Overview

Features

Visuals

Pricelist

- Scanning
- Sorting & Indexing
- Quality control & validation
- Output
- IRISPdf™ for IRISPowerscan™
- General informations
- Optional Modules

Scanning

• Import file
  IRISPowerscan™ can process any kind of image already scanned and archived in your system. Simply import a batch of scanned documents and process them according to your needs.
  
• Multi-stream support
  IRISPowerscan™ is able to scan and handle multi-stream images i.e. a batch of documents, front and rear, scanned in color as well as in grayscale and black & white at the same time.
  
• Multi-mode scanning
  Append, rescan, attach and insert.
  
• Automatic pre-processing of the scanned images
  Features such as automatic on-the-fly deskew, cropping/overcropping (eliminates black borders), rotation (supports landscape scanning) and blank page detection and deletion (reduces need to pre-sort) let you scan documents without worries.
  
• Image adjustment
  Adjust images of a complete batch of documents without having to scan them again. You can do some digital rethresholding, rebinarization, rescanning, etc.
  
• Image manipulation
  Merge front and rear of documents into a single image. You can also split front and rear of very long documents into smaller images (i.e. each side of an A3 document into two A4 documents).
  
• Binarization
  Extremely fast binarization of color images. Scan all documents in color and create binarized images that can be improved with contrast, brightness, smoothening and despeckle features.
  
• Complete support of Kofax VRS™ (Virtual ReScan)
  

Sorting & Indexing

• Automatic identification of the document type
  Scan documents and define their images as types of documents so that every incoming document with a similar template will be identified and sorted automatically. Documents can also be sorted according to barcode values or OCR/ICR zones.
  
• On-line indexing at batch or document level
  While scanning you can automatically index files at batch or document level from OCR/ICR zones, ICR zones, barcodes, MICR codes and patch codes.
  
• Indexing options
  You can set special default values, split barcode values over several fields or validate indexing through mask formulas and checking digit exits (invalid values will be highlighted in red).
  
• Specific indexation settings for each type of document
  With this particular feature, documents can be indexed and processed differently according to their type.
  
• On-line separation of documents
  Automatic batch and document separation input from barcodes, patch codes, OCR/ICR zone, blank pages, page counts and layout identification.
  
• On-line intelligent sorting of documents
  Automatic batch and document sorting from barcodes, patch codes, OCR/ICR zone and layout identification.
  
• Document renaming
  Several options are available for naming the output files: OCR/ICR zones, barcodes or a fixed string with an incremental counter can be used to rename your files.
  
• Document numbering
  Continuous incrementing of document numbers across batches and incrementing of image numbers across documents.
  
• Powerful barcode recognition
  Front and rear barcode recognition: IRISPowerscan™ recognizes more than 17 types of barcodes including the PDF 417 high density barcode and the QR two-dimensional barcode.
  
• Banking Fonts OCR
  Enjoy powerful banking fonts recognition: OCR-A1 Alphanumeric, OCR-A1 Eurobanking, OCR-A1 Numeric, OCR-B1 Alphanumeric, OCR-B1 Eurobanking, OCR-B1 Numeric, E-13B Optical and CMC7.
  
• IRISDesktop Search included
  IRISPowerscan™ comes with the IRISDesktop Search. This powerful tool easily searches and quickly retrieves any document archived in your computer.
  
• Data Link
  Any indexing value can be retrieved and/or validated through an ODBC Data Source.
  

Quality control & validation

• Improved indexing
  Indexing has been made very fast and easy: you no longer need to key in the data thanks to the drag-and-drop OCR feature, combo lists and last value indexing.
  
• Multi-image display
  With IRISPowerscan™ you can quickly and easily verify scanned documents by displaying on your screen more than 8 images at a time. You can also enjoy valuable features such as multi-criteria filtering, dynamic zooming, dynamic filter and a slider to navigate through a batch of documents.
  
• Treeview
  Navigate easily among batches, documents and pages thanks to the treeview. It also allows you to cut, copy, paste and drag-and-drop any objects (batch, document, page).
  
• Editing tools
  The user-friendly interface of IRISPowerscan™ lets you easily rescan, rotate, reorder and delete pages.
  
• Post-scanning features
  Easily split and merge documents or batches and modify the position of pages across documents or documents across batches with a simple drag-and-drop.
  
• Workspaces
  Define workspaces by customizing your own interface (panes, toolbars, etc.) according to your specific needs and the user privileges you want to grant.
  
• Multi-criteria filtering
  Select only white pages.
  
