KRISTALvue ...multiple facets of Visual User Environment ::: Features

The KRISTALvue Application – a Marine Web Access & Collaborative Platform is a path breaking online tool that streamlines and facilitates information sharing between multiple users in shipping companies, irrespective of their location. Users of this application may range from the Company’s technical managers and engineers, to their workshop and repair staff as well as the ship’s management staff and all other personnel who may be involved in the smooth running of the ship or the shipping company’s activities, either directly or indirectly.
Packed with a number of unique and user-friendly features, this state-of-the-art web sharing application is guaranteed to efficiently meet all your data (Drawings & Manuals) digitization, storage, retrieval and sharing needs.

For a better understanding of the KRISTALvue application, let’s take a look at some of its core features.

1. KRISTALvue provides access to easily magnified Vector Drawings:
No more image distortion and pixilation

The application provides access to clean, de-speckled and high quality vector based drawings and text which can be easily zoomed and magnified to any level, without any pixilation or distortion.

2. KRISTALvue Application has an intuitive Graphical User Interface: Saves
training time and gets straight to work

The application has an intuitive GUI that is self explanatory, and guides the user, each step of the way with no training required to understand user application.

3. KRISTALvue offers easy access to Drawings & Manuals: Find what you
need quickly, using the convenient ‘tree structure’

The application is well consolidated with a dynamic menu organized into a directory tree, to easily locate stored drawings and manuals.

4. KRISTALvue utilizes the advanced OCR Technology: Search for textual
information quickly and conveniently

All manual pages are processed using the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Technology so users can find what they are looking for easily, simply by running a textual search.

5. KRISTALvue provides the Area Selection Tool: Enjoy complete and total
access to minute details

On zooming into the image, the application allows the user to select a particular area to be viewed through the use of a Navigator or View Controller.

6. KRISTALvue allows cross referencing & easy printing: Add value to your
documents, improve their functionality and print with ease

The documents and pages of the manual are hyperlink enabled for quick navigation to referenced sections. Moreover, the application enables users to print a document, drawing or text to the desired size, at any location.

7. KRISTALvue supports annotations: Experience the power of
knowledge sharing

Users can add notes to drawings and pages of manuals for further explanation and share their ideas and views.

8. KRISTALvue facilitates Email from within the Application: Save Time & get
your tasks done faster

Annotated drawings and manuals can be easily emailed to multiple recipients without exiting the application. A blank carbon copy (bcc) is automatically returned to the sender, thus saving a copy of the annotated drawings/manuals, for his record.

9. KRISTALvue supports document streaming and download: No more endless
waiting.

The streaming feature makes it possible to manually view and use the document even as download of all the pages of the document is in progress.

10. KRISTALvue allows certificate storage: Save your certificates and view them later

Certificates can be easily stored within the application and are available for easy viewing whenever required.

11. KRISTALvue uses optimized compression techniques: Experience quick downloads

The application makes use of special compression techniques with optimization, hence, post conversion, large size.PDF documents and scanned drawings (or manuals) can be quickly downloaded. A good example of this is a GA plan of files larger than 30Mb. Once optimized and compressed, it can be reduced to a file size of less than 500KbB without compromising the quality.

12. KRISTALvue utilises Rich Internet Applications (RIA) Technology: Quicker
downloads are possible

The RIA technology with a customized or proprietary set-up process enables fast downloads of large drawings and manuals for optimal user web experience.

The KRISTALvue application has been designed to include such valuable features that offer complete ease of use and the ability to collaborate without the need for any formal training or coaching. Once your vessel drawings and manuals are hosted on KRISTALvue, you can be rest assured that your resources are accessible 24x7 from any part of the world, online!