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DocViewProject Lead: Frank Walker (senior electronics engineer).
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DocView is a Windows software application that runs under all versions of Microsoft Windows. It enables end users of libraries or information services to receive and use black and white bitmapped image documents delivered over the Internet. It is communications-compatible and image-compatible with black and white images sent by Ariel™ systems (version 3.3 and prior versions only) used by many libraries for Internet document delivery. Ariel software, produced by Infotrieve, runs on a workstation comprising a PC, a scanner and printer. It provides a method for scanning paper-based literature and converting it to bitmapped image form for both interlibrary loan and document delivery to the desktop.
To receive a document, the DocView user may contact a library or document supplier through a built-in document ordering function, or through conventional methods such as email, telephone, fax or other electronic means, and ask for a specific document. The library then scans the document using an Ariel system and sends it to the user's computer via File Transfer Protocol (FTP). DocView automatically alerts the user to the arrival of the document.
More than 18,000 people in over 195 countries have downloaded DocView since it was released in January 1998. Its main functions include document management, reception or transmission of documents via FTP, display of monochrome Ariel or TIFF images, zoom, scroll, pan, rotate, bookmark and print document images.
DocView is free and may be downloaded from the DocView Home Page: here
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