User’s Guide
Visioneer RoadWarrior 3 User’s Guide COPYRIGHT INFORMATION Copyright © 2013 Visioneer, Inc. Part Number: 05-0882-000 Changes are periodically made to this document. Changes, technical inaccuracies, and typographic errors will be corrected in subsequent editions. Reproduction, adaptation, or translation without prior written permission is prohibited, except as allowed under the copyright laws.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 5 TABLE OF C ONTENTS Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 What’s in the Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
TABLE OF CONTENTS Image Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Text Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Configure Before Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
TABLE OF CONTENTS 7 Driver Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122 Scanning from TWAIN and WIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Accessing the Scanner Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124 Choosing TWAIN or WIA . . . . .
TABLE OF CONTENTS Calibrating Your Scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172 Calibration Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .174 Calibrating from the Windows Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
WELCOME This chapter includes: • What’s in the Box on page 10 • System Requirements on page 11 • Documentation on page 12 • The Visioneer RoadWarrior 3 on page 13 • Unpack the Scanner on page 14 Congratulations on purchasing your Visioneer RoadWarrior 3. With this scanner you can quickly scan paper items such as letters or receipts and place their electronic images on your computer. Powered through the USB port on your computer, this scanner is perfect for taking on the road.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE WHAT’S IN THE BOX Before proceeding, check the contents of the box. If items are missing or damaged, contact the dealer where you purchased the scanner.
WELCOME 11 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Pentium 4 PC or AMD equivalent with: • A DVD-ROM drive • An available Universal Serial Bus (USB) port • Microsoft® Windows® operating system: • 32-bit Windows XP (Service Pack 1 and 2) • 32-bit or 64-bit Windows Vista (Service Pack 1) • 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7 • 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 8 The scanner is compatible with Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista, and Service Pack 1 for Windows 7.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE DOCUMENTATION The following printed documentation is provided in the box: • Installation guide—abbreviated scanner setup and installation instructions. • Technical support card—contact information for technical support and customer service, and a brief overview of our standard product warranty.
WELCOME THE VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 4 2 3 1 5 1 Paper Feed 2 Paper Return 3 Paper Guide 4 Scanner button 5 USB port Paper feed—place an item face up in paper feed aligned to the left side. • Paper sensor—the optical sensor on the left side of the paper feed slot. Detects when an item has been inserted in the scanner. • Scanner top—can be pulled away from the scanner body to open the scanner for cleaning.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE UNPACK THE SCANNER Remove the clear plastic film from the top of the scanner. Remove any shipping tape from the scanner body.
INSTALLATION This chapter includes: • Before You Begin on page 16 • Install the Software and Connect the Scanner on page 17 • Register Your Scanner on page 23 • Installing Additional Applications on page 24 • View the User Guides on page 25 VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 15
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE BEFORE YOU BEGIN Please make sure of the following before you begin installation: • If you are prompted to reboot during installation, please select “No”. Finish installing the rest of the software, then close all open windows and reboot your computer. • The information in this guide may cover software not provided with the scanner you purchased. Please disregard any information about the software not applicable to your scanner. Visit our web site at www.
INSTALLATION INSTALL THE SOFTWARE AND CONNECT THE SCANNER 1. Start Microsoft Windows and make sure that no other applications are running. 2. Insert the installation disc into your computer’s DVD-ROM drive. The disc automatically starts. 3. The disc’s Main menu window opens. NOTE: If the disc does not start, check the following: • Make sure the disc drive’s door is completely shut. • Make sure the disc was inserted in the drive in the proper direction (label side up).
5. VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Make sure the boxes for Scanner Driver and Visioneer OneTouch are selected, as well as any other applications you want to install. NOTE: The software provided with your scanner may differ slightly from the list shown in the window. 6. Click Install now. The scanner driver installation will start first. INSTALLING THE SCANNER DRIVER 1. The Welcome to the Visioneer Setup Wizard opens. 2. Click Next. 3.
INSTALLATION 19 • 4. 5. If you choose not to accept the license agreement, click Cancel. Click Close on the Installation Interrupted window. The software will now be installed. Stop when you see the “Complete the installation by connecting your hardware” window. Do not click OK yet. Leave the window open and proceed to the next section. NOTE: If you do not see this on-screen diagram for connecting the scanner, stop and follow the instructions below.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE NOTE: If the plug does not attach easily, make sure that you are plugging it in correctly. Do not force the plug into either connection. 3. Your computer recognizes that a device has been plugged into the USB port and automatically loads the appropriate software to run the scanner. A progress window opens on-screen. Do not close this window as it displays the connection status as Windows loads the driver for your scanner.
INSTALLATION 5. When you’re certain that the software has completely loaded, return to the “Complete the installation by connecting your hardware” window. 6. Click OK to complete the installation process. 7. Click Close on the Installation Complete window to close and exit the driver installer. INSTALLING VISIONEER ONETOUCH The Visioneer OneTouch software installation will start automatically after you click Close on the driver Installation Complete window.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 1. Click Next on the Welcome to the OneTouch Setup Wizard. 2. On the Visioneer License Agreement window, read the license agreement. If you accept the terms, select I Agree then click Next. If you choose not to accept the license agreement, the installation will terminate and OneTouch will not be installed. 3. Click Close on the Installation Complete window to close and exit the software installer.
INSTALLATION 23 REGISTER YOUR SCANNER Registering your scanner is important as it provides you with access to our free telephone support service. Registration also gives you free access to software updates for your scanner. You will need an active Internet connection to register your scanner. If you do not have internet access, you can contact our Customer Service department to register the scanner.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE INSTALLING ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS Your scanner includes free, additional applications as described in the table below. 1. Return to the disc’s Main menu and click Install products. 2. Select the additional applications you want to install, then click Install now. 3. Follow the instructions on the screen to install each of the additional applications.
INSTALLATION 25 VIEW THE USER GUIDES 1. Return to the disc’s Main menu and click on User guides. 2. Click on View scanner documentation to access the scanner user guide. Click on View software documentation to access the user guides for the software applications provided with the scanner. 3. When you’re finished, click Main menu to return to the Main menu window and click Exit. 4. Remove the installation disc and store it in a safe place.
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SCAN USING AUTOLAUNCH This chapter includes: • Scanning on page 29 • Configuring OneTouch AutoLaunch on page 30 • Turn AutoLaunch Off/On on page 31 • Scanning Interfaces on page 33 When you insert an item into the scanner, it is automatically scanned and the image is sent to a destination location or application on your computer, or to a network drive. NOTE: Always remove any staples or paper clips from documents before inserting them into the scanner’s paper feed.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE CHOOSING THE PAPER RETURN POSITION Push lightly on the Paper Return to open and rotate the Paper Return into position. When the Paper Return is closed, any item scanned will exit out of the back of the scanner. When the Paper Return is open, it guides the paper up from the back for easy access to remove it from the scanner.
