I/O
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I/O INTERFACE
A channel between the CPU and a peripheral device.
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I-BEAM
A pointer shaped like a capital I. Used for working with text.
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ICON
A graphical user interface is the icon or picture that represents the task or device that is activated.
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ICR
Intelligent Character Recognition.
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IDE
Integrated Digital Environment.
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IDE PRINCIPLES
The owner/creator of the information is its keeper. In an IDE, reporting is replaced with access to information.
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IGP
Interior Gateway Protocol.
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IGRP
Internet Gateway Routing Protocol.
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IMAGE
Digital representation of a document or graphic.
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IMAGE CAPTURE
Using a scanner or other device to create a digital representation or electronic photograph of an image. The scanning process is often labor-intensive and costly, requiring a substantial investment in handling and processing original materials and their surrogate images. The current strategy is to capture an image at the highest resolution appropriate to the original, and store it off-line as an archival image on CD-ROM or magnetic tape. Techniques such as lossy compression and subsampling can then be used to create derivative images for use online. In the future, as the ability to deliver high-quality archival scans develops, it will be possible to place the archival scan online without cost of recapture. Scanning can be done in-house or contracted out to a vendor. Whether scanning is done in-house or outsourced, quality of the images can vary widely. Image specifications should be stated clearly in the contract with the vendor and sample images (at varying resolutions) of the materials to be scanned should be requested of the vendor prior to the start of the project.
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IMAGE FILE FORMATS
File formats used to create and store images. The most common format used in the imaging industry is Tiff (Tagged image File Format). Tiff is a very flexible format and it is an attempt at standardization within the imaging industry. Tiff is operating system Independent and display devise independent. This allows images to be transported across systems.
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IMAGE MANIPULATION OR ALTERATION
Refers to making changes (such as tonal adjustments, cropping, moire reduction, etc.) to an image using image processing software.
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IMAGE MENU
Contains commands that affect the images in the composite.
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IMAGE NODE
A block on the layout where an image or image-related information goes. It can include the background block and the blocks for people's images.
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IMAGE REPLACEMENT DOCUMENT (IRD)
Paper printouts of check images. Also known as a Substitute Check. Under proposed federal legislation - the Check21 Act - IRDs would carry the same legal status as the paper checks from which they are derived. They are processed in much the same way as paper checks.
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IMAGE SIZE
Describes the actual physical dimensions of an image, not the size it appears on a given display device.
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IMM
International Mail Manual.
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IMPACT PRINTER
Operates by striking a character on a print head against an inked ribbon, which imprints that character on any standard type of paper.
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IMPLEMENTATION
The complete installation of new hardware and system software or the installation of new application programs.
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INBOX
The mailbox that holds incoming e-mail.
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INDEX
Refers to the information contained in an electronic document that enables you to retrieve it from a database. The index can include physical location information (e.g., where the document is stored) and document identification information (e.g., date archived, creator, and contents). List of the contents of a file, document, or record and the keys or reference for locating these images.
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INDEXING
A method by which a series of attributes are used to uniquely define an imaged document so that it can be identified and retrieved at a later date.
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INDICIA
A preprinted endorsement on a mailing piece indicating that the mailer has prepaid the postage.
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INDORSEMENT
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INFORMATION DIGITIZING TECHNOLOGY (IDT)
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INFORMATION HIDING
A technique by which the structure and precise usage of information and data is concealed. The information is private to its owning objects and accessible to all other objects only by sending a message to the owner. This is the basis of encapsulation.
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INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Evaluation and effective management of all types of data/information within an organization.
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INFORMATION SERVER
A computer on the Internet, which acts as a library of documents and files that users can download.
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INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
A term popularized by former Vice President Al Gore. According to his vision, it is a high-speed network of computers that will serve thousands of users simultaneously, transmitting e-mail, multimedia files, voice and video.
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INHERITANCE
The ability of hierarchically arranged objects to acquire attributes and behaviors of objects above them without duplicating the code.
