BCS-2 is a professional scanning and workflow application from Imageware Components GmbH, built for reliable, high‑quality digitization of books, bound volumes, maps, and loose documents. Designed for libraries, archives, museums, and service providers, it streamlines capture, quality control, metadata entry, and delivery to produce consistent, preservation‑ready digital assets.
Key capabilities:
- Guided workflows with job templates, batch processing, and automated job separation using barcodes or QR codes
- Advanced image processing, including cropping, deskewing, page splitting, gutter/curve correction, and color management with ICC profiles
- Integrated OCR to create searchable PDF/PDF/A and machine‑readable text outputs
- Configurable metadata forms for capturing descriptive and structural metadata alongside images
- Flexible export to TIFF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, and PDF/PDF/A with customizable file naming, packaging, and directory structures
- Broad device support for planetary/book and flatbed scanners common in cultural heritage digitization
- Quality control tools for visual review, page reordering or replacement, and consistent project auditing
- Scales from single‑workstation setups to high‑volume production environments
BCS-2 helps organizations accelerate digitization projects while safeguarding originals and meeting long‑term preservation and access requirements.
BCS-2 is developed by Imageware Components GmbH. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 3.2, 3.4 and 3.6. The name of the program executable file is bcs32.exe.
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