Client-server architectures enable images to be scanned into one workstation and indexed from workstations across the network. Annotation and markup. A high-powered imaging component lets users annotate and mark up images. Colored lines and shapes can be drawn on the image without changing the images themselves. This gives authorized users outside an organization access to any of the documents residing on the system's database via a standard Web browser such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Explorer.
Electronic document routing via the Web is also possible.
Navigator Advantage 2000 Web Server, also can provide a single-source server for Intranet network areas. Users can create scripts that automatically format COLD documents. If a user drags a file from a host computer onto the appropriate script, Optix will automatically format the data for COLD storage. Modules such as those in Highland Technologies' HighView OCR can convert image files to text files and let users do searches based on content. J.B. Miles of Pahoa, Hawaii, writes about communications and computers.