KEYENCE AutoID User Manual

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AutoID Keyboard Wedge

User's Manual

Read this user's manual carefully prior to operating this product.

After reading, keep this manual in a safe place so that you can refer to it at any time.

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1 Overview

The AutoID Keyboard Wedge is software that converts data read by a code reader to keyboard output.

Code reader

PC

Serial communication

AutoID

Keyboard output

Keyboard

TCP communication

Wedge

Hardware requirements

Windows 8 (excluding Windows RT)

OS

Windows 7 professional (32-bit/64-bit)

Windows Vista Business/Ultimate SP2 or later (32-bit)

Windows XP SP3 or later (32-bit)

*Log in as a user that has administrator privileges.

*Use Microsoft IME or Microsoft Office IME for input.

Supported communication

• Serial communication: Communication via RS-232C or virtual COM (USB-COM). Communicates by specifying the number of COM connected to the code reader.

• TCP communication: Communication via Ethernet TCP.

Communicates by specifying the wait port number with the code reader set to client and with PC set to server.

2 Start/Exit

Start-up

1 Start up the AutoID Keyboard Wedge.

The icon is registered on the task tray.

2 Click the [Start] button after setup.

Exit

1 Right-click on the task tray.

2 Select [Exit].

*Clicking of the AutoID Keyboard Wedge will minimize the AutoID Keyboard Wedge.

To exit, be sure to perform exit operation from the task tray.

3 Items

This section describes the items that can be set on the AutoID Keyboard Wedge.

(1) Communication

(2) Append data

(3) Edit data

(4) Special key conversion

(5) Received data

(1) Communication

The AutoID Keyboard Wedge starts operation with the set contents. To [Start] button launch the AutoID Keyboard Wedge at the start-up of PC, check "Run in

background at start-up".

	Ethernet	Check here when performing keyboard conversion of socket
		communication data via Ethernet.
	communication
		(Port No: 1024 to 65535)
	Serial	Check here when performing keyboard conversion of serial
	communication	communication data via RS-232C, etc.
		Set the time interval when inputting characters one by one.
	Data transmission	(0 ms to 100 ms)
	interval	If keyboard conversion data is dropped, the problem may be solved by
		increasing this value.
	(2) Append data
	Date	Append date and time information.
	Partition mark	Append partition mark. (0 to 1 character)
	Header	Append characters at the beginning of data. (0 to 5 characters)
	Terminator	Append characters at the end of data. (0 to 5 characters)

Data format

Header	Date	Partition mark	Read data	Terminator

(3) Edit data

Data can be output by dividing it into multiple blocks.

This function can be used when the number of fields is set to 1 or more.

	Number of fields	Specify how many pieces the data is divided to.
		(0 to 16)
	Partition mark	Specify the partition mark of the block to output.
		(Default: "," (0x2D))
	Edit data setting
	No.	Specify the order of output for divided data.
		(1 to 16)
	Output start digit	Specify start digit for data extraction.
		(1 to 999 digits)*1
	Output length	Specify the number of digits by byte to output from the output start digit.
		(1 to 999 digits)*1
	Kanji conversion	If data includes Japanese such as Hiragana or Kanji, set this to "ON" to
		output data by Japanese conversion.
		This converts characters included in the data to other character strings to
	Data replacement	output.
		Maximum number of characters that can be specified as conversion
		target characters is 5.

*1 "Output start digit" + "Output length" = 1000 (upper limit).

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