Imaging News — March 2005

US Postal Service Relies on Snowbound to Comply with Antiterrorist Regulations
Need a Powerful Viewer for Documentum's Webtop Application? Visit us at DUMA, April 26 2005
Price of PDF Reading Option for Windows® Reduced by 43%
Patent on LZW Compression Has Expired: Customers with Maintenance can request upgrade at no charge
Snowbound Hires Business Development Manager: Welcome William Martin
Tech Tip: Zooming to a User Defined Area in FlexSnap

The United States Postal Service (USPS) Leverages RasterMaster's Expert Imaging Capabilities to Streamline Money Order Processing and Analysis

To comply with federal anti-money laundering/antiterrorist laws and regulations the USPS required a solution to read and convert multiple file formats accurately and instantaneously to a standard format for analysis. Using Snowbound's RasterMaster imaging SDK and Library, the USPS developed a solution that converts multiple file formats including CIF-ABIC to TIFF JPEG, and created a custom Applet for viewing the converted images. When the Federal Reserve issues an electronic image of a money order, it is automatically recognized, converted and then loaded into the USPS anti-money laundering database where it is sorted, analyzed, and processed.

Read the complete USPS case study on how RasterMaster enabled developers to quickly and easily create the conversion and viewing programs, allowing the USPS to meet federal mandates.

Need a powerful viewer that integrates easily with Documentum’s Webtop application?...Visit Us at DUMA

Snowbound offers a pre-configured version of our FlexSnap web viewer that integrates easily with Documentum’s Webtop content management application. Users can access, view, manipulate, and annotate multiple document and image formats within the Documentum repository through a single universal file viewer. If you use or integrate Documentum’s Webtop application and want to discover how you can enhance the solution with expert imaging and viewing capabilities, visit us in Philadelphia, PA.

If you are attending Documentum Users of the Mid-Atlantic (DUMA) Conference on April 26 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, make sure to check out the Snowbound Software booth and see our powerful imaging technology in action. We look forward to seeing you!

Take Advantage of Snowbound's PDF Reading Capabilities for the Windows® Platform

It's now easier than ever to incorporate powerful PDF reading into your Windows® application, or to convert and compress large batches of PDF files. Snowbound has lowered the price of of the PDF reading option for Windows® by 43%. This reduction in price affects RasterMaster for Windows® and SnowBatch for Windows®.

RasterMaster for Windows® is The Smarter Imaging SDK − built on over 20 years of imaging expertise and continually enhanced with new functionality and formats to ensure that you are developing with the most advanced imaging tools in the industry.
SnowBatch, Snowbound's rapid batch conversion program for Windows®, has robust polling capabilities and advanced file handling options that streamline large scale conversions of documents and images.

Whether you are evaluating one of these products for the first time, or if you are a current customer who wants to add PDF reading functionality into your Windows®-based application, there has never been a better time to buy than right now.

Evaluate the PDF reading capability in RasterMaster for Windows®, or SnowBatch.

Customers with Maintenance Contracts: Upgrade Your Snowbound Product to Enable LZW Compression

Up until the middle of last year, companies were required to obtain a license from Unisys Corporation in order to develop software that utilizes the LZW compression scheme (the exclusive compression scheme for GIFs, and occasionally used for TIFF files as well). Patents on LZW compression worldwide expired: July 7, 2004 in Canada; June 20, 2004 in Japan and Europe; and June 20, 2003 in the United States. Immediately following the patent expiration, Snowbound Software started building LZW compression capability into all of the latest versions of its products.

If you are a current Snowbound customer with a maintenance contract, you are entitled to version upgrades and updates including the latest versions of our products that support LZW compression.

Request the LZW compression upgrade by either logging into support wizard, or by contacting your Snowbound sales representative.

Snowbound Hires Business Development Manager

Snowbound welcomes William Martin to the position of Business Development Manager. In this role, Martin will be responsible for managing and cultivating relationships with resellers and strategic partners. He brings to the position over ten years of sales and management experience in the enterprise content management industry including positions at Captiva Software and Law Cypress. Prior to the high tech industry, Martin was the founder and CEO of Boston-based, Parish House Publishing Corp.

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