Capture Perfect 3.
Preface Thank you for purchasing a Canon Document Scanner. CapturePerfect 3.0 is an ISIS-compatible application program that enables the computer to acquire images from the Canon Document Scanner. To fully understand the CapturePerfect 3.0 functions and to be able to use them effectively, please read this guide and the ISIS/TWAIN Driver Help guide as well as your scanner's operating manual. About Trademarks • ISISTM and MultiStreamTM are trademarks of EMC Corporation.
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Contents Preface.....................................................................................................................2 Before Using ...........................................................................................................5 About the CapturePerfect Window......................................................................................6 Scanner Selection and Settings ........................................................................................
Before Using Please read the following descriptions before using CapturePerfect. • About the CapturePerfect Window (→P. 6) : Describes the menus in the CapturePerfect window. • Scanner Selection and Settings (→P. 16) : Describes scanner selection and setup procedures. • About Saving Image Files (→P. 18) : Describes the file types that can be saved by CapturePerfect. • About File Naming (→P. 24) : Describes the requirements of file names for files to be saved by CapturePerfect.
About the CapturePerfect Window The following window appears when CapturePerfect launches. The items in the window's menu and status bar are described here. File menu Scan menu Edit menu View menu Page menu Options menu Help menu Status Bar File menu File menu Scan menu Edit menu View menu Page menu Options menu Help menu Status Bar Open or button Opens saved image files. The following file types saved by CapturePerfect can be opened: TIFF (*.tif), JPEG (*.jpg), BMP (*.bmp) and PDF (*.pdf) files.
Note If security is enabled for a PDF file, you are required to enter a password to open the file. Setting PDF File Security Options (→P. 71) Save Page As or button This procedure saves open image files with a specified name. Saving an Image (→P. 58) Close Closes the open image file. Close All the Files Closes all open image files. Print or button Prints the image displayed in the window. Printing an Image (→P. 62) Print Format Selects an image size for printing from the submenu.
Scan menu File menu Scan menu Edit menu View menu Page menu Options menu Help menu Status Bar Select Scanner Selects the scanner to be used. Scanner Selection (→P. 16) Scanner Setting or button Sets up the scanner. Scanner Settings (→P. 16) Scan Page or button Scans and displays a single document page. Scan Page (→P. 39) Scan Batch to File or button Continuously scans multiple pages of a document and simultaneously saves the page images to a file or files.
Note In an environment with a projector connected to the computer, such as a presentation meeting, paper documents can be scanned and instantly projected onto the screen for description. Scan JOB or button Select a job title from the JOB list box and click to execute the scan job. Scan JOB (Scan According to a Previously Registered Job) (→P. 50) Job Title list box Click Job in the Edit menu and select a job title, and click According to a Previously Registered Job) (→P. 50) on the tool bar.
Redo Executes the operation that was last undone. Brightness Displays the Brightness Adjustment dialog box for adjusting brightness and contrast of the displayed image. Adjusting Brightness of the Displayed Image (→P. 64) Copy Copies the images selected by Select All or in the area specified by Pointer - Selection to the clipboard. Images copied to the clipboard can be pasted into other applications. Select All Selects all parts of the displayed image.
View menu File menu Scan menu Edit menu View menu Page menu Options menu Help menu Status Bar Toolbar Switches display of the toolbar on and off. Statusbar Switches the Status Bar (→P. 15) on and off. Zoom In or button Magnifies the view of the image. Each time you select Zoom In in the View menu or click the Zoom In button, the view of the image is magnified (Maximum 400%). Zoom Out or button Reduces the view of the image.
Rotate Left or button Rotates the page image(s) specified in the submenu counterclockwise. Rotate Right or button Rotates the page image(s) specified in the submenu clockwise. Split View Splits the image display window into two or four screens. Split View (→P. 56) Thumbnail By opening the thumbnail window, open images can be viewed at reduced (thumbnail) size. Displaying the Thumbnail Window (→P. 55) Full Screen Displays the open image on the full screen.
Page menu File menu Scan menu Edit menu View menu Page menu Options menu Help menu Status Bar Next page or button Displays the image of the next page. Prev. page or button Displays the image of the previous page. Last Page Displays the image of the last page. First Page Displays the image of the first page. GoTo Page Displays the image on a specified page. Delete Page Deletes the open page. Insert/Add Pages Inserts or adds a page to the open image file.
