Web-based Document Scanning and Download Management System

ScanMan is a true web optimized document scanning and download management solution for small and medium-sized businesses. ScanMan makes offering downloadable documents on your intranet or internet portal site a breeze.

Manage documents across multiple categories and subcategories, give users permission to upload, download or edit documents. Store documents either locally or remotely and prevent direct linking using our build-in anti-leech system, all from within an intuitive and simple to use administration interface. With document version control, comprehensive persmission systems, a user-friendly search engine, a carefully-designed web interface, and more, ScanMan makes for a perfect choice in a no-frills document scanning and download management system.

Scan multi-page documents by acquiring from any TWAIN and WIA compatible devices (both Scanners, Cameras or Custom Capture Cards) through the intuitive ScanMan interface and save it onto the document management system. Supports both FlatBed and ADF document feeders. You can also choose from a variety of output options, including TIFF, JPEG, BMP and even PDF. The scanning engine It is compatible with TWAIN specification v1.9 and powers some of the most critical applications across the globe from government departments, IT companies to industry giants, health care, insurance, banking and more, including HP, IBM. It also went through the rigorous evaluation of Lockheed Martin, and now is deployed on their 400+ servers.

ScanMan supports HTTP, FTP and works securely with SSL.

1. General Features

Supports major browsers

All document scanning and download management functions are compatible with Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox and many other browsers.

• Compatible with Internet Explorer
• Compatible with Netscape, Firefox, and other browsers, if it supports plug-in.
• Supports all 32-bit Windows operating system, including Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT, XP, 2003 and Vista

Ultra-fast web scanning

Downloads a max of 180kb for the web scanning component in seconds!

Security

Zero-footprint SSL document and image scanning, with support for downloads / uploads.

• Scanning does not save temporary files onto local drives at all unlike our competition.
• Proxy servers are supported, hence there is no need for customer to reconfigure their firewall.
• Supports Windows authentication.
• Marked safe for initializing and scripting.
• Supports multi-page TIFF and PDF upload without any local file operation. 
• Scanning component is signed by Verisign, the leading global security CA.

Extensible and Customizable

With a comprehensive API and Framework, our teams can integrate into your environment or extend its features to fit your needs in no time at all.

Pricing Information

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2. Document Scanning Features

Multiple page scanning

Supports auto document feeder (ADF) and multiple images acquisition. Also supports blank page detection for hassle-free double-sided scanning of document stacks.

Web-based document scanning

Just fire up a web browser and start scanning.

• Supports upload progress bar and cancel during the upload
• Supports download from FTP/HTTP stream (through the document management system)
• Strong internet support: downloading and uploading image through HTTP or FTP.
• Supports Native, Buffered Memory and Disk File image transfer modes.

Powerful scan preview system

Multi acquired images can be buffered, viewed and managed locally before being uploaded to web server.

Slim, light and ahead of competition

Portions are developed directly with pure Win32 API and assembly language, which makes it small (less than 200K for scanning web payload), fast (core engine of the image processing part is optimized with assembly language), and easy to distribute (absolutely no supporting DLL is needed for distributing).

Standards compliance

Scanning engine is TWAIN specification 1.9 compatible.

Powerful scan page image editor

Provides an Image Editor for image editing and viewing. Both GUI and non-GUI editor are supported, and comes with basic image editing features including Rotate, Crop, Mirror, Flip and changing of image sizes.

Supports multiple formats

ScanMan supports BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PDF image formats, RLE, G3, G4, LZW, PackBits TIFF compression, and more. Both single page and multi-page TIFF are supported. Built-in JPEG, PNG, PDF and TIFF encoder enables compression of the acquired image no matter whether the TWAIN source has the capability.

Advanced scanner tuning

Can set and read common device features through properties, such as: IfAutoFeed, IfAutoScan, Resolution, BitDepth, Brightness, Contrast, Unit, Duplex and so on.

3. Document Management Features

Nested Categories

Documents can be organized across infinite categories and subcategories

Custom Groups

Documents can be owned by a specific registered user, a groups of registered users, all registered users or everybody.

Powerful Permission System

Easily set default guest, frontend and document and creator permissions and fine-tuned permission on a document level. ScanMan's permissions system gives you full control over who can access, edit, manage and download documents.

Remote or Local Storage

Files can either be hosted locally or you can easily link to files stiored on a remote server.

Statistics

You can display a download counter per document. All downloads are also being logged (by user, IP, browser, date and hour) to give you full overview of what is happening with your documents.

Integrated Search System

Documents can be searched by name and/or description. The search system integrates with Joomla! using an optional Plugin

Security

The built-in anti-leech system avoids direct linking to documents. Real paths to documents are never displayed to users. SSL document and image download/upload supported. Proxy servers are supported, hence there is no need for customer to reconfigure their firewall.

Flexible Themes

Change the look and feel of your documents repository using our flexible themeing system. Easily create your own themes to match the look and feel of you site.

Import documents

Batch import thousands of documents with a few clicks. Also supports crontabs for automated zero-interaction imports.

Automated thumbnails

Automatically generate thumbnails for all your images and a whole range of other file formats in ScanMan.

Real time notifications

Get notification emails whenever documents are uploaded or edited.