Operating the Scanner
Your scanner accepts documents as small as business cards and as large as
4”x6” photographs. However, some software programs have limitations as to the
information they can handle. The capacity of the computer’s memory and free space on
your hard drive can also limit the physical size of the document that you scan.
There are two different ways to operate the scanner:
1. From within an image-editing program that can acquire images from the
scanner.
2. By pressing either of the two action buttons on the scanner. You may
configure the button settings individually to your personal needs within the
Smart Touch program that is automatically installed as your scanner software.
Your scanner needs to be driven by some type of software program. Since all
documents or images (whether text or pictures) that are acquired from the scanner are
treated by your computer as images, most scanning will probably be done from an
image-editing program where you can view, edit, save and output the scanned images.
An image-editing program has been bundled with your scanner on the included
Setup/Application CD-ROM. It will allow you to alter and correct any scanned images
by using a variety of filters, tools and effects.
What about scanning business cards and managing them in a more convenient
way? This is the role of BCR function which can scan various business cards to
Cardiris software. Cardiris can index the scanned images into business cards album,
recognize and convert respective personal information contained in the scanned
images into an address database for your further management. If you wish to use the
scanner in this way you should install the Cardiris software that is included in the
Setup/Application CD-ROM.
Smart Touch is a program that allows you to conveniently scan images and text
without the need to work directly within any image-editing application (i.e. Presto!
ImageFolio). Smart Touch also includes BCR function which allows you to set
scanning attributes for the business cards you are to scan to Cardiris software.
Please refer to the Smart Touch Setting on-line Help (accessible by clicking on the
Smart Touch icon , located near the clock icon on the Windows system tray, and
choosing Help) for more information about these functions.
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