A software tool capable of performing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) upon a set of images. It was one of the first OCR recognition software to be developed. It was developed in the late 1980s and sold by Caere Corporation. It is currently owned by Kofax Inc. It achieves the task by analysing pixel sets and in an image and cross-matching them to a dictionary of words. Omnipage automates large sections of the digitisation process enabling physical objects to be scanned, processed using the OCR software and exported to a document file format. Later versions of the software incorporate image enhancement features to improve scan quality (and recognition results) and better support for complex page layouts and forms. Features: Integration with scanning software Maintain layout of captured document
Adobe Bridge is a media management application used for organizing, browsing, locating, and viewing creative assets. It was provided as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite, beginning with CS2, and is now in version CS5 Features: Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software (except for the standalone version of Adobe Acrobat 8) Extensible through use of Javascript
Adobe Illustrator is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is ideal for all creative professionals, including web and interactive designers and developers, multimedia producers, motion graphics and visual effects designers, animators, and video professionals. Adobe Creative Suite products, including Illustrator, have recently moved to a subscription based service model. Adobe Illustrator CS6 was the last version released on disk. Adobe Illustrator Creative Cloud is now available starting at $19.99/month. Features of Adobe Illustrator CC include: Use powerful creative tools Boost productivity Deliver virtually anywhere Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software Raster and type-in vector format support Mobile and tablet suport Cloud storage
InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) software application which can be used to create periodical publications, posters, flyers, brochures, magazines and books. The latest version, InDesign CS5.5 , is the twelfth generation in the product line. Features: Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software Dynamic cross-reference support that updates content when moved within a document Spread rotation Smart guides (Quickly align space, rotate, and resize single or multiple objects with the help of dynamic guides.) Conditional text (Deliver multiple versions of a document for different users, all from a single Adobe InDesign source file. Hide text at paragraph, word, and even character level without relying on layers. The remaining text and anchored objects automatically reflow in the layout.) Smart Text Reflow (Automatically add pages at the end of a story, selection, or document when text is overset using this new preference.) Live Preflight
After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software. After Effects allows users to animate, alter, and composite media in 2d and 3d space with various built-in tools and third party plug-ins, as well as individual attention to variables like parallax and user-adjustable angle of observation. The latest version, CS5.5, is the twentieth generation in the product line. Features: Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software Searchable timelines and projects Independent keyframing of x, y, z values Cartoon effect layer-oriented Animate and composite flexibly in 2D and 3D Create and animate text and vector graphics Choose among extensive visual effects Fluidly key, mask, rotoscope, and paint composites Take control of motion and keyframes Automate with scripting Work with 32-bit audio Gain professional results for every media type Paint and clone with nondestructive vector brushes Save time with efficient tools and a customizable interface
Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging software for English - the classification of words into one or more categories based upon its definition, relationship with other words, or other context, also known as wordclass tagging. CLAWS (Constituent Likelihood Automatic Word-tagging System) uses several methods to identify parts of speech., most notably a system called Hidden Markov models (HMMs) which involve counting examples of co-occurrence of words and wordclasses in training data and making a table of the probabilities of certain sequences of words. Features: Parts-of-Speech tagging with an accuracy rate of approximately 96-97 percent for text analyzed for common text types in British English. Template tagging A free version is CLAWS is scheduled for release in 2015.
A software application for the playback of audio recordings. SoundScriber offers specific functionality for researchers that wish to transcribe a recording. It was originally developed for use in the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) project and released for use by academics performing similar work. Features: Audio playback via installed audio codecs (e.g. Wav, MP3) Variable speed playback 'Walking' support – playback of a small stretch of an audio stream several times to ensure accurate transcription is made, followed by an advancement to a new section of audio.
Fedora (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) was originally developed by researchers at Cornell University as an architecture to store, manage, and access digital content in the form of digital objects. Fedora defines a set of abstractions for expressing digital objects, asserting relationships among digital objects, and linking behaviors to digital objects. Developed by the community and stewarded by Duraspace — a nonprofit involved with open source technology projects including VIVO and DSpace — Fedora Commons implements the Fedora abstractions in an open source, modular repository system for managing and disseminating digital content. Fedora Commons is widely used in the academic sector as a basis for digital libraries, archives, or repository systems. Its worldwide installed user base includes academic and cultural heritage organizations, universities, research institutions, university libraries, national libraries, government agencies, and more. Management and maintenance of any digital content type and of metadata about content in any format Scale to millions of objects Access data via APIs (REST/SOAP) Provide RDF search (SPARQL) Rebuilder utility (for disaster recovery and data migration) Entire repository can be rebuilt from the digital object and content files Content model architecture (define "types" of objects by their content) Many storage options (database and file systems) JMS messaging (your apps can "listen" to repository events) Web-based administrator GUI (low-level object editing) OAI-PMH provider service GSearch (fulltext) search service Multiple, customer driven front-ends
Now called TerraSurveyor, it is a software application for the transfer, assembly and enhancement of geophysical data obtained from gradiometers, resistivity meters and other monitoring instruments. With support for Geoplot, GSSI Profiler, Surfer (ASCII & binary) and Scintrex input formats
Xalan is an XSLT processor for transforming XML documents into HTML, text, or other XML document types. It implements XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0 and XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0. Features: Conversion between structured markup formats Stylesheet validation It is available for Java and C++.
