QScan32 Image Acquisition System

QScan32 is an image acquisition application, designed to simplify the process of acquiring digital images and associating them with ARGUS Collection Management System records.

Integrating digital images, and other digital media, with object cataloging is an essential element of modern collection management. Digital images enhance research opportunities, presentation and preservation of the collections under your care.

ARGUS provides for any number of digital images, or digital media including sound recordings and video, to be linked to an ARGUS record. These digital files can be of any type supported by the client's workstation. In ARGUS, media files can be related to museum activities, collection sites, conservation records, and vocabulary terms, as well as the traditional object catalog relation provided by most other collection management applications.

QScan32 allows your institution's staff and volunteers to produce, process, and store high quality digital images quickly, consistently and efficiently. Based on Questor's long experience providing imaging options for its clients, QScan32 procedures simplify and minimize the steps required to acquire and relate an image to a record. This gives you the opportunity to create a digital image archive of your collections, and related information, at the lowest possible cost.

Features
QScan32 is designed to integrate the normal, multi-step, image acquisition and linking procedure into one, easy to use, interface. A process that usually requires knowledge of several applications, operating system tools and system and file management procedures is reduced to a single application. QScan32 features that make this possible include: TWAIN compliance to support a variety of image acquisition devices such as scanners and digital cameras; Kodak Photo CD support for reading and processing Photo CD images efficiently; Read over 30 digital image file types, allowing you to retain the value of your existing digital archives; Simplified image correction tools provide the most commonly used editing features of more complex applications; Users can create and store user defined "setups" for consistent image acquisition in a variety of scenarios; Automatically create a master image file, to be archived, and surrogate files, for on-line viewing and distribution; Controls the size and resolution of the master image you acquire and save as a TIFF file; Independently controls the size, resolution and quality of the JPEG surrogate file used for on-line viewing; JPEG thumbnails automatically created for each image; Automatic naming and storage of image files in user configured server locations for access on demand; Dynamic ODBC connection to ARGUS automatically relates your images to ARGUS records and Inclusion of image metadata in each linked ARGUS image record.

QScan32 is highly valued as a labor-saving device by institutions that need to process large numbers of collection images. Every second saved in the process of scanning an individual image accumulates over the life of a large image acquisition project. This can result in a substantial time savings that translates into dollars, as well as into the ability of your institution to meet the growing demand for access to collections and education resources. We have spent considerable effort to make image throughput as fast as possible while still maintaining the quality that is required by the collections community.