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General Scanning Procedure

Page Preparation

Before loading the scanner with paper, be sure all staples and paper clips have been removed. Pages that are torn or folded severely should not be placed through the Automatic Document Feeder (ADF). Instead, place these on the flatbed or make a copy of them and scan the copy.

When using the ADF, be aware of the scanner’s capabilities. Placing too many sheets of paper into the scanner may cause paper jams.

Feeding the Scanner

• Use the Scanner Settings button on the Settings frame to set the proper parameters for scanning.
• Place the pages in the scanner.
• Select the Batch style to use when scanning on the Batch frame. Click Single page documents if all of the documents being scanned are one page in length. Click Multi page documents if the documents are of different lengths or if a single multi-page document is being scanned.
• Select the appropriate Page handling style on the Page handling frame. Click one pass, front only if the pages have print only on the front side or if a duplex scanner is being used and the pages have print on both sides. Click two pass, front/back if the pages have print on the front and the back and you are using a single-sided scanner.
• Click Begin Scan to start scanning pages.
• When all the pages that were placed in the scanner are scanned, the following message is displayed:

The scanner is empty. To scan more pages, place them in the scanner then click YES. Scan more pages? YES | NO | CHANGE PARAMETERS

Select No if there are no more pages to be scanned in this batch. If there are more pages to scan, place the pages in the scanner and click Yes. If there are more pages to scan but the scanner parameters must first be changed, place the pages in the scan and select Change Parameters. Change the scanner parameters as necessary and when OK is clicked, the pages will be scanned.

• Once you have selected No to the above question, you will be asked the following:

Keep these images?

Answer Yes to save the images. If you answer No, all of the image files that were scanned are removed.

• The temporary image numbers for the pages that were scanned are loaded into a list box. You can review the images by clicking on the number. Insert, replace and delete buttons are available to add, replace or remove the selected image.
• If the Batch style was ‘single page documents’, then you can click the Done button to save the images as their permanent document number. Document numbers are assigned sequentially by the system.
• If the Batch style was ‘multi page documents’ then you can group documents by finding the last page of a document and clicking the end of document button. See ‘Stapling pages into documents’ below for more information.

Stapling Documents

Duplex Scanning

Some scanners are capable of scanning both sides of the page at the same time. These are called duplex scanners. To use duplex scanners to scan two-sided documents:

• Click the Scanner Settings button on the Setting frame to activate the scanner setup dialog box.
• Normally, in the upper right corner of this box is a Mode frame with options for Single-sided or Duplex. If Duplex is inactive then either your scanner is not capable of duplex scanning or the scanner was improperly configured when ImageControls was installed.
• Click the Duplex option and then click OK to close the setup box.
• Make sure the Page handling option is set to ‘one pass, front only’.
• Click Begin Scan.

Definitions

The following explains some of the parameters available. The options available depend on the scanner model in use.

Paper size - the size of the paper being fed into the scanner. You should set the paper size correctly to ensure that the entire page is scanned.

Source - set to flatbed, if your scanner has one, if you want to lay the page flat on the scanner glass. Set to ADF if you want to feed a stack of pages through the automatic document feeder.

Destination - if the scanner is capable of routing the paper to different output bins, this option will select the bin.

Resolution (DPI) - typical settings include 150, 200, 240, 300 or 400 dots per inch. Normally, the higher the resolution setting, the better the image quality. However, the image file size is larger. The suggested setting for normal hand-written or typed documents is 200 dpi. Higher resolution may be required for pages that will be read using an OCR engine or that contain bar codes. Setting the resolution too high on large sized documents may prevent the page from being scanned because of insufficient memory. This is dependent on the scanner card or scanner software driver being used.

Rotation - this will rotate the image before saving. This could be useful in improving scan performance by scanning pages in sideways to reduce the length of the scan path, then saving them after rotation.

Mode - if the scanner is capable of dual page scanning, set this to Duplex for two-sided documents.

Dual Page scanning involves scanning both sides of the page when the paper passes through the scanner.

Orientation - defines the orientation of the page being scanned (portrait or landscape).

Picking Rectangle enabled this if you wish to scan only a portion of the page. Once this option is checked, the rectangle to scan is using the associated top, bottom, left and right boxes. These can be entered in either pixels (dots per inch) or inches.