SCAN USING AUTOLAUNCH 29 SCANNING 1. Adjust the paper guide to the width of the document you want to scan. 2. Insert a document into the scanner, face up and aligned to the left side of the paper feed slot. The scanner grabs the top edge of the paper and automatically begins to scan and feed the paper through the scanner. 3. A scan progress window opens and the image is sent to the selected application for PaperIn button. In this example the Destination Application is the PaperPort desktop. 4.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE CONFIGURING ONETOUCH AUTOLAUNCH When you installed the scanner, the software configured OneTouch with all applications on your computer that you can scan to. The button consists of: a Destination Application, a Scan Configuration, and a File Format. You can open the OneTouch Properties window by pressing the button on the scanner, or by opening it from the OneTouch Panel on screen. 1. Click on the OneTouch icon. 2.
SCAN USING AUTOLAUNCH 31 TURN AUTOLAUNCH OFF/ON If you want to scan from OneTouch button panel on screen, or to be able to place a page in the scanner and wait until you are ready to initiate the scan, you can turn the AutoLaunch feature off. This option is in the Application Settings for your scanner’s hardware properties. To turn AutoLaunch off or on: 1. Click on the OneTouch icon in the Windows notification area on the right side of the screen. OneTouch Icon 2.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 4. In the Application Settings tab, click on Turn on AutoLaunch™ to deselect this option. 5. Click on OK to save the changes and close the window. Click on OK to close the Hardware Properties window. The AutoLaunch feature is now turned off. Your scanner will not start scanning until you click on the scan button on the OneTouch button panel, or on the scanning interface from the application you are using.
SCAN USING AUTOLAUNCH 33 SCANNING INTERFACES If you selected the recommended installation options, then you have several different options to scan with your Visioneer RoadWarrior 3 scanner. • OneTouch AutoLaunch—To use the scanner’s AutoLaunch feature, simply insert a document in the scanner and it is automatically scanned using predefined settings from the OneTouch software. Please see Scanning on page 29. • OneTouch Button Panel—Use this scan option when you want to scan from the computer screen.
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SCANNING AND CONFIGURING O NETOUCH This chapter includes: • Scanning and Configuring OneTouch on page 35 • Default OneTouch Settings on page 37 • Changing the Button Settings on page 40 • Selecting Options for OneTouch on page 42 • Scan Configurations on page 45 • File Formats on page 53 • Create Single Image Files on page 53 • Image Formats on page 53 • Text Formats on page 56 • Configure Before Scan on page 58 • Open Scanned Document(s) on page 60 • Transfer to Storage on page 61
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE • Scanning with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on page 106 • OneTouch with Visioneer Acuity Technology on page 118 • Hardware Properties on page 121 Based on the recommended full installation of the scanner driver and the Visioneer OneTouch software, OneTouch is your main scanning interface for using the scanner.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 37 DEFAULT ONETOUCH SETTINGS When you installed the scanner, the software configured each OneTouch button with appropriate settings consisting of: a Destination Application, a Scan Configuration, and a File Format. The button names, such as Email or Copy, indicate the original factory settings for a button. You can change any of these settings. Please see Changing the Button Settings on page 40 for instructions.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE SCAN FROM THE ONE TOUCH BUTTON PANEL Scanning from the button panel on your computer’s screen works like inserting a page in the scanner when AutoLaunch is turned on. To scan from the One Touch Button panel: Follow the steps in the previous section to turn off the AutoLaunch feature before scanning with the One Touch panel. If AutoLaunch is turned on, the scanner will automatically scan when a page is inserted in the scanner. 1.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH Click on the One Touch icon to open the panel. The Hardware View The Button View The Title Bar • Green arrows—click to cycle through the panel’s 2 views. • Scanner icon—click to open the scanner’s hardware properties. • Red “X”—click to close the One Touch panel. The Button View • Left-click on a Destination Application icon to start scanning. • Right-click on a Destination Application icon to open the One Touch Properties.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE CHANGING THE BUTTON SETTINGS 1. Click on the OneTouch icon. 2. Right-click a button on the OneTouch Button Panel. 3. The OneTouch Properties window opens. Scanner button configuration tab Select a file format for your scanned images. Select the Destination Application that will open when you are finished scanning. You use the destination application to view and work with your scanned images. Select a configuration for scanning the item.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 41 The scanner scans and sends the image to the selected destination, with the file format and scan configuration you specified. Properties button—displays a window for selecting properties for a destination. This button is disabled if the selected destination application does not have global configuration properties. Refresh button—updates the links between all your computer’s Destination Applications and OneTouch.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE SELECTING OPTIONS FOR ONETOUCH Use the Options tab to configure how OneTouch works with the selected button, such as which destinations are available, or what the file name should be. Show all destinations—this option selects all of the Destination Application categories. The list of Destination Applications available for the selected button will include all the applications on your computer that fall into these categories.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 43 Enable scanning to multiple destinations—select this option to allow for multiple destinations to be selected, in the destination list, on the OneTouch configuration tab. This feature allows you to scan one time while distributing the file to multiple destinations. Please refer to Scanning to Multiple Destinations on page 100.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • {YYYY}—inserts the four-digit year (1997). {h}—inserts the 12-hour clock hour without a zero added to single-digit time values (2). {hh}—inserts the 12-hour clock hour with a zero added to single-digit time values (02). {H}—inserts the 24-hour clock hour without a zero added to single-digit time values (2). {HH}—inserts the 24-hour clock hour with a zero added to single-digit time values (02).
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 45 SCAN CONFIGURATIONS The scan configurations are where you select the scanning resolution, brightness, mode (color, black & white, or grayscale), and a number of other settings. To see a selected scan configuration’s settings, click its icon. Click the icon again to close the detailed information. Click the icon of a selected configuration to view its settings. Select the scan configuration to edit or delete.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Based on the selected destination, additional settings tabs may also be available. If you see one of these additional settings tabs please refer to the appropriate section, as listed below, for instructions on configuring these destination specific options. • Use the Storage Options tab to choose the storage folder for scans sent to the Transfer to Storage destination, as described on page 61.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 47 Contrast—the difference between the lighter and darker portions of the image. Increasing the contrast emphasizes the difference between the lighter and darker portions, decreasing the contrast de-emphasizes that difference. Key and Lock icon—if you want to lock the configuration, click the key icon to change it from a Key to a Lock.
• VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Invert image—reverses the color of each pixel in the scanned image. When scanning in black and white, each pixel is reversed from black to white and white to black. When scanning in grayscale each pixel is reversed to the opposite level of gray. When scanning in color each pixel is reversed to the opposite color in the color wheel.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 49 ADVANCED SETTINGS TAB Use the Advanced Settings tab to set color correction options for Color or Grayscale scanning. Drag the sliders to the left and right to change the color settings. As you do, the image changes to show the effects of the new settings. • Color saturation—the strength or purity of a color. This option is only available when the selected scan mode is Color. • Color hue—the color your eyes see as reflected from the image.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Please refer to the technical note, at the end of this section, for information about how this setting works with other options in the OneTouch Scan Configuration you are modifying. Enable redaction—select this option to enable redaction when scanning. You might use this option if you want to remove a logo or image that appears on each page that you are scanning.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 51 Color—this color field shows the selected fill color for the redacted area(s). When the software removes the area you specify, it fills the area with the color you have selected here. To change the color, click the artist palette button to open the Windows color palette. Select the color you want then click on OK. The color you selected will now display in the Color field on the Redaction Settings tab.
• VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE If Color dropout is selected, redaction occurs after the color specified is removed from the image. For example, if you selected Red as the color dropout, but then specify red for the redaction region, the final image will have the redacted region filled with gray when scanning Grayscale, or black or white when scanning in Black&White. Click the name to toggle between inches and millimeters.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 53 FILE FORMATS The available file formats, in the Select format panel, are based on the selected destination for scanning. For example, if scanning to the destination Transfer to Storage, all file formats are available as the files are saved directly to a folder without opening any application. If the destination is an application, such as Microsoft’s Paint, only the file types the application supports will be available in the Select format panel.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Right-click on the BMP icon to access the GIF and PNG image formats. When you select either of these formats, the format panel will change the BMP icon to the selected image format icon. BMP—the *.bmp (bitmap) format is generally used when you want to do additional image processing, such as photo touch-up or color correction, as very little image compression is used when creating the file.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 55 JP2—the *.jpg2 (joint photographic experts group 2000) format is the new JPEG standard. This new JPG file type has improved compression for better image quality at smaller file sizes. Please refer to the official JPEG website at www.jpeg.org for more information about this file format, and a list of applications that can view and/or open this file type. To select a JPEG file size: 1. Select JPG as the page format. 2. Right-click on the JPG icon. A menu opens. 3.
2. VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Right-click on the PDF icon. A menu opens. 3. Choose the file size/image quality option for your scanned images. Minimize Size—smallest file size, lowest image quality. Normal—medium file size, some loss of image quality. Maximize Quality—largest file size, minimal loss of image quality. Your selection pertains only to the button currently selected on the OneTouch Properties window.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 2. Right-click on the text format icon. The menu options depend on the type of Destination Application you select. Example menu for the Text format when the selected application is Microsoft’s Word and the OneTouch OmniPage Module is installed. Example menu for the Text format when the selected application is Transfer to Storage and the OneTouch OmniPage Module is installed. 3. Choose the file type that you want for the text format. 4.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE CONFIGURE BEFORE SCAN You can set up the scanner so that, when you put a page in, a different scanning interface opens before the scanning starts. You can then use the interface to change the Resolution, Scan Mode, and other settings. When you scan, the scanned image will still be sent as the file type and to the same Destination Application already selected in the One Touch Properties window for that button.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 59 CREATING MULTIPLE PAGE FILES You can use Configure Before Scan to create multi-page documents from individually scanned pages. NOTE: Using the Configure Before Scan option to scan multiple pages does not apply for page formats BMP and JPG. Please make sure the page format on the One Touch Properties window is set to TIFF, PDF, or one of the Text formats. Make sure the option Create single image files is not selected.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE OPEN SCANNED DOCUMENT(S) Select the destination Open Scanned Document(s) to have the scanned document open automatically when scanning is complete. Supported file types—all file formats are available when scanning to the Open Scanned Document(s) destination. Note that text file formats are only available if an OCR module or application is installed.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 61 TRANSFER TO STORAGE With Transfer to Storage, you can scan documents and save them in a folder in one step. Supported file types—since the files are saved directly to a folder on the computer or server, all file formats in OneTouch are available. Note that text file formats are only available if an OCR module or application is installed. Please refer to Text Formats on page 56 to see a list of text file formats that are available when OCR is installed.
• VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Click the New, Copy, or Edit button to open the Scan Configuration Properties window. Click on the Storage Options tab and use this window to set a configuration to scan to a different folder than the one selected in the Link Properties window. Changing the options in this window only affects the configuration you are creating or modifying. All other configurations will retain their settings for this destination.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 2. 63 Hover the mouse cursor over the Set as scan destination option and the sub-menu will open to the right. Click on the setting you want the Storage location to be updated with. • • • For all configurations—select this option to have the storage location, in all scan configurations Storage Options tabs, updated to use this location. Note that the storage Link Properties location will also update to use this location.
4. VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Click the New button. The Scan Configuration Properties dialog box opens. 5. To help you remember which folder it is, give the new configuration a name that indicates the folder name, such as “Business Receipts.” 6. Click the Scan Settings, Page Settings, and Advanced Settings tabs, and select the settings you want. 7. Click the Storage Options tab. 8. Click the Browse button.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 9. Select the folder you created for storing the scanned documents. 10. Click OK. The selected folder will now be set as the Storage location, such as “Business Receipts.” 11. Click OK. The new configuration is now listed as a Transfer to Storage configuration. 12. Repeat the process to create additional new configurations, such as one named “Personal Receipts.” NOTE: Make sure to designate separate folders as the Storage Locations for each new configuration.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 13. You will now have multiple configurations set up for the Transfer to Storage destination, and each configuration scans documents to separate folders. The new configurations apply to the Transfer to Storage Destination Application. 14. Now select a scanner button for each new configuration. Click Apply to set that button for that configuration. Scan to multiple storage folders: 1. Open the One Touch Properties window. 2.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 67 BURN TO CD-ROM If you have a CD burner attached to your computer, you can scan directly from your scanner onto a CD. This feature is available only on computers running Windows version XP or later. Supported file types—since the files are going to be burned to a CD, all file formats in OneTouch are available. Note that text file formats are only available if an OCR module or application is installed.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 6. When you are ready to burn the files to a CD, open the OneTouch Properties window, select Burn to CD and then click the Properties button. 7. Make sure a blank CD is in the CD burner. 8. Click the Burn to CD button. The CD burner begins and your scanned documents are written to the CD. If other files are also waiting in this location, they will get written with the OneTouch files on the CD.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 69 PRINTER OR FAX The availability of printers and/or faxes in the OneTouch destination list depends on whether or not you have printers or faxes configured in Windows. Please refer to the Windows documentation, or your printer or fax documentation, for setting up printers and faxes. Supported file types—only the BMP file format is available, when scanning to a printer or fax, as only uncompressed data can be send to these devices.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE • Fit to page, reduce image if necessary—if the scanned image is too big to be printed or faxed on a single page, the image will automatically be reduced to fit the page. • Actual size, crop image if necessary—if the scanned image is too big to be printed or faxed on a single page, the image will automatically be cropped around its edges to fit on the page.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 71 PAPERPORT In the OneTouch Properties window, select PaperPort as the Destination Application for scanning. Supported file types—all image file formats are available when scanning to PaperPort. The sPDF and nPDF text file formats are only available when the OmniPage software or OneTouch OmniPage module is installed. Please refer to Text Formats on page 56. Destination type—the PaperPort destination is classified as a “Document Management Link”.
• VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Click the New, Copy, or Edit button to open the Scan Configuration Properties window. Click on the PaperPort tab and use this window to set a configuration to scan to a different folder than the one selected in the Link Properties window. Changing the options in this window only affects the configuration you are creating or modifying. All other configurations will retain their settings for this destination.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 73 Scan to the current PaperPort folder • Select this option to have the scanned document(s) sent to the currently selected folder in the PaperPort application. The PaperPort software must be open, before scanning, for the scans to be sent to the selected folder in the PaperPort folder pane.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE SHAREPOINT The SharePoint destination link allows scans to be sent directly to a SharePoint site from OneTouch. Please contact your SharePoint site administrator for the server information you need to configure this link. Alternatively, have your site administrator or IT professional configure this link for you. Setup and configuration of the SharePoint sites and user accounts are outside the scope of this document.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 75 3. Click on the SharePoint tab and fill in the fields with the information for your SharePoint site. • Protocol—select which protocol you want to use to transfer the scan to the server. • SharePoint URL—input the full URL path of the SharePoint site without the http(s):// designation and actual page. This path should include everything except the destination folder. For example, if the web browser URL displays http://sharepoint.site.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE SHAREPOINT LINK LOG VIEWER The OneTouch Link Log Viewer opens automatically when scanning is complete. Click on the menu arrow next to View logs for and select SharePoint Link from the list to display the transfer history for the SharePoint link only. Double-click on any of the line items to open the selected log file in the Log File Detail View.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 77 FTP TRANSFER The FTP Transfer destination link allows scans to be sent directly to an FTP server from OneTouch. Please contact your server administrator for the server information you need to configure this link. Alternatively, have your site administrator or IT professional configure this link for you. Setup and configuration of the FTP server and user accounts are outside the scope of this document.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 3. Click on the FTP Transfer tab and fill in the fields with the information for you FTP server. • Protocol—select which protocol you want to use to transfer the scan to the server. • Host—input the internet or intranet path of the server where you want to send the scanned documents. you do not need ftp:// at the beginning. For example, ftp.company.com • Port—input which port to use with the selected protocol.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 79 Double-click on any of the line items to open the selected log file in the Log File Detail View. If you open a failed transfer, the log file may contain the information you need to determine why the transfer failed. After you address the failure indicated in this log file, you can click the Retry button to resend the document to the server. Click on the Properties button to open the Log Viewer from the FTP OneTouch Link Properties window.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE SMTP The SMTP destination link allows scans to be sent directly to an email address, through an SMTP server, from OneTouch. Please contact your server administrator for the server information you need to configure this link. Alternatively, have your site administrator or IT professional configure this link for you. Configuration of the SMTP server settings and user accounts is outside the scope of this document.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 81 3. Click on the SMTP Settings tab and fill in the fields with the information for you SMTP server. • Protocol—select which protocol you want to use to transfer the scan to the server. • Host—input the internet or intranet path of the server where you want to send the scanned documents. For example, smtp.company.com • Port—input which port to use with the selected protocol.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE SMTP LINK LOG VIEWER The OneTouch Link Log Viewer opens automatically when scanning is complete. Click on the menu arrow next to View logs for and select SMTP Link Agent from the list to display the transfer history for the SMTP link only. Double-click on any of the line items to open the selected log file in the Log File Detail View. If you open a failed transfer, the log file may contain the information you need to determine why the transfer failed.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 83 EMAIL APPLICATIONS Scanning to an email application, such as Outlook or Windows Mail, attaches the scanned image to a blank email message. You then fill in the recipient email address(es) and send the message. You need to have configured an email application before you can scan to it using OneTouch. If you do not have your email application set up prior to scanning, the default Windows email application will open and ask you to configure your user information.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE EMAIL PROPERTIES Use the Email Link Properties window to select a folder for storing a permanent copy of the scanned image, setting the color document options, and changing the email application that is in the OneTouch destination list. • Folder for storing attachments—click the Browse button to change the location using the Windows file browser, or type a location directly in the field.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 85 TEXT EDITORS Scanning to a text editing application, such as Microsoft’s Notepad or WordPad, automatically converts the text in the scanned image into editable text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Supported file types—the text file formats and destination applications are only available if an OCR module or application is installed. Please refer to Text Formats on page 56 to see a list of text file formats that are available when OCR is installed.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE TEXT DOCUMENTS PROPERTIES These properties apply to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel®, and any other text editing applications indicated by their icons in the list. • Add application—click this button to open the Add Text Based Link dialogue so you can add other text editing applications to OneTouch. • Delete application—select an application in the list then click this button to remove the application from the OneTouch destination list.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 87 ADDING TEXT EDITOR APPLICATIONS TO ONETOUCH 1. To add another application to the list, click the Add application button. The Add Text Based Link dialog box opens. 2. Click Browse to find the application you want to add to the list. When you select the application using the Browse button, Steps 1 and 2 on the dialog box are automatically filled in, and the application icon appears in Step 3. 3. Select the icon in Step 3 of the dialog box.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 6. Click OK on the Link Properties window. 7. Click Refresh on the OneTouch Properties window and the new application should now be available. CREATING AN HTML WEB PAGE FROM YOUR SCANNED DOCUMENTS 1. Open the OneTouch Properties window. 2. Select your web browser as the Destination Application and choose HTML as the Format. Choose HTML 3.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 89 STILL IMAGE CLIENT If you want to specify an application to use for scanning at the start of the process, you can use event forwarding. Supported file formats—you cannot select a file format when scanning to the Still Image Client as the destination application is not selected until after you start scanning. Destination type—the Still Image Client destination is classified as an “Event Forward Link”.
4. VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE A dialog box opens for you to select the application to use for scanning. Select the application you want in the box and click OK. Now the application you selected opens and you can continue scanning using that application’s interface.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 91 IMAGE EDITORS Image editors include Microsoft Paint and other drawing and graphics applications. Supported file formats—the available file formats are based on the selected destination application. For example, you can scan to Microsoft’s Paint application as a BMP, GIF, PNG, or JPG, but not as TIFF or JP2 as Paint cannot open those two file types. Please refer to Image Formats on page 53 for more information on which image formats OneTouch supports.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE IMAGE DOCUMENTS PROPERTIES These properties apply to Microsoft Paint and other image processing applications. • Add application—click this button to open the Add Simple Image Link dialogue so you can add other image editing applications to OneTouch. • Delete application—select an application in the list then click this button to remove the application from the OneTouch destination list.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 93 ADDING IMAGE EDITOR APPLICATIONS TO ONETOUCH 1. To add another application to the list, click the Add application button. The Add Simple Image Link dialog box opens. 2. Click Browse to find the application you want to add to the list. When you select the application using the Browse button, Steps 1 and 2 on the dialog box are automatically filled in, and the application icon appears in Step 3. 3. Select the icon in Step 3 of the dialog box.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE PDF APPLICATIONS PDF destinations are applications that can open and/or edit the Adobe PDF file format. Supported file types—applications in the PDF destination group support the *.pdf file format. When the OmniPage module or software is installed, OneTouch includes an option to scan as sPDF or nPDF. Selecting either of these two formats still creates a *.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 95 3. Click on one of the default text editors such as WordPad. 4. Click on the Properties button. 5. To add another application to the list, click the Add application button. The Add Text Based Link dialog box opens. 6. Click Browse to find the application you want to add to the list. When you select the application using the Browse button, Steps 1 and 2 on the dialog box are automatically filled in, and the application icon appears in Step 3. 7.
8. VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE In Step 4 of the dialog box, select Adobe PDF format and Adobe searchable PDF. Adobe PDF format—select this option if you are adding a PDF viewing or editing application to the list. This PDF format is an image format only, it will not recognize the document using OCR, and you will not be able to search or edit the text in the final file. The application you are adding must be able to open *.pdf files.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 97 SEND TO APPLICATION The Send to Application link allows you to select any application on your computer as the scan destination. Supported file types—all file formats in OneTouch are available when scanning to this destination. After you configure the link, as described below, make sure you select a file format that the application can open. Please refer to Text Formats on page 56 to see a list of text file formats that are available when OCR is installed.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE To configure a destination application for the Send to Application link: Send to Application OneTouch Link Properties window 1. Send to Application Scan Configuration Properties window Click Browse to open the Windows file browser and navigate to the location of the application’s executable (*.exe) file. In most cases, the application’s directory is located in the programs directory on the C:\ drive.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 99 Configure advanced features—select this option to change the default settings for this link. Only advanced users and application developers should modify these settings. Send to Application OneTouch Link Properties window • Send to Application Scan Configuration Properties window Launch application for every image—when this option is selected, the application will open one time for each image scanned.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE SCANNING TO MULTIPLE DESTINATIONS Scanning to multiple destinations works the same as when scanning to a single destination, OneTouch simply distributes the final scan to several destinations. This option is enabled separately for each OneTouch button. 1. Open the OneTouch Properties window and click on the Options tab. 2. Select Enable scanning to multiple destinations, then click back on the configuration tab. 3.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 4. 101 If any of the destinations you select have global configuration properties, the Properties button at the bottom of the Selected destinations list will be enabled for you to configure the destination options. Click on the Properties button to open the OneTouch Link Properties window to configure the destinations. Each destination that has global properties will be represented by its configuration tab in the OneTouch Link Properties window.
6. VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Select the scan configuration you want to use for scanning in the Select configuration list. Click on the Edit button to open the Scan Configuration Properties window to configure any destination specific scanning options. Each destination that has per-scan configuration properties will be represented by its configuration tab in the OneTouch Scan Configuration Properties window.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 103 SCANNING WITH JOB SEPARATION Use job separation to have OneTouch create a new file each time a separator is detected when scanning a multiple page batch. For example, if you want to scan financial statements from several different banks, you can place a stack of statements in the scanner and OneTouch will separate each statement into a different file based on your selected job separator. 1. Open the OneTouch Properties window. 2.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 5. Click on the option Use job separator when scanning multiple pages. 6. Select one of the two job separation options: When a blank page is detected—a new file will be created after a blank page is fed through the scanner. The blank page is discarded from the scanned image and the new file starts with the next page in the document stack.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 105 The options on the Page Settings tab, in the Scan Configuration Properties window will affect the job separation options as described below: Skip blank originals • The Sensitivity you set for this feature is the one that is used when scanning. The sensitivity level you set in the Options tab will be ignored.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE SCANNING WITH OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR) Optical Character Recognition (OCR) converts text and numbers on a scanned page into editable text and numbers. You can then work with the text and numbers to edit, spell check, change font or type size, sort, calculate, and so forth. NOTE: Visioneer recommends that all OCR processing use the original factory settings for OCR scanning that came with your scanner.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 107 TEXT FORMATS You select the text format option by clicking on the text icon on the OneTouch Properties window. This is the text format icon. This example of the text format icon is sPDF. Selecting the text format option also selects OCR processing as an automatic step for scanning. Therefore, when you scan a document with the text format selected, the text portions of the document are automatically converted to editable text.
2. VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Right-click on the text format icon. Example menu for the text format when the Destination Application is Microsoft Word. 3. Example menu for the text format when the Destination Application is a Storage location. Choose the file type that you want for the text format. Your selection of a file type pertains only to the Destination Application currently selected on the OneTouch Properties window.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 109 Normal PDF—the.pdf file format used by Adobe Acrobat. This format converts scanned text into a PDF with the text ready for editing in a PDF editing program. Additional options are available on the menu for the sPDF and nPDF text formats. The three image quality settings are: • Minimize Size—smallest file size, lowest image quality. • Normal—medium file size, some loss of image quality. • Maximize Quality—largest file size, no loss of image quality.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE SELECTING ONETOUCH OMNIPAGE OCR OPTIONS The software you installed for your scanner includes a set of advanced OCR options integrated with OneTouch. NOTE: the OCR options apply globally to all the OneTouch Destination Applications that perform OCR. For example, if you select the OCR options for Adobe Acrobat, they also apply to WordPad. To select OCR options available from OneTouch: 1. Open the OneTouch Properties window. 2.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 111 THE OCR TAB The options shown on the OCR tab window are for spellchecking scanned text, replacing missing or unrecognized characters, and setting the speed and quality levels of the OCR processing. 1. Choose the options you want from the OCR window. • • Languages in Document—click on the language(s) in list that correspond to the languages in the documents to be scanned. You can click on multiple languages.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE • 2. User Dictionary—a user dictionary is your personal dictionary with words that you want the OCR engine to reference for better accuracy when converting the document into editable text. For example, if you scan documents with highly technical terms or acronyms not found in typical dictionaries, you can add them to your personal dictionary. You can also add names that you expect to be in the documents too.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 113 • OmniPage • wysiwyg • jpeg • bmp • sPDF • nPDF The file does not have to include every word you want in the dictionary. You will be able to edit the list later. In fact, the file does not have to contain any text at all, and you could add the words using the editing options. However, if the list of words is long, it’s usually faster to type them in the word processing program. Note also that the words do not need to be alphabetized. 4. Save the document in the .
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 10. Select the file you just created for your user dictionary and click Open. In the example above, the file is named USERDIC1. 11. The text file now appears on the list of user dictionaries that you can use for spellchecking. 12. Select a dictionary and click Set As Current to set it as the current dictionary for spellchecking. The label [current] is added to the name.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 3. 115 To import a list of words from another text file, click Import. The Import Contents of User Dictionary window opens. 4. Select the file that has the words you want to add to your user dictionary. Importing will add the entire list of words in a file to the user dictionary. 5. Click Import. The file’s words will be added to your user dictionary list. 6.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE THE FORMAT TAB The options on the Format tab window are for setting the input and output formats for the scanned documents. 1. Click the Format tab and choose the options you want for both the input and output formats. Input Format Options • Automatic—choose this option to let the OCR process determine the format of the pages.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 117 • 2. Retain fonts and paragraphs—this output format retains the font and paragraph styling, including graphics and tables without columnized text, but does not retain layout formatting. If the document is being scanned as an Excel spreadsheet, each detected table or spreadsheet becomes a separate worksheet, while other content is placed on the last worksheet. • Flowing page—this format preserves the original layout of the pages, including columns.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE ONETOUCH WITH VISIONEER ACUITY TECHNOLOGY The OneTouch software you received with your Visioneer scanner now includes the Visioneer Acuity technology. This application has a set of features for improving and enhancing the quality of scanned documents, especially documents that would usually produce poorer quality images. Scan configurations with Acuity options work with OneTouch scan settings to produce the best quality images.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH 119 1. Open the OneTouch Properties window. 2. Click the New button to create a new configuration, or select one of your custom configurations you created earlier and click the Edit button. 3. Click the Acuity Settings tab to see the new Acuity settings. 4. Choose the Visioneer Acuity options for the scan configuration. 5. Click the drop-down arrow to choose the type of Acuity settings to use for the new scan configuration. The options are: • • 6.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE • 7. Auto detect color—Determines if a document contains color or not and produces the appropriate scanned image. Typically, Auto Color Detect is used when you have a stack of pages to scan, some color and others not. Instead of you having to change the scan settings from Color to Black&White and back again, the scanner can choose the correct settings automatically. • Skip blank originals—Recognizes when a page is blank and removes its image.
