Document and Image Viewing
Viewer delivers high-speed document and image viewing capabilities for users, increasing productivity and reducing downtime. Ultra-fast first page display technology greatly reduces rendering time which can be significant for large files. View documents and images from any Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system or user’s local file system. Viewer provides the following document viewing features:
- Quickly navigate between multi-page documents and multiple documents with ease
- Working Set / Multi-Part Document Support
- Thumbnail display for quick navigation.
- Document rotation, zoom, and scroll
- Fit to window, height, or width
- Pan the document/image
- and much more…
File Format Support:
One single universal viewer to display all major types of images and documents with the highest fidelity. Viewer can view PDF, MS Office Documents, JPEG, TIFF, Multi-Page TIFF, PNG, IBM Proprietary formats, CAD drawings, and many more. All image and document rendering engines are designed and developed in-house for the highest level of image quality and support.
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Provides functionalities such as Rotate, Zoom (In and Out), Fit to Presets, Navigate between Pages / Documents, Thumbnails, Watermarks, Invert Colors of the page.
Annotate and Collaborate
Users can quickly and easily add annotations, comments, redactions, watermarks, and bookmarks to any document or image to expedite review and collaboration processes.
- Annotate ALL supported file formats. Add annotations to PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MO:DCA, TIFF, CAD, PNG, and more.
- Save annotations as separate objects: Document and image annotations are stored without modifying the original document. The viewer can be configured to avail annotation options based on user permission levels set up by the administrator.
- Supports a variety of annotations: Various shapes, rubber stamps, image stamps, highlighting, “sticky notes”, and many more.
- Ability to "burn in" annotations for document distribution and/or for use in external applications.
- Create predefined or custom Text or Image Stamps
- Advance measurement annotations: Ruler, Cross Product, Angle Measure, and
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Allows user(s) to view, edit, and save metadata information associated with the document, presented virtually in any format such as Date & Time, Single Choice, Multiple Choice, Single Line Text, Multiple Lines of Text, and much more. The metadata information of any file can be viewed or edited and saved back to ECM. The metadata information is displayed in a structured manner to make it easier for users to understand.
Document Manipulation
Document manipulation tools are essential to facilitate the use of digital documents and images. Document manipulation enables users to view the document, adjust pages within a document, remove unnecessary content from documents, and much more. Viewer provides a vast number of document manipulation tools including:
- Cut, Copy, and Paste pages into a document
- Merging documents into a single document
- Rearranging pages within a document
- Rotating pages within a document
- Crop and Auto Crop of documents and images
- Image Clean-up
- Scale-to-grey resizing for 1-bit images
- Invert color of the document
- Flip page of a document or an image horizontally or vertically
- DeSkew the document
- Adjust Sharpness and Smoothness
- Adjust Brightness and Contrast
- Advance Image quality settings
- Apply a number of advanced image filters
Redact Document and Images
Easily remove sensitive information from confidential documents and images such as names, addresses; social security numbers (SSNs), date of birth (DOB), credit card (CC) details, bank account numbers, and much more.
- Redact ANY document supported by the viewer including PDF Word, Excel, TIFF, MO:DCA, JPEG, PNG, and many more.
- Redacting on-the-fly: No need for a secondary viewer to redact documents. The redaction tools can be used just like the annotation tools by user that has the permission to do so from the administrator.
- Preserving original content: The redacted documents and images are exported to PDF or TIFF for distribution. The original file is kept intact and unaltered ensuring that the original data is preserved.
- Compliance with corporate regulations and security standards: Redaction will help to adhere to the permission scheme set up within the repository to ensure regulatory standards are met for the organization.
Viewer enables users to print documents, provided they have the permission from the administrator, with a variety of options. These options include:
- Print Selected Area
- Print selected page numbers
- Print multiple documents
- Print with or without annotations and text mark-ups.
- Print multiple pages on a single sheet
- High resolution printing (300, 600, 1200 dpi).
- Silent Printing
Document/Image Conversions
Viewer enables users to convert documents and images on-the-fly to more universal file formats for ease of use and portability. Documents and images can be converted into any number of file formats including: PDF, TIFF, MO:DCA, and many more.
Scan Documents Directly into Viewer
Viewer delivers the ability to scan documents directly into the viewer from a TWAIN enabled Scanner. Scanned documents can be saved in any number of file formats including: PDF, TIFF, MS Office file format, PNG, and more. Additional features of the scan function include:
- Support Black and White and color scanning
- Support Duplex scanning – i.e. scan front and back side of the document
- Retrieves all available scanners on the network
- Supports ADF scanning if supported by the attached scanner
- Provides wide range of image file operations: Auto-crop, brightness, contrast, deskew, sharpness, smoothness, and many more...
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Viewer allows user(s) to perform optical character recognition on any image that has text. Applying OCR to images such as scanned faxes enables users to do:
- Text searches
- Extract text from images
- Copy text to clipboard
- Convert images to text searchable PDFs
Document/Image Comparison
One of the more advanced feature of the viewer is to allow user to view two documents simultaneously side-by-side to compare versions of the document. The viewer can also highlight all the differences between the two for easy comparison of the documents.
Image Filter Operations
Viewer includes a number of filters that enhances the document viewing experience for users. These filters include:
- Brightness and contrast
- Sharpness and smoothness
- Flip (horizontal and vertical)
- Deskew
- Enhance
- Invert
- Emboss
- Grayscale
- Dithering
- Despeckle
User Interface (UI) Options
Viewer can be customized to fit organization’s needs. The following are some of the functions that are customizable:
- Customizable toolbar, add, remove, show, and hide buttons at runtime with XML input.
- Customize to support corporate branding using company’s logo, colors, and labels
- Thumbnail & menu image selection
- Splitter Panes
- Tree-view (for quickly browsing through the documents)
- Document Information at status bar
- Resizable, free floating window
- Friendly User Interface
Exposed APIs
The exposed APIs will allow developers to integrate the viewer to various applications as well as programmatically control the viewer in numerous ways. Developers can use the exposed APIs to:
- Programmatically load/unload documents
- Programmatically navigate between pages and documents
- Programmatically split documents (vertically or horizontally) for comparison
- Programmatically export documents into other file format
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Exclusive Features
- Local document cache or global / shared document caching under load balance WFE servers.
- Compatible with Windows mobile or Windows tablet to view documents from SharePoint.
- Supports deployment over load-balanced environment.
- Easy Installation, configuration and license deployment / activation procedures.
- Embedded document explorer to browse/search documents from SharePoint, and open documents from within the viewer’s user interface.
- Version controlling (Check-Out / Check-In / Discard-Check-Out) process embedded within the viewer.
- SharePoint web-part to export all documents of a document library with their annotations to a desired format.
- Java script & Scriptable Silverlight APIs to add custom toolbar buttons to existing tabs or add new tabs to the viewer and add toolbar buttons to it with their implementation.
- Commenting and annotations.
Bookmark pages in a document with comments.
- Comment based searching of bookmarked pages.
