plotting of common engineering files, job tracking, invoicing and ICC color profile integration. 

Multiple plotters can be combined to provide the extra benefits of load balancing between devices or automatic re-routing if one device is out of service.

Key features
 
  • AEC File Viewing & Batch Plotting
  • Postscript & PDF File Batch Plotting
  • Multiple page PDF supported
  • Includes drivers for the latest AutoCAD releases. DWG-DWF-DXF* viewing and batch plotting option
  • Integrated Scanning Application
  • Optional scanning application supports most wide format color scanners. Includes editing tools, integrated accounting, scan to: email, batch job set, PDF, archive and lots more
  • Print via intranet or Internet with the included Web Client application
  • Job Tracking & Accounting
  • Create basic invoices and usage reports with the easy to set up and use html based accounting client application. It's great for quick and easy one at a time invoice generation or packing lists

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