An Image Processing Component by Pegasus Imaging Corporation

ScanFix® Xpress V5

ScanFix® is delivered as a .NET and ActiveX/COM software development toolkit, offering powerful bitonal document image enhancement technology. Create smaller file sizes and cleaner images, ultimately resulting in higher OCR rates. Clean up images using deskew, noise removal, dot shading removal, hole punch removal, line removal, text repair, auto inverse text correction, auto negate, auto binarization, auto border crop, blank page detection, image registration, and rotate.

Features

- Programming environments: Win32 visual development environments
- Sample code is included for: VB.NET, Visual C#, Delphi .NET, VB, VC++
- Deploys within .NET as a managed control
- Can be used in any development environment that hosts ActiveX/COM controls
- Confidence values are available for many operations
- ser configurable debug settings to control level of detail
- Free full-featured trial version available for immediate download

Image Input, Image Output, and Image Handling

• Provided through the included ImagXpress Professional .NET component and ActiveX/COM control


• Features include image viewing, compression, conversion, TWAIN scanning, annotation, printing, image processing, and more

Deskew

• Automatically straighten crooked images and report correction angle


• Deskew images in a fraction of a second


• Uses content of the images, not just the document


• User configurable High Quality vs. High Speed setting


• High Quality sets a higher number of places to check around the image, ultimately providing the highest level of deskew accuracy, but the image processing speed is slower


• High Speed sets a lower number of places to check around the image, ultimately providing the fastest image processing speed, but offers a slightly lower level of accuracy

Noise Removal

• Remove random specks or noise from images


• Configurable user specification of speck size, or use automatic settings


• Special Isolated Despeckle algorithm prevents removal of desired dots such as punctuation

Dot Shading Removal

• Automatically remove dot shading surrounding text for improved OCR accuracy


• Remove scanner noise caused by colored backgrounds (gray, blue, etc.)


• Reduce files sizes caused by additional pixels, without destroying text

Hole Punch & Blob Removal

• Remove hole punches and larger areas of black


• User configurable threshold settings


• Specify full page or a specific area of interest


• Reduce file sizes and storage requirements with cleaner pages


• Return count of objects found

Line Removal

• Automatically remove solid or broken lines (both horizontal and vertical) from scanned forms and documents


• Automatically repair text that intersects with lines (fill broken characters), essential for forms processing

Comb Removal (commonly used in ICR forms)l

• Automatically remove data entry combs from forms


• Automatically repair text that intersects with lines (fill broken characters), essential for forms processing

Character Completion & Smoothingl

• Repair, smooth and thicken incomplete characters


• Repair broken or incomplete characters to create complete characters


• Especially good on poor dot matrix text


• Smoothes ragged edges on letters


• Thickens or thins letters as needed

Auto Inverse Text Correction l

• Detect and automatically convert inverted text zones


• Change white-on-black text to normal black-on-white


• Recognize inverse zones in any shape, including circular


• Remove the fill color of text


• Reduce file sizes by eliminating unnecessary black pixels

Technical Information

Component Type - Contains the following types of components...

• .Net Class Library  • ActiveX Custom Control (OCX)

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