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Hotspot-Tool
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Software for linking drawings and parts lists
Implementation area
With the Docware Hotspot-Tool hotspots may be set in raster drawings,
illustrations, graphics and photos.
The Hotspot-Tool is available in two variants:
 | Hotspot-Tool (manual)
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| | Hotspot-Tool (automatic)
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| What are hotspots? |
Hotspots are sensitive areas with stored hyperlinks
that may be set on position numbers, alphanumerical order numbers
or graphical components. Hotspots are prerequisite to the linking of
images or drawings and parts list information in electronic catalogues.
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Data formats
The following data formats may be processed with the Hotspot-Tool: TIF,
JPG, PNG. Other data formats such as PDF, EPS, BMP etc. may be converted
in a preceding batch process to TIF.
Note: the Hotspot-Tool is not required for processing
vector formats such as SVG
(see also » Image Converter).
Brief description
Using the Hotspot-Tool images of the most diverse types and sizes
(A4, A3, A2 and larger) may be furnished with hotspots either manually
or in automated and batch mode.
Automated hotspot recognition is a configurable analysis
process based on pattern recognition (OCR). When processing
with the Hotspot-Tool your original drawings remain unchanged.
The hotspots are saved separately (layer technique).
The Hotspot-Tool (automatic) may be trained for different
types of images and fonts. Train the Hotspot-Tool e.g. for
images from various suppliers or to processing your old stock of drawings.
The once-trained recognition of an image and font type may be
saved and used at any time to processing similar images.
Any quantity of image and font types may be trained and retrieved
as required.
The freely definable linking area determines which areas of an image
should feature hotspots. E.g. the drawing header may be omitted.
The hit quota for automated linking depends on the quality of the drawings
and the „training degree“ of the Hotspot-Tool.
Hit quotas of practically 100% are possible.
The better the tool is trained, the better the quality of the results.
Dubious numbers or areas are displayed in colour and may be
reprocessed manually.
In the case of old data of poor quality the hit quota may be
considerably improved by specific downstream processes
(checking against the parts list etc.).
The Hotspot-Tool is part of the PARTS-PUBLISHER catalogue software.
However, the tool is also available as a stand-alone product.
Integration in other catalogue systems or customer-specific
applications (editing systems, author tools etc.) is possible.
| Functions |
Hotspot-Tool (manual) |
Hotspot-Tool (automatic) |
| Manual definition of hotspots (creating, correcting, deleting) |
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| Defining hotspot type (Hyperlink on article, image panel, etc.) |
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| Automatic hotspot definition |
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| Batch mode for the automatic definition of hotspots |
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X |
| Defining the linking area |
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X |
| Workflow support |
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X |
| Training font recognition |
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| Saving and retrieving trained configurations |
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X |
| Rotating images |
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| Converting images to TIF/4 |
X |
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| Converting images in batch mode to TIF/4 |
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