The new industry body du jour is DIM, the Document Image Management Consortium, founded last week at the AIIM show in Chicago. Members include Sun Microsystems Inc, Xerox Imaging Systems Inc, Access Graphics Inc, Excalibur Technologies Inc, Frame Technology Inc, Fujitsu Computer Products of America and Laser Magnetic Storage International Inc. The idea is jointly to develop a complete Document Image Management implementation for converting, storing, retrieving, editing and distributing documents in the Unix environment. The system demonstrated runs on a Sparcsystem and consists of Xerox’s ScanWorX Optical Character Recognition software, Fujitsu’s M3096G scanner, Frame’s publishing software, Excalibur’s document imaging software and Laser Magnetics’s optical storage. Access Graphics will distribute it.
