Installation guide
Scanning with the Scanner Button
14 DocuMate 250 Scanner Installation Guide
You can also click the View button to see more detailed information 
about the selected configuration.
Select Format and Page(s)—a set of format for the scanned 
image. The formats are bitmap and PaperPort. Bitmaps are usually 
used for photos or artwork. The bitmap format is available when 
you select a destination application other than PaperPort.
Options—displays a dialog box for selecting options related to the 
selected destination application for the scanned image. Each 
destination application has its own options dialog box. 
Selecting New Settings for the Scanner Button
You can select a new destination application, scanning 
configuration, and image format to use when you press the 
scanner button.
To select new settings for the Scanner Button:
1. From the Select Destination list, select the application where 
you want scanned images sent.
See “Setting Preferences” on page 18 to display a full list of the 
destination applications that you can use with the scanner.
2. From the Select Configuration list, select a scan configuration.
To scan in color, select one of the configurations indicated by 
the small color icon, such as the Scan Color Document 
configuration.
The configuration list is preset for the application you select in 
the Select Destination list. If you select a different application, 
the configurations are for that application.
3. Select a Format and Page(s) option.
4. Click OK.
Now when you press the scanner button, the document is 
scanned using the new settings.
NOTE: If you select a word processing program such as 
Microsoft WordPad or Microsoft Word and a configuration for 
OCR, the text in scanned images is automatically converted to 
word processing text by the optical character recognition (OCR) 
software that you receive with the scanner. The converted text 
then appears in the selected destination application. 










