ScanFix cleans up in colour

September 17, 2009:Accusoft Pegasus has released ScanFix Xpress Version 6, introducing colour and grayscale document image cleanup to document imaging, in addition to black/white document image cleanup.

ScanFix Xpress enhances image quality, prepares images for further processing such as OCR, improves content recognition accuracy, and creates smaller compressed files.

"ScanFix Xpress v6 introduces colour and grayscale image cleanup to document imaging and forms processing application developers," says Rick Scanlan, director of sales engineering at Accusoft Pegasus.

"Most production scanners today provide a colour scanning option. While storage has become fairly economical, colour images still require considerably more storage space than black and white images. ScanFix Xpress can reduce compressed file sizes and make a significant improvement on OCR, ICR or forms processing activities."

The new version delivers a large number of new colour and grayscale image processing features.

Automatic colour Detection analyzes image content then recommends if images should remain colour or can safely be converted to bitonal. Greatly improved Automatic Binarization is provided for converting grayscale and colour images to bitonal. Brightness and Contrast Adjustment is now available.

colour Drop removes specified colours from an image. Image Detergent reduces colour noise and variation, and is particularly useful for removing JPEG compression artifacts around characters.

Virtual Bulb emulates a colour dropout scanner. In addition, Deskew, Border Removal, Blank Page/Rectangle Detection, Dilate/Erode, and more are now available within ScanFix Xpress for colour and grayscale images.

The ScanFix Xpress SDK allows developers to build applications targeting both 64-bit and 32-bit Windows .NET architectures. The .NET components included with ScanFix Xpress are compiled as AnyCPU. ScanFix Xpress is optimized for use in Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, and is fully compliant for use in .NET Framework 2.0 and higher. ScanFix Xpress is also available as a 32-bit ActiveX for deployment on 32-bit or 64-bit CPUs as a 32-bit application.

Full-featured trial versions of ScanFix Xpress are available.