Replace Page Replaces a page in the open image file. Replacement pages are read from the scanner or selected from existing files. Replacing a Page in an Image File (→P. 68) Options menu File menu Scan menu Edit menu View menu Page menu Options Help menu Status Bar TIFF File Selects TIFF as the file save type. Setting TIFF File Compression Options (→P. 19) JPEG File Selects JPEG as the file save type. Setting JPEG File Image Quality (→P.
OCR Settings Displays the OCR Settings dialog box for setting the language for character recognition. About OCR Functions (→P. 29) Help menu File menu Scan menu Edit menu View menu Page menu Options menu Help Status Bar About Shows CapturePerfect version information. Help or button Shows this Help for CapturePerfect. Image Info Displays information about the open image file.
Scanner Selection and Settings Scanner Selection Before using CapturePerfect, follow the procedure below to select a scanner to use with it. The selected scanner setting is retained until another scanner is selected. Important Verify that your scanner is properly connected to the computer, and that the scanner and computer are both turned on. Refer to your scanner's operating manual for details. 1 Click Select Scanner in the Scan menu. The Select Scanner dialog box appears.
2 Make the appropriate settings for your scanning conditions. For help related to these settings, click the Help button in the dialog box to refer to the driver help. 3 Click the OK button to exit the settings dialog.
About Saving Image Files Image file types, file name requirements and multi-page files that can be saved with CapturePerfect are described here. About File Types Images scanned with CapturePerfect can be saved as TIFF (*.tif), BMP (*.bmp), JPEG (*.jpg) or PDF (*.pdf) files. However, please note that the JPEG file type can be selected only when the specified scanning mode is 256-level Gray, 24-bit Color, or Auto Color Detection.
Setting TIFF File Compression Options When TIFF file (*.tif) is selected for the file type in Save Page As dialog box, the compression format specified here is applied. 1 Click TIFF File in the Options menu. The TIFF File Settings dialog box appears. 2 Select the image type (Black and White, or Grayscale or Color). 3 Select the compression format from the list box.
Setting JPEG File Image Quality Select the image quality to be applied when saving scanning images as JPEG files. The file size depends on the selected image quality. 1 Click JPEG File in the Options menu. The JPEG File Setting dialog box appears. 2 Make the following settings: Quality Select the quality of files to be saved from the following choices. The slider position changes when an item is selected.
Setting PDF File Saving Options When saving scanned images as PDF (*.pdf) files, set the compression and OCR object language saving options. 1 Click PDF File in the Options menu. The PDF File Setting dialog box appears. 2 Make the following settings: • Mode Select the PDF file compression ratio. – High Compression Files are saved with high compression. Image quality is degraded, but the file size is smaller. – Standard Files are saved with standard compression.
• Language for OCR When the Apply OCR check box is selected, you can select from the list box the language of the text to be scanned. • Apply OCR Select this check box to cause printed characters in the image to be recognized and saved as text data attached to the recognized area. Note – For PDF files (*.pdf) with attached OCR information, document character strings scanned as images are recognized as text and saved as text data.
When BMP or JPEG is Selected Only Single Page is available in the list box, and one image is saved per file. Also, the Schema Settings button is enabled, and scanning information can be included in the specified File Name. About Schema (→P. 24) When TIFF or PDF is Selected • Single Page Multiple scanned page images are saved as one image per file. • Multi Page (All Pages) All scanned page images are saved as one multi-page file.
About File Naming Requirements and limitations of file names assigned to images scanned and saved by CapturePerfect are described here. About File Name Settings • After selecting the BMP, JPEG, TIFF, or PDF file type and specifying Single Page as the MultiPage Setting, the character string specified for Schema Setting is automatically appended to the specified file name.
Schema Settings Selecting the check boxes in the Schema Settings dialog box causes the checked information to be automatically added to the names of files to be saved. • The example file name reflects the effects selected by the check boxes. • When Schema settings are performed with MultiStream settings, "Pri" or "Sec" is added to the specified file name. The character strings to be added are as follows for each selected item: • The Counter check mark cannot be cleared.
