| Criterion | BCS-2 Classic | BCS-2 Office / Professional |
| User interface | A non-configurable user interface with all functions for all applications | Several individually configurable user interfaces that can be tailored to the user and task |
| Workflows | No, partial implementation with order types | Flexible workflow control with configurable indexing and export |
| Configuration and settings | Combination of global and job type specific settings | Service-specific workflows and toolbars |
| Indexing | Order and page indexing | Metadata and structural data collection on a job and page basis |
| Semi-automatic indexing | No | Yes, via C-3 Plus for indexing structured content such as tables of contents, indexes, bibliographies, etc. |
| Export meta data | csv, txt | csv, txt, METS/MODS, MARC21.XML, and individually configurable |
| Connection to norm databases | No | Yes, GND, ZDB, etc. |
| Character set | Windows– ISO switchable | UTF-8 / Unicode throughout |
| 32/64 Bit – variants | 32 Bit | 32 bit and real 64 bit variant |
| Operating systems | W7, W10 | W10, W11 |
| OCR | ABBYY 10 EOL | ABBYY 12, Tesseract, as well as zonal OCR to support the capture of index and structural data |
| IP protocol | IPv4 | IPv4 and IPv6 |
| Security | Supports file transfer via SFTP on the server side up to version 6.6 of Open SSH | Encrypted communication via https and file transfer via sftp, the latest SSH classes are integrated |
| MyBib eDoc Workflow System | MyBib systems can only be used with a BCS-2 order type | Parallel query of several MyBib eDoc systems, different BCS-2 workflows can be used with one order service |
| Supported scanners | Bookeye 2,3,4, Plustek and others according to the homepage | TWAIN 2.3 Standard, Bookeye 2, 3, 4, 5, Microbox K71, more on request |
| Translation/Multilingual interfaces | Standard: D, EN | D standard , Language package EN on request, further translations via the standard tool Qt Linguist |
