What is BIQE Archive

And what does it do

Batch processing

About BIQE Archive

Our BIQE Archive version is for those who want to preserve the paper version for the future digitally.

This pre- and post-processing software uses a batch process, i.e., you process a few pages of a book or document and apply the result to the whole document or book in a batch.

Pre- and postprocessing software in one

How does BIQE Archive work?

Step 1

Scanning

The first and most important step in the digitisation process is scanning. The better the scan, the easier the post-processing will be.

Poor-quality scans lose a lot of pixel information in the post-processing, resulting in a poorer OCR result.

For older works, always scan in colour at 600 dpi.

Note:
BIQE Archive has a Twain driver that automatically recognises your scanner. Our API driver is also available for more professional (more expensive) scanners.

Step 2

Split and crop

The red line in the centre divides the book’s pages into two.

The green frame is the crop of the left page.

The blue frame is the crop of the right page. (fig. 1)

Figure 1

Step 3

Postprocessing

After we have scanned the pages and completed the pre-processing, we can begin the post-processing.

Edit your images to get the best OCR result. After steps 1 and 2, they are automatically opened in the Gallery (fig. 2).

Figure 2

Step 4

Image profiles

To use batch processing, you must create and save an image profile.

This means you can choose from 39 different processing or image filters, which you place in a specific order for the best OCR result.

You can also use a particular image filter, such as the Despeckle or Dewarp filters, more than once in a profile.

Because it takes time to understand all these different filters and their functions, we have already created three different “Image Profiles” (fig. 3) for “dark”, “normal”, and “light” images.

Figure 3

Step 5

Optimal Character Recognition (OCR)

The ultimate goal of the previous steps is to achieve the best possible OCR result so the images you have scanned or pasted into the Gallery will be searchable.

This means that after post-processing, we need to write the processed images using a specific file type that will allow us to search for the OCR result.

The best-known format type is the pdf file type. In BIQE Archive, you can save the images not only in PDF but in many other file types (fig. 4), and you can choose (add) the appropriate OCR language to go with the different file types in BIQE Archive (fig 5).the