Schema Setting Drop out Driver Setting None Drop-out color Red Drop-out color Blue Drop-out color Green Drop-out color Custom Red Enhance Blue Enhance Green Enhance Custom color Enhance Characters Appended to File Name None DRed DBlu DGre Dctm ERed EBlu EGre Dctm • When performing Auto Color Detection, a conversion example of the detected type is appended. • The Counter item adds a serial counter specified by Digit Number, Start Value and Step Number. • The counter starts from Start Value.
About MultiStream Functions If your scanner supports MultiStream functions, you can scan two different types of image data (such as color and black and white or grayscale and black and white) at once, and output the different types of image data for the front and back of a page. The MultiStream Settings dialog box is available if your scanner supports the MultiStream function, by selecting MultiStream Settings in the Options menu or the Scan Batch to File Setting (→P. 40) dialog box.
• File Type Select the type (TIFF, BMP, PDF or JPEG) for saving files. However, JPEG is displayed when the Image Format is set to 256-level Gray or 24-bit Color. About Saving Image Files (→P. 18) • Multi Page Setting Set the Multi Page and Schema settings to suit the file type. MultiPage Settings (→P. 22) 4 Click the OK button. The MultiStream Settings dialog box closes.
About OCR Functions CapturePerfect provides OCR functions that can recognize characters in scanned images as text information. Character recognition is activated when the Enable check box is selected in the OCR Settings dialog box. Note • When OCR functions are enabled, deskewing is performed on the scanned image. • Refer to Setting PDF File Saving Options (→P. 21) for settings to add character information to PDF files. • Refer to About Schema (→P. 24) for Schema settings.
3 Select the language of the text to be recognized from the list box. Note Chinese character recognition results display correctly only in Chinese environments. 4 Click the Area button. The OCR Area Settings dialog box appears. 5 Enter the area in which to search for text. 6 Load one document page on which character recognition is to be performed, and click the Preview button. The scanner scans the document.
Note • The displayed image size can be changed by the Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons so that characters in the image can be compared with recognition results. • The area for OCR can be changed by dragging the mouse diagonally on the previewed image. 7 Click the OK button to close each dialog box and finish OCR settings.
About Log Files The results of recognition performed with the barcode detection function or OCR function can be saved as a log file in the CSV format. To save a log file, select the Write LogFile check box in the appropriate tab of the Barcode/OCR LogSetting dialog box shown below, and then specify a destination log file. Note • The barcode tab is activated when the scanner supports barcode scanning.
About Barcode/OCR Modification The barcode and OCR recognition results are saved in a log file. About Log Files (→P. 32) In the Modify Barcode/OCR dialog box, you can display and modify the recognition results stored in a log file, as needed. Note • Modifications to the recognition results are applied to the log file. • If the image file is moved to another storage location, the log file becomes invalid and barcode/OCR modification cannot be performed.
About Other Functions CapturePerfect provides the "Save Rotated Image" and "Save As Two Images" functions that save scanned images after specified rotation, or after splitting into top and bottom or left and right halves, respectively. Select the "Save Rotated Image" or "Save As Two Images" option before scanning so that scanned images are processed efficiently.
Rotate Right 90°: Scanned images are rotated 90° clockwise before saving. Rotate 180°: Scanned images are rotated 180° before saving. Save As Two Images Save Rotated Image Save As Two Images Capacity Warning Settings By splitting an image, two separate images are created from each one scanned, by splitting it either horizontally or vertically before saving. This is useful for documents containing two pages per image, when you want to save them as two images (one page per image).
3 Select the split orientation. divide up and down: Splits the scanned image horizontally into two separate images. divide right and left: Splits the scanned image vertically into two separate images. Note When saving split images, the names of the single-page files are applied in the order top-bottom or leftright.
1 Select Capacity Warning Settings in the Options menu. The Capacity Warning Settings dialog box appears. 2 Select a folder number (1 to 5) to monitor for the Register Folder item. 3 Specify which folder to monitor. 4 Enter the warning threshold (MB). 5 Select the Display Warning Dialog check box. An asterisk appears with the Register Folder item. 6 Click the OK button to close the Capacity Warning Settings dialog box.
