Defining the Jargon

Whether you are just looking for imaging information or performing a detailed analysis, understanding the jargon of the imaging industry will help you make a more informed decision. Our glossary provides definitions for the important terms, formats, abbreviations, and concepts in document imaging. You can leverage our knowledge as well as our products to make imaging an integral part of your application's expert performance.

Imaging Software Glossary

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Imaging Software Glossary: Terms & Concepts: O

The imaging software glossary provides definitions for document and web imaging, in addition to terminology specific to Snowbound Software’s imaging technology.

Object	Objects are units of code that are eventually derived from a process. An object is what actually runs in the computer. Objects can share models and reuse the class definitions in their code.

Octree	Octree is a color reduction algorithm used to reduce the number of colors in an image from 24-bits or 8-bits to 4 or 8-bits. An octree is a tree data structure mainly used for organizing 3-dimensional space.

Orientation	Orientation determines which edge of the image is displayed in the positive X direction (up) and which edge is displayed in the negative Y direction (left).

Overlay file	When used in imaging, an overlay file is generally text data that when displayed at a fixed position above a blank form fills in the fields for that for m. The form is usually a scanned image. This is most common with MO:DCA and PTOCA images. Snowbound Software's annotation options permit the creation of text and graphic overlays to an underlying image.

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