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| Acquisizione di Dati | Acquisizione di dati è l'identificazione e l'estrazione di dati da un documento... |
| Ad Hoc Capture | Capturing individual documents as needed, or capturing documents for individual use, as opposed to b... |
| ADF | The Automatic Document Feeder on a scanner. The feeder holds multiple pages and automatically loads ... |
| Annotation | For scan operations, a text annotation is a string of characters permanently added to an image befor... |
| Aspect Ratio | The size relationship between the width and height of an image. When images are resized, distortion ... |
| Auto-Length Detection | A scanner feature that detects when it reaches the end of a page. If additional pages remain, scann... |
| Automated Document Separation | A technique that relies upon software, rather than separator sheets, to determine the break point be... |
| Automatic Discrimination | A scanner's ability to sense the difference between text and photos and adjust itself accordingly. ... |
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| Back-Office Capture | Capturing and processing batches of documents in a mid- to high-volume, centralised, production-leve... |
| Backfile Conversion | The process of scanning and indexing a repository of documents, most commonly paper-based but includ... |
| Ball-Point Pen Filtering | A scanner's ability to sense the difference between printed text and ink. When enabled, the scanner ... |
| Bar Code | A method of portraying information as a sequence of machine-readable vertical lines of varying width... |
| Batch | A group of one or more documents processed in a single scan operation.... |
| Batch Class | A definition of all the settings for processing a batch, including the types of documents in the bat... |
| Bitonal | An image made up of pixels that either are white or black (i.e., an image that includes no shades of... |
| Black Border Cropping | Removal of black border pixels from a scanned image. Cleans up an image and reduces the height and ... |
| Black Border Removal | Replacement of black border pixels on a scanned image with white pixels. Cleans up an image without... |
| Bleed-Through | Text or images printed on one side of a page that are visible, in whole or in part, on the other sid... |
| Business Process Automation | Business Process Automation, or BPA, is the process a business uses to contain cost... |
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| Cache | Memory used for the temporary storage of images during scanning. Caching images to an accelerator bo... |
| Captura de Dados | Captura de dados é a identificação e extração de dados de um d... |
| Captura de Datos | La captura de datos es la identificación y extracción de datos de un documento ... |
| Capture | The automated process of capturing images of documents from scanners, fax machines and multifunction... |
| Capture de Donnees | La capture de données est l'identification et l'extraction de données d'un docum... |
| Capture Forms | Also known as data capture forms. Typical data capture forms have a fill-in-the-gaps format, often h... |
| Capture Software | Software licences sold through resellers or directlly to end users as a primary capture solution, as... |
| Central Site | The location where Kofax Capture is installed on a server. Typically, the central site processes ca... |
| Character Reconstruction | The process of rebuilding text characters after a line removal operation (e.g., removing the signatu... |
| Checksum | An additional character added to a bar code providing a mathematical method for determining the inte... |
| Classification | Automatically determining a document's type by examining its format and/or content. The process of ... |
| COB | Continuity Of Business. Companies develop COB plans to determine how, while recovering from a natur... |
| Color Dropout | The removal of a specific color from a scanned image. Typically used for preprinted forms, so that ... |
| Communication Software | Communication software is used to provide remote access to systems and exchange files and real-time ... |
| Compression | A software or hardware process that shrinks images so they occupy less storage space and can be tran... |
| Compression Format | The algorithm used to compress an image. Kofax supports a wide variety of compression formats such a... |
| Content Management | Content Management, or CM, is a set of processes and technologies that support the ... |
| Content Management Systems | A Content Management System (CMS) such as a document management system (DMS) is a c... |
| Content Management Tools | ... |
| Continuous Scanning | The ability to scan extra long images. Requires a scanner that supports this feature. ImageControls ... |
| Contrast | The range between the lightest and darkest shades in an image. A high-contrast image has fewer gray ... |
| CSP | Certified Solution Provider. The term Kofax uses to identify resellers who have attending training ... |
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| Data Capture | Data capture is the identification and extraction of data from a scanned documen... |
| Data Capture Forms | Also known as simply capture forms. Typical data capture forms have a fill-in-the-gaps format, often... |
| Data Entry Image Software | ... |
