PORTABLE Handy Scanner Instruction Guide

Portable Handy Scanner

with built-in rechargeable battery

Instruction Guide

Package Contents

• Scanner

•

Calibration Sheet

•

Cleaning Cloth

Important Safety Instruction

• Keep away from water or moisture and du sty areas.

• Never store in hot and ver y cold areas.

• The battery and inside of the scanner become hot during large volume scanning operation. Allow few minutes of cool-down before operating the unit again.

• Ambient temperature ranges from 0°C to +40°C.

• Only use attac hments/accessor ies speciﬁ ed by the manufacturer.

• Avoid using the scanne r in a dusty environment. D ust particles a nd other foreign objec ts may damage the unit. Place the sc anner in the pouch if not i n use.

• Operate the scan ner on a level, well-grou nded work surfac e, free of excessive vibrat ion.

• Do not attempt to disas semble the scanner. There is dang er of an electrical s hock

• The battery is not user-replaceable. Do not attempt to remove battery by yourself.

• Batteries must never be short-circuited.

• Never throw the scanner into a ﬁ re as it will cause the danger of explosion.

• Do not dispose of the scanner with household waste. Dispose of them in accordance with the local regulations.

• Do not use the batter y under high temperature or near heat source s.

• The lifetime of the bat tery pack is limi ted. Power is slowly drained w hen not in use.

• The batter y used in this scanner may p resent a risk of ﬁ re or chemical burn if mist reated.

This symbol on the p roduct or in the instr uctions means th at your electrica l and electronic equi pment should be disposed at t he end of its life separately fr om your household waste. Ther e are separate collection sy stems for recycling in the EU. For mo re information, plea se contact the loc al authority or your retailer wher e you purchased the pro duct.

Product Overview

Charge Indicator Lights in RED when charging.

Battery indicator

LCD Screen Left button • Moves left in the menu.

Menu button • Moves up in the menu.

OK/Zoom button • Press to make or conﬁ rm the selections in the menu.

button

Battery cover • Non-removable battery cover. Open is not allowed.

Playback

Setting • Select to make the Scan and System Setting. Delete button • Brings up the Delete menu.

Right button • Moves right in the menus.

MicroSD card slot • Accommodates a microSD card up to 32GB.

Mini USB port • Connects to PC for ﬁ le transfer.

Alignment guides • Place your document between the guides.

Charging

• The battery is partially charged at shipment. Charge the battery to full for the

ﬁ rst time use when the low battery

• It takes about 2.5 hours to charge

fully (depends on the USB bus power condition).

• The scanner scans approximately 550

color documents in A4 size at 300dpi

when the battery is fully charged.

• Mini USB Cable

• Instruction Guide

3 4 5 6 7

11 12

• Application CD

• Pouch

• Moves to the previous scanned image.

• Brings up the Mode menu.

• Zoom the scanned image. (Not available for Multipage PDF)

• Press to end the multiplepage PDF ﬁ le scanning.

• Press and hold to turn the power on/off.

• Press slightly to start the image scan.

• Press slightly to stop the image scan for JPG and PDF ﬁ le formats.

• Press slightly to pause the image scan for multipage PDF ﬁ le format.

• Select to view the scanned images.

• Moves down in the menus.

• Moves to the next scanned image.

indicator appears on the screen.

K ZO O M

SCAN

1. Turn OFF the scanner and connect the mini USB cable to the scanner and a USB port on your desktop or laptop.

2. The red charge indicator will light up indicating that the scanner battery is now charging.

3. When the charge indicator is off, the battery is fully charged. Unplug the USB cable.

Inserting a microSD Card

• Insert a microSD card into the card slot with the gold contacts facing up to scan and store the images.

Note: The microSD card must be formatted by the scanner for the ﬁ rst

time use. Go to

SETTING

> SYSTEM

>FORMAT , then select Yes to proceed.

Turning on/off the Power

• Press and hold button for a few

seconds to turn ON/OFF.

Note:

message appears on the screen if

no card is inserted while powering-on.

