The Envoc Solution
The MIA Document Cleaner is a suite of powerful and intuitive visual document editing tools accessed by a web application. The app allows associates to upload and sharpen and clarify critical documents of real estate transactions in order to make the materials easier to assess and in compliance with local government record keeping. There were several components to the system that made it a success for the client:
Repository Integration
MIA has an established central document repository for their scanned documents. It was important that the Document Cleaner be able to receive documents from this repository as well as send them back after an editing session.
Comprehensive Editing Features
The Cleaner queues a list of documents to be edited in a single editing session along with all metadata that describes formatting constraints. With the multi-document view, users can move pages between documents via drag and drop, duplicate pages, denoise selected pages, rotate by an arbitrary angle, brighten regions, apply automatic formatting correction, apply resizable, rotatable, layering whiteouts and redactions, apply resizable text annotations, and view calculated margin requirement overlays across all pages.
Unique Image Analysis
The Envoc developers created a set of unique algorithms that drive image analysis as well as automatic reconstruction of images to fulfill specific document formatting requirements. With the advanced formatting view, each page has a calculated semi-transparent overlay applied to it to show the current formatting rules.
Tying It All Together
From the moment documents are populated into an editing session until they're exported back to the source repository, formatting errors are flagged. Finally, because of the intricacy of editing tasks and because several processes must be applied successively, it was important to give end users leeway for experimentation and mistakes. Thus, unlimited undos and redos within editing sessions is a core capability.