Archivistabox 2008/IX: The World's First Open Source Text Recognition With Searchable PDF Files

PFAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, September 19 /PRNewswire/ -- With their launch of the ArchivistaBox 2008/IX, Archivista, a Swiss open
source software company, has released the only open source text recognition
software worldwide that can create searchable PDF files.

The majority of current text recognition or OCR (optical character
recognition) programs run only on Windows systems and can be purchased for
prices from around 100 Euro upwards. When, however, thousands or millions of
pages are to be processed, then expensive volume licenses, that are based on
a price per scanned page, are required.

The ArchivistaBox is a web based DMS (document management system), that
can be installed on every commercially available computer. Depending on the
hardware used, the page volume processed can vary between several thousand up
to several million pages per day.

Release of the 2008/IX marks the launch of the first open source text
recognition system that is able to generate searchable PDF files directly
from scanned pages. More than 20 languages are available and the recognition
quality is comparable with that of commercial systems (>99 percent).

PDF files generated with the ArchivistaBox are stored in an Archivista
database and automatically indexed, allowing the whole document stock can be
researched. Documents scanned can be called up with a web-browser at any
time. Sensitive data can be encrypted before being made available. If
required, the ArchivistaBox can create complete DVD publications.

100 % of the source code used in the ArchivistaBox comes under the GPLv2
license. Tesseract (including fracture / black-letter recognition) and the
Linux port of Cuneiform (BSD licence) OCR engines are used for text
recognition. The hocr2pdf module (see http://www.exactcode.de) is used to
generate the searchable PDF files.

The ArchivistaBox 2008/IX CD (700 MByte) can be downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/archivista/ or http://www.archivista.ch.

Press Contact:
Urs Pfister,
Archivista GmbH,
Phone: +41-44-254-54-00,
E-Mail: webmaster@archivista.ch

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