In the ever-changing technology arena, new industry terminology is created faster than ever.

For this reason, we maintain this Glossary of Terms as a resource for our clients and friends.

If you would like a definition for a term we have not included, simply e-mail your request to alcutter@itddms.com and we will add your term, and its definition, to our glossary.

Attachment: (forms of digital data which can be utilized by programs)

Digital Documents (Scanned document images)

 Annotation and Annotation Plus

Note Word Processor

 Video

 Audio

Pictures

 Application Files

Adobe PDF Files Launches

No Data Attachment

Index Cross Index Database Records

Computer Assisted Design (CAD) Files

eMail Automatically Filed

eMail User Rules

Doc Convert scanned pages to an Document

COLD:
Acronym for Computer Output Laser Disk. Taking the output from a computer, i.e. Invoices, Purchases Orders, Checks or Data from Production Control System, and archiving in its raw format as it is output.

Data:
A component of factual information.

Data Centric:
The process of managing and archiving digital data by attaching files to existing database records

Digital Data Management:
The organization, management, archiving, and retrieving of all forms of digital data for virtually every business situation - regardless of their file type. In short, the user does not need to worry about whether the file type is .doc, .jpg, .pic, .xls, or whatever.

Document:

a. A written or printed paper that bears the original, official, or legal form of something and can be used to furnish decisive evidence or information.
b. Something, such as a recording or a photograph that can be used to furnish evidence or information.
c. A writing that contains information.

Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.

File Centric:
The process of managing and archiving digital data by grouping various files in a single file folder.

Image Format Extensions:

.AFX - read-only

.AVI Audio/Visual Interleaved data, read-only

.BMP - Microsoft Windows Bitmap, Microsoft Corporation

-Compressed
-Uncompressed

.BRK,.301 - BrookTrout, Brook Trout Technology

-CCIT - Group 3

-CCIT - Group 4

.CAL - CALS Raster Type I

.CGM - Computer Graphics Metafile Vector Format, with CAD plug-in only, read-only

.CLP - Windows Clipboard, Paul Mace Software

.CUT, .PAL - (for the separately stored palette), Dr. Halo Media Cybernetics, read-only

.DCM - DICOM, with Medical Imaging SDK only

.DCX - Multi-page PCX, ZSoft Corporation

.DGN - Microstation DGN, with CAD plug-in only, read-only

.DIB - Microsoft Device Independent Bitmap, Microsoft Corporation

.DRW - Micrographx DRW, with CAD plug-in only, read-only

.DWG -Autodesk DWG, with CAD plug-in only, read-only

.DFX - Autodesk DXF (DFX), with CAD plug-in only, read-only

.EPS - Encapsulated Postscript, Adobe Systems Incorporated, preview only on the read side, writing is limited to 1-bit per pixel.

–.EPS (no preview image)

–.EPI (contains preview image)

–.EPSF (Macintosh, refers to any PostScript file)

.Raw - G31d, G32d, G4 data (G3, G4)

.PFX - FlashPix, with FPX plug-in only

.GIF - Graphics Interchange Format, CompuServe Incorporated special UNISYS license is required to use it, Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language (HPGL), with CAD plug-in only, read-only

.ICA - IBM IOCA ABIC, with ABIC plug-in only, read-only

.ICA - Image Object Content Architecture, IBM

-CCIT - Group 3

-CCIT - Group 4

.ICO - Windows Icon , ICOn resource file, Microsoft Corporation

.IMA -Imara, read-only

.IMG -Gem Paint, read-only

.IMT -IMNET

.KFX -Kofax Group 4, read-only

.LV - Laser Data, read-only

.ME -Hewlett-Packard ME10, with CAD plug-in only, read-only

.MOD -IBM MO:DCA

.MSP - Microsoft Paint, read-only

.PBM - Portable Bitmap File Format

.PCD - Kodak Photo CD

.PCT - PICT, Macintosh PICT, Apple Computer, Inc. full PICT read support only with CAD plug-in, otherwise raster only

.PCX - PC Paintbrush File Format, Zysoft Corporation

.PDF - raster only, read-only

.PGM -Portable Graymap File Format, Copyright © 1989, 1991 by Jeff Poskanzer

.PNG -Portable Network Graphics, Thomas Boutell and associates

.PNM Portable Anymap File Format

.PPM -Portable Pixmap File Format, Copyright © 1989, 1991 by Jeff Poskanzer

.PSD - Photoshop, PSD (Windows), .8PBS (Macintosh), Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Systems

.RAS - Sun Raster Data Format Bitmap format for Sun UNIX platforms, Sun Microsystems

.RIS -Aucotec Ruplan RIS, with CAD plug-in only, read-only

.SGI -SGI Image File Format, Silicon Graphics

.TGA -Targa, TGA (DOS, UNIX, Xenix), Truevision, Inc.

.TPIC - Macintosh Truevision Targa, Truevision, Inc.

.TIFF6,7 (TIF)

.TIF (DOS, UNIX), .TIFF (Macintosh) - Adobe Systems

–Uncompressed, 1D,CCIT - Group 3

–CCIT Group 4,RLE

–Huffman, Jpeg, Packbits

.TXT - ASCII, read-only

.WMF - Microsoft Windows Metafile, Microsoft Corporation

.WPG - WordPerfect Graphics Metafile, WordPerfect Corporation, read-only

.XBM or .bm (DOS), .bitmap (UNIX) - X Windows BitMap, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

.XPM (UNIX) - X PixMap, BULL Research

.XRX - Xerox IMG, read-only

.wd (UNIX), .xwd (DOS) - X Window Dump, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

.CAL, .RAS, .CALS - CALS Raster, U.S. Department of Defense

.CIF - Converted Image File, IBM

.GEM - Graphical Environment Manager, Digital Research

.IFF - Electronic Art’s Interchange File Format, Electronic Arts (Commodore Business Machines, Inc.)

.IFF - Amiga ILBM

.JPG - JPEG File Interchange Format Joint Photographic Experts Group’s, C-Cube Microsystems

.MAC, .PNTG - Macintosh Paint (or "MacPaint"), Apple Computer Inc., read-only

.RLE - Run-length encoded File, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Information:
Knowledge derived from study, experience, or instruction. A collection of facts or data.

- Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary, Second College Edition. © 1982 by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

ISIS:

Acronym for Image and Scanner Interface Specification. An open standard for scanner control and complete image-processing framework. ISIS is supported by a large number of application and scanner vendors. ISIS is a de facto standard that allows application developers to build complex image capture systems.

Knowledge(1):

Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary, Second College Edition. © 1982 by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Knowledge Management:
In our opinion, an Oxymoron. Knowledge cannot be managed any more than ones thoughts can be managed. We can manage information and by so doing we inspire knowledge in all that share the information.

OCR:
Acronym for Optical Character Recognition. The ability of software to recognize and translate printed alphanumeric characters into machine-readable text.

STI:
Still Image class in the Windows Driver Mode (WDM) architecture. The class of filters that deal with still-image capture. A WDM STI minidriver provides support for still-image devices under the WDM still-image architecture.

TIFF:
Tagged Image File Format. The type of compression or standard used to store a file.

TWAIN:
Acronym for Technology Without An Interesting Name. The de facto standard interface between software applications and image-capturing devices such as scanners. Nearly all scanners contain a TWAIN driver, but only TWAIN-compatible software can use the technology.

- Microsoft® Bookshelf® Computer and Internet Dictionary© 1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.Portions, Microsoft Press® Computer Dictionary, Third Edition. Copyright © 1997 by Microsoft Press. All rights reserved.

Virtual Document:
Existing Documents, Pages or Attachments linked to form a new Document

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