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3 Orthanc Explorer is not user-friendly enough for my use
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6 Orthanc is designed as a lightweight service for medical imaging,
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7 where the word *service* must be understood in the sense of
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8 `service-oriented architectures
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9 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture>`__. As
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10 a consequence, Orthanc is conceived as a robust back-end server
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11 (command-line) that aims to provide the most simple and generic
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12 support of DICOM. To state it differently, **the primary focus of the
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13 Orthanc project is not on the user interface**.
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15 However, Orthanc comes out-of-the-box with :ref:`Orthanc Explorer
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16 <orthanc-explorer>`, its default Web user interface. **Orthanc
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17 Explorer is designed for administrative, low-level purpose.** It is
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18 also used by the development team to test the features of Orthanc as
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19 they get introduced in the REST API. Orthanc Explorer is mainly
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20 targeted towards an English-speaking technical audience (notably
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21 system/network engineers, `PACS
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22 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_archiving_and_communication_system>`__
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23 managers, medical physicists, and researchers).
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25 **Non-technical audience** (physicists, patients, administrative
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26 staff...) **might expect an user interface that is more user-friendly
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27 than Orthanc Explorer**, and/or that integrates more features (such as
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28 language translations, sorting resources, access control lists,
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29 tagging images, beautiful layout, tunable anonymization, modification
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30 of instances, paging if many patients, handling of timeouts,
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31 login/logout, Web diffusion to patients/physicians...). If you need
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32 such a more advanced `user experience
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33 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience>`__ so that Orthanc
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34 better fits your clinical workflow, you will have to develop a
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35 separate, custom Web interface on the top of the :ref:`rest`, maybe as
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36 a `plugin
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37 <https://github.com/jodogne/OrthancContributed/tree/master/Plugins>`__. Any
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38 front-end Web developer could take care of this task using well-known
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39 JavaScript frameworks (such as Meteor, AngularJS, Ember.js...).
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41 It is possible that an official plugin that provides a more advanced
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42 user interface will be developed in the future (provided we find
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43 funding for this development). In the meantime, you can also contact a
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44 company that provides **commercial support on the top of Orthanc** and
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45 that might have developed an advanced user interface. Currently,
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46 `Osimis <https://www.osimis.io/>`_ is the only company ensuring such
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47 corporate services, but others might show up in the future. A `contact
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48 form <https://www.orthanc-server.com/orthanc-pro.php>`_ is available
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49 on the official Web page of Orthanc.
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51 **Update (2017-10-03):** A team of Master students from `ULiège
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52 <https://www.uliege.be/>`__ is currently working on creating a
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53 revamped version of Orthanc Explorer. You can get in touch with them
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54 on the `public discussion forum
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55 <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/orthanc-users/oOyKTmfs-J0/B6eyBJcvCAAJ>`__.