Setting Up Date and Time

• The scanner incorporates a built-in real time clock enabling each scan to be saved with a date and time information. You can keep track of the date and time of every scanned ﬁ le on your computer.

1. Select

SETTING, and press OK/ZOOM button.

2. Press Left / Right button to select SYSTEM and press OK/ZOOM button.

3. Press

4. Press Left /

Left / Right button to select DATE and press OK/ZOOM button.

Right button to set up Year/Month/Day and press OK/

ZOOM button to conﬁ rm.

5. Press

6. Press

Left / Right button to set up Time and press OK/ZOOM button.

Left / Right button to set up Hour/Minute and press OK/ZOOM

button to conﬁ rm.

To return to the SETTING mode, press

MENU button.

Scanning

• Place the scanner ﬂ at against the document with the scanning lens facing down. Make sure the area you want to scan is between the Alignment guides.

• The default scan direction is DOWN. To select UP, go to

SETTING >

SCAN > DIRECTION > UP.

• The default ﬁ le type is JPG. To select PDF or Multipage PDF, go to SETTING

> SCAN >FILE TYPE > PDF / Multipage PDF.

Basic Scan for JPG/(single-page) PDF File Format

Scanning

1. Press button to activate the Scan. A respective icon

Scanning

JPG

PDF

appears (depends on the scan direction and ﬁ le type setting).

2. Follow the arrow indication on the LCD screen to gently slide up or down the scanner over the document and keep your hand stable to get the best quality.

3. Press

button again to stop scanning. The scanned

image will show on the screen and be saved to the memory card automatically.

To start a new scan, repeat the steps above.

Advanced Scan for Multipage PDF File Format

• Multipage PDF can save up to 50 pages in one ﬁ le.

1. Follow the above steps 1~2.

2. Press

as the ﬁ rst page of the multipage PDF.

3. Slide up or down again to continue for the next pages until all the pages are scanned.

4. To stop and end the scanning, press OK/ZOOM button. The ﬁ rst page of the scanned document will show on the screen and the ﬁ le will be saved to the memory card automatically.

button to pause scanning and save the current scanned document

Scanning Progress Indicator

Green Good scan. Orange Poor scan. Lower the scan speed.

Exclamation Mark Unsuccessful scan. Please re-scan.

Playback

• The ﬁ les saved in Multipage PDF ﬁ le format displays only the ﬁ rst page during playback.

Viewing the images

1. Select (Playback), and then press OK/ZOOM button.

2. Press

Left or Right button to view the previous or next images.

3. Press OK/ZOOM button repeatedly to zoom in the image until the desired

size is displayed.

4. Press the directional buttons (

Up/ Down/ Left / Right)

to move around the image.

5. To exit the ZOOM mode, press OK/ZOOM button repeatedly until

the zoom cycle is cancelled.

Note: To return to the main menu, press MENU button.

Delete

1. Select the image you want to delete in the (Playback) mode.

2. Press DELETE button to bring up the DELETE menu.

3. Press Left /

Right button to select DELETE ONE or

DELETE ALL, and then press OK/ZOOM button.

4. Select Yes, and then press OK/ZOOM button to delete.

5. To exit the DELETE menu, press MENU button.

Settings

1. Select SETTING, and then press OK/ZOOM button.

2. Press Left / Right button to select either

or and then press OK/

ZOOM button.

3. Press

4. Press

Note: To return to the SETTING mode for more tasks, press MENU

button.

Left / Right button to select the option you wish to make change

and then press OK/ZOOM button.

Left / Right button to make the setting and then press OK/ZOOM

button to activate.

MENU SUB-MENU DESCRIPTIONS

COLOR MODE

Select COLOR or GRAY mode for the scanning.

RESOLUTION Select 300 dpi or 600 dpi for the scanning. DIRECTION Sets the scanning direction to Down or Up.

FILE TYPE

CALIBRATION

Select JPG or PDF or Multipage PDF ﬁ le format for the scanning. Calibrates the scanner. Refer to Calibrating the

scanner for details. LANGUAGE Select a screen display language. FORMAT Formats all the data stored in the memory card. DATE Date/Time setting applies to the time/date shown

TIME

FACTORY DEFAULT

Software Installation

in the ﬁ le property when you upload the scanned

documents to a PC.

