User manual VISIONEER ONETOUCH 8600 INSTALLATION GUIDE

[. . . ] Visioneer® OneTouch® 8600 Scanner FOR USB OR PARALLEL PORT CONNECTION Installation Guide COPYRIGHT INFORMATION Copyright © 1999 Visioneer, Inc. , a wholly owned subsidiary of Primax Electronics LTD. 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 Primax Electronics LTD. The PaperPort brand name and logo are registered trademarks of ScanSoft, Inc. [. . . ] The Format and Page(s) setting is to scan as a bitmap for a single page item. Click this tab to set preferences. Select a software application to send the scanned image to that application. Select a setting for scanning the item. Select format and page(s) options for the button. See "Setting Preferences" on page 36 to set Preferences. ABOUT THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 25 To display the Configuration dialog box: 1. Right-click the scanner icon. Scanner icon The shortcut menu appears. Choose Configure on the shortcut menu. The Configuration dialog box appears. The options on the Configuration dialog box are: Select Destination--the list of applications that can open to display the scanned image. Select the application that you want to automatically open to display or process the scanned image. Select Configuration--the list of the button's scan configurations. The configuration settings include: color, black and white, or grayscale, resolution in dots per inch (dpi), page size, brightness, and contrast. Click the icon again to close the detailed information: Clicking an icon expands the configuration to show its settings 26 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 8600 SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE Select Format and Page(s)--a set of options for selecting a format for the scanned image and whether to scan a single page or multiple pages. See "About JPEG Compression" on page 35 for more information about JPEG. The page icons represent single or multiple page scanning. Scan single page Scan multiple pages Scan multiple pages and stack them on the PaperPort Desktop Properties--displays a dialog box for selecting options about the destination application for the scanned image. Folder Copy--displays a dialog box for selecting the folder to use for storing a copies of the scanned images. GETTING HELP You can get help with the scanner's features or any of the options on the Configuration dialog box using either of the following methods: s When the Configuration dialog box is displayed, press the F1 key on your keyboard Click the Help button at the top right corner of the Configuration dialog box Help button s ABOUT THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 27 SELECTING NEW OPTIONS FOR THE BUTTONS You can select a new destination application, configuration, and image format for a scanner button to optimize it for the type of scanning you want to do. Press and hold down the button that you want to change (except the Stop/Cancel button). The Configuration dialog box appears. The tab of the button whose options you want to change is already selected. You can also right-click the scanner icon in the Windows taskbar to see the shortcut menu, and then choose Configure to display the Configuration dialog box. Scroll the list of applications in the Select Destination list and click the new application you want to use to view and work with the scanned image. Note: If you select a word processing program such as Microsoft WordPad or Microsoft Word and a configuration for OCR, the text in scanned images is automatically converted to word processing text by the optical character recognition (OCR) software that you receive with the scanner. The converted text then appears in the selected destination application. 28 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 8600 SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 3. Click a selection in the Select Configuration list to choose a new scan configuration for the selected scanner button. The configurations in the list are preset for the application you select in the application list. If you select another application, the configurations are for that application. [. . . ] For example, if you put a photo in the middle of the glass, the scanner will automatically determine the size of the photo. When AutoCrop is selected, the scanner makes two passes--the first pass senses the item's size, and the second pass scans the image. The scanner scans the item and displays a preview using the options you selected. (optional) To preview the image again, click the Preview button. SCANNING FROM THE PAPERPORT SOFTWARE 43 8. [. . . ]