User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 IRIScanTM Executive 4 Capture Tool
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 Contents 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 3 2. Using the Scanner Properties Dialog Box (Setup) ............................................................................. 5 2.1 A Glance at the Scanner Properties Dialog Box ........................................................................... 5 2.2 Buttons on the Scanner Properties Dialog Box ............
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 1. Introduction With the Capture Tool, you can perform simple scans and view the captured images. Important: the scanner must be connected to your computer to start the Capture Tool. On a Windows PC: 1. Start the Capture Tool from Start>All Programs>IRIS IRIScan Executive 4 Scanner. 2. Select your driver type and scanner model and click OK. The Capture Tool dialog box will be displayed. On a Mac computer: 1. Click the Capture Tool icon on the Desktop.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 5. Click OK to quit the Scanner Properties dialog box. 6. Place your document face up in the feeding slot. 7. In the Scan Validation dialog box, click the Scan button ( 8. The document will be scanned and displayed in the Scan Validation screen. 9. You can view the scanned image Fit to Page ( ) or choose Scan from the File menu. ) or in Actual Size (100%) ( ). 10. Click the Close box or Quit from the File menu to exit the Scan Validation Tool.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 2. Using the Scanner Properties Dialog Box (Setup) In this chapter we provide an overview of the Scanner Properties dialog box (Setup). The Scanner Properties dialog box allows you to configure the scanner’s settings. It consists of several tabbed windows each of which will be described in this chapter. Note: In this chapter, all options are described based on a duplex (double-side) scanner.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 2.2 Buttons on the Scanner Properties Dialog Box The buttons on the Scanner Properties dialog box Buttons Description Defaults Click the Defaults button, the factory default settings will be shown on each tab. OK After all the scan settings are satisfactory, click OK to save and close the Scanner Properties. Cancel Click Cancel to exit the Scanner Properties without saving.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 Separation Setting Imprinter Image Control Option：None None Show Scanning Progress：Yes Show Warning Message：No None 2.3 The Image Tab The Image tab allows you to choose the front side and (or) the rear side of your document, the type of image, andconfigure several basic scan settings. Note that except for the resolution, you can set individual scan settings for the front side and the rear side.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 Example 1：Scanning a two-sided color document, both sides in color Side/Image Selection Front Rear Example 2：Scanning a two-sided color document, one in B&W (Drop Blue Color：Threshold： 10, Background：79), the other in color Side/Image Selection Front Rear Image Type Description Color Choose Color if you wish to scan a color image for your original in color. Gray Choose Gray image if your original contains actual shades of gray.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 Front/Rear Auto Color Detection: Click to automatically detect and scan the front or the rear page of your color document in color image mode. If your document is in color, the scanner will automatically scan the document into a color image. If your document is non-color, you can choose the output to be either B&W or Gray from the Non-Color Selection option. This option is useful when you have a mixture of color and non-color document.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 Threshold Used to convert a grayscale image to a bi-tonal image. The value ranges from 0 to 255. A low threshold value produces a lighter image, and can be used to subdue backgrounds and subtle, unneeded information. A high threshold value produces a darker image, and can be used to help pick up faint images. Adjust the threshold setting by dragging the Threshold sliding bar to the left or right to achieve the desired threshold setting.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 Normal Document (Threshold: 230) 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 range is from –100 to +100. 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.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 Resolution: 75 dpi Invert Resolution: 150 dpi Reverses the brightness and the colors in the image. The default setting is Black on a White background. Reverse mode is White on a Black background. For color images, each pixel will be changed into its complementary color at the command of Invert. Black on White Scan Source White on black Choice: Auto Document Feeder: Used to scan multiple pages.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 2.3.5 Scanning B&W images The following options are available for scanning B&W images. Binarization (Dynamic Threshold) Resolution Invert Or Binarization (Fix Processing) Threshold Brightness Resolution Invert Editing Profiles The Scanner Properties dialog box allows you to change and save your frequently used scan settings into a profile. You can edit these profiles by renaming or deleting them. To add a new profile, 1. 2. Customize your settings.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 To load a profile, 1. From the Image tab dialog box, choose your favorable profile from the “Profiles” dropdown list box. 2. Your favorable profile will be immediately loaded and displayed on Scanner Properties dialog box. To delete a profile, 1. From the Image tab dialog box, click “Profiles” to prompt the Edit Your Profile dialog box. 2. 3. 4. Choose the profile you want to delete from the dropdown list box. Click “Delete”.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 2.4 The Compression Tab (Windows PC only) The Compression tab allows you to compress your scanned image and choose the level of compression. Bitonal images are normally compressed using CCITT standard called Group 4 (G4). Color and grayscale images are often compressed using JPEG technology. Move the JPEG Quality slider to the right or left to increase or decrease the level of compression. Note the greater the compression level, the lower image quality. Default is 50%.