Scanning Methods The following scanning methods are available with CapturePerfect. Select the scanning method as occasion demands. • Scan Page (→P. 39) : Scans a document to a single page image. The scanned image can be saved or printed as needed. • Scan Batch to File (→P. 40) : Scanned images are saved to the files specified when starting to scan. • Scan Batch to Printer (→P. 43) : Scanned images are printed directly to the specified printer. (Images are not saved.) • Scan Batch to Mail (→P.
Scan Page Scan Page scans one page of a document. You can save or print the scanned image as needed. Saving an Image (→P. 58) , Printing an Image (→P. 62) 1 Select Scanner Setting in the Scan menu or click the button to open the scanner's setup dialog box. 2 Set the scan criteria. For help related to these settings, click the Help button in the dialog box to see the driver help. 3 Place a document in the scanner. Refer to the scanner's operating manual for details about placing documents for scanning.
Scan Batch to File (Saves scanned images to a specified file) Scan Batch to File saves scanned images to a file or files with a name and type specified before scanning. Scan Batch to File is performed by the following steps: 1 Click the button, or click Scan Batch to File in the Scan menu. The Scan Batch to File Setting dialog box appears. (→P. 34) (→P. 35) (→P. 27) (→P. 24) Note If your scanner does not support MultiStream functions, the Use MultiStream option will not appear.
Scanner Supports Patch Code Search • None Disables batch separation. • Scan, Continue Scanning When a patch code sheet is found, the image on the patch code sheet is saved, regardless of the type of patch code, and scanning continues. • Skip, Continue Scanning When a "Patch II" patch code sheet is found, the image on the patch code sheet is saved, and scanning continues. When a "Patch T" patch code sheet is found, the image on the patch code sheet is not saved.
When no documents remain in the scanner, scanning is interrupted and the Continue Scanning dialog box appears. Note • If the specified file name is the same as that of an existing file, a dialog box prompts to confirm overwriting the existing file. Click the OK button to overwrite the file. • When "Use Continue Scanning dialog" is disabled (a check mark does not appear in front of it) in the Scan menu, the scan procedure ends when no documents remain in the scanner.
Scan Batch to Printer (Prints scanned images) With Scan Batch to Printer scanning, scanned images are printed directly to the specified printer. (Images are not saved with Scan Batch to Printer.) Note To save and print scanned images, use Scan Batch to File (→P. 40) to print the scanned images after saving. Scan Batch to Printer is performed by the following steps: 1 Select Print Format in the File menu, and select a format.
3 Click Printer Setting to select the printer to use. The Print dialog box appears. Note To set printer details, click the Properties button. The dialog box for the current printer driver appears. For details about settings, refer to the user's manual for your printer driver. 4 Click Scanner Setting and set the scan conditions. For help related to these settings, press the Help button in the dialog box to see the driver help. 5 Place a document in the scanner. 6 Click OK.
Scan Batch to Mail (Attaches scanned images to email) Scan Batch to Mail attaches scanned images to email for sending. (Images are not saved with Scan Batch to Mail.) Note • To use Scan Batch to Mail, a MAPI (Microsoft Messaging Application Programming Interface) -compliant email application program must be installed on the computer.
6 Click the OK button. The documents are scanned. When no documents remain in the scanner, scanning is interrupted and the Continue Scanning dialog box appears. Note When "Use Continue Scanning dialog" is disabled (a check mark does not appear in front of it) in the Scan menu, the scan procedure ends when no documents remain in the scanner. In this case, skip to step 8. 7 To continue scanning, load more documents in the scanner and click Continue Scanning.
Scan To Presentation (Displays scanned images full-screen) Scan To Presentation displays a scanned image full-screen. Useful in an environment where the computer is connected to a big-screen display or projector, such as for presentations, documents can be scanned and displayed as they are described. Scan To Presentation operates as follows. Document Scanning 1 Click Scan To Presentation in the Scan menu. The CapturePerfect window switches to full-screen display when starting Scan To Presentation.
3 When the loaded document is finished, scanning stops. 4 To continue scanning, load another document. When finished, click "×" at the top right. Note • You can press the ESC key on the keyboard to exit Scan To Presentation. • Scanned images can be saved as occasion demands when exiting Scan To Presentation.
