ABIC
Adaptive Bilevel Image Compression. An industry standard routine to compress image data.

ACIF
AFP Conversion and Indexing Facility. An IBM AFP program included with PSF to convert, index and imbed resources for a MO:DCA archive document. The same function is available in ISIS PageEXEC and Papyrus DocEXEC.

AFIG
Advanced Function Image and Graphic Feature. Used in IBM printers to enable use of IOCA and GOCA formats.

AFP
Advanced Function Printing or Advanced Function Presentation, the IBM Printing Architecture.

AFPDS
AFP-DS AFP - Data Stream is the document file format of AFP. It is also known as LIST3820 format in the S/390 world. It is generated for example by DCF/Script or by Papyrus DocEXEC.

BARCODE
recognition of printed Barcode

BCOCA
Barcode Object Contents Architecture - a part of MO:DCA.

CCITT G3 / G4
Consultative Committee on International Telegraphy and Telephone. CCITT has set the Group3 and Group4 compression methods used originally for FAX. These are heavily used today as bitmap formats for archiving and printing. IOCA supports G3 and G4 compression.

DBCS
Double Byte Character Set. This is used for presenting documents in Korean, Chinese and Japanese languages which have up to 17.000 characters per font. Two bytes are used to present a single character instead of one. DBCS also requires operating system support to be able to input the language from the keyboard. AFP and therefore all ISIS products support DBCS.

DMS
Document Managing System

dpi
dots per inch

EUC
Extended UNIX Code. A character codepage used for Korean, Chinese and Japanese on UNIX.

FOCA
Font Object Contents Architecture - a part of MO:DCA.

FTP
File Transfer Protocol. Used in TCP/IP to transfer data files between systems.

GOCA
Graphic Object Contents Architecture - a part of MO:DCA. ISIS products support GOCA for generating chart graphics.

HTML
Hyper Text Markup Language. Used for documents in the Internet.

ICR
the recognition of handwriting

IOCA
Image Text Object Contents Architecture - a part of MO:DCA.

IPDS
Intelligent Printer Data Stream, standard IBM hardware printer protocol. IPDS and AFPDS are very similar internally, but should not be confused. IPDS is a protocol and AFPDS is a file format.

KMS
Knowledge Managing System

MICR
Magnetic Ink Character Recognition.

MO:DCA
Mixed Object : Document Contents Architecture, the SAA final document format.

OCR
the classic term OCR includes all printed writings (proportional and fix - pitch, as well as specifically developed OCR-A and OCR-B)

OGL
Overlay Generation Language, the IBM forms language compiler for IBM/390. This is also the input and output format of the
ISIS AFP Designer.

OMR
check mark recognition

PPFA
Page Printer Formatting Aid, an IBM VM/VSE/MVS product to generate PAGEDEF and FORMDEF from the source language in batch mode. This is used as input to the ISIS AFP Designer

PMF
Print Management Facility, was used to generate print resources (out of service). ISIS offers a conversion tool to convert the generated objects back to PPFA source code.

PSF
PSF/2, /6000, /400, /VM, /VSE, /MVS, Print Service Facility product, drives the IPDS printers on various platforms

PEL
Picture ELement, the smallest unit of an image, may consist of several dots for color.term

PPM
ppm, ipm pages per minute, impressions per minute

PSEG
An AFP Page Segment, usually an image like a signature or logo.

PTOCA
Presentation Text Object Contents Architecture - a part of MO:DCA.

RTF
Rich Text Format, a Microsoft revisable text format used in Windows and WinWord.

SGML
Standard Generalized Markup Language, a revisable
document format