CPI's compression has a dramatic impact on both storage requirements and download times. The advantages of this become even more apparent when one uses the CPI interface, which allows display of thumbnails of the images, scalable zooming, and printing. CPC View will be included in all retail versions of the Internet Explorer Starter Kit, including the standalone retail product to be made available in stores starting today and for a limited time as part of new retail copies of the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system. The viewer supports document navigation, arbitrary scaling, anti-aliased images in both a page view and thumbnail view, and much more. A simple command-line file format conversion application, which allows conversion among CPC, TIFF, and PBM formats.
Versions are available for several platforms.
The Web site also contains technical details of the CPC method, as well as demonstrations of the technology. Cartesian Products, Inc. is a Cambridge, Massachusetts high-technology research and development company specializing in document image technology. The company was founded in September 1991 to provide advanced software technology to improve worldwide communication and information access. Cartesian Products has been granted a United States patent on its technology and has applied for patent protection abroad. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.