User’s Manual
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Table of Contents 1. Installing the Button Manager ................. 1 2. Scanning From the Button ....................... 4 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4 3. Checking the Button Configurations Before Scanning ...................................................... 4 The Default Button Settings ............................ 6 Scanning From A Simple Touch of the Button ..... 7 2.3.1. Use of the Button Panel ........................ 8 Performing Continuous Scan From the Flatbed ..10 Configuring the Buttons .........
1. Installing the Button Manager System Requirements • IBM compatible PC 586, Pentium or higher • Microsoft Windows 2000/XP • USB port 2.0 (compatible with USB 1.1) • At least 100 MB of free hard disk space • At least 128 MB of system memory • A CD-ROM drive Button Manager provides you an easy way to scan your document and then link the scanned image to your designated software application. All this can be done with a simple touch of the button on the scanner.
2. Click “Install Button Manager”. window appears. 3. Choose the language you wish to install. The InstallShield wizard appears to guide you through the rest of the installation.
4. Click “Finish” to complete the installation.
2. Scanning From the Button Simply pressing the Scan button on the scanner, the scanned document will be sent to your designated destination application. Yet, before you scan, it is recommended to check the button configurations first to ensure a proper file format and a destination application. 2.1. Checking the Button Configurations Before Scanning 1.
2. The Button Panel shows the first five scanning buttons. Right-click the button (function) you wish to check, the Button Properties window appears. Click to select options or setting. The button number and name. The scan settings for the selected button. (in this case button #1). The destination application. (This is the application that opens after you have finished scanning.) The file format of the scanned image. The default setting is indicated in highlighted color.
2.2. The Default Button Settings The scanner is shipped with preconfigured button settings for your basic scanning tasks such as scan-to-folder, scan-to-email, and scan-to-printer. The following table shows these factory default settings. You can change any of these settings.
2.3. Scanning From A Simple Touch of the Button 1. Adjust the paper guide for the width of paper and load the document with their tops into the automatic document feeder. 2. Check the number on the LED screen to ensure if you are selecting the proper scan settings and destination application. (For example, if you want to scan with button #4, which open roxio PhotoSuite and display the scanned image in the main window of roxio PhotoSuite, the LED screen should show 4). 3.
2.3.1. Use of the Button Panel Double click the Button icon in the Windows System Tray at the bottom right corner of the screen. This will prompt the Button Panel. The Button Icon The Button Number This number corresponds to the number shown in the LCD screen on the scanner. The Function Icon Click the arrows to cycle through the 9 buttons. The Button Panel From this panel, you can check the scan configuration, start a scan, and change the scan configuration. 1.
3. To change the scan configuration, right click the function icon you wish to check. This will prompt the Button Properties window which allows you to customize button function and its configurations. 4. To see the details for a button, press the Scan button on the scanner or left click the function icon. The scanning progress bar and the details for the button appear. The Detailed View 5. To cycle through all 9 buttons, click the arrow key to navigate through all 9 buttons. 6.
2.4 Performing Continuous Scan From the Flatbed If your scanner comes with a flatbed module, Button Manager provides you a convenient feature to perform continuous (multi-page) scan from the flatbed. Simply inserting next page of your document and then pressing the Scan button, your multi-page scan from the flatbed can be completed. This feature is particularly useful when you need to scan inside pages of a book. To perform continuous scan from the flatbed, 1. 2. Open the document cover.
5. 6. 7. Check if the number displayed in the LCD screen is your favorable setting for the scanned image. Press the Scan button on the scanner. When the scanner completes first-page scan, a “Continue or stop” dialog box appears. 8. 9. Place next page of your document on the glass. Choose “Continue” or simply press the Scan button on the scanner to scan next page. 10. If your scan is completed, click “Stop” to close the dialog box. Note: 1. The scanner is designed to automatically set your scan source.
3. Configuring the Buttons The Button Manager allows you to change current button configurations, rename destination application, or change your destination application. The scanned image is either shown in the main window of the specific destination application or served as an attachment to the application. 3.1. A Glance of the Button Properties Window The Button Properties window allows you to choose new settings for the buttons.
3.2. Choosing New Settings For A Button For each of the nine buttons, you can choose a new Destination Application, Scan Configuration, and File Format. Choose a scan configuration for the scanned image. Click the arrow to change the button number. Choose a software application as the destination to send the scanned image. Select a file format for the scanned image. To choose new settings for a button, ) in the system tray at the bottom 1. Click the Button icon ( right corner of the screen. 2.
3. Right-click the button to prompt the Button Properties window. 4. From the Choose Destination list, select your ideal software application to link the scanned image to. Or you may add a new application by clicking Add/Delete to add a new software application. 5. From the Choose Configuration list, select a scan configuration.
Or you may create a new scan configuration for the specific software application by clicking Add to prompt the Scan Configuration window. 6. From the Choose a File Format option, select a proper file format supported by the software application. 7. Click OK to save and leave the window or click Apply to save and continue to work with other features.
