Chapter Ii. Usage And Maintenance; Operating The Scanner - Plustek MobileOffice User Manual

Usage and Maintenance

Operating the Scanner

Your scanner accepts documents as small as business cards and as large as 4"x6"
photographs. However, some software programs have limitations as to the information
they can handle. The capacity of the computer's memory and free space on your hard
drive can also limit the physical size of the document that you scan.
There are two different ways to operate the scanner:
1. From within an image-editing program that can acquire images from the
scanner.
2. By pressing either of the two action buttons on the scanner. You may configure
the button settings individually to your personal needs within the DocAction
program that is automatically installed as your scanner software.
Your scanner needs to be driven by some type of software program. Since all
documents or images (whether text or pictures) that are acquired from the scanner are
treated by your computer as images, most scanning will probably be done from an
image-editing program where you can view, edit, save and output the scanned images.
What about scanning text documents and editing them in a word processor? This is
the role of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. OCR software converts the
image files that are created from scanning text documents into text files that can be
viewed, edited and saved by word processors. An OCR program has also been
bundled on the included Setup/Application DVD-ROM, and if you wish to use the
scanner in this way you should install the OCR software that is included.
What about scanning business cards and managing them in a more convenient
way? This is the role of BCR (Business Card Recognition) function that can scan
various business cards to NewSoft Presto! BizCard software. NewSoft Presto! BizCard
can index the scanned images into business cards album, recognize and convert
respective personal information contained in the scanned images into an address
database for your further management. If you wish to use the scanner in this way you
should install the NewSoft Presto! BizCard software that is included in the
Setup/Application DVD-ROM.
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