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KoPa Scanner
A99
User's Manual
Ver 1.0
SHENZHEN OSTEC OPTO-ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD.
http://www.ostec.com.cn

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  • Page 1 KoPa Scanner User's Manual Ver 1.0 SHENZHEN OSTEC OPTO-ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD. http://www.ostec.com.cn...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Content Chapter 1 Start ..........1  1.1 Safety Warnings and Precautions ......1  1.2 Installation Instructions ........2  1.3 Functions of Device ........6  Chapter 2 Introduction of Software Interface ......8  2.1 Video Mode ........... 8  2.1.1 Real Time Preview Toolbar .......... 9   2.1.2 Real-time Scan Toolbar ...
  • Page 3 3.2 Other Purposes ........31  3.3 Security Exit .......... 31  Chapter4 Tips ..........32  4.1 How to improve the character recognition rate? ....32  4. 2 How to Edit Text File? ......... 32  4. 3 Scanned Documents with Spots? ......32  Chapter 5 Common Questions and Resolutions ......

  • Page 4: Chapter 1 Start

    Chapter 1 Start 1.1 Safety Warnings and Precautions 1) To avoid danger or damage incurred to the lens, do not touch the lens directly with your fingers. 2) To avoid failure or electric shock hazard and so on, do not disassemble or modify the internal structure of the device.

  • Page 5: Installation Instructions

    you move your PC or laptop. 1.2 Installation Instructions Step 1: Start the computer and put the installation disk into the CD-ROM. Step 2: Select "KoPaCam.exe" file. When the following window appears, please choose the language and click Step 3: When the window"Welcome to the KoPaCam Setup Wizard"appears, please click...
  • Page 6 Step 4: When the following window "Select Destination Location" appears, click "Browse" to choose the file installation path. Step 5: When you confirm the file installation path, click continue.
  • Page 7 Step 6: When the following window appears, click to confirm your chosen file folder and then click Step 7: When the following window appears, please tick the shortcut you need and then click...
  • Page 8 Step 8: Make sure whether the "Destination Location", "Start Menu Folder"and"Additional Tasks" are installed correctly. After confirming, please click Step 9: The progress bar will appear during the installation .When the following window appears, the software is installed successfully. Click to complete the installation.

  • Page 9: Functions Of Device

    Step 10: Take the device’s USB port to connect to the PC or laptop. Then, "Found a New Device" will appear on the screen, the driver installation will be automatically completed by the system. Step 11: Run "KoPa Scanner A99" on the desktop or "Start"→"All Programs".
  • Page 10 Scanner program. The software will automatically open and capture the current scene. The preview interface is shown as below: Tip 1: "KoPa Scanner" is only designed for KoPa scanner A99 and it may not run or display abnormal for non-KoPa scanner A99. Tip 2: Do not pull out KoPa scanner A99 when program is running.

  • Page 11: Chapter 2 Introduction Of Software Interface

    Chapter 2 Introduction of Software Interface When program is running, the following software interface is supposed to appear: 2.1 Video Mode Open KoPaCam Program. The program defaults to "video" mode. The software operating interface is shown as above. You can select working mode...

  • Page 12: Real Time Preview Toolbar

    2.1.1 Real Time Preview Toolbar Open KoPaCam program. The interface presets parameters related to image display effects in order to be called for practical use. 2.1.1.1 Preview Mode Selection Preview mode has speed priority mode and quality priority mode. The program defaults to quality priority. You can choose speed priority or quality priority depending on your needs.
  • Page 13 2.1.1.2 Preview Resolution Selection Preview resolution has mode 640×480，800×600, 1024×768, 1280×720， 1920×1080 and 2592×1944. The default value is 800×600. You can choose any of them depending on your needs. Click 2.1.1.3 Video Preview-Parameter Adjustment Users can adjust the corresponding parameters according to their preferences so as to achieve the best preview and scan effects.
  • Page 14 Single Focus: KoPa Scanner A99 will perform auto focus once when click Continuous Focus: When you click , KoPa Scanner A99 will perform continuous focus according to the environment. That is available when you click this button once. When you click it again, continuous focus fails, but you can be adjust it manually through "Focus".
  • Page 15 The exposure value is suitable. The exposure value is too high. Auto White Balance: KoPa Scanner A99 can do auto white balance according to environment. This function is available when this option is checked. When it is not checked, users can make adjustments by "White Balance".
  • Page 16 White balance parameter is too low. White balance parameter is suitable. White balance parameter is too high. Brightness: The brightness of the whole picture can be changed and is used with contrast regulation to make the best effect; Contrast: Contrast between the light and dark of pictures can be changed and is used with brightness control to make the best effect.
  • Page 17 2.1.1.4 Video Preview-Mode Selection Software can preset parameters related to the image display based on different applications in order to be called for actual use. Photo (Image Mode): Suitable for most occasions; Text (Text Mode): Scan and convert the preview screen to black-and-white images with high-definition and high-contrast;...

