DVI Image Gateway (DIG)

Owned by René Pape
Last updated: 05 Oct 2015

The DVI Image gateway is an all new software for a Microsoft Windows 7 or higher workstation where some imaging equipment is physically connected.

 The DVI Imaging gateway (DIG) is communicating with the Plass Data DVI System International v5 database.

 DIG is a .Net 4.5 application that must install locally on the workstation, so that it can interact with the different drivers of the imaging equipment.

DIG can control any scanner, digital camera or capture card that has a TWAIN (32 and 64 bit) device driver, and it:

  • Supports TWAIN 1.x, TWAIN 2.x, WIA 1.0 and 2.0 drivers
  • Use the default user interface provided by the TWAIN or WIA driver for acquiring the image
  • Scan in black and white, halftone, gray-scale, palette or full color
  • Control the resolution, position, size, and orientation of the acquired image
  • Use an automated document feeder for single and multi-page scanning
  • Scan both front and back of page with duplex scanning
  • Accept images placed in different “watch” folders, so that images simply copied to the DIG workstation can be automatically processed

With the supported drivers, DIG can acquire images from nearly any device: X-ray sensors with TWAIN interface, digital cameras, scanners and frame-capture from video (web-cam) devices.

The DIG workstation can simultaneously support multiple “stations”, each providing different kind of images for different target fields. Each station have an active file and that is the default file for new images, and each provider (TWAIN or Watch-Folder) targets a default field.

In DIG, the image displays in the DIG user interface, and you may then add additional image description, assign the image a field number and save it to the DVI System.

DIG is designed to be a general image workstation, so another feature is to use DIG to import some or all pictures from a file system (memory-card, CD-ROM, USB-key or other file location).

DIG will automatically scan all selected pictures for bar-codes within the picture and relate these to the file or reference numbers, so that the operator can process the pictures semi-automatically.