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UniSoft Imaging Builds Document Imaging Tools for Application Developers. UniSoft Imaging has solutions for Black and White Document Imaging (Group 3, Group 4, PCX, and Packbits), Color and Grayscale Document Imaging (JPEG, BMP, GIF, and PCX), JPEG2000, and Vector Document Imaging.

Document Imaging

The UniSoft Imaging Library is a toolkit for integrating document imaging into new or existing applications. The library supports all major document imaging standard formats for compression and decompression, scaling, printing, rotation, image clean-up, SCSI scanning, TWAIN scanning, and barcode recognition for MS-Windows (all versions), Linux, and Unix.

Supported Compression and Decompression Formats

bullet CCITT Group 3 1-D
bullet CCITT Group 3 2-D
bullet CCITT Group 4
bullet IBM Modified Read
bullet Group 3 No End of Line Symbols
bullet Monochrome PCX

Compression only

bullet PDF
bullet HP PCL5

Supported Compression and Decompression Formats with Color and Grayscale Option

bullet JPEG Baseline Sequential (Color or Grayscale)
bullet JPEG Progressive (Color or Grayscale)
bullet BMP (2, 4, 8, or 24 bit)
bullet PCX (2, 4, or 8 bit)
bullet GIF
bullet JPEG2000
bullet TIFF LZW (1, 2, 4, 8, 24 Bits)
bullet Most Grayscale and Color TIFF formats

Scanning

The UniSoft Imaging Toolkit supports direct scanning from the following SCSI Document Scanners:

bullet Fujitsu 4860, 5650C, 5750C, 6670C, 6770C
bullet Fujitsu 6140, 6240
bullet Fujitsu 3093G, 3096G, 3097G, 3099
bullet Fujitsu 3097D, 4097, 4750C, 4099
bullet Fujitsu 3091, 3092, 4120, 4220, 5120, 5220, 4340C, 4530C, 5530
bullet Ricoh IS50, IS60, IS410, IS420, IS450, IS01, IS330, IS760
bullet Canon DR-9080C, DR-7580C, DR-6080, DR-4080, DR-3020, DR-3060, DR-3080, DR-5020, DR-5010, DR-4010, DR-5080C, DR-2080C
bullet Canon DR-5060F MicroFilmer & Image
bullet Panasonic SS25, SS50, SS55, 855, 2055, 2065, 3065, 6040, 6045, 6050, 6055, 2025C, 2045C, 2026C, 2046C

UniSoft Imaging can provide complete production scanning applications on customer request. These applications can scan in black/white Tiff G4, grayscale JPEG, color JPEG, and direct to PDF. These scanning applications can optionally create scan list files and support barcode and patch separator sheets.

UniSoft Imaging also supports the Twain Scanning standard. There are some significant problems with some Twain Drivers, but applications can develop sets of tested and supported scanners and cameras.

UniSoft Imaging supports the Minolta MS3000 and MS4000 Microfilm scanner and the Canon 400/500/800 Microfilm scanner.

Image Clean Up/Image Editing

bullet Despeckling
bullet De-Skewing (Small Degree Rotation)
bullet Hole Punch Removal
bullet Border Removal and Auto Cropping
bullet Automatic and Manual Image Cropping
bullet Manual Area Erasing
bullet Mirroring
bullet Tiff Group 4 to Tiff Group 3, PCX, PCL, BMP, DIB, JPEG, GIF
bullet PCX, Packbits, and uncompressed to Tiff Group 4
bullet Color image formats to grayscale JPEG
bullet Grayscale JPEG to Tiff Group 4
bullet Tiff Group 4 and JPEG to PDF with optional bookmarks
bullet Real-time lossless conversion of Color JPEG (YCbCr) to Grayscale JPEG (Y)
bullet Increasing or decreasing pixel density to lighten or darken objects on black/white images
bullet Automatic Line Removal

Barcode Recognition

UniSoft Imaging currently supports the following barcode formats:

bullet 3 of 9 Barcode
bullet 2 of 5 Barcodes
bullet 2 of 5 IATA Barcodes
bullet Barcode 128
bullet 9 of 3 Barcode
bullet Codabar Barcode
bullet UPC-A Barcode
bullet EAN-8 and EAN-13 Barcode
bullet PDF417 (2-D Barcode)

Barcode Recognition can be set to find the first valid barcode or multiple barcodes on any supported document image format. All barcode recognition functions can find skewed and even upside down barcodes. Images can also be searched for barcodes rotated by 90 or 270 degrees.

