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If you manage a scanning project, and you are responsible for processing thousands of pages every day, you have already seen the software that comes bundled with your hardware.
Great pieces of software, but often too complex for operators who only need to scan quickly and reliably, without getting crazy in a nightmare of powerful features.
> Question 1: does "powerful" necessarily mean "useful"?
Furthermore, those programs are often missing a whole set of important capabilities, for enhancing readiness and usability of the documents you scan.
> Here's where Docs can help.
Ease of use is crucial in today’s scan rooms, as needs are evolving and becoming more complex every day.
To meet these needs, scanner vendors have added plenty of capabilities
to their hardware devices, that are today very reliable, absolutely robust, and very flexible in managing a variety of originals.
But...
>> Question 2:what about ease-of-use of software?
Complexity offered to the high-end, super-professional user hurts the needs of the remaining 99% of users who do not care about an esotheric approach to scanning: they just need a user-friendly, intuitive, time-saving program that meets 95% of their needs.
>> Here's where Docs can help.
Yes, there is still an unsatisfied need of a friendly software encompassing
all functions required to manage scan-to-PDF worklows in a simple way.
This is exactly where Docs fits. A very easy-to-understand and easy-to-use software to scan paper documents, edit (cleanup, cut areas, shift borders, add logos's, etc.), and convert to PDF.
All options are available through a fully iconic interface, with intuitive mouse driven operations, to let the user, no matter his technical knowledge, browse the document and arrange it as needed. Inserting, deleting, copying, moving, editing pages and whole documents is as simple as using the Select and Drag&Drop actions familiar to every Windows user.
As simple as that.
Docs is NOT another scan driver.
Docs is NOT a complex batch scanning and barcode recognition software.
Docs is NOT a new trendy program for dual processing or image splitting.
Docs IS the software to SCAN, EDIT, and CONVERT TO PDF paper documents.
That's it.
Example of applications
- Scan-to-Archive
- Paper-to-Web
- Scan-to-PDF
Scanning features
- Scan from TWAIN source
- Scan at any resolution
- Ability to scan black&white or color images
- Ability to scan relying on manufacturer scan driver
- Scan-to-Disk
- Display scanned images
- Zoom In/zoom out selected areas of scanned images
- Set document source: TWAIN or document folder (batch processing)
- Set scanning folder path (multiple scan sessions can be addressed to different folders, to allow a better workflow management)
- Batch processing of scanned documents
- Capability to close TWAIN session after each scan
- Set scanning images filename prefix
- Set filename suffix counter
- Set output image format (default: TIFF G4, JPEG, uncompressed TIFF)
- Set output image depth
- Apply text to scanned images
- Set text properties: font name, type, color, size
- Set text orientation
- Apply numbering to scanned images
- Apply date to scanned images
- Set positioning of text, date, numbers
- Append new images to previously scanned ones
- Insert new images between previously scanned ones
- Rotate pages
Document Viewing Features
- View TIFF and JPEG documents
- Set thumbnail rows x columns
- Zoom IN/OUT into a thumbnail
- Select one/multiple/all images
- Reorder pages
- Rotate pages 180, +90, -90
- Delete selected pages
- Move selected images before/after a page
- Copy selected images before/after a page
- Undo modifications
- Double click on image to edit it
- Insert blank page (with possibility to set orientation, size, resolution)
Document Editing
- General settings
- Set unit of measure
- Show/don’t show rulers and guides
- Display images in portrait or landscape
- Browse document pages
- Set one or multiple vertical guides
- Set one or multiple horizontal guides
- Ability to apply changes only to displayed image, on a group of selected images, or on the whole document
- Undo/redo at page level (4 levels)
- Undo/redo at document level (1 level)
Area settings
- Select area
- Cut-Copy-Paste a selected area
- Available “paste” modes for a selected area: normal | behind | transparent
- Shrink selected area
- Enlarge selected area
- Rotate selected area by X degrees
- Set brightness for selected area
- Set contrast for selected area
- Move selected area (either manually or by setting arrival top-left X,Y coordinates of the area)
- Export selected area to clipboard
- Crop area
- Erase area in a bounding box
- Erase area out of a bounding box
Page settings
- Despeckle
- Border removal: upper, lower, left, right; set same values or individual values
- Deskew page(s) by X degrees
- Page shift: top/down/left/right; set same values or individual values; even/odd/all/alternate mirroring pages
- Split page: 1xTabloid into 2xLetter, 1xA3 into 2xA4 (e.g. in case of book scanning from flatbed)
- Fast page rotation 90° - 180°
- Zoom IN - Zoom OUT
- Page resize (full page can be resized to a % proportionally)
- Crop page image
- Add crop marks
- Change output media size
Annotations
- Apply text (save font, type, size, colour, position, rotation)
- Apply page numbers (save font, type, size, color, position center left right outside)
- Draw shapes (elipses, lines, rectangles; set line thickness, line stile, fill style, color)
General features
- User interface available in 5 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian)
- Ability to set a working folder (“inbasket”) to manage the workflow of documents
- Set inbasket path
- Set document naming convention for acquired images (default prefix)
- Set viewing convention for images (original orientation or always portrait)
- Set units of measure (pixel, mm, inches, picas, points)
- Customize menu toolbar look&feel: view/don’t view label under icons, set icon position to allow visual workflow
- Customize general product Info with End User logo, Vendor logo and contacts, including web site and e-mail address for asking technical support
- Set local preferences for each module installed
- Online Help
- Rename documents
- Renumber documents
- Select one or multiple or all documents
- Delete selected document(s)
- Ability to restrict current workflow just to selected documents
- Access any documents (and files) on the PC from within the application
- Access any documents on system resources (local PC and network) from within the application
- Select one or multiple documents at a time
- Move selected documents from a folder to another
- Copy selected documents from a folder to another
- Import selected documents into inbasket (unlimited)
- Delete selected documents
- Delete selected folder
- Open selected document with native application (if available)
- Zip document
- Unzip zipped document
- Zip and e-mail document
- Send document to media (floppy, CD, external drive)
- Send document to hard disk (Scan-to-Disk)
- Send document to e-mail (Scan-to-email)
- Cut-Copy-Paste document
- Rename document
Document assembly
- Combine multiple multipage documents into a new document, reordering pages, deleting pages, etc.