3.3. Choosing a Proper File Format The file format that you have selected determined the file format for the scanned image of your document. To select a proper file format, From the Button Properties window, choose your ideal file format for the specific button number. Choice includes BMP, TIFF, GIF, PDF, and DjVu. Note that the TIFF, PDF, and DjVu file formats support multi-page function. BMP: BMP is the standard Windows image format on DOS and Windows-compatible computers.
The Button Manager allows you to create searchable PDF with the features of compression, character recognition, and security. Click the PDF button to prompt the Properties button. Then click the Properties button to open the following PDF Setting dialog box. • Compression: The compression feature allows you to compress your PDF file. Move the slider to the right or to the left to increase or decrease the level of compression. Note the greater the compression level, the lower image quality.
DjVu: DjVu is a new image compression technology. DjVu allows the distribution on the internet of very high resolution images of scanned documents, digital documents, and photographs. DjVu typically achieves compression ratios about 5 to 10 times better than existing methods such as JPEG and GIF for color documents, and 3 to 8 times than TIFF for black and white documents. The following table gives you an idea of file size v.s.
3.4 Adding A New Destination Application The Button Manager allows you to add your own software applications as a destination for your scanned image. To add a new destination application, 1. From the Button Properties window, click Add/Delete. The Application Manager window appears. 2. Choose Add in the Application Manager window to prompt the Add A New Application window. From the Add A New Application window, follow these steps. 3. Step 1: Enter or select the path to the new application.
4. The new application will then be shown in List of All Applications in the Application Manager window. 5. Choose the new software application and click Add to include it to List of Applications for the Button #.
Click Add to include the new application to the specific button. 6. Click OK to return to the Button Properties window. 7. Choose the new application as your destination application in the Button Properties window and click OK or Apply. Then this new application will be the new destination application for the specific button number.
3.5 1. Deleting A Current Destination Application From the Button Properties window, choose the Button number which you want to edit and then choose Add/Delete. Click the arrow key to select the button number 2. The Application Manager window appears. 2. Choose the destination application which you want to delete and click Remove to move the application to the List of All Applications. Choose the destination application which you want to delete and click Delete Application.
3.6 Creating A New Scan Configuration From the Button Properties window, click Add to prompt the Scan Configuration Properties window. The Scan Configuration Properties window consists of the Scan Settings tab, the Color Dropout tab, and the Color Adjust tab to enhance your scanned image. 3.6.1 The Scan Settings Tab The Scan Settings window consists of the following settings: Mode: Select proper image mode for the scanned image. Choice: B&W, Gray, and Color.
Image Type B&W Gray Color B&W Description Choose B&W if your original contains only text, pencil or ink sketch. Choose Gray image if your original contains actual shades of gray. Choose Color if you wish to scan a color image for your original in colors.
Brightness and Contrast Brightness Adjusts the lightness or darkness of an image. The higher the value, the brighter the image. Drag the slider to the right or left to increase or decrease the brightness. The default value is 0. Contrast Adjusts the range between the darkest and the lightest shades in the image. The higher the contrast, the bigger the different grayscale. Drag the slider to the right or left to increase or decrease the contrast. The default value is 0.
Resolution: Resolution A good control of the resolution results a good detail of an image that scans. The resolution is measured by dots per inch (dpi). Normally, the greater the dpi number, the higher the resolution and the image file size. Be aware that greater resolution takes more time to scan, and more disk space for the scanning image. For your information, an A4 size color image scanned at 300 dpi at True Color mode consumes approximately 25 MB of disk space.
Scan Area: Cropping allows you to capture a portion of the document being scanned. Choice: Automatic, Fixed to Transport, EOP (End of Page) Detection. Options Description Automatic Automatic adjusts the cropping window according to different document sizes. Use this option for batches of mixed-sized documents. Fixed to Transport This feature allows you to define the area or zone to be imaged. Use for batches of same-sized documents.
Automatic Deskew Use this option to automatically deskew a document. Note: If the skew angle is too great, some of the image may be cut off. Scan Area Choose your desired paper size with the drop-down list box. Or you may select a custom paper size by clicking the Scan Area box and then click Add to include in the choice. Choice: None, US Letter- 8.5”x 11”, US Legal – 8.5” x 14”, ISO A4 – 21 x 29.7 cm, ISO A5 – 14.8 x 21 cm, ISO A6 – 10.5 x 14.8cm, ISO A7 – 7.4 x 10/5 cm, ISO B5 – 17.
Additional Length Detection Additional Length Detection allows you to define the length of document being multi-fed. This value indicates the additional length exceeding your designated scan area. The Display window will show the size of the document as you change the value. A value of 0 indicates no additional length detection. The Additional Length Detection is best used when scanning same-size documents in the auto document feeder. There are two options available if Multi-Feed is detected.
