
Using the AXIS 7100
AXIS 7100 User’s Manual
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Tools for Viewing, OCR
and Archiving
Tools for viewing, OCR and archiving generally support
multipage compressed TIFF. Document viewers are optimized for
presenting document data in a readable format on a screen.
Tools that combine viewing and simple archiving are becoming
increasingly popular.
Acrobat Reader
The PDF format requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Acrobat
Readers for Windows (3.1, 95/98, ME, NT, 2000), Macintosh and
UNIX can be downloaded free of charge from Adobe Systems
Web site
http://www.adobe.com
Adobe Acrobat Reader is also supplied on the AXIS Product CD.
Notes:
• Although the generated TIFF image files do not contain searchable
text, you can use an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application
to convert the bitmap to text that can be corrected, indexed,
searched or copied to other files.
• The generated PDF image files do not contain searchable text. You
can use Adobe Capture or the built-in capture function in Adobe
Acrobat to make the text searchable.
• When using the “Text” profiles for scanning documents, make sure
that the viewing tool supports multipage CCITT G.4-compressed TIFF;
the TIFF format is the most common standard for imaging and
archiving of scanned documents. If your application does not support
multipage documents, you can create a profile that generates single
page documents, or scan each page as a separate job.
• The AXIS 7100 is compatible with the majority of today’s popular
tools. However, if you find a tool that is not supported by the AXIS
7100, we would like to know about it. For information on how to con-
tact us see “
Preface
” on page 3.
• For further information, including recommendations for specific tools
and sample images created by the AXIS 7100, see the Axis web site at
http://www.axis.com