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INITIALIZE
To specify the starting value of a variable or address. To set the starting condition of a hardware device.
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INK JET ENDORSER
A printing mechanism used to endorse documents with the required information; sprays ink onto the document as opposed to using a ribbon.
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IN-LINE CAR (COURTESY AMOUNT RECOGNITION)
The ability to make a CAR decision on the initial pass of a transaction through a transport (eliminates the need to pre-sort single transactions into full pay and partial pay). In-line CAR allows the system to read the handwritten or printed amount on the check and automatically encode that amount onto the bottom of the check without operator intervention if the CAR amount read matches the amount due in the scan line. If the CAR amount read does not match the amount on the scan line, then an operator keys the amount of the check or the transaction is outsorted. In-line CAR can have two different workflows: CAR-Assisted Read and Key (one pass) or in-line CAR with a second pass for unmatched amounts (two-pass).
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INPUT
To enter information into a computer.
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INPUT/OUTPUT (I/O)
The part of a computer system or the activity that is primarily dedicated to the passing of information into or out of a central processing unit. General term for the process and/or equipment used to enter and retrieve data.
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INSERTING
The lettershop function that involves putting package components into the carrier envelope.
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INSTRUCTION
A statement to the computer that specifies an operation to be performed and the values and locations of the data to be processed.
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INSTRUMENT
Term used to describe a negotiable item (check, money order, bond coupon, etc.).
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INTEGER
Whole number without any fractional part.
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INTEGRATED DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT (IDE)
An IDE is one in which there is immediate access to the information required to do business.
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INTELLIGENT CHARACTER RECOGNITION (ICR)
Advanced form of OCR technology that may include capabilities such as learning fonts during processing or using context to strengthen the probabilities of correct recognition. See also optical character recognition. Machine reading of handwriting or printing, interpreted from an image scan of the original item.
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INTELLIGENT SCANNER
Scanner with additional capabilities such as optical character recognition (OCR) or bar code reading. See also bar code, optical character recognition, scanner.
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INTELLIGENT TERMINAL
A terminal, which has some processing and storage capability in addition to acting as a peripheral for a computer. Also called a smart terminal.
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INTERACTIVE
Pertaining to an application in which each entry evokes a response from a system or program, as in an inquiry system, for example, an airline reservation system. An interactive system may also be conversational, implying continuous dialog between the user and the system.
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INTERCHANGE
A group of transaction sets sent from one sender to one receiver at one time. The interchange is delineated by an interchange control header and an interchange control trailer. It is comparable to an outer envelope in paper transmissions. In card processing, the exchange of information, transaction data and money among banks. Associations such as MasterCard manage standardized interchange systems. In EDI, data is completely transmitted from one party to another in a single transmission. With an EDI standard, an interchange begins with an interchange header segment and ends with an interchange trailer segment.
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INTERCHANGE CONTROL HEADER
The data segment that indicates and identifies the beginning of an interchange.
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INTERCHANGE CONTROL TRAILER
The data segment that indicates the end of an interchange.
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INTERCHANGE ENVELOPE
The EDI standard entity that includes all the data sent from one EDI sender to one EDI receiver in a single transmission.
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INTERCONNECT/ INTERCONNECTION
The transmission of EDI data via a communication link, from one EDI VAN to another.
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INTERIOR GATEWAY PROTOCOL (IGP)
The protocol used to exchange routing information between collaborating routers in the Internet.
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INTERMEDIATE SYSTEM
An OSI system which is not an end system, but which serves instead to relay communications between end systems. See Bridge, Repeater, Router.
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INTERNATIONAL MAIL MANUAL (IMM)
Directory of U.S. Postal Service regulations for international mail.
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INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ORGANIZATION (ISO)
A voluntary, non-treaty organization to promote international standards. Membership consists of BSI for the UK, ANSI for the USA, DIN for Germany, etc.
