Art-Copy SDK has the ability to batch convert files of one format to another with just the use of a few features. Simply by setting up the “Source” setting to existing files, instead of obtaining images from a scanner, and specifying where the output will be sent (such as to file, to printer, and exc.) You can create new files in the user specified format by batch processing using existing files. For example if you have 12 .JPG files, you can convert theses 12 image files into 1 multiple page PDF document. Simply set the source to “File”, select the output, in this case to “File”, and then select the existing documents that you wish to batch convert. The SDK will then take these existing files, process them, and create new files based on the file format specified by the user. Supported formats are as follows:

• JPG
• Tiff
• PDF
• BMP
• GIF

The Auto Crop feature of the Art-Copy SDK will take the scanned or existing image, and the SDK will determine the exact point where the white point ends and the image / text begins. After determining the end points of the white space, meaning the outside edges of either the text or image, the SDK will crop the area outside of edges of the image / text area. For example by enabling the Auto Crop feature, if you were to scan a stamp on a flatbed scanner, the Auto Crop feature would find the outside edges of the stamp, and crop the entire bed area to the edges directly around the image of the stamp.
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Art-Copy SDK supports batch-scanning operations both from the flatbed and from an automatic document feeder (ADF). With the batch feature enabled Art-Copy SDK will scan the entire contents of an ADF as one batch process, or AC SDK will treat each scan of the flatbed as one batch process. AC SDK has an option to display an advanced batch-scanning window, which prompts the user for the number of batch scans to perform, or prompts if the user would like additional batches after the first batch is finished.
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Art-Copy SDK supports control over the scan area size being used during the scanning process. With Art-Copy SDK you can set the scan area from several preset options:

• Standard letter size
• Standard A4 size
• Standard A5 size
• Standard B5 size
• Standard Legal size
• Standard A3 size
• User defined.

Along with having the availability to set the scan area size, Art-Copy SDK also allows for the output size of the scanned images to be defined. There are many different options available for this features as shown below:

• 25% of original
• 50% of original
• 75% of original
• 100% of original
• 150% of original
• 200% of original
• 300% of original
• 400% of original
• Fit to page, or 100% of output paper size
• 8x10
• 4x6
• 4x5
• 3x5
• 2.5x3.5
• Passport
• User defined percentage
• User defined size

When the Deskew feature is enabled Art-Copy SDK will automatically determine the angle of the skewing of the image or text being scanned. Art-Copy SDK will then rotate the skewed image to a position where both the text and images are properly aligned horizontally. Art-Copy SDK will automatically determine the outlining areas of the scanned document by examining the point where white space ends, the tolerance of which will be set by Art-Copy SDK, and will automatically build an area around the image area to be deskewed.
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In order to reverse the moiré effects created by scanning newspaper, or magazine pages. Art-Copy SDK’s descreen features allows you to set the material type of the image being created, and Art-Copy SDK will apply a specialized blur effect to the image which will effectively rid the images of the moiré pattern. Preset options include:

• No Descreening
• Lithograph 200 lpi (3x3)
• Magazine 151-175 lpi (5x5)
• Magazine 133 – 150 lpi (7x7)
• Newsprint 5-110 lpi (9x9)

There are five separate features available from within Art-Copy SDK after the sharpening feature has been enabled. These five features focus on different aspects of the image that need to be sharpened. To explain this further each feature is explained below:

• Intensity – By adjusting this feature the amount of sharpening applied to the overall image can be increased or decreased accordingly.

• Threshold – By increasing the amount of the threshold the SDK will set the point to which the sharpen filter is applied. A low value will cause the sharpening to be applied to every pixel, while a higher number will require the existence of a change in brightness and contrast to warrant sharpening being applied to the image area.

• Shadow – When increasing the value of sharpening shadows the darker the image area must be before the SDK will sharpen. The opposite proves true, with the lower the value specified, the lighter the area that will be sharpened.

• Radius – Setting the radius will specify the number of pixels taken into account when sharpening an image, the higher the number the larger the area taken into account.

• Blue Channel – By enabling the blue channel, sharpening will be applied to all levels of the image. Since most issues with sharpening occur in the blue channel you should expect better sharpening results with this feature enabled.

Art-Copy SDK will fully support the use of full duplex scanners. The SDK also features software emulation of a duplex scanner, so non-duplex automatic document feeders can become duplex scanners simply by setting one option. By enabling the software duplex feature the SDK will prompt the user, after all the documents have been scanned from the ADF, to flip the pages over so the reverse side of the documents can be scanned. The SDK will then scan the backs of the original documents, and once the SDK finishes with the last page of the reserved side. The SDK will sort the scanned images and will arrange the pages into the proper order.  For example page 1 would be page 1, the back of page 1 would become page 2, and so on.

