67th Support Squadron/LGCS, 306 Wakkanai St Ste 1, San Antonio TX 78243-7139

70 -- OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION SYSTEM. Sol F41621-94-R5040 due 042695. Contact Point: Sharyn M. Timms (210) 977-2821 Contract Negotiator, Kent E. Dodd, Contracting Officer. The 67th Support Squadron Contracting Flight intends to issue a solicitation for the purchase of an Optical Character Recognition system made up of the following integrated components: Item 0001 Calera MM2400 system (or equal) with Calera M Series Professional Software system (or equal). The system shall meet the following minimum characteristics: 1. Shall recognize fonts from 6 to 28 point either monospaced or proportional, ad nonstylized fonts including typewritten, typeset, laser-printer, draft dot matrix. 2. Shall recognize the complete page including bold, italic, underscore, paragraphs, tables, lists, headers, footers, and columns. 3. Shall provide, as a minimum, Word Perfect, MS Word, Wordstar, ASCII, Lotus, Excel, and Quattro Pro compatible files from scanned documents. 4. Shall recognize text and images in one pass. 5. Shall support recognition of fax transmission directly from image files. 6. Shall be capable of deferring the recognition from scanned documents until a later time. 7. Shall include a verification editor that shall highlight suspect characters and words. 8. Shall include a built-in dictionary that can be customized. 9. Shall allow the user the ability to preview a page zone of text and graphics areas. 10. Shall allow the automatic document feeder (ADF) to be loaded with multiple documents, separated by a blank page, with each document written to a separate file. 11. Shall be capable of page rotations of 90, 180, and 270 degrees. 12. Shall provide a method for tracking progress of a job during processing. 13. Shall include a separate software developer's tool kit to allow the user to customize scanning and recognition applications into the government's environment. Item 0002 Fujitsu 3093E Flatbed Scanner with automatic document feeder system (or equal); with the following minimum characteristics: 1. Shall be compatible with the OCR system. 2. Shall include an automatic document feeder (ADF) which shall hold a minimum of 50 sheets. 3. The ADF shall be adjustable for various paper widths. 4. Shall support flatbed operations. 5. Shall support paper sizes from 3'' x 5'' to 8.5'' x 14''. 6. Shall allow a skew of at least plus/minus 2 degrees. 7. Shall be capable of scanning an 8.5'' x 11'' page in a minimum of 4 seconds. 8. Shall have an input resolution of 300 dpi. 9. Input resolution from external scanners shall be variable in the range from 75 dpi to 300 dpi. 10. Shall be capable of output resolutions of from 25% to 100% of the input resolution. 11. Shall support image formats of uncompressed, CCITT group 3 or 4, compressed, PCX, PICT and TIFF as a minimum. 12. Shall recognize at least 2400 characters per second with 99% accuracy when scanning high quality documents. Item 0003 Software developers tool kit; Item 0004 Adaptec 1542CF Adapter Card with cable system (or equal); Item 0005 Kofax 7300 Card with 3MB Memory and cabled system (or equal); Item 0006 System Documentation; Item 0007 Systems Installation; Item 0008 System Training, 6 hours for 10 persons; Item 0009 Six month warranty. An on-site demonstration will be required for those offerors offering ``equal'' items. As these items are being purchased for use in cryptologic activities related to national security, the Nunn-Warner Amendment (Public Law 97-86) is applicable. Only written or faxed requests received directly from the requestor are acceptable. Proposals will be considered from all responsible sources. Fax number is (210) 977-2980. Telephone requests will not be accepted. (065)

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