BookScan Editor (BSE)

Kirtas Technologies provides not only the fastest high-resolution scanning machinery in the world. It's also created the finest optical character recognition software available to run them.

The BookScan Editor 3.0™ does for post-scan image processing what the APT BookScan systems does for the scanning process - provide blazing speed and incredible quality in a highly automated environment.
BSE 3.0 includes new features such as:

• Metadata generation with XML output throughout digitization process
• Auto segmentation, page cropping, clamp removal and cleanup outside of text block
• Super-batch mode for unattended multi-book processing with simultaneous scanning and post-processing
• Raw image recall compares processed images to the original

The BookScan Editor Pro™ gives even richer Optical Character Recognition value as it integrates with ABBYY Fine Reader v8.0.

Please contact us to request further information or to place an order.

Key Features

A partial list of features, functionality and enhancements forboth BookScan Editor and BookScan Editor Pro:

Productivity

• Batch mode processing for an entire book at once; super-batch mode for unattended multi-book processing
• Creation and saving of Custom Profiles for repeated use
• Simultaneous scanning and post-processing
• Automated image cleanup and enhancement
  • High quality deskewing option
  • Auto-cropping and page padding features
  • Improved page centering,
  • Improved clamp detection and removal
• BookView UI enables easy, integrated structural metadata and book pagination, user-defined content (e.g. title page, front matter, TOC, chapters, etc.)

Ease of Use

• Preview window for real-time evaluation of quality control features
• Improved GUI and workflow with contextual menu bar
• File renaming and Insert / Delete Images via thumbnail view
• automated creation of page number contact sheets for physical quality control
• High level of flexibility in file naming and folder structure
• A complete QA feature helps users to easily export finished
  output images to an awaiting folder in another location

Quality

• B/W conversion using proprietary Dynamic Localized Thresholding technology, eliminating thresholding guess work, delivering smooth, rich and consistent B/W text, and boosting OCR performance
• digitization of Microfiche/Microfilm single pages with B/W text
• automated image segmentation with selective brightness/contrast settings for images vs. text