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Adobe Acrobat Capture 3

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There are two editions of Adobe® Acrobat® Capture®:

  • Acrobat Capture 3.0 Personal Edition for Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0, Windows® 2000, or Windows XP is a professional production tool for turning paper-based information into high-quality knowledge documents optimized for electronic publication. A hardware dongle allows conversion of up to 20,000 searchable Adobe PDF pages. Additional dongle packs are available for purchase if more pages are needed.
  • Acrobat Capture 3.0 Cluster Edition provides the same professional production features as the Personal Edition, but is scalable for high-volume requirements, offers multiprocessor licensing, and converts an unlimited number of pages.
Key features Acrobat Capture 3.0
Personal Edition
Acrobat Capture 3.0
Cluster Edition
Platform support Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Language versions
English
Dutch, French, German,
Italian, Spanish, Swedish
yes yes
Licensing
Searchable PDF page limit 20,000* Unlimited**
Image Only PDF page limit Unlimited Unlimited**
Capture Assistant license 1 user 5 users***
Scalability
Multiprocessor support
(at additional cost)
  Dual or quad
Workload balancing   yes
Robust error handling yes yes
OCR dictionaries
Multiple languages 16 16
Legal, medical, and scientific yes yes
User-defined Large Large
Other types of recognition
Page, character, and
word recognition
yes yes
Automatic creation of
intra-document links
yes yes
User-defined font sets yes yes
Table and color segment
recognition;
Improved Improved
Keyword, link, table,
color segment, and
zone recognition
yes yes
Image cleanup
Deskew Agent yes yes
Support for TMSSequoia
and Kofax image
enhancement software
yes yes
Output file formats
PDF image only,
PDF Searchable Image (Exact),
PDF Formatted Text and
Graphics, ASCII
yes yes
PDF Searchable Image
(Compact)
yes yes
HTML With frame and Cascading
Style Sheet support
With frame and Cascading
Style Sheet support
Productivity tools
Workbench user interface to
create, submit, and track jobs
yes yes
Reusable workflows with
22 step templates
yes yes
Reviewer for document cleanup With link editing and global
font style replacement
With link editing and global
font style replacement
QuickFix tool for OCR
suspect correction
yes yes
Zone tool for image,
text, and keyword
area identification
yes yes
Capture Assistant for
distributed workflows
yes yes
Integration
ODMA support yes yes
API (application
programming interface)
Robust Robust
Index key support yes yes
Scanning
ISIS and TWAIN support with
more than 150 scanner
configurations included
yes yes
LZW and CCITT Group 4
compression supported
directly from scanner
yes yes
Reusable scanner settings yes yes
Separator sheet support yes yes

* Additional 20,000- or 100,000-page dongle packs may be purchased separately.

** Cluster Edition uses an unlimited-page serial number, rather than a dongle.

*** Capture Assistant includes the Reviewer.

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