Captaris has just announced the new TIFF iFilter for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Now you can capture images from RightFax and store in SharePoint repositories, with the ability to conduct full text searches on the contents.Include TIFF images as part of your full-text search query in Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007, Microsoft Search Server Express and Microsoft Search Server 2008.

TIFF iFilters' recognition engine utilizes Captaris' world class, full-text OCR technology to deliver superior performance and results. The TIFF iFilter supports Office SharePoint Server 2007, Search Server 2008 and Search Server 2008 Express.

Why Use Captaris TIFF iFilter?

• Support Enterprise Search
• Add full-text search and retrieval of image documents alongside Microsoft Office and other electronic documents.
• Enable E-Discovery.
• Search images along with electronic documents to speed up E-discovery tasks and find more business-critical information.

Unique Features

• Recognition server automatically performs full-page recognition of TIFF files and sends the information to Search Server 2008 for indexing.
• Pre-OCR image cleanup Includes auto-rotation of inverted pages; de-skewing of scanned pages.
• Off-center correction and de-speckling to remove black dots caused by fax noise or poor scan quality. Punch hole removal, de-shading and inverse text correction. Image enhancement produces higher accuracy of resulting text sent to the indexing server. The stored image is maintained in its original state.