| Data Entry Software | Data entry software enables companies to enter data and information into a compu... |
| Data Management | Data management comprises all the disciplines related to managing data as a valuable resource.... |
| Data Management Software | ... |
| Data Management Tools | ... |
| Data Processing Software | ... |
| Data Solutions | ... |
| Datenerfassung | Datenerfassung ist die Identifikation und Extraktion von Daten aus einem gescann... |
| Day Forward | A document imaging implementation option in which only records received or created after a cut-off d... |
| Density | The balance of light and dark shades in a scanned image. A high density setting produces a light ima... |
| Departmental Scanners | Scanners that fall between workgroup scanners and production scanners in their page per minute capac... |
| Deshade | The removal of unwanted shaded areas from an image. Removes speckles that make up a shaded area whi... |
| Deskew | The straightening of an image that appears crooked. Skewed images typically result when a misaligne... |
| Despeckle | The removal of unwanted dots or speckles from an image.... |
| Destreak | The removal of unwanted streaks from an image. Each horizontal scan line of an image is processed t... |
| Digitalizacao de Documentos | Digitalização de documentos transforma documentos em papel em imagens eletrôn... |
| Digitalizacion de Documentos | La digitalización de documentos transforma los documentos en papel en imágenes... |
| Distributed Capture | Capturing documents at geographically distributed locations and automatically transmitting them to a... |
| Dithering | The process of simulating a color unavailable on a system or program’s palette by using two or more ... |
| Document Capture | The process of capturing a digital image of an entire document. Most frequently used for archival s... |
| Document Exchange | ... |
| Document Imaging | Document imaging transforms paper documents into electronic images that can be used... |
| Document Imaging System | A document imaging system transforms paper documents into electronic images that... |
| Document Management | Document management controls the life cycle of documents in your organization — how... |
| Document Management Software | Document management software generally consists of a repository and client software... |
| Document Management Systems | A document management system (DMS) is a computer system (or set of computer programs) used to track ... |
| Document Scanning | Document scanning transforms paper documents into electronic images that can be ... |
| Document Scanning Software | Document scanning software transforms paper documents into electronic images tha... |
| Document Scanning System | A document scanning system transforms paper documents into electronic images tha... |
| Double-Sided Scanning | A scanning process that scans one side of a page, flips the page, then scans the other side. Compar... |
| Download | Process by which published batch classes and settings are transferred from the central site to a rem... |
| DPI | Dots Per Inch. See resolution.... |
| Driver | Software code that enables a computer to communicate with peripheral devices (e.g., scanner, printer... |
| Duplex Scanning | Scanning both sides of a page simultaneously on a single pass through the scanner. Requires a scanne... |
| Dynamic Scaling | A set of display options that allow scaling factors to be determined by the size of the display wind... |
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| Edge Enhancement | A digital processing filter that makes lines and characters in an image appear sharper, making them ... |
| eDocument | An electronic document. Such documents might have been converted from paper to a digital format, or... |
| Electronic Data Capture | An Electronic Data Capture (EDC) system is a computerized system designed for the collection of data... |
| Electronic Document Management | ... |
| Electronic Document Management Software | ... |
| Element | The rectangular black bars, or spaces between the bars, that make up a bar code.... |
| Endorser | A scanner attachment that prints a text string on a page as it is scanned. Sometimes called an impri... |
| Endorser String | A text string mechanically printed on a page as it is scanned. See annotation.... |
| Engine | Run-time software that enables the functionality integrated into an application through the use of a... |
| Enterprise Content Management | Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is the strategies, methods and tools used to... |
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| Fax Server | A fax server is designed to replace one or more fax machines with dedicated soft... |
| Fax-Over-IP | Enabling a fax machine or MFP to send and receive faxes via an internet connection rather than a pho... |
| Fixed Scaling | An option that allows images to be resized to a precise scale ratio.... |
| Foot Pedal | A mechanical lever on some scanners used to control its operation. For example, some foot pedals al... |
| Form Processing Software | ... |
| Forms Processing | The ability for software to accept scanned forms and extract data from the boxes and lines to popula... |
| Freeform Data Capture | Capturing data from unstructured documents.... |
| Front Office Capture | Capturing and processing documents as close as possible to where they originate, as opposed to in ce... |
