Technical Specifications

System Requirements


Hardware
  • Minimum: Any Intel Mac or a PowerMac G5
  • Highly recommended: Mac with Intel processor
Operating system
  • Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard or later
Memory
  • Minimum: 64 MB of VRAM (GPU)
  • Highly recommended: 128 MB VRAM or higher

File Formats


Input
  • Regular photo files including JPEG, RAW, TIFF
  • PDF files (even multipage)
Output
  • JPEG, TIFF, PNG
  • OCR Results:
    • PDF (Text)
    • PDF (image + Hidden Text)
    • RTF
    • TXT

Input Options


Cameras
  • Camera plug detection
  • Direct browsing of camera content
  • Browsing of iPhoto, Aperture and Lightroom libraries
  • Full Tethering (application commands that a connected Canon or Nikon DSLR camera takes a picture)
  • Half Tethering (application automatically imports picture after manual shot)
Scanners
  • Image acquisition from connected scanner (Snow Leopard only). All supported scanners are listed here.

Output Options

  • Copy/paste of result
  • Drag result from preview pane to any other application
  • Print from within the application
  • Save Over the input file
  • Save the entire undistorted image

Extraction Options

  • Extraction grid shows non-linear lens distortion
  • Interactive Grid Positioning
  • Perspective-locked Grid Positioning
  • Guessing of optimal DPI for current image/grid configuration
  • Precise control on output size in any unit & DPI

Image Processing

  • Ultra-fast GPU accelerated image processing
  • Rotation of image (left or right)
  • Resampling to any size/DPI
  • Brightness/contrast Tuning
  • Smart Binarization for even improved output resolution
  • Adaptive Binarization for dark and bright areas
  • Homogenization of image
  • Support of user presets
  • Manual tuning of distortion coefficients
  • Eyedrop Tool for Page Background Determination
  • Lens distortion correction
  • Page Curvature Correction

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

  • Highly Accurate OCR Engine (OpenRTK by ExperExchange, Inc.)
  • Support for 10 Languages (English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian)
  • In-place Display of Recognized Text Blocks inside Input Image
  • Text Skimming on Recognized Text Blocks (previewing OCR results)
  • Export of formatted output (RTF, PDF)
  • Export of Image with Hidden Text (Spotlight Indexable) as PDF
  • Adjustable, Interactive Binarization for Optimal Results
  • Selective Copy/Paste of Text Blocks

Camera Calibration

  • Step-by-step camera calibration assistant
  • Printed or on-screen calibration pattern
  • Saving of calibration results for future use
  • Optional collaborative sharing of calibration results with other users

User Experience

  • Elegant and Intuitive Interface
  • Real-time preview of extracted image
  • Zoom in/out, Zoom to Fit, Zoom All
  • Expandable preview pane