Light Up Your Documents With The Power of Images
Capture images and capture your audience's imagination. Get your reader's full attention by giving them vibrant images. To add attention-getting images to your documents, you need a scanner. To get the most power and speed from your scanner, you need Pixel!SCAN.
Pixel!SCAN is available either as a stand alone application package, or as the front-end module to Pixel!FX, Mentalix's premier beginning-to-end image manipulation package. Pixel!SCAN serves as an easy-to-use interface to many of today's popular scanners, and it empowers your business with line art, grayscale and true color images.
Select the image type - line art, grayscale, or 24 bit color -- and then use the Prescan function to perform a low-resolution preview scan and display a color representation of the image on the scan window. Select the desired area to scan interactively by dragging a selection area around image or by entering precise position and sizing information using inches, centimeters, picas or points measures. For fine adjustment you can use the zoom in/zoom out and scrolling features on the prescan window to more closely examine the selection area. Use selection area resize handles to interactively control the precise specification of the scan area.
Pixel!SCAN supports the full optical resolution range of supported scanners. You can even set independent x/y resolutions if this is supported by your scanner. Size and output control features allow interactive adjustments to resolution, size, and output parameters. Automatically set scanning settings to match the output size and line screen you specify. Your scan size and resolution settings changes will automatically be reflected in the scan dialog report area along with the projected scanned image size.
After you have selected the area to scan, you can make adjustments for accurate or improved reproduction of color, grayscale or line art image quality. Use automatic adjustment option to determine the appropriate Look-Up Table (LUT) and/or scan settings for the particular scanner or use the extensive set of color/gray level controls. A histogram display shows the distribution of scan intensities over the selected prescan area, allowing intelligent adjustment of white point, mid point and black point. Intuitive controls allow easy adjustment of image intensity, contrast, or gamma correction. The prescan image display is updated in real-time on supported displays to show a preview of all current adjustment settings for optimum results. Pixel!SCAN uses these selections to perform a final scan that is, in many cases, better than the original image. Pixel!SCAN also supports advanced color adjustment using custom LUTs that you provide. While scanning is limited to just 24 bit color, all color adjustments or custom LUTs take full advantage of the state-of-the-art 30 bit and 36 bit scanners.
You can also save and reload most scan settings combinations for repetitive tasks and you can easily customize initial scan settings for each Pixel!SCAN user.
Pixel!SCAN's Scan to File features lets you scan an image directly to a TIFF file, allowing scanning of images larger than available swap space. If you are not viewing or editing images, the Scan to File feature is the quickest and most efficient way to get scan results.
Do you work with multiple photographs or other images on your flatbed or drum scanner at the same time? Then, you need Pixel!SCAN's all new Gang Scanning capability to be more productive. With the Scan Gang Add button, you can select any number of areas to scan, each with their own custom scan settings. Then, Click on the Scan Gang button to execute a batch scan of multiple areas and load each area into its own image window. Gang scanning also works with the Scan to File feature if you want to store all scanned images directly to Tiff files.
Pixel!SCAN also already includes a script-based programming interface, so that you can easily perform scanning from the Unix command line or from within other applications. The full-featured control language allows you to control most all scan settings. Repetitive scan tasks are a breeze with this powerful addition to the Pixel!SCAN product.
Pixel!SCAN provides an icon-based Motif 1.2 interface for advanced scanning capabilities with simple point-and-click operation. But don't let the ease of use fool you, Pixel!SCAN provides unparalleled scanning functionality, for use in desktop publishing, document imaging, GIS, scientific applications, and office manufacturing. Pixel!SCAN is already being used widely in commercial; education; and federal, state and local goverments applications. Pixel!SCAN makes the ideal front-end to any UNIX application where integrating images can enhance the effectiveness of the message. You can view scanned images from Pixel!SCAN or you can save images in any of a number of widely used image formats. We use it as the front-end to all of our image management toolkits, including Pixel!FX, Pixel!EDIT and Pixel!OCR. Give us a call and discover how you can light up your documents with the power of images.
Mentalix Pixel!SCAN and Pixel!SCAN Elite support scanners from low-end desktop models to high-end drum scanners that provide resolutions up to 4,000 dpi. Pixel!SCAN has easy-to-use scanner control menus that recognize and take advantage of the features available with each scanner. Whether you're scanning text documents using an automatic document feeder, or scanning color transparencies on a high-resolution drum scanner, Pixel!SCAN will meet your requirements. Our complementary list of scanners includes a full range of price, resolution, scan bed sizes, and special features.
Pixel!SCAN supports over 20 different scanner models from HP, Howtek, Sharp, Agfa, Fujitsu, Microtek, UMAX and others. All scanners use a SCSI interface and most installations require just a scanner, a cable and Pixel!SCAN. Pixel!SCAN includes the scanner driver software and complete platform specific hardware and software installation intstructions. Support for most models is available on all of the supported UNIX Operation System versions including Sun OS, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, SGI IRIX, DEC OSF1, DGUX, and SCO UNIX. If the scanner you need is not on our list, please call us to get the most up to date information. Mentalix also sells most scan hardware and scanner cables, so you can use a single source for a complete scanning solution.
Here is our current matrix of supported scanner and platform combinations:
Sun Sol2 SGI HP DEC IBM DG SCO
HP IIc/IIcx Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
HP IIp/3p Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sharp JX610 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Agfa Arcus / Arcus Plus Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Agfa Arcus II Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Agfa StudioScan Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Agfa StudioScanII Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Fujitsu 3096 / 3096GX Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Microtek ScanMakerIII Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Microtek ScanMaker45t Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Microtek ScanMakerIIsp Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Umax UC1200SE Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Umax UC1260 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Umax Powerlook Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Umax Vista S6 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Pixel!SCAN Elite Option
For the highest quality professional scan results, the Pixel!SCAN Elite option provides support for the Agfa Horizon Plus flatbed scanner; and the Howtek Scanmaster D4000 and Howtek Scanmaster 4500 drum scanners. Pixel!SCAN Elite supports all of the sophisticated functionality of the Howtek scanner models, including complete support for the optional COSMYK board. With the COSMYK board and Pixel!SCAN Elite, you can scan images directly to Tiff files in CMYK format. Of course, the comprehensive scan area selection and color adjustments, gang scanning, and command line scanning in Pixel!SCAN area also available in Pixel!SCAN Elite.
Sun Sol2 SGI HP DEC IBM DG SCO
Agfa Horizon/+ Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Howtek Scanmaster D4000 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Howtek Scanmaster 4500 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
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