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| Grayscale Image | An image that consists of white, black and shades of gray.... |
| GUI | Graphical user interface. The icons, symbols and other graphical elements workers see on their comp... |
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| High Availability | A high availability system will continue to operate even if one or more of its components fail. Ref... |
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| ICR | Intelligent Character Recognition. The ability of software to recognize and translate handwritten ch... |
| Image | The digitized representation of a picture, graphic, or document.... |
| Image Capture | ... |
| Image Scanning Software | ... |
| Imagerie Documentaire | L'imagerie documentaire transforme les documents papier en images électronique... |
| Imaging Solutions | ... |
| Import | The process of loading existing electronic image files into the system or application.... |
| Indexing | The process of assigning descriptive data to a captured document (e.g., name, date, location, transa... |
| Information Management | Information management (IM) is the collection and management of information from one or more sources... |
| Input Management | Input management is a term coined by a capture company in 2005 in an attempt to ... |
| Intelligent Capture & Exchange | A combination of capture and communication software that augments the processing of documents with t... |
| Invoice Management | ... |
| Invoice Management Software | ... |
| Invoice Processing | ... |
| Invoice Processing Software | ... |
| Invoice Software | ... |
| ISIS | Image and Scanner Interface Specification. A driver used primarily with production scanners. First... |
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| Jog Position | The position of one side or the other in a printer's output tray for the printed copies. Jog positio... |
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| Key from Image | Refers to a data entry method in which operators manually key data from the scanned image of a docum... |
| L | |
| Landscape | Page orientation where the page width exceeds the page length. See orientation.... |
| Learn-by-Example | A technique for improving the performance of an automated system by "teaching" it the correct result... |
| LOB | Line of Business.... |
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| Mailroom Processing | ... |
| Manage Documents | ... |
| MFP | Multi-function peripheral. Office equipment that incorporates two or more functions (print, fax, sc... |
| Multifunction Product (MFP) | Office equipment that acts as a scanner, fax machine, printer and copier, often attached to a networ... |
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| Network Load Balancing | A Microsoft-developed technology that balances network traffic across a number of hosts, enhancing t... |
| Noise | Extraneous speckles on an image.... |
| Numerisation de Documents | Numérisation de documents transforme les documents papier en images électroniques p... |
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| OCR | OCR stands for optical character recognition. OCR transforms printed or... |
| OCR Scanner | ... |
| OCR Software | OCR software transforms printed or hand-printed text into electronic data that c... |
| ODBC | Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a standard software API specification for using database manage... |
| OEM Software | Software that is licensed for distribution by other manufacturers for incorporation into their own p... |
| OMR | Optical mark recognition. Recognizes pencil or pen marks in specific document positions (such as fi... |
| Optical Character Recognition | Optical Character Recognition software transforms printed or hand-printed text into... |
| Optical Character Recognition Software | Optical Character Recognition software transforms printed or hand-printed text into... |
| Orientation | The relative direction of a page, either horizontal (called landscape) or vertical (called portrait)... |
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| Padding Images | The process of adding white space from the end of the scanned image to the length of the selected pa... |
| Panel | The area on a scanner or MFP where instructions to control its operation are entered. ... |
| Panning | The ability to move a zoomed image within the display window with the mouse. ... |
| Patch Code | A pattern of horizontal black bars separated by spaces. Typically, a patch code is placed near the t... |
| Patch Code Trigger | A patch code that when detected causes the application to perform a predefined action.... |
| Point of Sale (POS) Software | Packaged software that is licensed at the point of sale by a reseller or distributor. Sometimes call... |
| Portrait | Page orientation where the page length exceeds the page width. ... |
| Production Scanners | High volume scanners, typically capable of processing from 40 to 100+ pages per minute. See also wo... |
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| Quiet Zone | In a bar code, an unmarked area preceding the leading bar and following the last bar.... |
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| Rated Speed | The theoretical maximum number of pages that can pass through a printer each minute. Often lowered ... |