• Drag-and-drop OCR, ICR, barcode
  Data can be captured from any page of documents using the drag-and-drop OCR tool. Simply select the text on the image and the information will be automatically captured.
  
• Security
  Easily and quickly define user groups with different working rights for each project and allow access or not to certain features.
  
• Data Link
  All value indexing fields can be retrieved from an ODBC Data Source so you can very easily pick up the right indexing value through, for example, combo box.
  
• Application Programming Interface
  IRISPowerscan™ is an open application thanks to the possibility to use numerous APIs: Batch Output Format API, Extended Batch Output Format API, Indexing API, Event Handler API, etc.
  The Indexing API is used to define new formats for indexing fields and new validation/evaluation rules.
  The Event Handler API can be used by an external application to interact with the general workflow of IRISPowerscan™.
  

Output

• Application Programming Interface (API)
  Any API and those developed for Kodak Capture Software 6.0 that support the sorting of document types are compatible.
  
• Image output
  Save the processed document in different image file formats: TIFF (also Multi-page TIFF), JPEG, BMP or image PDF (including PDF iHQC™).
  
• Wide range of Batch Output Formats
  A large number of Batch Output Formats is available for integration with popular content, document and imaging applications (list permanently updated).
  
• IRISPdf Batch Output Format
  The full standard features of the IRISPdf BOF are also included in IRISPowerscan™.
  
• IRISCapture Pro
  IRISPowerscan™ can be easily integrated with IRISCapture Pro, I.R.I.S.’ professional solution to sort, index, encode and export all the data of scanned documents.
  

And with the IRISPdf™ for IRISPowerScan™ included, enjoy the most productive OCR/ICR technology!

• Recognition engine and full page OCR/ICR
  IRISPowerscan™ and IRISPdf use I.R.I.S.’ latest recognition engine and formatting technology. The page analysis is done on the color image, resulting in better zone segmentation. This new engine also recognizes the color of the text and keeps it in the output file.
  
• More than 120 languages supported
  All European languages are supported, including Central-European, Baltic, Greek and Cyrillic ('Russian') languages. An Asian Add-on module is available for the recognition of 4 Asian languages: Japanese, Korean, Traditional and Simplified Chinese. Hebrew and Arabic add-on modules are also available.
  
• Multilingual recognition
  IRISPdf recognizes up to 5 languages, even with mixed alphabets, on the same document.
  
• Partial recognition of a batch of documents
  Choose the pages of a document to be OCRed and keep the rest of the document as an image file. This will speed up the process and reduce the amount of data stored.

IRISPdf™ for IRISPowerScan™ user manual

Image enhancement

• Deskew and Despeckle
  The skewing of the text is analyzed on the front of the page but is applied both on the front and the back of the documents, resulting in a much faster processing speed. The despeckle feature cleans up images by removing noise that can appear when scanning documents.
  
• Smoothening of color images
  Allow optimal recognition results by reducing sharp transitions in your documents with the “smooth color image” function.
  
• Page orientation detection
  IRISPdf automatically rotates and straightens the text orientation contained in your documents for optimal OCR accuracy.
  

Output

• Multiple output formats
  Generate several output files with different file formats in one single process and from one image file.
  
• Wide number of file output formats
  The following output formats are available: PDF/A, PDF-iHQC™, Signed PDF, PDF Security Method, RTF, TXT, DOC, WordML, SpreadsheetML, HTML, OpenDocument Text, XML and 4 types of PDF files (Text only, Image only, Text over image and Image over text).
  
• Formatting options
  Many reformatting parameters are available to respond to the most common reformatting needs. For Word and RTF output files: “retain color of text”, “retain color of background”, “keep paper size”, etc.
  
• Image compression with JPEG 2000
  Modify JPEG compression rate and image resolution when generating PDF files (with or without text files) and highly compress all your images with JPEG2000 technology.
  
• New output formats available
  => PDF/A: Stricter than a regular PDF, this is the ideal PDF format for long-term archiving. (NB: PDF/A is not available when an Asian language is selected)
  => PDF Security Method: Create protected PDF files that require a password to be displayed, modified, printed etc.
  => OpenDocument Text (*odt): OpenDocument Text is a fully-documented open format based on XML. It can be read into OpenOffice and StarOffice.
  
• iHQC™ add-on: new hyper-compression technology
  iHQC™ (intelligent High Quality Compression) is the new hyper-compression technology from I.R.I.S. This new add-on will dramatically reduce the size of your color or Black & White PDF without compromising the color quality of the images and the legibility of your document. You will get a better quality than in JPEG2000 with a much smaller PDF.
  
