ISIS (Image and Scanner Interface Specification) is the EMC scanner interface standard for desktop, distributed, mid and high-volume document capture. Designed to help businesses reduce IT support, maintenance and deployment costs, ISIS provides high performance, reliability and ease of deployment.

The recently published white paper, "The Value of ISIS to Hardware and Software Vendors" provides a brief overview of ISIS and how document capture and imaging vendors can leverage this industry standard to bring more competitive applications and products to market. The white paper includes information regarding development, support, and standardization of the ISIS specification, along with a focus on how ISIS technology, acceptance, and support can help hardware and software developers and vendors to remain competitive in three main areas: increasing sales and revenues, maintaining customer satisfaction, and reducing development cost associated with the end product.

Document Imaging Report (DIR) is an executive report on managing documents for e-business that brings readers the inside story behind the deals and decisions that affect their businesses.

In the July 2009 issue, DIR looks at the newly released ISIS PixTools Distributed Imaging toolkit. In the article posted here as a PDF, EMC's Kai Willie explains that one of the most challenging aspects for non-technical users in deploying centralized document capture applications is configuring scanners and loading drivers for myriad devices. EMC has addressed this issue by enabling the ISIS PixTools Distributed Imaging toolkit to automatically detect the scanner and configure the driver, saving the user time and frustration. The push-oriented nature of the new release means less user-driven configuration and more central control over system settings.

Other new features described in the article include JPEG 2000 compression leading to reduced bandwidth needs, and Citrix support that is automatically configurable for users.

As described in the section above, PixTools Distributed Imaging is a powerful ease-of-use toolkit for quickly creating web-enabled document capture client applications. By providing new features to support distributed, browser-based document and data capture implementations, this toolkit enables software providers to further reduce their development investments and quickly bring to market cost-effective document capture web-enabled client applications. Click here to download PixTools Distributed Imaging toolkit.

Distributed imaging allows data from various locations to be processed as if it were all under the same roof. PixTools Distributed Imaging (PDI) is a development toolkit designed to help application developers quickly and easily build fully functional distributed imaging solutions into web pages using HTML, JavaScript, or VBScript.

EMC recently released PDI v2.2, which includes these new features:

• PDF/A support
• JPEG 2000 in PDF
• Auto scanner detection
• Background dropout
• Image tags that are sent on server
• New barcodes and settings for barcodes

For more information, please read the full article on the EMC Developer Network.

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Download our new and improved ISIS PixTools Distributed Imaging Toolkit by clicking here.

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For ISIS tools, tips, and tricks, and to communicate with other scanner users as well as EMC's engineering staff, visit the ISIS developer community web site.

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