| Redaction | A type of document annotation that conceals from view specific portions of sensitive documents.... |
| Release | Process by which completed batches are transferred from Kofax Capture to another application. Once r... |
| Release Script | Software needed to export documents and data from capture software to other programs (e.g., ECM, CRM... |
| Remote Site | Site where an Kofax Capture remote station is located.... |
| Remote Station | Workstation at a remote site on which Kofax Capture and the Remote Synchronization Agent are install... |
| Remote Synchronization Agent | Remote station software used to synchronize Kofax Capture batch processing activity between the cent... |
| Resolution | The fineness or coarseness of an image as it is scanned, printed, or displayed. It is measured in do... |
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| Saturation | The ability to emphasize horizontal and/or vertical pixels when scaling an image for display or prin... |
| Scale to Gray | A process that makes a scanned image more readable on a computer display. When a scaled image is dis... |
| Scan-Enable | Adding scanning functionality to a software program that previously lacked this capability. Kofax’s... |
| Scan-On-Demand | A method of implementing a document imaging system where documents are scanned only when they’re nee... |
| Scannen von Dokumenten | Scannen von Dokumenten wandelt Papierdokumente in elektronische Bilder, die im ... |
| Scanning Forms | ... |
| Scanning Software | ... |
| Scanning Technology | ... |
| Scansione di Documenti | Scansione di documenti trasforma documenti cartacei in immagini elettroniche che... |
| Semi-Structured Document | A document that includes known types of data, but where on the page this data is positioned is not k... |
| Separation | Automatically determining where one document ends and the next begins.... |
| Separator Sheets | A sheet of paper manually inserted between documents before scanning that indicates the start of a n... |
| Simplex Operation | The process of scanning or printing a single side of a page at a time. Sometimes called single-sided... |
| Skew | The result of feeding a document into the scanner at an angle, producing an image that is not square... |
| SOA | Service Oriented Architecture. SOA isn’t a product, technology or standard. Rather, it’s a style o... |
| Speckle | A group of black pixels of a defined height and width surrounded by white pixels (or white pixels su... |
| Straight Through Processing | An automated workflow that a scanned document can pass through to completion without the need for ma... |
| Structured Document | A document for which both the type (number, letter, check mark, etc.) and location of data is known ... |
| Synchronization | Process by which batch classes and other settings at the central site are downloaded to remote stati... |
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| Thick Client | Fully featured computer connected to a network. Can perform most processing functions on its own, a... |
| Thin Client | A thin client is a computer with little or no processing power. Instead, thin clients rely on the c... |
| Thresholding | When converting a pixel from grayscale to black and white, the threshold is the gray value above whi... |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format, the primary format used by document imaging systems. Incorporates several... |
| Transaction Capture | Capturing information or data from documents and forms specifically to initiate, continue or conclud... |
| Transformation | The process of automatically and intelligently extracting, classifying, indexing and validating info... |
| TWAIN | A technology standard defining how images are acquired from a document scanner. Not an acronym; tak... |
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| Unstructured Documents | A type of document for which, prior to scanning, both the type and location of the information it c... |
| Upload | Process by which completed batches are transferred from the remote site to the central site.... |
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| Validation | A process that raises the probability that captured data is correct. Although sometimes performed m... |
| Verification | A procedure used when captured information absolutely must be correct. Typically, two or more opera... |
| Voting | A technique used to improve OCR/ICR accuracy. Multiple OCR/ICR engines, each utilizing a different ... |
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| Web Server | A computer that runs an application which allows files to be transferred over the Internet to a clie... |
| Web Services | Web services provide a standard means of interoperating between different software applications, run... |
| Wet Signature | The use of a pen to sign a document by hand. Often a requirement to make the document legally bindi... |
| White Noise | Extraneous white speckles in a black portion of an image. Typically used to describe speckles in a b... |
| White Noise Gap | A tolerance value for the size of white speckles in a black border.... |
| Workflow | Automating the procedures for handling business processes. Workflow systems are usually based on el... |
| Workgroup Scanner | A low volume scanner, typically capable of scanning 10 to 25 pages per minute. See also departmenta... |
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