Document Imaging and Processing Services

Document Imaging Enhancements

Examples of BMI's document imaging enhancement capabilities include:

• Annotations - graphic or text which is added to an image page that was not part of the original image
• Redaction of sensitive information
• Resolution refinements
• Grayscale enhancements
• Cropping - trim the edges of an image
• Watermarks - for security or copyright protection; bits altered within an image to create a pattern which indicates proof of ownership
• Rotation -turning the image by 90, 180 or 270 degrees to the left or right
• Black border removal - remove black edges that sometimes appear around the image during scanning or photocopying
• Line removal -remove lines from, or to reconstruct lines on, a form-based image
• Noise removal - noise can be picked up from carbon or dirt particles found in scanners, fax machines, or copiers. This process removes them from the document
• Inverting (polarity) - creating a negative of an image. Black pixels become white and white pixels become black (or vice versa)
• Deskewing - removing the slant of an image that prevents it from being perfectly squared on the page or screen
• Despeckling - removing isolated speckles from an image file. Speckles often develop when a document is scanned
• Mirroring - an image that is reversed from left to right

PDF Processing

• Searchable PDF
• Programming
• Automation
• Integration
• Plug-ins

Image Conversions

Following the document imaging process, BMI can provide technical services to convert images to different formats and to enhance or change image characteristics.

• Convert images and indexes from a legacy imaging system into a new system
• XML/HTML conversion for many types of applications and interoperability between applications
• Government document conversions
• Educational record conversion and storage
• Medical record conversion and retrieval
• Business document and image scanning and retrieval