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Software That Enables Increased Productivity and Powerful Processing of Difficult Images

NextStar High Performance Workflow Software introduces an innovative processing methodology called Ribbon Scanning. With Ribbon Scanning, an entire roll of film or jacket of fiche is digitized from top-to-bottom and end-to-end in grayscale and stored as a single ribbon file.  Ribbon Scanning captures all images in raw, uncompressed form using true optical dpi.  The unique Ribbon Scanning approach enables significantly better OCR accuracy after scanning than other software packages available today.

Ribbon Scanning solves many of the challenges encountered today in the conversion process from microfilm to digital images. NextStar software, with its innovative Ribbon Scanning, was designed to reduce conversion costs while boosting productivity.   NextStar allows the user to verify that all images were properly captured, and identifies any image detection or density problems.  NextStar then allows the operator to correct those issues in a post-scan audit environment.

NextStar eliminates the need for rescans resulting from density or frame detection problems, maximizing scanner utilization and productivity.  With NextStar’s superior image quality, handling any density and filming related issues commonly faced in conversion processes is easy, outputting images that actually match your database.

NextStar enables the user to manage the end-to-end conversion process.  It is modular and expandable.  From basic set-ups where all components run on the base scanner, to large distributed production systems, the software components communicate between multiple platforms and work is scheduled and shared between many operators.

nextScan once more leads the industry in technology innovation by introducing an enhanced version of NextStar, NextStar High Definition (HD).  NextStar HD is available for applications where resulting archival image quality is paramount, such as scanning of degraded historical documents or newspapers.  NextStar HD has all of the useful and flexible features of NextStar, plus it enables up to 12 bit uncompressed grayscale output.  NextStar HD is available as an option with most nextScan scanner models, and enables the highest OCR accuracy from its output images in applications where this is a must.  NextStar HD yields output images with 4096 shades of gray, while most other software packages on the market produce 256 shades of gray.

NextStar is designed with enterprise expandable architecture and includes all the excellent image enhancement features needed to produce the best in image quality without all the hard work. NextStar can also be employed as a processing software for paper scanning applications, so can be most useful and quite versatile in a conversion environment where many types of documents are being scanned.

NextStar’s innovative approach not only introduces the new scanning methodology of the 21st century, but it also has changed the cost of scanning film and fiche.

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