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INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION (ITU-TSS)
Telecommunication Standardization sector. English translation of CCITT. International organization that develops international communication standards. In imaging we refer to the same standards as used commonly in facsimile, the CCITT group 3 and group 4. An image scanned is typically 10-15times smaller.
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INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE
See International Telecommunication Union and Telecommunication Standardization Sector.
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INTERNET
A concatenation of many individual TCP/IP campus, state, regional and national networks (such as CSUNET, SUPERNET, WESTNET, NSFNET, ARPANET) into one single logical network all sharing a common addressing scheme. The global "network of networks" that connects huge corporations, small businesses, universities and individuals. Every Internet user can send e-mail to every other Internet user. Most Internet users can also read and post Netnews messages. In addition, many Internet users have access to more advanced services for information search and retrieval, such as Gopher, FTP, WWW and WAIS.
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INTERNET ADDRESS
A 32-bit address assigned to hosts using TCP/IP.
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INTERNET CASH
Purchased from an issuer (bank or credit institution) and then exchanged freely over the Internet. It is aimed at low value payments, both cross border and domestic. Internet cash will be bought in local currency, with the buyer then sending the "e-cash" to the seller in an Internet message.
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INTERNET GATEWAY ROUTING PROTOCOL
A proprietary IGP used by Cisco System's routers.
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INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP)
The Internet standard protocol that provides a common layer over dissimilar networks used to move packets among host computers and through gateways if necessary.
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INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER (ISP)
An institution that provides access to the Internet in some form, usually for fee. See Internet.
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INTERNETWORK PACKET EXCHANGE
The Novell NetWare protocol that provides datagram delivery of messages. A router with IPX routing can interconnect LANs so that Novell Netware clients and servers can communicate. See Local Area Network.
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INTEROPERABILITY
The ability of software and hardware on multiple machines from multiple vendors to communicate effectively.
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INTERPRETER
A program that translates instructions from a high level language into machine language. It translates and executes one statement at a time. Contrast with Compiler.
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INTERRUPT
A feature that signals the CPU that an input or output is required transferring control to the operating system, which determines what action should be taken.
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INTRANET
A private network inside a company or organization that uses the same kinds of software found on the public Internet, but that is only for internal use. As the Internet has become more popular many of the tools used on the Internet are being used in private networks, for example, many companies have web servers that are available only to employees. Note that an Intranet may not actually be an internet. It may simply be a network. See Internet, Network.
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INVERT
Reverses the way an image looks (makes a positive image into a negative and vice versa). An item on the Maps submenu (Maps is an item on the Image menu).
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IP
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IP ADDRESS
The numeric address of a computer connected to the Internet; also called Internet address.
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IP DATAGRAM
The fundamental unit of information passed across the Internet. Contains source and destination addresses along with data and a number of fields, which define such things as the length of the datagram, the header checksum and flags to say whether the datagram can be (or has been) fragmented.
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IP NUMBER
A unique number consisting of 4 parts separated by dots, e.g. 165.113.245.2. Sometimes called a dotted quad. Every machine that is on the Internet has a unique IP number. If a machine does not have an IP number, it is not really on the Internet. Most machines also have one or more Domain Names that are easier for people to remember. See Domain Name, Internet, TCP/IP.
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IPS
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IPX
Internetwork Packet Exchange.
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IRD
Image Replacement Document.
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IS0
International Standards Organization.
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ISDN
Abbreviation for Integrated Services Digital Network. A telecommunications network where voice, data, and images will be sent and received simultaneously in a single digital form.
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ISDN (INTEGRATED SERVICES DIGITAL NETWORK)
ISDN is a telecommunications standard offered by many local phone companies. ISDN is capable of sending digitally encoded voice, data, video, and similar signals on the same lines. ISDN can provide access to different types of communications, information processing, and supplementary services.
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ISO
International Standards Organization.
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ISP
Internet Service Provider.
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IT
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