The Odyssey software allows sites to send and receive electronic documents to other Odyssey sites, OCLC ILLiad sites, and other vendor's software that supports the Odyssey protocol.
Best of all - it is FREE!
Odyssey Features
Odyssey was designed with low cost, ease of use, and network security in mind. The software is a client/server application which allows the processing application to be split off from the delivery service function. This controls cost by allowing sites to expand by just adding the processing functionality to additional machines. It helps with network security by allowing the delivery service function of the software to be run on a server/workstation that may or may not be located in the ILL office.
Odyssey Main Menu
Odyssey Scanning Interface
- Send and receive electronic documents
- Review, insert, delete, rotate, crop and deskew images either sending or receiving
- Automatically add coversheets to incoming or outgoing documents
- Rescan any incorrectly scanned pages
- Send black, grayscale, color, or a combination of formats in the same document
- Send free text messages between Odyssey clients and reference documents for re-scanning requests
- Manage addresses for other libraries in the address book
- Uses standard Twain drivers
- Utilizes a single port for ease of firewall modification and allows for IP blocking of incoming items
- Automatic conversion of incoming files to PDF
- Automatic posting of files to a specific file or folder
- Automatic printing of incoming files
- Easy importing of Odyssey settings and address book into OCLC ILLiad when upgrading
- Send and receive documents between other Odyssey users or OCLC ILLiad sites