Some scanner manufacturer’s duplex scanners scan the backside of the documents in a reserved way. In order for Art-Copy SDK to support the widest variety of duplex scanners two correction features were created to compensate for this discrepancy.  A rotation feature was included into the SDK that allows for the odd number of ages to be fully rotated back into their normal positions correcting the reversed pages for both software supported and full hardware support options. This way every aspect of full duplex scanning was taken into account both for software emulation, and full duplex scanners alike.
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One of the main features of the Art-Copy SDK is the ability to select multiple copies to be sent to both printer and fax machine alike. This copy features allows for both batch documents, and for single pages to be scanned and copied. One of the main benefits of the Art-Copy SDK is its ability to collate the copies being sent to the printer or fax machine.

What the collate features does is once a number of copies has been set, such as 2 copies, and the image or document has been scanned. The SDK will send the printer a que that contains the file to be printed. This file will be arranged so that if 2 copies were requested page 1 would print followed by page 2 and so on for however many pages are within the document. Without the collate option being enabled two copies of page 1 would be printed before page 2 ever started.
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For projects that expose any program to an environment where there will be a large user base. The Art-Copy SDK includes a feature that allows system administrators to limit access by the non-admin users to the file path where user created images are sent. By enabling this option the administrator of the computer system can specify a path where the SDK will send newly created images. When other non-admin users attempt to use the program, they will be unable to change the file path of the images being created. This effectively controls the area where images will be stored, so images don’t wind up all over the file system (or possibly network file system), and possibly in areas where sensitive images can be overwritten and destroyed. This is especially useful when the auto-naming features is enabled, and users are only prompted to determine what type of file will be created. By limiting the file path, the auto file naming feature will automatically save the created files into the specified file path set by the administrator.
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Art-Copy SDK (AC SDK) not only supports almost all brands and models of flatbed scanners, but the SDK also supports the use of almost every automatic document feeder (ADF) available on each scanner. By enabling the SDK to use the ADF, you may also take advantage of the batch scanning features provided by the AC SDK. When the ADF feature is enabled, the SDK will bypass scanning from the flatbed, and the acquired images will be scanned directly using whatever ADF is connected to the scanner. This is especially useful for batch processing a large number of documents from the ADF into multiple page PDF or TIF formats.
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By setting the output option to send created images or existing documents to the printer. All the scanned images or existing documents will be sent directly to the printer queue after the applied options have been processed. Art-Copy SDK will obtain the default printer specified on the local system, or if the option is enabled for the user to specify the printer driver to use, then the user specified fax driver would be used.
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Art-Copy SDK includes the ability to set up an automated upload system to a specified FTP site. This feature is excellent for any developers wishing to setup an automated scanning system that would automatically update an online image folder, or for uploading documents to a company site in order to share the information throughout the organization. The feature can be used in two ways; uploading both new images acquired from the scanner or uploading existing images to the FTP site. In order to upload images from the scanner the source must be specified as coming from the scanner. If the files to be uploaded are existing images, then simply select all of the documents that need to be uploaded, and the Art-Copy SDK will take care of the rest. In order for this feature to work properly the FTP site settings must be set using the six additional FTP feature's settings.
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Art-Copy SDK has the ability to scan new images or convert existing files into a new file with a user specified format. Acquiring new images from a scanner, by selecting the scanner as the input, the newly created images will be saved using the format specified by the user. When the input is set to existing files, and the output is set to File. The resulting output will be a batch conversion of the existing files of one format to the new user defined format. For more detail about batch conversion please see the information provided under the File Conversion feature. The available file formats for either output are as follows:

• JPG
• Tiff
• PDF
• BMP
• GIF

Art-Copy SDK supports scanning documents, then transferring the newly created image or document to a specified application installed on the local system. In order for the default application to be able to open and read the incoming image file, the file format must be supported by the application. For example, scan a TIF image from the scanner, then have the image sent directly to Adobe Photoshop for image editing. Simply set the default application to Adobe Photoshop, set the file format of the image being created, make sure that Adobe Photoshop supports TIF images, and then scan the image straight into Photoshop. The SDK also has support for scanning directly to the clipboard. Set the clipboard as the default application, and you can even paste the image from the clipboard directly into an Access Database as an OLE object.

(Note: Scanning directly into MS Access is currently not supported, but you can paste objects into an open database from the clipboard or take the created file and add it to the database with a few Windows API’s.  We are working on a code sample for you to use as a blueprint to make this work seamlessly)
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Setting the output option to send created images or existing documents as a fax document. Art-Copy SDK will send the scanned documents or existing documents out as a fax. The SDK will obtain the default fax driver specified on the local system, or if the option is enabled for the user to specify the fax driver to use, then the user specified fax driver would be used.
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By setting the output option to send created or existing images as an email attachment. All the scanned images or existing documents will be added to a new email receipt using the default email client specified on the local computer system.
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