User manual VISIONEER PATRIOT 780 SCANNER

[. . . ] Visioneer® Patriot 780 Scanner User's Guide for Windows Visioneer Patriot 780 Scanner User's Guide FOR WINDOWS COPYRIGHT INFORMATION Copyright © 2008 Visioneer, Inc. Reproduction, adaptation, or translation without prior written permission is prohibited, except as allowed under the copyright laws. The Visioneer brand name and logo are registered trademarks of Visioneer, Inc. The OmniPage® brand name and logo are registered trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. [. . . ] Select Destinations--Select this option to individually choose the types of applications to include in the list of Destination Applications. Check the boxes for the type of application to include. CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 49 Destination Categories: Document Management applications, such as Nuance PaperPort®, that are for processing and keeping track of your scanned documents. Image Editors include Microsoft Paint and other drawing and graphics applications. Text Editors include Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and other word processing and spreadsheet applications. Storage and CD-R/W is for either storing scanned documents in a folder, or sending them to a CD burner to create a CD containing the scanned documents. Fax and Print is for sending your scanned documents directly to your printer or fax software for faxing. Sti event forwarding is for using another application's interface for scanning. Click Apply, then click on the Multi-Function tab to see the list of Destination Applications. 4. ONETOUCH GLOBAL OPTIONS Show Progress Window--Select this option to display the progress window of the document(s) during scanning. Use enhanced folder browser--Select this option if you want to save your scans to a network location that is not a mapped drive on your computer. Create copies of scanned documents--Images sent to a software application are temporary files until you use that application's "Save" command. When sending to a printer the image is temporary until printing is complete. Selecting this option enables the Folder Copy Options field for you to choose where a permanent copy of the file should be saved. This option is not available if either Document Management or Storage and CD-R/W are selected because these destinations automatically save the files in the folder location you specified under the Destination Application Properties. Folder Copy Options--Click the Browse button and select a folder to save the images in. Select the grouping option you want the scanned images organized by. 50 VISIONEER PATRIOT 780 SCANNER USER'S GUIDE SETTING DESTINATION APPLICATION PROPERTIES The different types of Destination Applications have various properties that you can set. On the OneTouch Properties window, select a Destination Application then click the Properties button. Select a Destination Application. Click the Properties button TEXT DOCUMENTS PROPERTIES These properties apply to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel®, and other text editing applications. CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 51 Click in the OCR settings boxes for the options you want. Always send a file, even when no text was found--The scanned file is sent to the application even if the image does not appear to contain text. Show message if text recognition failed--A message will open on the screen if the OCR reader does not detect text in the image. Note: To add another application to the Text Editor application list, see page 52. IMAGE DOCUMENTS PROPERTIES These properties apply to the OmniPage Pro software that you received with your scanner, plus Microsoft Paint and other image processing applications. Click in the Color document handling settings boxes for the options you want. Convert Bitmaps using Screen Resolution--Bitmap images with a high resolution may be too big to fit on the screen. Matching the screen resolution ensures that the image fits on the monitor screen. Convert Bitmaps to JPEG--JPEG files can be compressed to produce smaller file sizes and, therefore, shorter transmission times. Use this option to provide that compression capability to image files. Note: To add another application to the Image Editor application list, see page 52. 52 VISIONEER PATRIOT 780 SCANNER USER'S GUIDE ADDING AN APPLICATION TO ONETOUCH From the OneTouch Destination Properties for Text Editors and Image Editors you can add another application. Select either a text editing program such as Microsoft Notepad, or select an image editing program such as Microsoft Paint. To add a text application you have to select a text editing application before proceeding with these instructions. To add an image application you have to select an image editing application before proceeding with these instructions. Select a text editing program, such as Notepad, to add a Text Editor program. Select an image editing program, such as Paint, to add an Image Editor program. 3. Click on the Properties button. CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 53 4. Click on the Add Application button. [. . . ] Make sure the ADF cable is fully and securely seated into the ADF port on the bottom of the scanner. The ADF will not function properly without the cable being plugged in securely. If the scanner is locked, turn off the scanner and unlock it, then turn the scanner back on. Verify that the USB cable is plugged into the computer and that the USB cable is no longer than 6' (feet). [. . . ]