CVISION Technologies

Question: I am interested in minimizing my PDF documents. Does your product maintain quality after the PDF file size minimization? How much will the PDF file be reduced by using PdfCompressor?

Answer: Our PdfCompressor helps convert PDF, TIFF, and JPEG files into compressed, web-optimized, minimized and text searchable PDF files. The PdfCompressor reduces PDF file size of scanned color PDFs up to 1/100th of the size, and minimizes scanned black & white PDFs up to 1/10th of the size. We can also minimize electronic PDFs which may require a tweaking in the setting and using the Rasterization mode opposed to the Stream mode. Please have in mind you can always submit the file to us for examining. We will return the compressed file along with the utilized settings.

The PDF file reduction is completed while maintaining file quality; however there are various types of files out there, the standard setting of PdfCompressor usually works well to compress them. However, some other files may require tweaking those setting to achieve better PDF file reduction results. In these instances, or for any other questions to help reduce PDF file size, contact support@cvisiontech.com

For a free trial of PDF compression software, click the link below:

http://www.cvisiontech.com/download_main.html

Question: I need to compress PDF documents, and make them searchable. Can your software do both on the same document?

Answer: PdfCompressor can make your documents fully searchable with CVISION’s super-accurate OCR, AND PdfCompressor 3.1 makes the most compact, Web-friendly PDF files available. PdfCompressor 3.1 will compress typical black and white scans by a factor of 5-10x and color scans by a factor of 10-100x. Our unmatched text-focused color scan processing ensures maximum data retention, even under high compression.

Uniquely, PdfCompressor combines image processing, OCR, advanced compression, Bates-stamping, PDF options settings, web-optimization and encryption all in one step.
See for yourself with our free 30 day trial version, available at http://www.cvisiontech.com/download_main.html

Question: We scan articles from newspapers and would like to upload them to our corporate ECM. Can you recommend an automated way to do that?

Answer: Typically Enterprise Content Management (ECM) requires additional information about the scanned files. Using your example, you can consider adding document name, newspaper name, author, date publish, etc. This information will help users search on these fields to get precise results. To automate the process, you can use a cover page. You scan the cover page first follow by the article. The cover page will outline your required information such as document name, newspaper name, author, etc. The cover page can be printed or it can be designed as a handwritten form. Handwritten recognition requires ICR, while printed recognition requires OCR. At the end of the recognition process, the program can generate an XML file and a searchable PDF file. Both files can be automatically uploaded to your ECM using watched folder.

For more information, please email info@cvisiontech.com

Question: My office deals with way too many PDF files and they’re cluttering up everyone’s hard drive. Is there any way to reduce PDF files size so we can have some more storage space?

Answer: You can reduce PDF file size with CVISION’s PdfCompressor. Learning to reduce PDF file size will only take a few lessons and be relatively easy to learn. Once you reduce PDF file size, you’ll have much smaller files at hand that will be easier to email as attachments and increase storage space as well.

If you’re interested in learning to reduce PDF file size, download our free 30-day trial of PdfCompressor:

http://www.cvisiontech.com/download_main.html

Question: Can you extract handwritten text from a scanned cover page? We are looking to extract this text on the captured documents and indexing certain information into a database. I suppose we need an ICR solution for this project.

Answer: Yes, we can provide an ICR solution to extract handwritten text. However, this is not an “out of the box” solution. ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition for handwritten text) rates are only about 30% reliable; whereas, OCR rates are typically, over 90%. With that in mind, in order to possess a working solution to the problem, you would need to designate certain areas for the text to be extracted, and also set up validation rules to improve the ICR recognition. There are many factors to consider, if you would like to discuss the problem, and solution further, please email proservices@cvisiontech.com

Question:  I need to OCR my PDF files. Do you offer a PDF OCR solution? Does PdfCompressor have OCR capabilities?

Answer:  Yes, we offer a PDF, OCR solution through PdfCompressor. In addition to compressing and converting documents into PDFs, it also OCR’s the files for text-searchability.

We offer a free 30-day trial of our software, see the link below:

www.cvisiontech.com/download_main.html

Question: What are the PDF compression rates for typical scanned files using PdfCompressor?

Answer: You would need to be more specific regarding the scanned documents. If your documents are black and white, typical compression rates are as high as 1/10th the original document. For color, PDF compression results can be obtained as high as 1/100th the original.

The best thing to do, in order to measure the compression rates of your scanned files would be to try our free evaluation of PdfCompressor. I have attached the link below:

www.cvisiontech.com/download_main.html

Question: I am looking to condense my PDF files. Do you have software that will condense PDF files? My scanned PDFs are becoming difficult to manage as they are large in file size. 

Answer:  Yes, PdfCompressor will condense PDF files. You can condense the size of color documents to 1% of the original, and black & white up to 10% the original size. 

If you are interested in a free download, I have pasted the download link below.

www.cvisiontech.com/download_main.html

Question: Does your OCR engine support Xerox scanners?

Answer: Yes, our OCR engine is compatible with Xerox scanners. If you are looking for an OCR download for a Xerox scanner I would suggest trying either PdfCompressor Professional or Desktop, both are equipped with OCR.

The Professional Version of PdfCompressor features improved color and bitonal compression, allowing for documents that are up to 100x smaller than their original. In addition to the compression results, the product has super-accurate OCR capabilities for over 60 languages.
The Desktop Version of PdfCompressor would also be a strong option for a Xerox OCR Download. The Desktop Edition is a “lite” alternative to the Professional Edition. It is designed to compress only a single document at a time, each of which does not exceed 100 pages. You can test out the OCR on this download as well.

We offer full tech support with our free 30 day evaluation of the Professional or the Desktop download. If you are interested in either product as a potential OCR Download, I have attached the link below.
http://www.cvisiontech.com/download_main.html

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