SCANNING AND CONFIGURING ONETOUCH HARDWARE PROPERTIES 1. Right-click on the OneTouch icon and choose Show Hardware from the pop-up menu. 2. The Hardware Properties dialog box opens and shows information about your Visioneer scanner. 3. Click the Properties button.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE DEVICE SETTINGS Please refer to Device Settings on page 163 DRIVER SETTINGS Please refer to Driver Settings on page 165
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA This chapter includes: • Accessing the Scanner Interface on page 124 • Scanning on page 125 • Using the Preview Window on page 127 • Document Source Configuration on page 135 • Summary on page 137 • Presets on page 138 • Document Settings on page 143 • Image Enhancements on page 150 • Driver Configuration on page 161 • Hardware Properties and Interface Behavior on page 163 VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 123
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE ACCESSING THE SCANNER INTERFACE Every scanning application will access the scanner using a different method. Below is a brief list of common applications and how to initiate a scan from within that application, including some of the applications which may have been provided with your scanner. Please refer to the application’s user guide for instructions on using the application and accessing the scanner.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 125 SCANNING Some features described herein may not be available for the current scanner. Please disregard any information about features that you do not see in the interface for your scanner. NOTE: Visioneer Acuity must be installed for the image processing options, described in this document, to be available in the interface for your scanner. Only features that are appropriate for your scanner will be enabled after Visioneer Acuity is installed.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE NOTE: You can lock or unlock the scanner’s interface from the driver configuration options for your scanner. The instructions for changing this setting are in the Driver Settings section of this guide. If you are unable to change this setting the option may have been set by your system administrator. Please contact your system administrator for more information.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 127 USING THE PREVIEW WINDOW Clicking the Preview button will display the preview window for the scanner interface. Use the preview option if you want to scan and display a sample image that reflects the current settings in the main interface. After the preview is displayed, you can then adjust the settings in the main interface until you are happy with how the sample image looks. The preview window is also where you can define custom scan regions.
4. VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Click Show main UI to bring the main scanner interface in front of the preview window for you to adjust the scan settings. There are some settings in the main interface, such as brightness and contrast, which will immediately update the preview image after you adjust the setting. Other settings, such as changing from color scanning to black and white scanning, will not automatically update the sample image.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 129 When you scan, any settings you adjusted are automatically saved to the Last used settings preset. These settings are not retained in a preset until you click Save in the main interface to save the settings to the current preset, or save them to a new preset using the Save as dialogue. If you select a different preset from the Presets list before scanning, the changes you made will be discarded.
5. VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Move or resize region 1 until the sample image area you want is within the scan region. Resize the region by clicking on one edge of the region outline and dragging the mouse. Move the region by clicking in the region then dragging the mouse. Please refer to Move, Resize, or Delete Regions for detailed instructions. 6.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 8. 131 In the main scanner interface click Save to save the regions to the current preset, or save them to a new preset using the Save as dialogue. The Summary area in the main interface will indicate when custom regions have been defined in the preview window. Click on View or modify custom regions in the summary area to display the preview window. 9. Click Scan in the main interface to scan using the custom regions. 10.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE MOVE, RESIZE, OR DELETE REGIONS Moving regions – to move a region, place your mouse cursor over the region you want to move. The region will highlight indicating that it is the active region under the mouse cursor. Click on the region and drag the mouse to move the region. Resizing regions – to resize a region, place your mouse cursor over the edge of the region outline. The cursor will change to a dual directional arrow.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 133 Deleting regions – to delete a region, place your mouse cursor over the region you want to delete. The region will highlight indicating it is the active region under the mouse cursor. Right-click on the region and select the delete option from the menu. Move, Resize, or Delete a Blocked Region If there is a region you cannot move or resize because another region is in the way, you can temporarily move that region behind the other regions.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Make this the first region – select this option to set the region number to 1. This option is not available if the region you right-clicked on is already at position 1. After selecting this option, all other regions will have their number update automatically as appropriate. Make this region a lower number – select this option to move the region number up one in the processing order.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 135 DOCUMENT SOURCE CONFIGURATION Some options in the interface may be grayed out and cannot be selected. Grayed out options are either not appropriate for the current scanner, the software needed to enable the feature is not installed, or the feature is dependent on another setting in the scanner's interface. Hover the mouse cursor over a grayed out feature to see information about why the feature is unavailable.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Click the drop down menu to select the scanning options you want to use. The available color modes are: • Automatic determines the color of the document as it is being scanned. • Color scans the document in color, creating a full color copy of an original document or photograph. Color scans have the largest file size. • Gray scans the document using varying shades of gray to reproduce the document.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 137 SUMMARY The Summary area displays some of the basic scan options selected in the interface. Clicking on one of the links will open the area of the interface where the setting is located.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE PRESETS A preset contains all features in the scanner interface, including color mode, resolution, paper size, and so on. You can create, import, export, and delete presets. After presets have been added to the interface, click the drop down menu and select an option from the list. • If you select the Last used settings preset, then adjust the settings in the scanner interface, when you scan those changes will immediately save to the preset.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 3. Type an new name for the preset in the name field and then click on OK in the dialogue. To delete a preset: 1. Click the drop menu under Presets and select the preset you want to delete. 2. Click the right pointing arrow button and select Delete. 3. Click Yes when prompted to confirm that you want to delete the currently selected preset. EXPORTING PRESETS 1. Click on the right pointing arrow and select Export... from the list.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 2. Click on the browse button next to the Destination folder field to open a file browsing window. 3. Browse to a location and select the folder where you want the preset file to be saved. Click on Choose. Make sure to choose a location where you will be able to easily find the file. 4. Select the preset you want to export in the dialogue for exporting a preset. If you want to export multiple presets, click on each preset name.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 5. 141 Click on Export. If you selected multiple presets to be exported, a file will be created for each preset you selected. NOTE: the software will look for duplicate preset names. If you see a notification indicating that a preset with the same name already exists, select one of the options on-screen to continue. • • • Overwrite—select this option to replace the current preset with the one you selected from the list. Keep both—select this option to keep both presets.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 2. Browse to the location where the preset file is saved. If you want to import multiple presets, click on each preset name. You may need to hold down the Ctrl (Control) key on your keyboard, while clicking on each preset name, to select multiple presets. 3. Click on Open. 4. The preset will now be in the list of presets available in the scanner's interface. NOTE: the software will look for duplicate preset names.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 143 DOCUMENT SETTINGS • Main panel—this panel contains the most commonly used scan settings. When the Basic source configuration mode is selected, this is the only panel available. Change to the Advanced source configuration mode to enable the other panels which are also described in this section. The Document settings section when the Basic document source configuration mode is selected.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE DISABLED OPTIONS IN THIS SECTION Some options in the interface may be grayed out and cannot be selected. Grayed out options are either not appropriate for the current scanner, the software needed to enable the feature is not installed, or the feature is dependent on another setting in the scanner's interface. Hover the mouse cursor over a grayed out feature to see information about why the feature is unavailable.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 145 RESOLUTION The resolution determines the amount of detail you can see in the scanned image. Resolution is the clarity of the image measured in dots-per-inch (dpi). Move the slider left or right to change the resolution for the scanned image. The higher the resolution, the clearer the image. However, high resolution scans also produce larger file sizes. The available range displayed in the slider area are within the minimum and maximum range supported by your scanner.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Custom document sizes Select the measurement units you want to use from the Units list. If the Document size list does not include the document size for your scanning batch, click in one of the fields below the document size list. Input the width of the document in the first field, then input the height in the second field. You can input a maximum of 17 inches in the height field.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 6. 147 When you are done scanning all pages in your document, you can click on Abort to stop the timer or simply let the timer run out. STRAIGHTEN IMAGE Select this option to let the scanner automatically determine if a page is skewed, then straighten its image. This option is only available if the scanner supports this feature. ROTATE IMAGE Select an option in this list to have the final image rotated when scanning is complete.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE CLEAN UP EDGES Select this option to remove any thin lines from around the edges of the final scan. This option will fill the margins of the image with the detected edge color. When you select this option, the Width input field will automatically enable for you to input the size of the area you want to have filled with the background color. You can specify a fill size between approximately 0.04 to 0.39 inches (1 mm to 10 mm).