Exit Scan To Presentation Exit Scan To Presentation mode by pressing the Esc key on the keyboard, or by clicking Exit Scan To Presentation on the submenu. When exiting Scan To Presentation mode, a message asks if you want to save image files. Save the image files as occasion demands.
Scan JOB (Scan According to a Previously Registered Job) Scan JOB utilizes previously registered scan conditions and methods (Scan Batch to File, Scan Batch to Print or Scan Batch to Mail) to scan according to the specified job. Job Registration Use the following procedure to register jobs for access by Scan JOB. 1 Select Job in the Edit menu. The Register/Edit/Delete dialog box appears. Note The following jobs have been registered in advance to job numbers 01 and 02. Job No.
3 Enter a Job Title. Note Job titles may consist of up to 64 alphanumeric characters. 4 Select a Function from the list box. • Scan To PC: Scanned images are saved to the specified PC. • Scan To Mail: Attaches scanned images to an e-mail. • Scan To Print: Scanned images are printed by the specified printer. 5 Click Detail Settings. A setting dialog box appears according to the selected function. • Scan To PC: Refer to Scan Batch to File (→P. 40) for setting details.
• Scan To Mail: Refer to Scan Batch to Mail (→P. 45) for setting details. • Scan To Print: Refer to Scan Batch to Printer (→P. 43) for setting details. Note The Details of File Settings button appears in the Scan Batch to File Setting and Scan Batch to Mail Setting dialog boxes. This button is enabled when a file type other than bitmap file (*.bmp) is selected for File Type. Clicking it allows you to set the file types for each job. File Type Settings (→P.
7 Click the OK button to close the Register/Edit/Delete dialog box. Note • Up to 99 jobs can be registered. • To modify the contents of a registered job, select it and click the Create/Edit button. • To delete a registered job, click it and then click the Delete button. Scan Job Execution 1 Register a job by clicking Job in the Edit menu. Job Registration (→P. 50) 2 Select a job title from the list box on the tool bar.
Scanned Image Operations The operations you can perform on scanned or opened images are described here. The way scanned images are viewed can be changed, and images can also be saved or printed. • Displaying the Thumbnail Window (→P. 55) : Displays the thumbnail window. • Split View (→P. 56) : Split the display window into two or four screens. • Saving an Image (→P. 58) : Save the displayed image. • Opening an Image File (→P. 60) : Opens saved images. • Printing an Image (→P.
Displaying the Thumbnail Window Thumbnail (reduced) views of opened images are displayed in the Thumbnail window, and the selected thumbnail in the Thumbnail window is displayed in the Image View window. To turn display of the Thumbnail window on and off, click Thumbnail in the View menu. Note • The thumbnail view state is retained upon closing CapturePerfect, so it will have the same view state when next opened.
Split View By splitting the display window, you can display multiple page images at once. To split the display window, select Split View from the View menu. You can split the window into 2 or 4 screens. Important With split view, the size of images you display or the number of screens you display can use a lot of memory. If a memory shortage occurs, refrain from using split view. Note • Split windows are displayed sequentially from left to right. • Scanning can be performed with the split view enabled.
Two-screen view Four-screen view 57
Saving an Image This procedure saves open image files with a specified name. Note If multiple image files are open, all pages are saved. Important If several image files have been opened and a PDF file with password security is among them, you cannot save files with a new name (Save As). 1 Click the (Save As) button on the toolbar. (Or click Save Page As in the File menu.) The Save As dialog box appears. 2 Make the following settings: • Save in Select the folder in which to save the file.
– When the selected file type is JPEG File (*.jpg), the image quality set by the JPEG File setting in the Options menu is applied. Refer to Setting JPEG File Image Quality (→P. 20) for details. Important If you select JPEG file (*.jpg) when a black and white image file is open, it is saved as a Grayscale Image. Original image (Black & White) Image saved as a JPEG (Grayscale) 3 When saving a multi-page image file, set the page range to be saved.
Opening an Image File This procedure opens image files that were saved by CapturePerfect. Note The following file types saved by CapturePerfect can be opened: TIFF (*.tif), JPEG (*.jpg), BMP (*.bmp) and PDF (*.pdf) files. 1 Click the button on the toolbar. (Or click Open in the File menu.) The Open dialog box appears. 2 Select a file and click the Open button. The selected image file appears on the screen.
