Glossary

Bar Code

A system of rendering information in a linear sequence of machine-readable elements. These elements are made up of rectangular black bars with white spaces between the bars. Prearranged groupings of these elements form characters as defined for specific bar code types. In document imaging, bar codes are typically used to encode index data and/or separate documents. Bar code types include Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5, UPC, and others.

Bar length

In a bar code, the number of characters encoded.

Bar width

In a bar code, the thickness of a bar.

Cache

Memory used for the temporary storage of images during scanning. Caching images to your accelerator board can significantly improve performance. Sometimes called prescan cache.

Document Management

Document Management is the process of managing documents. This may involve an integrated system which entails creation, review, sharing, storage, electronic tracking and retrieval, distribution, analysis, communication, administration and even destruction of digitized images of paper documents and other forms of information.

EDC (Electronic Draft Capture)

Process of electronically authorizing and capturing data typically in a credit card transaction using the information necessary which is encoded in the magnetic strip of a bank card.

ICR

Intelligent Character Recognition. The ability of software to recognize and translate handwritten characters into machine-readable text.

OCR

Optical Character Recognition. The ability of software to recognize and translate machine printed alphanumeric characters into machine-readable text.

RF Tagging (Radio Frequency Tags)

Also called RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), or dedicated short range communication (DSRC), this system is similar to bar code technology. Its system is made up of an antenna and transceiver, which reads the data from the frequency and transfers it to processing equipment; and a tag (or transponder), containing the radio frequency and data to be transmitted.