  • Page 18: Real-Time Scan Toolbar

    2.1.2 Real-time Scan Toolbar Real-time scan toolbar is made up of two parts: Save Resolution and Save Format. 2.1.2.1Save Resolution When the preview resolution is 4:3, scan resolution can only be 4:3, 640×480， 800×600,1024×768,2592×1944. The default 4:3 maximum resolution is 2592 ×...

  • Page 19: Menu

    2.1.3 Menu From left to right: Set, Minimize, Maximum, Close. 2.1.3.1 Set Click . There will be "Advanced Options" and "About" option. "Advanced Options" is divided into two options "Scan" and "Video". Scan: You can select the save path of images and PDF documents in this mode, as shown in image (1).
  • Page 20 Click"About". The following information will appear.Click exit.

  • Page 21: Preview Screen Adjustment

    2.1.3.2 Minimize, Maximize and Close Click to minimize, maximize and close the software operating interface. 2.1.4 Preview Screen Adjustment From left to right: Mirror, Flip, Zoom out, Zoom in, Actual Size, Fit the Screen and Full Screen. 2.1.1.4 Mirror and flip Contrast between preview images before and after mirror Contrast between preview images before and after flip...
  • Page 22 Contrast between mirror + flip preview images (Equivalent to the image rotated by 180 degrees) 2.1.4.2 Zoom out and Zoom in Under preview resolution of 640 × 480,800 × 600,1024 × 768, click "Zoom out" and "Zoom in" button, or click the seekbar directly with your mouse to zoom in and out the preview screen.
  • Page 23 Picture can be dealt in "thumbnail window" or "work mode adjustment" → "document" to copy, delete, rename, save as, OCR, etc. Save path of scanned documents: …\My Documents\Ostec\KoPaCam\picture …\My Documents\Ostec\KoPaCam\pdf Note: The save path of the scanned documents can be modified according to your needs.

  • Page 24: Document Work Mode

    Note: Save path of Videos can be modified according to your needs. For modification methods, please see 2.2.1. 2.2 Document Work Mode The following interface will appear when you click 2.2.1 Document Editing Toolbar From left to right: Delete, Export, PDF, Print, OCR.
  • Page 25 2.2.1.1Delete The following window will appear when you click . Click delete the document in current preview interface. 2.2.1.2 Export Click button, the screen appears as shown below. According to your needs, rename the current preview document, re-select the file save format and click save-as option to your specified folder.
  • Page 26 2.2.1.3 PDF Click button, the screen appears as shown below. The preview document can be saved in PDF format according to your needs. Rename and save as the document to other folders you specify. 2.2.1.4 Print Click . Three options, "Print"， "Page Setup" and "Print Preview" will appear.
  • Page 27 Print Page Setu...
  • Page 28 Print Preview In order to ensure the print effects, you should better make the "Page Setup" and "Print Preview" before printing. 2.2.1.5 OCR Click . The screen appears as shown below. Users can make OCR recognition to picture documents according to their needs.
  • Page 29 Before clicking the identification button, please ensure that the document language to be recognized by OCR is consistent with operating system language of your computer, otherwise you need to adjust the corresponding document language. The default language of the software is computer operating system language + English.
  • Page 30 Note: OCR character recognition temporarily only supports characters' level layout. If the characters are not in level layout, they need being adjusted to level layout and then go for OCR character recognition. As shown below:...

  • Page 31: Menu

    2.2.2 Menu For operating methods, please see: 2.1.3.

  • Page 32: Document Preview Picture Adjustment

    2.2.3 Document Preview Picture Adjustment 2.2.3.1 Copy Click to copy the current preview picture to the clipboard, and then userscan paste it directly into paint program, such as word, Excel, PPT, QQ which can directly accept pasted pictures. 2.2.3.2 Zoom out and Zoom in Click to zoom out and zoom in the preview document screen.

  • Page 33: Document Thumbnail Box

    2.2.4 Document Thumbnail Box Click the document in document thumbnail box to open, open the directory, cut, copy, paste, delete, rename, and OCR. Part of the operating method scan be found in 2.2.1.

  • Page 34: Chapter3 Help

    Chapter3 Help 3.1 Fix Camera Height There are A4, B5, A5 and card mark on the scale benchmarking. When you scan a document, set the fixed height of the camera based on the size of the scan document in order to achieve the best scan or video effects. 3.2 Other Purposes When the device is used for other purposes, such as video chat, you only need to connect the USB cable to the computer's USB interface.

  • Page 35: Chapter4 Tips

    Chapter4 Tips 4.1 How to improve the character recognition rate? OCR function recognition rate depends on the contrast and clarity of character and background. When the two conditions are reached, the general character recognition rate can reach 95% or more. (1) Crop character-only part of the picture.

  • Page 36: Chapter 5 Common Questions And Resolutions

    Chapter 5 Common Questions and Resolutions KoPa Scanner A99 cannot work regularly (1) Check whether the port is connected properly. (2)Whether My Computer->Device Manager has image processing device->USB video device (3) Try to plug out and unplug the device then open KoPaCam software again.

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