Note Multiple files can be selected to be opened together. By selecting one file and holding the Shift key while selecting another file, all files in between are selected. Multiple files can also be selected by holding the Ctrl key while selecting each file.
Printing an Image The following procedure prints the image displayed in the window: 1 Click Printer Setting on the File menu. The Print Setup dialog box appears. 2 Select the printer, paper and printing orientation as needed, and click the OK button. Note To set printer details, click the Properties button. The dialog box for the current printer driver appears. For details about settings, refer to the user's manual for your printer driver.
4 Click the button on the toolbar. (Or click Print in the File menu.) The Print dialog box appears. 5 Verify the settings, and click the OK button.
Adjusting Brightness of the Displayed Image You can adjust the brightness and contrast of the displayed image. Select Brightness in the Edit menu to open the Brightness Adjustment dialog box. Moving the sliders left and right adjusts the brightness and contrast of the displayed image. Note • For grayscale and color images, the image file can be re-saved with the adjusted brightness.
Inserting/Adding Pages to an Image File Pages can be inserted and added to TIFF or PDF files. For the image to insert/add, you can specify an image from the scanner or a file saved with CapturePerfect. 1 Open the TIFF or PDF file in which to insert the page. Note • Pages cannot be added to BMP or JPEG files. • To add a page to an image currently saved as a BMP or JPEG file, first resave the image as a TIFF or PDF file. 2 Click Insert/Add Pages in the Page menu to open the submenu.
When "from Scanner" is selected 1) The Append Page dialog box is displayed. 2) Select the location to add or insert the page, make the Scanner Settings, and click OK. Scanning begins, and pages are added or inserted. 3) When there are no more documents, scanning stops. When "from File" is selected 1) The Open dialog box is displayed.
2) Select the image file to add or insert, and click Open. The Insert/Add from the file dialog box appears. 3) Select the location to add or insert the page, the image file page to be inserted, and click OK. 5 When finished inserting/adding the page, confirm that the page was added or inserted in the specified location. Note • To save the image file with added or inserted pages, select Save Page As or Close from the File menu.
Replacing a Page in an Image File You can replace a page in a saved multi-page TIFF or PDF file. For the replacement image, you can specify an image from the scanner or a file saved with CapturePerfect. 1 Open the TIFF or PDF file in which to insert the page. 2 Click Replace Page in the Page menu to display the submenu. The Replace Page dialog box appears. 3 Select the source of the image to add or insert. • from Scanner Scans the image to add/insert.
4 Replace the page. When "from Scanner" is selected 1) The Replace Page dialog box is displayed. 2) Set the Scanner Settings, and click OK. Scanning begins, and pages following the displayed page are replaced. 3) When there are no more documents, scanning stops. When "from File" is selected 1) The Open dialog box is displayed.
2) Select the image file containing the image to be replaced, and click Open. The Replace the page from the file dialog box appears. 3) Confirm the replacement image(s) in the image file by clicking Next Page and Prev. Page, specify the page range for replacement, and click OK. Pages following the displayed page are replaced by the image(s) specified for the Page Range. 5 When finished page replacement, confirm that the image(s) of the specified page(s) are replaced.
Setting PDF File Security Options Set the security options to restrict viewing, printing and page editing of PDF files. Security Settings Open a PDF file, and click Password Settings in the Edit menu to open the Password Settings dialog box. 1 Select check boxes to set passwords. • Password to open document The Document Open password is required to open the PDF file, and is entered in a dialog box that appears when opening the PDF file.
• Forbid users to Print Prohibits printing of the PDF file. • Forbid users to Edit Prohibits page operations (add, insert and replace). Important When setting authority, set the Permissions Password to prevent users from canceling security. 3 Enter the same password in Password Confirmation that you entered in Password Settings. 4 Click OK to activate security. Note Setting or canceling security takes effect regardless of whether the file has been saved.
Index A M Adding (Pages) .................65 Multi-Page Files................ 22 Adjusting Brightness .........64 MultiStream ...................... 27 B O Barcode/OCR Modification 33 OCR Functions ................. 29 C Opening............................ 60 Options menu ................... 14 Capacity Warning Settings 36 E Edit menu ............................9 F File menu ............................6 File Name..........................24 File Name Limitations .26 File Types...............