3.6.2 The Color Dropout Tab From the Scan Configuration Properties window, click Color Dropout tab to prompt the Color Dropout window. If your image contains red color watermark or background, choose the R(Red) channel then any red watermark or background will be removed. This feature is used to sharpen your text when using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software. Note that this function supports only black & white and gray image.
Background Level This value will be substituted in the grayscale image for the color being removed. Adjust the value for both the Filter Threshold and Background Level to produce the best optimal result.
3.6.3 The Color Adjust Tab Color Adjust: From the Scan Configuration Properties window, click Adjust Color to prompt the Adjust Color window. Adjust the color quality of the image so that it comes close to the original. Use ICC Profile: The ICC profile format was defined by the International Color Consortium (ICC) as a cross-application standard. ICC profiles help you reproduce colors accurately across different platforms, devices, and ICC-compliant applications.
Normal Use ICC Profile Gamma: Adjusts the midtones of the image without dramatically altering then lightest and the darkest areas. When the value of gamma changes, the image changes accordingly. Gamma Value: 1.0 Gamma Value: 1.4 Gamma Value: 2.0 Highlight and Shadow: Highlight refers the lightest point in a scanned image while shadow refers the darkest point. Using Highlight and Shadow tool together allows you to extend the range of color and reveal more details in a gray or color image.
When the value of highlight and shadow change, the image changes accordingly.
3.7 Deleting A Current Scan Configuration 1. From the Button Properties window, choose the scan configurations you want to delete. 2. Click Delete. A confirmation window appears. Chose OK to delete or Cancel to quit.
3.8 Selecting Options For a Button From the Button Properties window, click the Options tab to select options for a button. Path and Folder Options Path and Folder Name Enter the path or click Browse to select the path for your scanned image.
Folder Select the folder name to store your scanned image. Choice includes None, Application Name, File Format, Date, Date + Time. For effective management, please choose one to group your scanned image. For example, if you choose Date + Time, your folder name will display 2005-10-31-13-56-41. This indicates year-month-date-hour-minute-second. You may click the “Disk Clean Up” box to view and delete all the scanned images.
Separate document by “Patchcode”. Choose this if you wish to separate you document by “Patchcode”. Separate document by page number. Choose this if you wish to separate the document by a specific page number.
3.9 Removing a Blank Page From the Setting tab in the Button Properties window, check Blank Page Removal Threshold if you wish to remove the blank page and move the slider to the left or right to your desired threshold.
3.10 Setting the Power Saving Mode From the Setting tab in the Button Properties window, check Enable Energy Saving and move the slider to the right to set the amount of time to start the energy saver after your last action. The range is from 1 to 720 minutes. The default is 15 minutes.
3.11 Saving and Loading Profiles Button Manager allows you to save your profile (custom settings) and load the profile in just a few seconds. To save a profile, 1. 2. 3. Customize your settings. (For example, change your resolution, file format, destination application, or other scan settings.) From the Setting tab in the Button Properties window, click “Save Profiles”, a Save As dialog box appears. Enter the file name of your profile and then click “Save” to save the profile.
To load a profile, 1. From the Setting tab in the Button Properties window, click “Load Profiles”, an Open dialog box appears. 2. Choose the profile which you want to load. (For example, betsy.abp) Click “Open” to load the profile. Your selected profile appears on the screen. 3. Factory Defaults: Click this button and your existing settings for each button will be cleared and return to the factory default settings.
3.12 Solving A Problem If you encounter an error message and can not solve the problem, you can send a report.txt file to your nearest service center for quick trouble shooting. To send the report.txt file, please follow these steps. 1. ) on the right bottom of Right-click the button icon ( your screen. A pop-up screen appears. 2. Click “About” to prompt the Information dialog box.
3. Click the Report button. A report.txt file (C:\Button_Report.txt) will be generated and displayed on the screen. Please send this file to the nearest service center for a quick trouble shooting. The “Reset Pad Count” button」 : After scanning approximately 50,000 pages (the number varies based on type of scanner) through the Auto Document Feeder (ADF), the ADF pad may be worn out and you may experience problems with document feeding.
Index A G Additional Length Detection, 28 Gray, 24 B H B&W, 24 Background Level, 30 Blank Page Removal Threshold, 38 BMP, 16 Brightness, 25 Button Properties window, 5 Highlight, 32 I ICC profile, 31 J C JPEG, 16 Color, 24 Color Adjust, 31 Continuous Scan, 10 Contrast, 25 Cropping Automatic, Fix to Transport, 27 M mode B&W, Gray, Color, 23 Multi-Feed Detection, 28 P D PDF, 16 Deskew, 27 DjVu, 18 R Reset Pad Count, 43 Reset Roller Count, 43 Resolution, 26 E Enable Energy Saving, 39 S F
Dropout, Color Adjust, 23 Searchable PDF Compression, OCR, Security, 16 Shadow, 32 T TIFF, 16 46