One of the greatest pain points for anyone in business today is the amount of time it takes for people to process the large amount of paper and electronic data they encounter every day, such as financial information, email messages, faxes, printed reports, and correspondence.

Microsoft SharePoint provides a platform for addressing these needs through an integrated suite of server capabilities for enterprise search, content management, business process facilitation, simplified information sharing, and enhanced business insight. KnowledgeLake Imaging for SharePoint completes the picture with integrated components that extend the SharePoint platform into a fully functional document imaging system. When using KnowledgeLake Imaging for SharePoint, it is easier for users to organize, store, access and route millions of scanned documents and data across the enterprise.

With KnowledgeLake Imaging for SharePoint, you can:

• Provide easy access to your information workers with pre-configured or flexible search scenarios
• View, annotate and index images from a web browser using a SilverLight based document viewer
• Easily scan batches of documents
• Centralize the configuration of indexing, database validation and lookups for use across the entire KnowledgeLake product family
• Scan and index documents without ever leaving the SharePoint interface

View

Silverlight based viewer enables users to view common document types from SharePoint such as PDF, TIFF, Office documents and most image formats.

• View multiple documents at once
• View Document Sets
• Ability to “find similar” with embedded searching (based on property values)
• View pages of documents immediately without waiting for the entire document to download
• Annotate documents using text, image stamps, highlights, lines and sticky notes (TIFF/PDF only)
• Bookmark specific pages for faster access through the document lifecycle (TIFF/PDF only)
• View or modify SharePoint column properties with access controlled by SharePoint security
• Encrypt selective pages and portions of PDF and TIFF files using DocEncrypt by PFU

Index

Provides an enterprise-wide schema that allows administrators to configure document repositories, content types and connectivity with external systems – all from a central location inside SharePoint.

• Connect with external systems and databases for column validations, auto population of values and drop down pick lists
• Enhances the built-in functionality of Content Types to provide column validation, lookups and advanced auto indexing features
• Supports hidden columns, no duplicate values and column validations
• Enhances the native SharePoint features such as managed meta-data columns, Content Types, and the BCS (Business Connectivity Services)

Search

Perform exact relevance searches using any combination of SharePoint full-text or column properties.

• Pre-configure and store saved searches
• Silverlight interface with tabbed navigation
• Dynamically controlled Search Center
• Document Set Explorer
• Perform full-text and column property searches
• Search provides grouping, filtering and sorting of result sets
• Search across SharePoint Document Libraries and Sites
• Easily scale with SharePoint Search by searching crawled content, rather than direct database access
• Build custom views to personalize the look and feel of search results

Scan

Allows users to scan PDF, TIFF and XPS documents directly from SharePoint with a locally attached capture device.

• Scan and index documents without ever leaving the SharePoint interface
• View images and enter column properties inside your browser
• Use KnowledgeLake Index for validations, auto populations and drop down pick lists before saving SharePoint properties
• Supports TWAIN scanners

Export

Allows documents stored within multiple SharePoint document libraries to be easily exported.

• Lets users easily export Document Sets with their associated metadata outside of SharePoint for further processing, archiving and publishing
• Define an export set using KnowledgeLake Search and enter column properties inside your browser

SDK

Enables easy integration and customization within your organization

• Includes a Visual Studio sample application and a compiled HTML file describing each component’s extensibility points and object model
• Software Development Kit to extend your KnowledgeLake solution
• Developer support