Scansoftware BCS-2®

Since its founding in 1995 ImageWare Components portfolio of software and systems has been successively expanded in order to offer complete solutions beyond the Bookeye range of products.

Since 1997 this has also included BCS-2® as a scanning platform for overhead, flat bed, feed-through and microfilm scanners with over 1.000 installations.

BCS-2® is a solution for fast and easy scanning, distribution and publishing of books, magazines and micro films.

BCS-2® is Windows VISTA compatible.


Details

  • Simple and intuitive operation under Windows (2000, XP, VISTA)


  • Scanner-independent software (support for all commercially available scanners via TWAIN and /or ISIS drivers)


  • Support for microfilm scanners incl. special applications such as blipped roll film or microfilm jackets


  • Scan & email with interface to Outlook, Lotus-Notes and any type of SMPT server


  • eCopy package for use as a copying/scanning station in the half-service section


  • Order processing with indexing


  • Flexible changeover between different scanners within an job


  • Multilingual user interface


  • Choice of output formats: TIFF G4, JPEG, PNG, MTIFF, PDF (optional PDF)


  • Eextensive processing functions such as automatic page split, border removal, barcode- and OCR recognition, single- and multimasking


  • Add-on modules for service providers such as a journal function for accounting/statistics, batch module for batch processing and background module for parallel processing of jobs


  • Publication directly on microfilm for long-term archiving


  • Publication directly on the internet via BCS-2 Webpublisher


  • Interfaces to electronic document delivery systems Medea3, MyBib eDoc, DOD-1/DOD-2 (subito), ARIEL


  • Interfaces to library systems Aleph/ADAM, SISIS Sunrise, PICA CBS/LBS


  • Ppay-per-click interface to the billing and payment systems of Schomäcker, Inercard, Sudeco etc. for use in the self-service sector


  • Scalable solution from single-user to multi-user solution under MyBib eDoc with integrated workflow control