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- Page 2 E G A L O T I C E S Copyright © 1999–2005 by ScanSoft, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be transmitted, transcribed, reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or translated into any language or computer language in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual, or otherwise, without prior written consent from ScanSoft, Inc., 9 Centennial Drive, Peabody, Massachusetts 01960.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
PaperPort item thumbnails PaperPort page thumbnails The Page View window Acquiring Items Scan to the PaperPort desktop Set up your scanner with PaperPort Print to PaperPort Add PaperPort folders Import pictures from your camera Touching Up Images Scanner Enhancement Technology tools... - Page 4 Filing Items Add search criteria to items Finding Items Find items by their properties Use the All-in-One Search pane Sharing Files Sending Items to Other Programs Customize the Send To bar Adjust Send To options Converting Items Convert items to image formats Convert images to text Creating PDF Documents Uninstalling PaperPort...
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Page 5: Welcome To Paperport
PaperPort’s large, clear item thumbnails allow you to visually organize, retrieve and use your scanned documents, including Word files, spreadsheets, PDF files and even digital photos. PaperPort’s Scanner Enhancement Technology tools ensure that scanned documents will look great while the annotation tools let you add notes and highlights to any scanned image. -
Page 6: Learning Paperport
Learning PaperPort This guide introduces you to PaperPort and shows you how PaperPort can help you manage your information. Additional sources of information to help you learn how to use PaperPort include online Help, Release Notes, and the ScanSoft web site. Using this Guide This guide is written with the assumption that you know how to work in the Microsoft Windows environment. -
Page 7: Minimum System Requirements
Minimum System Requirements ® A computer with an Intel Pentium ® Microsoft Windows 98 (from second edition), Windows Me, Windows 2000 SP4 or above, Windows XP SP2 or above Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or above 128MB of memory (RAM), 256MB recommended 150MB of free hard disk space for application files plus 5MB working space during installation 5MB for Microsoft Installer (MSI) if not present. -
Page 8: What's New In Paperport 10 Se
PaperPort desktop by right-clicking on any image file. Annotation tools let you mark up your image items. New Scanner Wizard Set up scanners with PaperPort more easily, then enjoy improved scanner controls with greater scope for acquiring multi-page documents without interaction. - Page 9 Greater flexibility with stacking and unstacking PaperPort now provides greater choice for stacking together desktop items of different file formats and offers more options in unstacking. Folder improvements Use the Folder Manager to organize your PaperPort folder structure, find more functionality in the folder shortcut menus and utilize the Back button to navigate through your folder tree quickly and easily.
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Page 10: Getting To Know Paperport
Getting to Know PaperPort This section introduces you to the different parts of PaperPort. Refer to the PaperPort Help for detailed information about all these topics. The PaperPort desktop The PaperPort desktop appears with the Folders pane when you first start the program. -
Page 11: Paperport Items
PaperPort items The documents and photographs you acquire in PaperPort are called items. There are two types of items: image items and text items. Image items are scanned documents, photographs, and other digital items in an image format, such as PDF, JPEG, TIFF, or PaperPort Image (.max). You create image items from documents, photographs, line art, or other items that you scan, copy, or bring in to the PaperPort desktop. -
Page 12: Paperport Item Thumbnails
When you have acquired your own PaperPort items, you do not have to use the My PaperPort Document folder to store them. You can add other local and network folders to PaperPort's Folder View. You can also delete the My PaperPort Documents folder, but your PaperPort structure must contain at least one folder. -
Page 13: Paperport Page Thumbnails
Using item thumbnails on the PaperPort desktop, you can also easily combine individual PaperPort Image items or PDF Image items into multi-page items. This feature is useful as an organizational tool if you are using a scanner that can only scan a page as a separate item. -
Page 14: The Page View Window
• Enlarge or reduce thumbnail size. • Copy, paste, cut, delete and reorder pages. • Insert new pages at a certain location in the document. • Append new pages at the end. • Copy and move selected pages to a Workspace as separate PDF files. •... -
