XLS

Purpose: 

A highly intelligent OCR (optical character recognition) software for creating editable and searchable electronic files from scanned paper documents, PDFs and digital photographs.

Features: 

• recognition of Digital Camera and Mobile Phone Camera Images
• comprehensive Language Support
• complete Integration with Popular Office Applications
• PDF conversion, archiving and security

A&H use case 1 description: 
The “Digital Library of Core e-Resource on Ireland” project has used ABBYY Fine Reader to digitise collections of Irish journals, monographs, manuscripts and pamphlets.
Publisher: 
ABBYY
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Suite: 
Practice-led research: 
Alternate tool(s): 

OmniPage Professional

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tool: MantisBT

Purpose: 

MantisBT is a free popular web-based bugtracking system written in the PHP scripting language.

The most common use of MantisBT is to track software defects. However, MantisBT is often configured by users to serve as a more generic issue tracking system and project management tool.

Features: 

• event-driven-plug-in system
• works with MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle and IBM DB2 databases
• RSS Feeds
• Customisable workflow
• Wiki integration
• Chat integration

A&H use case 1 description: 
The “First World War Poetry Digital Archive” project has used MantisBT to track development and the use cases developed were used as reference points for successful development prior to user testing.
Creator: 
Kenzaburo Ito and Victor Boctor
Publisher: 
Futureware Pty Ltd
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Specifications: 
Alternate tool(s): 

JIRA, Trac, Bugzilla

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