  NB: iHQC™ basic level of compression is available in IRISPdf and you can enjoy for free the best level of compressions on 1000 documents/year without the add-on installed.
  

• Fully searchable PDF Files
  IRIS’s award–winning OCR/ICR engine extracts all text and numbers from your input files with astonishing accuracy. PDF files become completely editable and searchable, allowing quick searches to retrieve and locate the smallest piece of information in an instant.
  
• XML output
  There are two types of XML files: compact and detailed. Compact files contain input and output file paths, barcode content (if any) and text content. Detailed files contain, for each character, its coordinates as well as its confidence level.
  
• Image output
  Save the processed document in different image file formats: TIFF (also Multi-page TIFF), JPEG, BMP or image PDF (including PDF iHQC™).
  

General

• The most intuitive and easy to use GUI
  IRISPowerscan™ benefits from a new and very intuitive interface that has been redesigned to give users valuable enhancements such as customizable workspaces and toolbars, an integrated explorer, scanning, indexing & property panes with a dynamic selection of objects (viewers, sliders, etc).
  
• New OCR accuracy report
  OCR accuracy report provides a graphical view of the OCR accuracy results on your documents. With this new tool you can compare the quality of the OCR process done with different settings to define the parameters you need to get the best OCR results on your documents.
  
• Index file in XML
  Full text, character positions, confidence level as well as other information about the conversion process are all contained in an XML output, ready for a quick integration in a document management system.
  

Recognized languages

American English, British English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Aymara, Balinese, Basque, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Brazilian, Breton, Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Haitian (Creole), Hani, Hiligaynon, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish (Gaelic), Italian, Javanese, Kapampangan, Kicongo, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxemburgh, Macedonian, Madurese, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx (Gaelic), Maori, Mayan, Minangkabau, Nahuatl, Norwegian, Numeric, Nyanja, Nynorsk, Occitan, Pidgin English, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Roman, Romanian, Rundi, Russian, Samoan, Sardinian, Scottish (Gaelic), Serbian, Serbian (Latin), Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sotho, Spanish, Sudanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tok Pisin, Tonga, Tswana, Turkish, Ukrainian, Waray, Wolof, Xhosa, Zapotec, Zulu, Bulgarian - English, Byelorussian - English, Greek - English, Macedonian - English, Russian - English, Serbian - English, Ukrainian - English, Hebrew - Simplified Chinese (optional), Traditional Chinese (optional), Japanese (optional), Korean (optional), Arabic and Farsi (optional) + Moldovan, Bosnian (Cyrillic and Latin), Tetum, Swiss-German and Kazak.

System requirements

• Minimum
  - An Intel® Pentium® based PC or equivalent is recommended
  - 512 MB RAM
  - 200 MB free disk space
  - Windows® Vista, Windows® XP, 2000
  
• Recommended
  - An Intel® Pentium® IV
  - 1 GB RAM is recommended when using the watched folder mode
  (for Performance Add-on: 512 MB +512 MB/core)
  - 200 MB free disk space
  - Windows® Vista, Windows® XP, 2000

Optional Modules

• iHQC™ Add-on
  This add-on will give you access to the best level of compression available in IRISPdf.
  
• Arabic OCR Add-on
  This add-on is totally unique and enriches IRISPdf with the recognition of Arabic and Farsi.
  
• Asian OCR Add-on
  Enriches your software with 4 additional Asian recognition languages: Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Korean.
  
• Hebrew OCR Add-on
  Enriches your software with Hebrew recognition.
  
• IRISPdf Server
  Add IRISPdf Server to your IRISPowerscan™ and enjoy server functionalities to keep scanning on your workstation while the OCR process is decentralized and done on a dedicated server.
  
• IRISCapture Pro for Forms
  IRISCapture Pro for Forms is the perfect solution to process and encode automatically any kind of paper or electronic form.
  
• IRISCapture Pro for Invoices
  IRISCapture Pro for Invoices is a professional solution to encode and archive automatically all incoming invoices.
  
• IRISCapture™ Pro Sort & Index
  IRISCapture™ Pro Sort & Index is I.R.I.S.’ solution for the automatic identification, sorting and indexing of paper and electronic documents.
  
• IRIS-Docutec SC Capture Plus
  IRIS-Docutec SC Capture Plus together with IRISPowerscan™ can perfectly be used in the Digital Mailroom to generate index data, classify documents of all kind and distribute them via workflow.
  
• IRIS-Docutec SP Accounts Payable
  IRIS-Docutec SP Accounts Payable, in combination with IRISPowerscan™, represents the solution for invoices of all types, with its predefined solution packages and rule sets covering all specialties for different industry sectors and countries.