Page 15: Acquiring Items
When the scan is complete, you will see your item on the PaperPort desktop. Acquiring Items If your scanner does not use a TWAIN, WIA or ISIS device driver, use the program that came with your scanner to scan items. Then, copy or move the scanned items to... -
Page 16: Set Up Your Scanner With Paperport
PaperPort makes it easy to scan pages as separate items or as a multi-page item. To scan and collate two-sided pages on your ADF scanner, flip the pages when prompted, click Scan Other Side, and PaperPort will automatically scan and collate the pages in the correct order. -
Page 17: Add Paperport Folders
Add PaperPort folders PaperPort provides an easy-to-use filing system for organizing your items and sharing them with others. In the Folders pane, you can: • Add existing folders on your computer to the Folders pane. • Create new folders, mapped network drives and folders on external devices attached to your computer. -
Page 18: Touching Up Images
In addition, you can rotate an item, remove stray dots, enhance lines, remove red eye, and crop part of an image. Scanner Enhancement Technology tools Select Area Use the Select Area tool to select part of an image you want to cut, copy, or delete using the commands on the Edit menu or in the shortcut menu. -
Page 19: Annotating Pages
Remove part of an image Remove stray dots Improve lines The Improve Lines tool darkens lines and connects broken Annotating Pages PaperPort includes a collection of annotation tools that allow you to mark up scanned documents with information you would like to keep with that document. -
Page 20: Annotation Tools
Annotation tools You can select an annotation tool from the Annotation toolbar whenever you display an image item in the Page View window. Right-click on a tool to choose settings for the annotation. Select Use this tool to select an annotation so that you can then Annotation move, cut, copy, or resize it on the page. -
Page 21: Filing Items
Filing Items A key to organizing items in PaperPort is filing items in appropriate folders. You can drag and drop items from one folder to another or from the PaperPort desktop into any folder you want. You can specify search criteria to help you find your items later. -
Page 22: Add Search Criteria To Items
Add search criteria to items You can assign item properties to PaperPort Image items, and then use the properties as search criteria to find items in PaperPort. PaperPort also allows you to assign the same keywords to multiple items at the same time, providing a powerful tool for organizing and locating similar documents and images. -
Page 23: Find Items By Their Properties
When you have many folders and items, PaperPort provides more powerful capabilities with All-in-One Search All-in-One Search provides many options for specifying where and what to look for when finding an item, including indexed text content. The information you want to find is referred to as search criteria. You can look for items by item properties. -
Page 24: Sharing Files
Sharing Files PaperPort provides many tools to make it easy for you to share files, images, and documents with friends, colleagues, and business associates. These tools are built-in to the program and are readily available on toolbars, menus, and command bars for quick access whenever you need them. To help you share your items with others, PaperPort makes it easy to: •... -
Page 25: Sending Items To Other Programs
Sending Items to Other Programs Drag and drop functionality makes opening your files in your favorite programs a snap. Simply choose the file you want and drop it onto the program icon on the Send To bar at the bottom of the PaperPort desktop. Common office tasks like e-mailing and faxing are now faster than ever. -
Page 26: Adjust Send To Options
Adjust Send To options You can tune Send To options to specify how you want to use a certain program on the Send To bar. For example, you can specify the file format in which PaperPort will save an item. To e-mail an item, simply drag and drop the item to your e-mail program on the Send To bar. -
Page 27: Converting Items
Converting Items Using PaperPort, you can convert scanned documents and text items to image formats, and convert images back to text. Convert items to image formats You can convert scanned documents and text items to image formats. The Save As command allows you to save image items to any of a variety of standard image formats including PDF, JPEG, and TIFF, as well as the native PaperPort Image format (.max). -
Page 28: Creating Pdf Documents
Creating PDF Documents PDF (Portable Document Format) files are often classified into three different types, commonly called flavors: • PDF Image • PDF Searchable Image • PDF Formatted Text & Graphics You can create one or more of these PDF flavors, depending upon your version of PaperPort software.
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