Aequitas™ IDA II Standard

IDA II Standard comes complete with easy-to-use design tools enabling you to configure your own, possibly complex, databases. This is a comprehensive product for the average user who needs greater flexibility and more sophisticated database designs.

IDA II Standard Specifications

• Flexible image source including:
  • Digital cameras
  • Desktop scanners
  • Slide copiers
• Catalogue function to automatically search selected locations for multimedia files, including images, video and sound
• Export and Import of images and multimedia files for processing to maintain database integrity
• Multiple image, contact sheet style preview screen, including still images, motion video with sound and sound
• Table view showing textual and numeric information
• Details view presenting images, video with sound and sound with general information in a clear format
• Integrated image viewer
• RTF format notes fields
• Free format text fields
• Simple-to-use database searching
• Templates for databases provided
• Ability to personalise designs
• Printing of all views of the database via any standard desktop colour laser, inkjet and dye sublimation printers, including ID or security card printers
• Slideshow
• Exchange of record sets via e-mail with other IDA II databases
• JPEG software compression and decompression for images to reduce disc storage requirement. No additional compression board is required
• Storage of image formats, including Windows bitmaps, TIFF, JPEG and Photo CD (read only)
• Multimedia support, including real-time video
• Storage of multimedia formats, including AVI, MPEG, WAV and MIDI
• Playback of AVI, MPEG, WAV and MIDI files
• Management of removable media. This means that in a manual system the user is prompted to insert the disc or cartridge containing the requested record, if it is not already installed in the system. It also means that there is the capability to use CD-ROM jukeboxes in larger automated systems
• TWAIN and Video for Windows support
• Microsoft Access format files by default
• Minimum computer recommended is a Pentium PC with colour SVGA display and running Windows™ 95, 98 or NT
• May be run on Notebook or Desktop PCs
• Ability to publish images as HTML for use on Web sites or distribution on CD-ROM
• Easily user-configurable with object orientated authoring - no programming knowledge is required. This is a genuine end-user application
• Multiple pages in forms
• Multiple multimedia fields per page
• Example image databases are provided. These may be easily modified to suit your application
• DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) support
• SQL database searching
• Control of suitable third party equipment based on data in records
• The archiving system supports various storage media, including the ability to handle CD-ROMs
• Archiving to local drives only with removable media
• Archiving scheduler giving automatic control
• Ability to produce CDs, including run-time versions of the database for distribution
• Security - use of security codes to allow different levels of security access

Some functionality requires specific hardware, for example motion video and sound cards or image capture cards for converting video output to still digital images.

Suggested Applications

Detailed summary of Aequitas™ IDA II features.