Compaq S4 100 manual Push Button Scanning, Configuring the Push Buttons

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Compaq S4100 Owner’s Guide

CHAPTER 3. Push Button Scanning

The defining feature of the Compaq scanner is its push button functionality. You can scan an image to e-mail, perform OCR (optical character recognition), or even use the scanner as a copy machine by pushing one of the four buttons on the front panel of the scanner.

You can increase your productivity by accessing all of the normal scanner functions without having to launch the software applications through the onscreen interface.

Before you can use these time-saving functions, you need to configure the settings for each button. Follow the appropriate set of instructions below to configure the variables for each button.

Configuring the Push Buttons

To access the configuration utility for the push buttons, follow the appropriate instructions below:

1.Click the scanner icon in the Task bar using your right mouse button. A pop-up menu appears which contains:

VistaScan

VistaShuttle

Copy Utility

Scanner Test

Push Button Configuration

Lamp On/Off Control

Find/Refresh Scanner

Exit

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