Scanning
CEDNSUS
ocuments
Susheel John
Business Manager – South East Asia
Worldwide
Census
Turn
to Kodak
Some Census Projects we have been associated with
United States
Census Turkey
New zealand
France
United Kingdom
Australian
Singapore
Japan
Philippines
Indonesia
India
Taiwan
Hongkong
Census Scanning Issues
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Capture Window
 Large Document Volumes
 Equipment Reliability
 Speed & Actual Throughput
 Transport Robustness
 Accessory Integration
 Service & Parts
Document Handling
 Double Document Feeds
 Jams
 Transport Reliability
 Transport Access
 Feeder Reliability
Census Scanning Issues
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Image Quality & Output
 Threshold capability
 Skew
 Black Borders
 Speckling & Noise Removal
 Coloured Forms
 Colour Dropout
 Multiple Output formats
RED
GREEN
BLUE
BLACK
PENCIL
RED
GREEN
BLUE
BLACK
PENCIL
Original
RED
GREEN
BLUE
BLACK
PENCIL
Bad Scan
Good Scan
Census Scanning Issues
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Document Imprinting
 Print while Scanning
 For Physical Audit Trail
Easy to Use Document Scanning Software
 User friendly Software
 Easy verification scanned image quality
 Ability to capture Key Indexes
 Ability to output to variety of Data Capture applications
Document Archiving
 Seamlessly archive images for future generation access
Capture Window
Production Scanners
i600/ i780
i1440
High Volume Scanning - Kodak i1800 Series
For Unlimited Duty Cycle, Multiple Shift Operations
 Same speed for Colour
 Up to 200ppm – Dual Stream 800ipm
 500 Sheet Feeder
 Colour on the fly using Patch sheet
 3D Ultrasonics
 Elevator Feeder
 Touch Screen Interface
 Multiple Printing Options
 Automatic Rotation based on Document Content
High Volume Desktop Scanning – Kodak i780
Desktop Production Scanner for daily volume of upto 130000
130000 pages per day
 Same Speed At 300dpi as 200dpi
 130 PPM 200 or 300dpi
 Scan on paper detect:
 Add paper in the input tray and the scanners elevator will rise and start
scanning automatically.
 Faster Rotation:
 Rotate 300 dpi letter size documents at speed. It can also rotate large
11 by 17 documents with bitonal 200dpi output at speed!
 Automatic Document Rotation
 500 Sheet Feeder
 3D UltraSonic Detection
Mid Volume Scanning - Kodak i600 Series
Reliable Desktop Production Scanning
 Automatic Colour Detection
 3D Ultrasonics independent Sensors
 Same speed for Colour
 Up to 120ppm – Dual Stream 480ipm
 500 Sheet Feeder
 Upgrade in the field to Faster and Colour model
 Automatic Rotation based on Document Content
Low Volume Scanning - Kodak i1400 Series
For Distributed Scanning of Census Documents
 3 Models – i1410 (simplex(, i1420 and i1440)
 Developed from the ground up
 New 600dpi camera and lens – Cleaner and crisp images
 Faster transport – Capture Documents quickly
 USB2 Interface – Easy to install. High speed interface
 Tethered A4 or A3 – Share the flatbed around the office. Cost effective
 Printer as STANDARD – Audit trails to track documents.
 Automatic Colour Detection – Only capture colour when you need to.
 Photo Extraction – Excellent for applications that contain ID Photo.
 Trainable Colour Dropout – Multi colour document handling
 Smart Touch – Intelligent PDF Creation software included for free.
 Colour Smoothing – Uniform colour image background
 Automatic Document Rotation – Speed up pre-sort function.
 Black and White Photo Segmentation
 New TWAIN Drivers – Easier to use and gain access to ALL scanner
features.
Document Handling
SurePath Paper Handling.
Feeder
Industry Leader with the release of the 3500 in 1998.
Handles mixed size documents, length, width or
thickness with no operator involvement.
Feed almost anything
Customer replaceable consumables
Provide Extra life consumables
3D Ultra Sonic Detection.
Transport
Length Detection, Thickness Detection, Air Gap
Ensure all documents are captured.
No issues from change from one thickness to another
Auto calibration
i6xx Series introduces 3 Zone
Easy To Access Transport
i1800
i780
i1440
Image Quality & Output
Capture Technology
Kodak is the ONLY scanner manufacture that made
their own lens and CCD arrays.
Enables you to build a system to design specifications
and not try to make different modules work together.
High Speed CCDs
 Require less light
 Less heat, more reliable
Perfect Element System
 No bad pixels.
Image Processing – Perfect Page
Original
Document in
Colour
Kodak
scanners
Other
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this by ...
scanners
do…this!
Getting It Right The FIRST Time
Delivers the highest quality image to ANY application.
 Image processing “Built In” to scanner.
 Optimized for each scanner
 Less SW for customer to:
Purchase
Install
Maintain
Deskew
Cropping
i Thresholding
Color Management
Electronic Color Dropout
Dual Stream scanning
iThresholding
 EASIER acquisition of more diverse documents.
 ELIMINATES need for black background to achieve auto-cropping
and rotation.
 REDUCES file sizes, rescans and need to manually adjust image
quality after scanning
Automatic Orientation
 Automatically rotates document
90, 180, and 270 degrees to its proper legible
orientation.
 Applies to front and rear independently
 Utilizes Kodak’s image analysis methods
 Latin-based only at this time
 Handles machine print, upper case, lower
case, some dot-matrix
 8 point to 24 point
Automatic Color Detection
Mixed color and
black and white
documents
No workflow changes! Capture Color as
needed!
 Auto Color Detect when needed
 specific to your job stream!
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Reduced document preparation
Reduced storage requirements
Output files in any format
ISIS and TWAIN compatible
Correct format is
automatically
chosen for each
Background Color Smoothing
 Replaces Similar Colors with a Single Color
 Identifies Similar Color Regions of Document Image
 Eliminates variations in paper – mottling
 Eliminates print variations
 Reduce File Size by up to 20% in Automatic Mode
 Replace Document Background Color with White (optional)
Segmentation Technology & Photo extraction
Different image algorithms
applied to the photograph
compared to the text
Locate photo
and extract the
image colour
Trainable Color Drop Out
Trainable Color Drop Out
Perfect Page turns this
Into This!
Multiple Output Formats
Capture
Grayscale
Bitonal
Colour
Bitonal & Grayscale
Bitonal & Colour
Industry Standard Drivers
Industry standard drivers included.
Access to all the scanner features.
Kodak Capture Software available.
Document Im-Printing
Printers
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Policy 2468
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Allow Printing of
Capture Software
User Interface
Indexing and Index Setup (2)
Indexing Mode
Separate main screen layout when entering Indexing Mode
• Completely
customizable
• Also saved at the
Job and User level
• NEW: Can navigate
to other images in
the document to
perform indexing
• Thumbnail Viewer
can assist in
navigating to the
right image
Barcodes or OCR for Key Index
-Select zone type “bar codes”
-Draw zones on master
images
-Setup bar codes properties
Output Tab – System - options
“System” allows the selection of DM system specific output
formats.
The top Setup button accesses the specific options setting dialog
for the selected BOF
The bottom Setup button accesses the Output Path settings dialog
to build the output formula
Digital Preservation
Electronic Microimaging
Digital
Microfilm
Kodak Scanner
File Server
i9600 Writer
Storage CD / MO/ OD
for Quick Access
Thank You
susheel.john@kodak.com