Image Annotation

bullet Any True Type Character or String can be merged into the image or an annotation layer used for display and printing.
bullet 3 of 9 or UPC-A, EAN-13, or PDF417 barcodes can be merged into an image.
bullet Color Rectangles and Ellipses
bullet Legal Redaction Annotations
bullet Vector Drawing

Long Paper Scanning

Some Panasonic scanners, like the KVS-3065, allow for scanning long paper like well logs or heart monitor strips. The UniSoft Imaging software can save the images as separate pages, one long image, or one long image in multiple strips. The UniSoft Imaging Library can also display and print these images. UniSoft Imaging has developed methods for scanning continous sheets up to 300 feet long.

MS-Windows DLL

Versions of the UniSoft Imaging Document Imaging Library are available for Vista, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. All functions are callable from C, C++, Visual Basic, and many other environments.

Using very simple function calls, application developers can create complete document imaging applications.  Since all the provided software is in the DLL, the decompression, scaling, rotation, and display of images is very fast.  This is a full feature library that provides all the document image functions available from UniSoft Imaging.

Portable ANSI C Code

The library is written in ANSI C and is very portable. On certain operating systems, key routines have been taken to assembler for speed (compiler switch to use C code). UniSoft Imaging Library users have ported the library to new operating systems and/or computer systems in less than four hours.

Supported Operating Systems And Graphics User Interfaces

bullet Vista
bullet Windows 2000, and Windows XP
bullet Unix and Motif
bullet Linux

Printing

PCL4 and PCL5 (Hewlett Packard Print Control Language) is supported. PCL4 and PCL5 add enhanced printing to directly cabled printers and/or adds support for network print utilities. The UniSoft Document Imaging Library can drive many printers at near the printer's specified maximum print speed. This same interface can be used for merging text, images, vector, and barcodes together and printing this composite page or storing back as a new TIFF or JPEG image.

Scaling

N to M scaling supported for various document types.

Rotation

Images can be rotated 0, 90, 180, and 270 degrees.

PDF Conversion

JPEG and Tiff Group 4 Images can be converted into PDF files.  Optionally, a table of contents can be added to the PDF generated files.

Documentation

Over 400 pages of documentation exist in Microsoft Word format. The documentation discusses how to use the different features of the UniSoft Imaging Library, how to compile the UniSoft Imaging Library, and how to install the library.

Consulting

UniSoft Imaging has experienced C and assembler consultants who are familiar with the UniSoft Imaging Library. If you need help getting started or have problems that cannot be easily solved, call for information about our Technical Consulting.

Technical Support

UniSoft Imaging supports its customers. Most of our customers come by way of recommendations from others in the imaging industry. If we cannot help you with your applications, we will attempt to match you with other consultants or advise you where to look for a better solution.

Pricing

The cost for the UniSoft Imaging Library is $3500.00 which includes the first 25 copies of any application that contains the library. The 26th to 1000th copy cost $25.00 per copy, the 1001st to 2000th copy cost $10.00 per copy, and the 2001st and subsequent copy cost $1.00 per copy. This includes one year of free maintenance and technical support. All money is in U.S. dollars.

Additional years of maintenance and technical support can be purchased for $500.00 for companies with 500 or less workstations deployed and $1.00 more for each workstation after 500. The maximum yearly fee for maintenance and technical support is $5000.00.

Other pricing schedules are available and UniSoft Imaging will work with customers to create other pricing schedules. Royalty free licenses per application and site licenses are available in some cases. Price reductions available for customers buying more than one library.

Click Here to Download a Sample Application, Simple32.exe, Complete Documentation, and Sample Dynamic Link Library (MS-Windows 2000, XP, or Vista) (around 1 megabyte)

 

Click Here to Download some sample images. (around 78k)

UniSoft Imaging Contact Information

Contact:                    Calvin E. Aiken
 
Telephone:                405-624-9257
 
Cell:                             405-269-7102
 
Email:                         calvin@unisoftimaging.com
 
Address:                    4606 N. Britton Drive, Stillwater, OK 74075, United States