User manual VISIONEER PHOTOPORT 7700 INSTALLATION GUIDE

[. . . ] Visioneer® PhotoPort® 7700 USB Scanner Installation Guide COPYRIGHT INFORMATION Copyright © 2001 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, and PhotoPort are registered trademarks of Primax Electronics LTD. The PaperPort brand name and logo are registered trademarks of ScanSoft, Inc. [. . . ] If you want to scan an item on the scanner glass without closing the PhotoPort Reader, click Do Scan. To crop and image before sending it to the destination application: 1. Cropping on the PhotoPort Reader is similar to the cropping described on page 29, except you can crop to any length-to-width size. Crop the image and click Apply. 35 VISIONEER PHOTOPORT 7700 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE CONFIGURING THE SCANNER To configure the scanner, display the Configuration dialog box and then select options for the scan buttons. You display the Configuration dialog box from either the shortcut menu or the Button Panel. Right-click the scanner icon. Scanner icon The shortcut menu appears. Choose Configure on the shortcut menu. The Configuration dialog box appears. Right-click the button you want to configure. The Configuration dialog box appears. The tab for the scanner button you clicked is selected for you. CONFIGURING THE SCANNER 36 ABOUT THE CONFIGURATION DIALOG BOX The Configuration dialog box shows the current settings for each scanner button. Clicking a tab shows the current settings for the corresponding button on the scanner. For example, the following figure shows the current settings for the Scan button because the Scan tab is selected. The Scan button is set up to scan the item with the configuration named Scan Document (OCR Quality), and then after the scanning is finished, to open the PaperPort Desktop to display the scanned image. The Format and Page(s) setting is to scan as a bitmap for a single page item. 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 44 to set Preferences. 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. 37 VISIONEER PHOTOPORT 7700 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 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 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. 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 copies of the scanned images. CONFIGURING THE SCANNER 38 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 the computer's keyboard. The Help window appears so you can find the help information you want. The Help window appears, already opened to the section with information about that feature. Help button s 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. [. . . ] If the dotted line is not exactly where you want it, put the pointer on the line and drag the mouse. To use the pointer to drag the line, make sure the pointer button is selected at the top of the window. To maintain the selected area's length-to-width relationship (known as the aspect ratio), click Maintain Aspect. Note that as you rotate the area or maintain its aspect ratio, the width and height measurements change to reflect the new orientation of the image. [. . . ]