User manual

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2 General information
epoScan has been developed by the European Patent Office (EPO) to allow the scanning of patent
applications, trademark registrations, and related documents for ePhoenix systems as well as
published IP documents for patent dissemination systems like BNS and espacenet.
ePHOENIX is also a product developed by the European Patent Office. It is a Java-based patent
dossier management system. BNS is the European Patent Office’s service for storing and delivering
published patents and non-patent literature.
The epoScan installation CD comes with drivers for almost all ISIS
®
scanners with a SCSI interface.
For some of the very large capacity scanners a separate licence may have to be acquired. All the
other third party components such as
• barcode reading
• image enhancement
• ASPI32 drivers.
are included in the installation.
The epoScan product can be installed on all modern Windows platforms and it will operate on a
single PC or on several machines connected to a central server. This allows the same product to be
installed on a series of machines with each machine dedicated to a particular feature such as
scanning and image enhancement.