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 2.5 The Color Dropout Tab 2.5.1 Color Dropout Selection Color Dropout tab allows you to drop either of the red, blue, or green color in your scanned image. 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.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 Example, slightly adjusting the background value makes your text more clear.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 2.6 The Paper Tab The Paper tab allows you to define values relating to image output (i.e., Auto Crop or not, Scan Area, OverScan, Multi-Feed Detection). The Paper tab dialog box 2.6.1 Cropping Cropping allows you to capture a portion of the document being scanned. Choice: Automatic, Fixed to Transport, EOP (End of Page) Detection, Relative to Documents. Options Description Automatic Automatic adjusts the cropping window according to different document sizes.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 The following options are only available when Fixed to Transport is selected. X-Offset — the distance from the left end of the scanner to the left edge of the scanning area. Y-Offset — the position from the top end of the document to the top end of the scanning area. Width — the width of the scanning area. Length — the length of the scanning area.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 The Preview Image The Preview Button 5. Select image type from the Image Selection box. The selected image will appear in highlighted color. (For example, Front Color) 6. Place your cursor on the Preview window and click your left mouse button. A cross sign will appear as illustrated. Create your relative scan size diagonally by dragging the left mouse button to your preferable size. The selected area will appear in a red box as illustrated. A Cross Sign 7. 8.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 2.6.2 Other Paper Selection 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 – 17.6 x 25 cm, ISO B6 – 12.5 x 17.6 cm, ISO B7 – 8.8 x 12.5 cm, JIS B5 – 18.2 x 25.7 cm, JIS B6 – 12.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 2.7 The Preview Tab The Preview tab allows you to preview (a low-resolution scan) your image before final scan. This preview image lets you allocate your scan area. You can choose your scan area by the “Scan Area” drop down list box or placing your cursor on the Display window and dragging it diagonally on the Display window. Then, a red rectangle box will appear to indicate the selected area.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 Flip Side Rotation Select “Fanfold” to rotate the image of the reverse side to 180 degrees. This is applied to double-sided document which are viewed in portrait are sometime fed into the scanner in landscape or vice versa. Choice: Book, Fanfold. If “Book” is selected, the image of the reverse side will not be rotated. The following illustration shows the documents which should be viewed in portrait are fed into the scanner in landscape.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 Blank Page Removal Edge Fill Check if you wish to remove the blank page and move the slider to the left or right to your desired threshold. Check White or Black if you wish to add white or black edge on the border of your scanned image. Enter the value from 0 to 5 mm. Default value is 0. Original Image Control Option Check the Mirror box if you wish to reverse the right and left side of your image.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 Despeckle Occasionally small dots or specks appear in the background of a scanned image. Remove unwanted speckles provides a cleaner image for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) processing, and also helps to reduce compressed file size. Define the speckles (also known as image noise) you wish to remove by specifying its number (size) and radius (range). The measuring unit is pixel. The higher the number, the more speckles will be removed.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 2.9 The Setting Tab The Setting tab allows you to set the following settings: The Setting tab dialog box Cache Mode: None, Page Number, Memory Size. This option allows you to assign a specified memory size from the available RAM to process the image data. By specifying a smaller memory size, you can free more memory for other applications you are running.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 2.10 The Imprinter Tab The Imprinter tab allows you to print alphanumeric characters, date, time, document count and custom message on your scanned image if digital imprinter is selected or at the back of your document if external imprinter is selected. Choice: External Imprinter, Digital Imprinter. If you have installed an external imprinter, choose external imprinter. If you do not have an imprinter, choose digital imprinter.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 String Orientation Choose your string orientation. Choice: Normal, Rotated, Vertical, Vertical Inversion, 90 degrees CW, 90 degrees CCW Normal Rotated Vertical Vertical Inversion 90 degrees CW 90 degrees CCW If you check the digital imprinter to stamp text on your scanned image, the illustration of normal and rotated string is shown below: Normal Print Position Rotated Choose the position you wish to print your string.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 Print Position (for digital imprinter) Choose the position of your printed string. Choice: Top, Middle, Bottom, Custom. If Custom is selected, enter the X and Y offset value to specify the position. 2.11 The Information Tab The Information tab displays the following system and scanner information. The Information tab dialog box The following options are PC only: The “Report” button： If you encounter any error message while using the scanner, click the Report button.
User Guide – IRIScanTM Executive 4 3. Legal Information Trademarks Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Windows, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. IBM, IBM PC are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corp. Other brands and product names herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
