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ArchivistaBox 2008/IX: The world's first open source text recognition with searchable PDF files

Pfaffhausen (ots)

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
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 www.archivista.ch .

Contact:

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