Today, I am going to show you a fascinating feature in VRS color smoothing. It really helps me in managing my documents. I use Adobe Acrobat to scan with VRS and I file them in a folder and it helps me scanning in color because then the thumbnails are in color and it is so much easier to identify them. If I would scan everything in black and white, all the thumbnails are black and white and very difficult to recognize.
Let me show you what this means, scanning in color and thumbnail viewing. So, I got my folder, one of the folders with my documents here. And as you can see, the colors really help in identifying the right documents. I got some passport documents, some legal documents, some contracts, user guides. And I am just thankful to color. It is so much easier to organize this. However, color takes a lot of file size. It has an average like 600 to 700 kilobytes for a JPEG image 200 EPI, and that is where VRS helps me with color smoothing. And not only does it make the image look much better that but it also makes it much smaller like half of the size. And so, that is what I am going to demonstrate here. It works with any business documents. Good examples are colored documents where we smooth out the different shades of blue in this case to one single blue color. But, it also works on regular white documents because even white, there are some wrinkles in the document, there are some shadows and all that information is captured by the scanner and is not really important. It is redundant information. Thanks to color smoothing, the shadows, wrinkles and different shades of color are completely suppressed.
Let me try it with the blue documents. I have already scanned this document without color smoothing switched on. I will do it now with color smoothing. I switch that on through the VRS icon tray and there is a setting in the background tab called enable smoothing. You can also adjust the level of smoothing. Typically, go with the default values, Kofax has figured them out to be the best for you. So, in 99% of the cases, those are the right values for you. So, color smoothing switched on, I am feeding the document now through the scanner with color smoothing.
There we have the same document but this time with color smoothing. But as you can see—let me put them next to each other. The one without is 550 kilobytes and the one with is 286 kilobytes. It is less than half. With the magnifier, we can now zoom up and show you the difference between non-smoothing and smoothing. In the non-smoothed image, you see all the details, the shadows of the wrinkles, the different shades of the blue in the backgrounds. Like I said, all the redundant information. With smoothing on, the blue became one solid blue, one single level of blue, and that is the secret of reducing the file size dramatically. You can also see in other surfaces which are solid surfaces, they become completely monochrome. And, the result is actually a better looking image because the content now is much better readable and you don’t get distracted with all these shadows and wrinkles anymore.
This is John Dominic Marilouis Rudolph. Thank you.
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