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AXIS 700 User’s Manual Appendix F: Glossary 99
OCR Optical Character Recognition. A technology that converts scanned
documents into editable and searchable text.
PDF Portable Document Format. A format for cross-platform distribution
of electronic documents. Can be viewed by anyone that has Acrobat
Reader from Adobe installed.
RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. A TCP/IP protocol governing
the translation of a Data-Link Control (DLC) address to an IP
address.
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computing. A processor that recognizes only
a limited number of assembly-language instructions.
SCSI Small Computer System Interface. A high-speed parallel interface,
used to connect a computer to peripheral devices using just one port.
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The TCP/IP protocol for exchanging
e-mail.
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol. A TCP/IP protocol used to
manage and monitor nodes on a network.
TCP Transmission Control Protocol. The connection-oriented, transport-
level protocol used in the TCP/IP suite of protocols.
TIFF Tagged Image File Format. Format for storing bit-mapped images.
Typically used for scanned documents and uncompressed images.
UNIX A 32-bit multitasking, multiuser operating system originally
developed by AT&T.
URL Uniform Resource Locator. A way of specifying the location of
publicly available information on the Internet.
UTC Universal Time Coordinated