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Mentalix Customer Testimonial
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Pixel!FX Brings High-Volume Scanning To Minnesota Publisher
In these markets, accurate batch scanning and file format conversion capabilities are essential, according to Shull. At the end of legislative sessions, he may receive "several hundred full-page forms that have to be scanned at a fairly decent resolution, all in a matter of a few weeks." For instance, Shull may compile as many as 35,000 pages in one year for the State of Minnesota. To handle these high-volume projects, he uses two Mentalix products: Pixel!FX for image scanning and editing, and Pixel!OCR for scanning forms. "With Pixel!FX, I can crank out scans and edit them as I need to -- for image manipulation, size, and resolution -- very efficiently," Shull says. "I can take many files, and they can be large files with large images, and I can pre-set most of the characteristics I want to attain and run in a production environment that's really swift. It's a simple application to use." Duluth Publishing has a network with several types of hardware: UNIX, PC and Macintosh computers as well as a scanner. The UNIX workstation is a Hewlett-Packard 700 Series. In such a varied environment, integration is an important factor when selecting software. One reason Shull chose Pixel!FX was its compatibility with his Interleaf application. "Pixel!FX residing on my workstation and being closely tied into Interleaf provides production that other software just wouldn't do," Shull states. Pixel!FX's smooth integration with third-party applications provides another vital function for Shull. He explains: "I've lost images before because I didn't get them stored properly and found that the only place I have them is in an Interleaf document. It's life-saving to be able to go into an old document and convert an image back into TIFF format. Pixel!FX's power to convert images has been really handy." "Together, Pixel!FX and Pixel!OCR make a very nice package for me," Shull says. "With respect to OCR, I'm quite satisfied with it. Once again, it's nice for production. I can stack 20 pages on my scanner and just have them rip through and interpret as they go, and I end up with good results. I've done some European language interpretations, and it also did quite well there." Shull evaluated the first version of Pixel!FX, so he has seen the product's growth throughout the last decade. "Mentalix has been very responsive to the feature requests I've made -- especially for line-art image editing ... They brought a lot of things into [the software] pretty nicely. I can't think of anything I'd need to have added." Duluth Publishing proves that companies of all sizes can benefit from the power of UNIX-based imaging. With its third-party integration and high-productivity capacity -- such as the batch scanning, file format conversion and OCR features that Gene Shull successfully employs -- the Pixel!FX product suite offers UNIX users image processing without limits. |
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While
UNIX users are often categorized as large businesses
and government agencies, small companies also take
advantage of the power of UNIX-based imaging. One
such example is Gene Shull, who utilizes Mentalix
Inc.'s Pixel! products to run Duluth Publishing, located
in Duluth, Minnesota. Shull focuses on two vertical
niches in pre-press services. He composes volumes
and supplements of state laws, rules and statutes
from mainframe data for the states of Minnesota and
Nebraska. From text and/or relational databases, Shull
also constructs large catalogs for leading international
automotive after-market product manufacturers.