- Set orientation of pages (original or always portrait)
- Collect multiple PDF, TIFF, JPEG documents and merge them into a new PDF document
- Display pages of new PDF document
- Edit PDF pages with Acrobat from within Docs
- Advanced capabilities to create bookmark tree
- Reorder bookmarks
- Add, delete, rename bookmark
- Dynamic creation of Table of Contents
- Remove subset of bookmark tree
- Automatic addition of blank pages
- Add header and footer
- Add page numbers (left/right/mirrored)
- Add total number of pages
- Add date
- Add time
- Add chapter name (from bookmark name)
- Set header and footer fonts and positioning
- Ability to export PDF bookmarks to use them as TABs
TIFF-to-PDF and other Document Format Conversions
- Convert tiff, jpeg, gif documents to PDF
- Convert single TIFF documents to multiTIFF
- Convert PDF documents to PostScript
- Extract TIFF pages wrapped in PDF documents
- Set output page format while converting image documents
- Set output filename
- Save default conversion settings
Download Trial Version
You can download here a trial version of the software.
This trial version is fully functional: you can test all product functionalities for 15 days.
We will never sell, rent, or transfer your e-mail address to anybody,
and you can of course always request not to receive any further information from us.
Prices (unlimited number of scanned pages)
| Configurations |
Price
per license
(Euro) |
Annual
SMA
(Software Maintenance
Agreement)
- Optional -
(Euro) |
Upgrade
from previous version
(when not covered by SMA)
(Euro) |
Classic
(Scan+Edit
+Conversion to PDF) |
€ 900,00
(*) |
€ 90,00
|
€ 300,00
|
(VAT to be applied where needed)
(*) Small businesses can request payment in 3 monthly installments of Euro 310,00 (3x310,00).
Orders are carefully processed manually, and invoiced. Please send your company name, address, and VAT Code.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How many pages can I scan on a monthly basis?
A: There are no lock codes: you can scan an unlimited number of pages every day, week, month, year. Forever.
Q: Who can benefit of Docs for Scan-to-PDF applications?
A: any office or scan room that needs to scan volumes of paper documents for archiving purposes or for publishing on web paper information ("paper-to-web").
Q: Compatibility?
- Supports any Twain scanner with Microsoft Windows driver
Q: What languages are availbale?
A: Docs is available in the following languages (*):
- English
- Italian
- French
- German
- Spanish
(*) User interface. Manuals are in English only.
Q: What are the system requirements?
A:
- Windows XP Professional SP2 - Vista is NOT supported.
- PC Pentium IV - 3 GHz or higher
- 1 GB RAM min (2 GB recommended)
- SuperVGA card, min 1024x768 - 24 bit
- USB or PARALLEL port available
- Min 400 MB free disk space
- Adobe Reader 6.0
Q: How can I order the software?
A: Just submit an request of information, or just your fomal P.O., to orders@adhoc-online.com. You will promptly receive a reply with all the information: order confirmation, procedures, prices, configurations, post-sales services, etc.
We process orders MANUALLY: a human being will be happy to assist you, feel free to ask any questions.
Q: May I submit my P.O. via fax?
A: Sure, send it to +39-02-87399063.
Q: How can I pay the software?
A: After submitting your order, you will receive a pro-forma invoice including our references for wire transfer. After payment, the package will be shipped to your attention, together with invoice.
Q: Technical assistance?
A: Love this question! Please refer to Software Maintenance & Assistance to see how different we are.
Download Trial Version
We will never sell, rent, or transfer your e-mail address to anybody,
and you can of course always request not to receive any further information from us.
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