Scan Software
for in-house scanning

Hi. My name is Andrea Tonacchera, founder of Ad Hoc, the company that develops and markets DOCS, the scan software for non-geeks.

You'll find in this page a video tour and an image gallery of the software, and a fully functional 15-day trial is available for free. But before leaving you to your evaluation, I want to briefly share with you what I consider to be the most important aspect of this product. 

I'm not here to say that "our software is better". But we are in this business since several years, and we have something which makes us pretty unique: we are a software company specialized in applications for digital documents AND we also manage highly sensible scanning projects for a number of customers.
Yes, we do act as a scanning bureau for very confidential assignments, mainly in the legal and the financial sector.

What does that mean to you? and why am I telling this?
   
Let me explain. 
Due to our experience as a scanning service, we are the FIRST USERS of our own software. And I can tell you that our internal scanner operators win over our software engineers. If for no other reason, because I want to be one of the users! And if 'the president' says "I'd like this button there", the programmer can be reluctant but moves the button there...

So, this software really allows the average user (me) scan documents as a specialist.

Therefore, if your scanning need to be done by 'normal people', who are not service bureau professionals nor technical geeks, we might have something in common. 

Good news, isn't it?!

Ok, now keep reading and see if our software can be a good fit for you. 
  
Should you have any question, do not hesitate to contact us to . I'm always copied a copy of such e-mail, and I read all of them personally. I promise you'll ALWAYS get an answer. 

Warm regards,

Andrea Tonacchera
    

Samples of Graphical User Interface - Image Gallery
(click on small thumbnails to display each screenshot) 
 

1. Scan

2. View, reorder, insert, append,...

3. Edit: deskew, despeckle, remove black borders, crop,...

4. Convert to PDF

Choose an image to begin

 
Typical in-house scanning applications

• Scan-to-Archive
  When you want to convert your paper archive to digital, to save space, or work better, gain efficiency.
     
• Paper-to-Web
  When your organization owns meaningful information on paper (e.g. training material, old reports, etc.), and you want to make them accessible to your audience via web
     
• Scan-to-PDF:
  Any of the above, plus any documents project that involves ditributing/sharing information to multiple people, in a timely manner, and without wasting money in copying and shipping costs. 
         

Possible workflows with scan software DOCS

> Question 1: does "powerful" necessarily mean "useful"?

Great pieces of scanning software, but often too complex for operators who only need to scan quickly and reliably, without getting crazy in a nightmare of powerful features.
   
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.

>> Question 2: what about ease-of-use of software?
 
Ease of use is crucial in today’s scan applications, 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...
 
... but 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 scan software encompassing
all functions required to manage document scanning 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, archive, distribute.

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, image splitting, or esoteric image enhancement.
  
DOCS is just the scan software for normal people, who need to scan hundreds or thousand of pages without getting lost in a gazillion of features developed by IT geeks for IT geeks.

If you want to scan your paper quickly and easily, at the same productivity of veteran scanning professionals, it is the product for you.

That's it.

Download Trial Version of Scan Software DOCS 

When you request a trial version, you are receiving a 15-day fully functional version of the software. No watermarks, no limitation in number of pages. Latest release, fully functional.

For any technical question, please feel free to contact our technical support, : you'll get a reply within a maximum of 4 to 8 working hours.  

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.

Document 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 Features

• 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 of Scan Software DOCS

You can download here a trial version of the scan software.
This trial version is fully functional: you can test all product functionalities for 15 days.
  

For any technical question, contact our technical support  and you'll get a reply in 4 to 8 hours. 

Prices (note: unlimited number of scanned pages)

(VAT to be applied where needed)
   

Maybe you are evaluating to purchase this product, you liked it, and you are just a bit reluctant to spend your money via web.

We cannot convince you to do something, we're not agressive sales people, nor persuaders (if persuaders exist).
I can only tell you that we are a "real people" company: orders are carefully processed manually, and invoiced manually. You will never risk of paying for something that will not be invoiced. You will record your purchase in your company books, and deduct your expenses according to your fiscal laws. Very straightforward.
 
How? Simple: upon your order, just send us your company name, address, and VAT Code. Use
 
And for any further question you may have, apart from e-mailing us, you can always give us a call: we do have a real telephone line, and you'll find real people taking your call.
See all details down in the page footer.

 
    
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
• Vista is NOT supported.
  
   

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 your purchase order to . 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 +39-02-84477371.

Q: Do you have an order form I must use, or we can use our own?

A: Feel free to use your own P.O. template. Then, just e-mail it as an attachment to , or fax it to +39-02-84477371. We will promptly send you an Order Confirmation message, to notify that your order arrived correctly and it is being processed. Should we need any clarification, or if any information were missing in your P.O., our personnel will contact you.

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 definitive fiscal invoice.

 
Q: Technical assistance?

A: Love this question! Please refer to Software Maintenance & Assistance to see how different we are.

Need more information? E-mail your questions to