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Kirtas Technologies Offers Software Solutions Enabling Customers to Store, Search and Archive

Wednesday 02. July 2008 - ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE & EXPO -- As a pioneer and the leader in high-speed, nondestructive book digitization, Kirtas Technologies has set the standard for quality in hardware capture systems.

Today, the company announced it is taking the lead in setting the standard for high-quality optimization of all digitized files using the Kirtas BookScan Editor Software Suite.

“Our digitization systems provide the highest quality images, but just as important is what happens to those raw images once they’ve been captured,” said Kirtas Founder and CEO Lotfi Belkhir. “The ability to enhance, search, archive and extract metadata to recreate your work in a variety of formats is what really matters and ensures your documents will live forever.”

The latest software offerings from Kirtas include:

BookScan Editor 3.0 — The latest software release comes with numerous powerful upgrades including metadata capture, process and reuse throughout the entire digitization process; fully automated segmentation, cropping, clamp removal and cleanup outside of text block enabling higher productivity and minimal touch ups; super-batch mode for unattended multi-book processing with simultaneous scanning and post processing; and image recall to compare your processed image with the original.

JPEG 2000 — For preservation purists, Kirtas now offers JPEG 2000. This hardware solution accelerates the compression time and delivers images with superior quality at about six times faster than current software solutions, without taxing the client PC.

Arabic OCR Manager — This software is the ideal solution to handle the unique characteristics of the Arabic language. It can identify both Arabic and English characters on the same page, and can also distinguish between 26 Arabic true type fonts. It enables the user to scan large volumes of documents, save them as graphic files and classify them for later recognition in order to save time. It also includes four other right-to-left languages such as Farsi, Urdu, Pashto and Jawi.