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 149 Subsampling The subsampling options allow you to select the encoding ratio between color information and luminosity. Subsampling works by lowering the resolution of the RGB colors found in an image without affecting luminescence of the image. This compresses the image to create smaller file sizes but it can sometimes result in loss of image quality. Depending on the type of image being scanned, subsampling encoding may not have a noticeable affect in the final image file.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE IMAGE ENHANCEMENTS Click on the Image Enhancements icon to select options applicable to what type of image processing you want applied for the items being scanned. • Main panel—this panel contains the most commonly used scan settings. Some of the options in this panel may have adjustment options on the other panels in this section. When the Basic source configuration mode is selected, this is the only panel available.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 151 DISABLED OPTIONS IN THIS SECTION Some options in the interface may be grayed out and cannot be selected. Grayed out options are either not appropriate for the current scanner, the software needed to enable the feature is not installed, or the feature is dependent on another setting in the scanner's interface. Hover the mouse cursor over a grayed out feature to see information about why the feature is unavailable.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE BRIGHTNESS Brightness is the overall lightness of the image. Move the slider left or right to darken or lighten the image. Adjusting the brightness level adjusts the tone of the pixels, without changing the true color of the pixels; such as when adjusting hue. Choosing brightness values Adjusting the brightness level is based on how you want the image to appear and there is no standard to adhere to.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 153 Black background scanners: Some scanners have a black background plate. A black background results in more precise cropping results and skew detection. However, when scanning thin paper, such as multipart color forms or ruled writing paper, which are less than 18lb paper weight, the background may “bleed” through into the final image and make the image darker than it should be. In that case, try adjusting the brightness level between 60% and 80%.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Technical note: Most monitors have a contrast setting that is user adjustable. When viewing scanned images on-screen, versus printing the image, the contrast setting of the monitor may affect how clear a scanned image looks when compared to the original. If the scanned image is too different from the original image, or if adjusting the scanned contrast level does not modify the image how you want, try adjusting the monitor's contrast level.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 155 Technical note: Most monitors have a gamma setting that is user adjustable. When viewing scanned images on-screen, versus printing the image, the gamma setting of the monitor may affect how light or dark the scanned image looks when compared to the original. If the scanned image is too different from the original image, or if adjusting the scanned gamma level does not modify the image how you want, try adjusting the monitor's gamma level.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE MIRROR IMAGE The Mirror image option flips the image left-to-right. BIT DEPTH REDUCTION The Bit depth reduction options are only available when scanning in black and white. Click the drop down menu and select an option from the list. Threshold and Dynamic threshold Threshold enables you to set what level of light or dark to look for on a page.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 157 Error diffusion, Bayer, and Halftone pattern Error diffusion, Bayer, and Halftone patterns are the intentional application of noise (dithering) in the image to help alleviate banding when scanning in binary (black and white) mode. For example, if you scan a color photo in black and white, the image file will have large blocks of black and white and the image barely recognizable. Dithering the image creates a black and white image that is recognizable.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE COLOR DROPOUT Color dropout tells the scanner and software to remove a specific color from the image. You can choose either Red, Green, or Blue, or define a custom color, to be dropped out of an image. To input a custom color using its RGB value, select Custom in this list and then input the values for R, G, and B in their appropriate boxes, where R, G, and B are numbers from 0 to 255. Tolerance—use the slider to adjust the precision of the color dropout.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 159 ADVANCED PANEL OPTIONS The options in this panel may also appear in the Main panel, but with additional settings for you to fine-tune the feature you've selected. Select the Advanced source configuration mode to show this panel. DESPECKLE This option removes speckles from the background. Speckles are small spots on an image that the scanner interpreted as a valid part of the document.
• VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Unsharp mask—adjusts the contrast of edge detail by evaluating the image and setting a lighter and darker line on either side of the edge. Use the Sensitivity slider to adjust the tolerance of the unsharp mask. REDUCE MOIRÉ Moiré patterns are wavy or rippled lines that may appear in the scanned images of newspapers and magazines, and sometimes scanned images of photos, line drawings, and color scans of textured paper.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 161 DRIVER CONFIGURATION Use the Driver configuration section to configure the add-on modules, select interface options, and view the scanner hardware properties. When the Advanced configuration mode is selected, a scanner panel option will be available for you to change any hardware settings that may be available for your scanner. DISABLED OPTIONS IN THIS SECTION Some options in the interface may be grayed out and cannot be selected.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE SCANNER CONFIGURATION The scanner configuration tab shows the hardware information for your scanner. CALIBRATE The scanner needs to be calibrated as part of your monthly maintenance of the scanner. If you are seeing image quality problems and cleaning the scanner does not resolve the problem, you may need to calibrate the scanner. 1. If calibration does not resolve any image quality issues you are seeing, you may need to clean the scanner. 2.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 163 HARDWARE PROPERTIES AND INTERFACE BEHAVIOR You can use the scanner’s properties page to keep track of scanner maintenance, change some of the hardware options, configure the scanner interface behavior, and adjust application options that may be available for your scanner. To open the scanner hardware properties page: • Windows 7 and 8—from the Windows Control Panel, open Hardware and Sound and then Devices and Printers.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE • Serial number—the scanner’s unique identification number. • LLD version—the scanner’s base driver version. This is not the One Touch software revision, TWAIN or WIA driver versions. • Driver version—this is the version of the scanner’s TWAIN driver. CALIBRATE The scanner needs to be calibrated as part of your monthly maintenance of the scanner.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 165 DRIVER SETTINGS The options in this panel are for configuring how the scanner interface will behave in some scenarios. Only advanced users should modify any of the options in this section. Options that are not available for your scanner will be grayed out and disabled. GENERAL • Lock settings—this option prevents the user from making changes to the options in the scanner interface.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE • Force UI-less—select this option to prevent this scanner interface from opening when you initiate a scan in the scanning application. This option will only work if your scanning application supports UI-less scanning. You may also need to select Auto close on transfer complete for this option to work. • Profile overrides capabilities—some scanning applications have the option to adjust the scan settings and scan without opening this scanner interface.
