3. BCS-2 Classic versus BCS-2 Office/Professionaladd chapter
| Criterion | BCS-2 Classic | BCS-2 Office / Professional |
| Availability | 1998 – 2022 (End of Life 31.12.2022 / End of Support 31.12.2023) | from 2015 Release Notes |
| 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 targets |
| Configuration and settings | Restricted combination of global and job type specific settings | Flexible service-specific configuration of workflows and toolbars |
| Indexing | Order and restricted page indexing | Flexibly definable per workflow Indexing at job, chapter and page level Structuring of the job into multi-level chapters/sub-chapters |
| Semi-automatic indexing | No | Adaption of predefined form fields via OCR-Suite, e.g. page number Via C-3 Plus for indexing structured content such as tables of contents, indexes, etc. |
| Export meta data | csv, txt | csv, txt, METS/MODS, ALTO, MARC21.XML, and individually configurable |
| Connection to norm databases | No | Yes, GND, ZDB, etc. |
| Character set | Windows– ISO switchable | UTF-8 / Unicode |
| 32/64 Bit | 32 Bit | 64 bit |
| Operating systems | W7, W10 | W10, W11- MacOS |
| OCR | ABBYY 10 EOL | Tesseract, as well as zonal OCR to support the capture of index and structural data |
| IP protocol | IPv4 | IPv4 and IPv6 |
| Security | n/a, restricted due to end of life of product and maintanance | 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 | – Avision, Plustek – Bookeye 2, 3, 4, 5 – CANON, SONY – TWAIN (64-Bit) further see: Scanner Connection – IWC-Manuals |
| Translation/Multilingual interfaces | Standard: D, EN | – Standard D, EN, IT – further translations on request, |