BookScan Editor

Kirtas Technologies provides not only the fastest high-resolution scanning machinery in the world. It's also created the finest optical character recognition software available to run them.

The BookScan Editor 3.0™ does for post-scan image processing what the APT BookScan systems does for the scanning process - provide blazing speed and incredible quality in a highly automated environment.
BSE 3.0 includes new features such as:

• Metadata generation with XML output throughout digitization process
• Auto segmentation, page cropping, clamp removal and cleanup outside of text block
• Super-batch mode for unattended multi-book processing with simultaneous scanning and post-processing
• Raw image recall compares processed images to the original

The BookScan Editor Pro™ gives even richer Optical Character Recognition value as it integrates with ABBYY Fine Reader v8.0.

Contact our software representative directly to learn more or place an order.

Key Features

Apartial list of features, functionality and enhancements forboth BookScan Editor and BookScan Editor Pro:

Productivity

• Batch mode processing for an entire book at once; super-batch mode for unattended multi-book processing
• Creation and saving of Custom Profiles for repeated use
• Simultaneous scanning and post-processing
• Automated image cleanup and enhancement
  • High quality deskewing option
  • Auto-cropping and page padding features
  • Improved page centering,
  • Improved clamp detection and removal
• BookView UI enables easy, integrated structural metadata and book pagination, user-defined content (e.g. title page, front matter, TOC, chapters, etc.)

Ease of Use

• Preview window for real-time evaluation of quality control features
• Improved GUI and workflow with contextual menu bar
• File renaming and Insert/Delete Images via thumbnail view
• automated creation of page number contact sheets for physical quality control
• High level of flexibility in file naming and folder structure
• A complete QA feature helps users to easily export finished
  output images to an awaiting folder in another location

Quality

• B/W conversion using proprietary Dynamic Localized Thresholding technology, eliminating thresholding guess work, delivering smooth, rich and consistent B/W text, and boosting OCR performance
• digitization of Microfiche/Microfilm single pages with B/W text
• automated image segmentation with selective brightness/contrast settings for images vs. text