SCANNING FROM TWAIN AND WIA 167 To disable automatic scanning, deselect Turn on AutoLaunch™ and then click on OK to save the changes. Once this option has been disabled, you can scan by inserting a page in the scanner and then click on the Scan button in the scanning interface.
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MAINTENANCE This chapter includes: • Cleaning Your Scanner on page 170 • Calibrating Your Scanner on page 172 • Troubleshooting on page 176 • Uninstalling Your Scanner on page 179 • Visioneer RoadWarrior 3 Specifications on page 180 • Visioneer RoadWarrior 3 Parts List on page 181 This section contains information about calibrating, cleaning, troubleshooting, uninstalling, scanner specifications and spare parts.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE CLEANING YOUR SCANNER Clean the inside of the scanner to remove dust and paper debris from the scanner glass, pickup and feed rollers. Cleaning the inside of the scanner helps to keep your scanner operating at optimum performance. Dust accumulation on the rollers will prevent documents from feeding straight through the scanner, dust on the scanner glass will appear as lines in the scanned image.
MAINTENANCE 171 3. Using the cleaning cloth, wipe down all surfaces in the scanner. Make sure to clean the glass in the underside of the scanner lid and the feed rollers in the body of the scanner. 4. Gently close the scanner lid. Press down on both sides of the top until you hear a click as the arms lock the scanner lid in place. ADDITIONAL CLEANING METHOD The standard cleaning method for your scanner is to use the dry cleaning cloth in the scanner.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE CALIBRATING YOUR SCANNER If your scanned images have black or colored vertical lines and cleaning does not resolve the problem, this may be a sign that you need to perform a calibration. The scanner should be calibrated as part of your monthly maintenance of the scanner. If the scanner is used daily you may need to calibrate the scanner more often. You will need to have the calibration page ready.
MAINTENANCE 2. The Hardware Properties dialog box opens and shows information about your Visioneer scanner. 3. Click the Properties button. 4. Click on the Device Settings tab. 5. Click on the Calibrate button to start the calibration utility.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 6. Place the calibration page, with the black bar face up, into the scanner. 7. The scanner pulls in the calibration page and feeds it slowly through the paper path. 8. When calibration is complete the scanner will clear the calibration page out of the scanner. Remove the calibration page when the utility prompts you to. Do not forcefully pull the page out of the scanner, the scanner will release the page when it has fully exited out of the scanner.
MAINTENANCE 175 CALIBRATING FROM THE WINDOWS CONTROL PANEL If you did not install OneTouch during the initial installation of the scanner driver, please follow these steps to open the scanner’s hardware properties. • Windows 7—from the Windows Control Panel, open Hardware and Sound and then Devices and Printers. Right-click on the scanner and then select Scan properties from the list.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE TROUBLESHOOTING Problem: The scanner won’t scan. What’s wrong? Check for one of these possible problems: • Is a cable loose or not plugged in securely? Inspect all cable connections. Make sure all the cables are plugged in securely. • Did you restart the computer after installing the software? If you didn’t restart the computer, it may not have loaded all of the software files. Try restarting your computer.
MAINTENANCE 177 Problem: When using “Create single image files” not all of the pages scanned are sent to the destination I chose. Where are they? There are a limited number of times that an application can open. When “Create single image files” is selected and you are scanning to a destination application, each side of the page scanned will open a new instance of that application. If you want to have an image open in an application immediately, limit your scan batch to less than 5 pages.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Problem: The scanned images are of poor quality even after I recalibrated and cleaned the scanner. Try reinstalling the scanner driver. The driver software may have been corrupted. STATUS LIGHT TROUBLESHOOTING The status light indicates the current state of the scanner: • Steady blue—indicates the scanner is receiving power. When the scanner driver is installed, it also means the scanner is ready to scan.
MAINTENANCE 179 UNINSTALLING YOUR SCANNER Use the options in the Windows Control Panel to remove the scanner driver and modules, and any other software provided with the scanner. Please leave the scanner’s USB cable plugged into the computer while uninstalling the scanner driver. Unplug the USB cable when directed to do so in the instructions below. Open the list of installed programs in the Windows Control panel.
VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 SPECIFICATIONS Scanning resolution Bit depth Scan method Light source Image sensor Minimum item size Maximum item size Item thickness Plastic card Interface Scanner dimensions Width Depth Height Weight Operating temperature Relative humidity Power consumption 600 dpi 24-bit color, 8-bit grayscale, 1-bit line art/text Fast sheetfed 3-color RGB LED lamp Contact Image Sensor 1.5 x 1.5 inches (38 x 38 mm) 8.5 x 32.
MAINTENANCE 181 VISIONEER ROADWARRIOR 3 PARTS LIST Please use the following part names and numbers when ordering replacements for your Visioneer RoadWarrior 3 Part Name Part Number USB Cable 35-0247-000 Calibration Page 05-0885-000 Cleaning Cloth 05-0884-000 Carrying Bag 88-0666-000
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INDEX INDEX A Actual size, 70 Acuity image processing, 119 Add Application, 87, 93, 95 Advanced device settings, 70 Advanced Settings tab, 49 Apply button, 41 Aspect ratio, 70 Auto detect color, 120 AutoCrop, 148 AutoCrop to original, 119 AutoLaunch, 27, 30, 32, 33, 38 turn off or on, 31 Automatic color detection, 136 Automatic cropping options, 144 AutoRotate image, 70 B Bayer, 120 bit depth, 180 Bit Depth Reduction, 156 Bit depth reduction, 120 Black and White, 135, 136, 156 Black Level, 160 Black&White
INDEX Format tab, 116 G Gamma, 49, 154 Grayscale, 135, 136, 153, 154, 156 Grayscale mode, 46 H Halftone, 120 Halftone Pattern, 157 Hardware properties, 31, 39 HTM file format, 88 htm file format, 108 HTML Document, 108 HTML page, 88 Hue, 49 I Image Documents Properties, 92 Image Editors, 42 Image Enhancements, 150 Image file formats, 53 Improvements and Settings, 47 Instant Delivery, 43 Internet Options, 84 Invert Image, 48 Invert image, 155 J JPG Image quality and file size, 55 JPG file format, 5
INDEX Page size, 145 Paper feed, 13, 29, 59 Paper size, 47 PaperIn, 29, 30, 38 PaperPort, 24 PaperPort desktop, 29, 38 PDF Image quality and file size, 55 PDF applications, 42 PDF Destinations, 94 PDF file format, 42, 53, 59 Perform color correction, 158 Perform edge cleanup, 120, 148 Pixel, 152, 154, 156, 159 Post-It™ notes and Labels, 27 Presets, 138 Properties button, 41 R Recognition Quality, 112 Redaction tab, 49 Reduce moiré, 160 Reduce Moiré Patterns, 47 Refresh button, 41 Reject Character, 112 Res
INDEX V Vertical lines, 172 W Warranty, 27 White Level, 160 Word Document, 108 X xls file format, 108
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