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Reclaim

• Assess and categorise images quickly
• Read images and video from flash card or camera
• Add standardised metadata and annotations to images
• Generate reports and data for standard databases
• Create CDs for immediate viewing and archiving

RECLAIM (REMOTE EQUIPMENT FOR COMBINING LOCALLY ACQUIRED IMAGES AND METADATA) is a laptop based unit that has been designed to allow personel to quickly organise, describe and classify images that have been captured with a digital camera. Selected pictures and video can be categorised using a variety of predefined drop down fields and free-text entry. The description data and images can then easily be burned to CD or DVD for distribution. The disk contains a browsable set of images and data which can be viewed from any PC as well as an editable report document. Standard database file formats are also available on the output disk including Cambridge Imaging Systems' own Imagen database import file.

Input
Simply insert the flash card from your digital camera into the RECLAIM unit, or connect your camera with a USB cable. All images will be automatically loaded into memory and shown on screen. At a glance the user is able to discard or select images for review. The input session can be stopped and restarted as often as needed.

RECLAIM expects the user to add description information to each image. Standard fields include date, location and description - GPS data can also be read in automatically. Zoom in for a closer inspection of the image or video and add annotations to mark out areas of special interest. Predefined categories can be selected with drop down menus. Defaults can be set and text descriptions copied to
make data entry more efficient.

Output
Once a session is complete the image files and descriptions are recorded to CD or DVD disk. The original images are copied from the camera or flash card unchanged.The data saved to disk includes an HTML version which can be viewed with any web browser. JPEG versions of the images are copied to an RTF document with their descriptions for use with standard word processing software - Frame grabs from the video are also included in the report document. The CD/DVD also contains an XML version of the data, and a CSV version which can be imported into many database and spreadsheet applications. There is also an import file for easy integration with Cambridge Imaging’s archive management system (Imagen).

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