Restores the current settings to the factory presets.

• The software contained in this CD is compatible with Windows XP/Vista/7.

1. Insert the application CD into your CD/DVD drive. The CD will auto-run.

2. Choose ezScanPal V2.0 from the screen. The installation starts.

3. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

Note: You must install ABBYY FineReader and Adobe Acrobat Reader to enable the functions associated with ezScanPal V2.0.

Connecting to a PC

Transferring the Scanned Images to PC

1. Connect the mini USB cable to the Scanner and then to a USB port on your desktop or laptop which already has ezScanPal V2.0 installed.

2. A message prompts asking if you want to open ezScanPal V2.0 (along with a removable disk message).

3. Click "Open ezScanPal V2.0". Then ezScanPal V2.0 will launch with your scanned images displayed on its main screen.

Note: In the above step 2, your PC will also recognize the scanner as a removable disk, you may click “Open folder to view ﬁ les” instead and use the drag and drop method to transfer the scanned images.

Disconnect the scanner from a PC

• Double click the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in Windows to remove the scanner.

Note: The above steps may vary in different Windows versions.

A glance at ezScanPal V2.0

ezScanPal V2.0 is an easy-to-use image processing application which enables the direct communication between the scanner and the PC.

Toolbar

Thumbnail Window

Note: ezScanPal V2.0 does not support PDF display. For detailed information

on how to use each function, please refer to its ?Help.

Cleaning and Calibrating

• To get high image quality and good recognition results, please perform the steps below from time to time.

• Make sure the cleaning cloth and calibration paper are clean and free of dust before use.

Cleaning the scanner

• Wipe the scanner lens lightly using the supplied cleaning cloth.

• Do not use any solvent to clean the scanner.

• Do not use rough material such as nylon scouring pad to wipe the scanner.

Calibrating the scanner

1. Place the calibration paper on a ﬂ at surface with the white side facing up.

2. Turn on the scanner.

3. Select CALIBRATION by following the steps below: SETTING > SCAN > CALIBRATION> Yes.

4. Hold the calibration paper ﬁ rmly by one hand with the other hand slide forward/backward the scanner slowly against the paper. The calibration starts.

5. When the calibration is done, a message "Complete" appears and the scanner will shut down automatically.

Helpful Hints

Cannot turn on the scanner

• Low battery.

Cannot save images after scanned

• The microSD card was not formatted properly, or the memory is full.

Image is blur

• Clean the lens of the scanner.

My computer cannot charge the battery

• Ensure the scanner is powered off when charging the battery.

• Ensure the USB cable is ﬁ rmly plugged into the computer's USB port.

The removable device window did not launch when connecting to a PC

• Go to “My Computer” and ﬁ nd the device under removable disk.

• Ensure the scanner is powered on and the microSD card is inserted.

Cannot turn off the scanner during USB connection

• Unplug the USB cable, then press the power button to turn off.

Speciﬁ cations

Scanner Type: A4 CIS Hand-held Scanner

Display:1” Color STN LCD (96 x 64 pixels)

Scan Length:

JPG: 50" at 300 dpi ; 20" at 600 dpi

Single page PDF: 11.69"

Multipage PDF: 11.69" per page, up to 50 pages per ﬁ le

Scan Mode: Color / Gray

Scan Resolution: 300 / 600 dpi

Scan

Speed: 5 seconds for a A4 color at 300dpi ;10 seconds for a A4 color at 600dpi

Auto Power Off: 2 minutes

Memory Card Slot: MicroSD (Up to 32G)

I/O Ports: USB mini-B (for USB power charging and mass storage)

Power Supply: Lithium Polymer Battery

File Format: JPG/PDF/Multipage PDF

Dimensions: 258 x 32.9 x 30.7 mm ; 10.2" x 1.3" x 1.2"

Weight: 176g/0.38lbs

Supported OS for Mass Storage: Windows XP / Vista / 7 ; Mac OS X (10.4 ~ 10.7)

(800mAH @3.7V)

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