Differences between stations (sorted by deployment type)

ABBYY FlexiCapture Distributed stations can be deployed in a variety of different ways, with their architecture set up according to a customer’s specific needs. Stations can be deployed on a server or on a local machine. They can also be configured to be remotely accessed through a browser without the need to install the software locally. The stations are designed to be deployed and used without the need to always be connected to the server via the Internet, meaning that the software can be set up to be accessed remotely. This section describes the functional differences between the different stations, sorted by deployment type.

Scanning Station

Rich	Web HTML5	Remote	ClickOnce
Installation
Windows Installer Package (usual, silent or advertise installation)	Installation of ABBYY Scanning Plugin required during the first launch	Windows Installer Package (usual, silent or advertise installation)	ClickOnce installation (single click on a link in a web browser)
Authentication
Windows, Basic, FC	Windows, Basic, FC, Single Sign-On	Windows, Basic, FC	Basic, FC
Interacts with (protocol)
Application Server (http, https)	Application Server (http, https)	Application Server (http, https)	Application Server (http, https)
Scanning interface
ISIS, TWAIN, WIA	TWAIN	ISIS, TWAIN, WIA	TWAIN
Barcodes recognition
Automatic during images adding, manual by user command	Automatic during images adding	Automatic during images adding, manual by user command	Automatic during images adding, manual by user command
Empty Page Detection
Automatic during images adding, manual by user command	Automatic during images adding	Automatic during images adding, manual by user command	Automatic during images adding, manual by user command
PDF opening and exporting
yes	yes (scanning plugin with PDF support)	yes	no
Export destinations
FC, ftp, files, script	FC	FC, ftp, files, script	FC, ftp, files, script
Working with attachments
yes	no	yes	yes
Documents assembly (automatic and manual)
yes	yes	yes	yes
Centralized Batch Type Management
yes	no	yes	yes
Sending batches according to schedule
yes	yes	yes	yes
Image Editing
Setup and configuration of image enhancement profiles	Rotate, Flip, Invert, Convert to bw, Deskew, Despeckle	Setup and configuration of image enhancement profiles	Setup and configuration of image enhancement profiles
Rescanning
yes	yes	yes	yes
Document set support
yes	no	yes	yes
Custom scripts
yes	no	yes	yes
Manual scanning of multiple batches
yes	no	yes	yes

Data Verification Station

Rich	Remote
Installation
Windows Installer Package (usual, quite or advertise installation)	Windows Installer Package (usual, quite or advertise installation)
Authentication
Windows, Basic, FC	Windows, Basic, FC
Interacts with (protocol)
Application Server (http, https)	Application Server (http, https)
Format checks
yes	yes
Rules
yes	yes
Results saving
yes	yes
Distributed data verification (verification of different document fields by different Operators)
yes	yes

Verification Station

Rich	Web HTML5	Remote
Installation
Windows Installer Package (usual, quite or advertise installation)	No installation required	Windows Installer Package (usual, quite or advertise installation)
Authentication
Windows, Basic, FC	Windows, Basic, FC, Single Sign-On	Basic, FC
Interacts with (protocol)
Application Server (http, https), Protection Server (TCP/IP)	Application Server (http, https)	Application Server (http, https)
Data Verification
yes	no	yes
Rules check
Yes (local)	Yes (format errors and some rules checked locally, the rest is done on server)	Yes (local)
Fields re-recognition
Local	On server	Local
Manual Document Definition matching
Yes, with local re-recognition	Yes, with server re-recognition	Yes, with local re-recognition
Distributed data verification (verification of different document fields by different Operators)
yes	no	yes
Double data verification
yes	no	yes
Assembly errors correction
yes	yes	yes
Image Editing
Application of image enhancement profiles	Rotate	Application of image enhancement profiles
Adding new images in a batch
yes	no	no
Work under different roles
yes	yes (except the data verification operator role)	yes
Document set support
yes	no	yes
Permission support
yes	no	yes
Custom scripts
yes	no	yes
Thumbnails view
yes	yes	yes
Working with data sets
yes	yes	yes
Editing data sets (Invoice project only)
yes	yes	no

Web Capture Station

Web HTML5
Installation	No installation required
Authentication	Windows, Basic, FC, Single Sign-On
Interacts with (protocol)	Application Server (http, https)
Scanning interface	TWAIN
Barcodes recognition	Automatic during images adding
Empty Page Detection	Automatic during images adding
PDF opening and exporting	yes (scanning plugin with PDF support)
Scripts	no
Export destinations	FC
Working with attachments	no
Documents assembly (automatic and manual)	yes
Centralized Batch Type Management	yes
Sending batches according to schedule	yes
Exceptions queue	no
Image Editing at Scanning stage	Rotate, Flip, Crop, Invert,Convert to bw, Deskew, Despeckle
Rules check	Yes (format errors and some rules checked locally, the rest is done on server)
Fields re-recognition	On server
Manual Document Definition matching	Yes, with server re-recognition
Assembly errors correction	yes
Image editing at Verification stage	Rotate
Thumbnails view	yes
Working with data sets	yes