SCANFLOW™
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THE MOST EFFICIENT SOLUTION FOR YOUR MASS DIGITIZATION
What is ScanFlow™ Professional?
ScanFlow™ Professional.. .
… is an efficient and easy to use workflow & management software. It increases the throughput and output quality of your mass digitization projects.
Manage your staff
What shall be done by whom?
Organize different hardware
Which hardware shall be used
ScanFlow™
Plan the book & document logistic
Which workflow fits to the requirement
of the documents?
Automatize data flow & tasks
Which task shall be processed next?
ScanFlow™ Professional ·What is the BENEFIT?
Output quality

ScanFlow™ ensures a
constant & high output quality
Working efficiency
ScanFlow™ increases the throughput
Structure efficiency

ADVANTAGES No loss of efficiency, all tasks fit perfectly
ScanFlow™ leads to a clear structure
What does ScanFlow™ ?
Struggling without workflow software …

🙁 DISADVANTAGES
- Manual documentation
- Manual copying & working
- Manual quality check
- High communication overhead
- Handling errors
- No project overview
WHO is doing WHAT and WHEN?
…get organized …
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Structured working with ScanFlow™ Professional
🙂 ADVANTAGES
- Automatic processing of system tasks
- Automatic documentation
- Job tracking (WHICH job is WHERE?)
- Automatic copying
- Quality check support

Workflow example
ScanFlow™ – Global functions
Parameter controlled processing
ADVANTAGES
- Easy setting of processing parameters
- Processing parameter can be set
- globally for a whole job and
- individually for single pages
- Master files remain unchanged
Undo function (e.g. Deskewing)
- Go back to any previous task
- Easy correction of settings:
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- Correct settings stay unchanged
- Wrong settings can be adapted
Processing suggestion & Live preview
ADVANTAGES
- Automatic processing suggestions
- Displayed in Live preview
- Exact adjustment easily possible with Live preview
- Available for all processing functions (e.g. Deskewing, Cropping, Extrapolation, Brightness & Contrast adaption, …)
Multiple workflows
ADVANTAGES
- Create and customize multiple workflows
- Use different workflows simultaneously
- Different projects can be processed with the same staff and hardware simultaneously
- Change workflow settings anytime when needed
Multiple outputs
ADVANTAGES
- ScanFlow™creates multiple file formats
- File formats can be created automatically and simultaneously
Job finalization
All finalization tasks (e.g. Transfer to storage, delete auxiliary files) are done by ScanFlow™automatically.
ScanFlow™ – Analysis, Reporting, Tracking
Analysis, Reporting & Tracking tools
ADVANTAGES
- Different process overviews
- Easy project progress analysis
- Fast identification of bottlenecks within scanning projects
- Track & log the status quo of each job
(e.g. in which workflow stage is each job, etc.)
PROCESSING TIME
TRACK & LOG
ScanFlow™ – Quality control tools
Task completeness check
ScanFlow™reports automatically if every task has been executed and generates status reports of all embedded workflow tasks.
Quality control recommendation
ScanFlow™provides recommendations for:
- Which pages might have lower quality?
- Which pages require an additional quality control?
Quality check
ScanFlow™supports fast quality checking:
- Pages can be easily marked
- Explanatory notes can be easily added
FAST QUALITY CHECK
Faulty pages are marked
ScanFlow™ – further functions & tools
Resource organization tools
Inter-task message tool
ScanFlow™enables users to pass notes within the software by using inter-task messages.
Remote monitoring tool
ScanFlow™ includes a monitoring tool for all processes by remote access via web interface.
Scheduling function
ScanFlow™allows to schedule all tasks to guarantee an optimal resource management (e.g. time consuming and computationally intensive tasks can be processed over night).
Task automation functions
Automatic execution of external scripts
ScanFlow™allows to execute external scripts automatically by using a CU (Command Line Interface).
Automatic import functions
ScanFlow™supports automatic import functions.
Automation of FTP-uploads
ScanFlow™enables the automation of FTP-uploads.