Wang Laboratories Inc, Lowell, Massachusetts has unveiled what it optimistically calls Open/image architecture in the hope that it will become an industry standard document image processing on personal computers, minicomputers and mainframes. It defines the managing, indexing, storing, and distributing of images independent of the applications, the computer and communications environment, or storage medium and is accompanied by the beginnings of a planned Open/image product line in the shape of Open/image-Windows, a software development toolkit that extends integrated imaging to millions of personal computers running Microsoft Windows. The Open/image architecture includes Wang developed programming tools that enable developers and users to integrate imaging functions, such as capturing, filing, retrieving, and displaying information on paper as electronic images, into computer applications, and defines how these applications communicate to image servers. The company says it has commitments from Oracle Corp, Gupta Technologies Inc and Information Builders Inc to integrate Open/image-Windows into applications.
