Atiz Innovation Co., Ltd.
Founders of the company
The founder of the company and the author of the majority of the ideas — Dr. Sarasin "Art" Booppanon (Bangkok, Thailand), the CEO — Nick Warnock (Los Angeles, the USA).
History
Originally the idea of creation of the company belonged to its founder — Dr. Sarasin "Art" Booppanon which in 2003, receiving doctor's degree and spending uncountable hours in libraries behind copying of the necessary editions, realized that the world needs other method of digitization of information which books contain. Later, with the assistance of Dr. Jackrit Suthakorn, the expert in robotics, completely automatic scanner was designed and created. Atiz Innovation Co., Ltd. it was founded in March, 2005 in Bangkok, Thailand.
After a set of research and development, the company released the first product — ATIZ BookDrive, the first-ever scanner of the desktop size with automatic browsing of pages allowing to avoid scanning manually (afterwards the device was removed from sales). Then, for the purpose of expansion of sales market of the company, with the management of ATIZ Innovation Co., Ltd. Nick Warnock, the former finalist of the TV-show "Pupil" ("The Apprentice"), contacted the offer to bring the developed technologies to the USA. Thanks to extensive knowledge and achievements in the field of management and sales, it perfectly was suitable for management of the American branch of the company — thus, ATIZ Innovation Inc., was registered as private company in Los Angeles, the State of California, in January, 2006.
Products
Professional book scanners. The company develops a number of book scanners on the basis of digital cameras (generally — TsFK from Canon) for image acquisition of the scanned high-quality book. Process of scanning looks as follows — the cameras mounted on a support once remove both pages of the scanned book placed in a special V-shaped cradle (the know-how of the company — the book does not reveal completely, and opens by 90 degrees that allows to avoid damage of its back) and pressed by clamping glass (to straighten pages and to facilitate the subsequent text recognition).
ATIZ BookDrive (see above) — the first-ever scanner of the desktop size with automatic browsing of pages allowing to avoid scanning manually (at the moment the device is removed from sales).
ATIZ BookDrive DIY is the semi-automatic book scanner of new generation which appeared in the Russian market at the beginning of 2007 [1] there Are 2 models of the scanner, A and B, with distinction in the amount of a cradle for the book (A2 and A3 respectively). The used digital cameras — Canon 450D and Canon 5D. Device capacity — 700 pages per hour.
ATIZ BookSnap is the semi-automatic book scanner of new generation which appeared in the Russian market at the beginning of 2008 [2] Softwares to estimates of specialists, the cost of an ustroystvaravn of average market cost of digitization of 50 books. The used digital cameras — Canon Powershot G10. Device capacity - 500 pages per hour.
ATIZ BookDrive Pro is the semi-automatic book scanner of new generation, whose exit the company advertized at the beginning of 2009. [3] Main advantages of the device as the producer — the ergonomic platform said, special fastenings for cameras and LED sources of lighting. The used TsFK — a number of mirror cameras from Canon.
Autoswitch is a special prefix to the senior versions of the ATIZ scanners (DIY and Pro), for control of the cameras taking a picture of the page in order to avoid permanent clicking of the button starting scanning of the book.
Software. In addition to special devices developed a number of the programs ensuring functioning of the book scanner with the images received from cameras for scanning of books, ATIZ Innovation.
BookDrive Capture — controls both digital cameras of the book scanner connected to the PC. On one click tsfk the command will be sent and they will record the image of the left and right pages of the scanned book; then the program will display the received result.
BookDrive Editor — is intended to lead the images received from tsfk to the same type and quality that will facilitate further recognition of the received text. Basic functions — framing, leveling adjustment of noise, brightness, contrast and so forth.
Snapter Ice is the program allowing to use the digital camera as the scanner for collection of information, transferring automatically modified images to the PDF format. Snapter supports JPG, TIFF and other popular formats of images.
Interesting Facts
Company name. "Creativity" is meant by "creativity, creative capability", and "creatist" ("c-r-e-a-t-i-z" is said) — the person having them. Having removed the letters "c-r-e", we receive "a-t-i-z", the name which, among other, will go at the beginning of the alphabetic list.
The cost of ATIZ Booksnap is about 300 thousand rubles.
Notes
Links
- Official site of ATIZ company
- Official representative office of ATIZ in Runet
- Book ATIZ Bookdrive PRO scanner
- Book ATIZ Bookdrive MINI scanner
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