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PaperPort Getting
Started Guide
This guide tells you how to quickly start using some of the main
PaperPort software features. You'll learn how to:
• View items in two ways
• File items into folders
• Stack items
• Send items to other applications by using the Link Bar
• Convert an image to text
• Use a function key to scan and fax
• Scan an item directly to your e-mail
• Adjust a picture automatically
• Adjust and enhance a picture yourself
• Add annotations to a page
• Find items
While this brief guide is enough to get you started, see the PaperPort
User's Guide and the PaperPort Help for more information about
PaperPort features. You can display these sources of information by
choosing PaperPort User's Guide or PaperPort Help from the Visioneer
menu (located on the menu bar on the Macintosh desktop).
TIP: You can directly access Visioneer's Web site for information and
support. If you have Netscape Navigator and an Internet provider
software on your computer, choose Go to PaperPort on the Web
from the Visioneer menu. Otherwise, find PaperPort information at
http://www.visioneer.com.
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Summary of Contents for ScanSoft SCANSOFT PAPERPORT 5.0
- Page 1 PaperPort Getting Started Guide This guide tells you how to quickly start using some of the main PaperPort software features. You’ll learn how to: • View items in two ways • File items into folders • Stack items • Send items to other applications by using the Link Bar •...
- Page 2 IEWING TEMS IN With the PaperPort software, you can view an item in two ways: on the PaperPort Desktop or in the Page Viewer. The PaperPort Desktop displays thumbnails of your items after you scan or display them on the PaperPort Desktop.
- Page 3 The left side of the PaperPort Desktop provides a Navigation pane. You use the Navigation pop-up menu and Folder directory to navigate to different locations on your Macintosh computer, such as a folder or disk, in the same way you navigate through the hierarchy of folders on your Macintosh computer when using a directory dialog to save or open a file.
- Page 4 ILING TEMS INTO OLDERS The PaperPort software provides a great way to get your files organized and keep them that way. You can save items into separate folders that are like ordinary manila file folders, except that they are electronic. You can also add Favorite Folders—folders that always appear on the PaperPort Desktop and make it easy to file and retrieve information.
- Page 5 To file items into a folder: 1. On the PaperPort Desktop, use the Navigation pane to navigate to the location containing the item you want to file. The item appears on the PaperPort Desktop. 2. Drag the item into the folder in which you want to file the item. Shift-click to select multiple items.
- Page 6 To add Favorite Folders: 1. From the Navigation pane, navigate to the folder that you want to add as a Favorite Folder. The folder is opened and its name appears in the Navigation pop-up menu. 2. From the File menu, choose Add folder to Favorites, where folder is the name of the opened folder.
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Page 7: Stacking Items
TACKING TEMS With the PaperPort software you can electronically organize items into stacks in much the same way that you do with paper items on your desk. A stack is a PaperPort item with multiple pages. To create a stack: 1. - Page 8 ENDING TEMS TO THER PPLICATIONS BY SING THE The PaperPort software is designed to work with—or link to—other types of applications. One way to send items on your computer to other applications is by using the Link Bar. The Link Bar is a small, separate application that automatically starts every time you start your Macintosh computer.
- Page 9 ONVERTING AN MAGE TO A PaperPort item is an image. Even the text in a scanned document is simply an image of text; you cannot edit the text as you would in a word processing document. However, by working with optical character recognition (OCR) software, you can covert a text image into editable text.
- Page 10 TIP: You can also send an item to a word processing application by choosing Links from the File menu, and then choosing the word processing application link that you want to use. SING A UNCTION EY TO CAN AND With the ScanDirect F8 Fax function key, you can send a scanned item to your fax software by just pressing one key.
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Page 11: Improving Pictures Automatically
To scan an item directly to your e-mail: 1. From the Visioneer menu (located below the Visioneer icon on the Macintosh desktop menu bar) choose the ScanDirect To menu, and then choose your e-mail application, such as AOL Mail. 2. Insert the item, printed side up into the scanner. The scanner scans the item, and then the PaperPort software converts the item into a PaperPort 5.0 format. - Page 12 DJUSTING AND NHANCING A ICTURE OURSELF If you prefer to control the adjustments and enhancements to a picture, use the Adjust Picture command. With Adjust Picture you can enhance a picture by using a combination of a sliding adjustment bar and by selecting one or more example pictures, multiple times.
- Page 13 4. (optional) To increase or decrease the amount of adjustment to the example pictures, drag the arrows on the Amount of Adjustment bar to the right or left. Each of the example pictures changes to reflect your adjustment. If you drag the arrows to the right, the change to the pictures is greater.
- Page 14 7. To adjust another setting, such as color or tint, repeat Steps 3–6. 8. After you complete all adjustments, click OK. A progress dialog box appears as your picture is adjusted. DDING NNOTATIONS TO A After you display a page in the Page Viewer, you can use the Annotation tools to add annotations.
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Page 15: Finding Items
To add an annotation: 1. Display the page in the Page Viewer. 2. Click the Annotation tool on the Annotation Tool Bar. 3. Place the cursor on the page. Its shape varies depending on the tool selected. If you select the Freehand tool, the cursor looks like the tip of a paintbrush. - Page 16 To find an item: 1. On the PaperPort Desktop, choose Find Document from the File menu. The Find Document window appears Type any text for which you want to search. Select one or more areas in which to look for the text. Select the location where you want to...