Visioneer Patriot 680 User Manual

Visioneer®
Patriot 680 Scanner
User's Guide

for Windows

Visioneer

Patriot 680 Scanner

User’s Guide

FOR WINDOWS

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energy and if not installed, and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no
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• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

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• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.
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could void the user's authority to operate this equipment.

This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference,
and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

e of the following measures:

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

What’s in the Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

The Visioneer Patriot 680 Scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

What You Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Before You Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Step 1: Assemble the Scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Step 2: Install the Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Step 3: Connect the Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Step 4: Connect the USB Cable and Turn on the Power . . . . . . . . . 17

Additional Applications for Your Scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Register Your Scanner and Check for Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Load and Scan Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Check the Scan Settings Before Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Scan from the Flatbed Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Scan from the OneTouch Button Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Using the OneTouch Button Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

The Default OneTouch Settings on Your Scanner . . . . . . . . . . 38

Configuring the OneTouch Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

About the OneTouch Properties Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Selecting New Settings for a Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Setting Destination Application Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Selecting Page Format Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Renaming a OneTouch Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Selecting Options for a Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Creating a New Scan Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

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Editing or Deleting Scan Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Configuring Before Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Scanning with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) . . . . . . . . 80

Scanning with sPDF or nPDF and Searching for Text . . . . . . . . 89

Scan and Burn to a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Scanning with Event Forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Creating an HTML Web Page from Your Scanned Documents 96

Transferring Scanned Documents to Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Checking the Hardware and Setting the Lamp

Power Saving Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Scanning with the TWAIN Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

The Two TWAIN Interface Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Scanning from the TWAIN Basic Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Scanning from the TWAIN Advanced Interface . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Adjusting the Image with the Advanced Interface . . . . . . . . . . 114

Adjusting the Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Adjusting the Brightness and Contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Adjusting Gamma, Saturation, and Color Hue . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Adjusting Input Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Creating a New Advanced Interface Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Display the Device Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Scanning with the Windows Image Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Scanning with the ISIS Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Adjusting the ISIS Scan Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

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Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Cleaning the Automatic Document Feeder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Clearing Paper Jams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Replacing the ADF Pad Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Status Light Troubleshooting Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Uninstalling Your Scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

To Install Another Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Visioneer Patriot 680 Scanner Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Visioneer Patriot 680 Scanner Parts List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

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WELCOME

Your new Visioneer Patriot 680 scanner can quickly scan single-sided or
double-sided stacks of color and black-and-white documents, up to

8.5" x 14", and place their images on your computer.

WHAT’S IN THE BOX

Before proceeding, check the contents of the box. If items are missing or
damaged, contact the dealer where you purchased the scanner.

Visioneer Patriot 680 Scanner

Two CDs
Disc 1 and Disc 2

Paper Tray

Power CordUSB Cable

User
Guide

Buttons
Label

VISIONEER PATRIOT 680 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 1

Quick Install Guide and Technical
Support Card

Power Supply

Replacement
ADF Pad

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THE VISIONEER PATRIOT 680 SCANNER

Status light

Destination Selector buttons

LED Number

Duplex button

Simplex button

ADF cover release
Input Tray

Output tray

Paper Stop

Power switch

Power jack

Scanner lock
(on side of scanner)

ADF cable

USB port

THE VISIONEER PATRIOT 680 SCANNER 3

ADF cover release—Opens the cover on the ADF.

Input tray—Holds documents in place. Paper guide on the input tray
adjusts to fit the document width.

Output tray—Holds documents after being scanned through the
Automatic Document Feeder (ADF).

Paper Stop—Keeps scanned documents on the output tray.

Status light—Shows the scanner’s status. A steady green light indicates

the scanner is available to scan. A rapidly flashing green light indicates
the scanner is preparing to scan or scanning. Refer to the
Troubleshooting section for additional details.

Destination Selector buttons—Selects the scan setting for the Simplex
and Duplex buttons. Press to cycle through the settings.

LED Number—Shows the current scan setting for the Simplex and
Duplex scanning buttons. A scan setting includes resolution, file type,
brightness, color or black and white, destination, and so on.

Duplex button—Press to scan a two-sided document.

Simplex button—Press to scan a one-sided document.

Scanner lock—Locks the scanner’s scan head in place to protect it.

Push the lock tab down to unlock the lock. The scanner must be
unlocked to scan. Always lock the scanner before moving it.

ADF cable—Connects the ADF to the scanner body. The cable
provides power to the ADF and must be plugged in for it to operate.

Power switch—On/Off power switch.

Power jack—Connects the power cord to the scanner.

Universal Serial Bus (USB) port—Connects the scanner to the

computer.

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WHAT YOU NEED

An IBM-compatible Pentium PC, or AMD equivalent with:

■ A CD-ROM drive

■ An available Universal Serial Bus (USB) port

■ Microsoft

(Service Pack 1 and 2)

■ A minimum of 512 MB (megabytes) of internal memory (RAM)

■ 200 MB minimum of free hard disk space

A VGA or SVGA Monitor

The recommended settings for your monitor are:

■ High Color (16-bit) or True Color (24-bit or 32-bit)

■ Resolution set to at least 800 x 600 pixels

®

Windows® operating system: 2000 (Service Pack 4) or XP

To set your monitor’s colors and resolution:

■ Open the Windows Control Panel

■ Double-click on Display then select the Settings tab

DOCUMENTATION

The following documentation is provided with your scanner:

■ Quick Install Guide—Abbreviated installation instructions.

■ Visioneer Patriot 680 Scanner User’s Guide—On the Installation

CD; contains detailed installation, scanning, configuration, and
maintenance information.

■ Online Help—For the scanner configuration, TWAIN and WIA

interfaces.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN 5

Installation

Installation is a quick, four-step process:

1. Assemble the scanner

2. Install the software

3. Connect the power supply

4. Connect the USB cable and turn on the power

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Please make sure of the following before you begin installation:

■ The information in this guide may cover software not provided

with the scanner you purchased. Disregard any information about
the software not applicable to your chosen product. Please visit our
web site at www.visioneer.com for the latest software updates for
your Visioneer Patriot 680 scanner.

■ If your computer has AntiVirus or AntiSpyware software running,

you may see messages during installation asking you to allow the
installation to proceed. Although the messages will differ based on
the software your computer is running, in each case you should
allow the installation to proceed. Alternatively, you can turn off the
AntiVirus or AntiSpyware software before installing your scanner,
but if you do, make sure to turn it back on again when installation
is finished.

■ If you already have a scanner connected to your computer, you need

to remove its driver programs first before beginning the installation
of your Visioneer Patriot 680 scanner. Please see “Uninstalling Your
Scanner” on page 143 for basic instructions, or see the User’s Guide
that you received with your other scanner for specific instructions.

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STEP 1: ASSEMBLE THE SCANNER

To assemble the scanner:

1. Remove all shipping tape from the scanner and from the Paper Tray.

2. Slide the tray in so the pins seat into the holes on the ADF.

STEP 1: ASSEMBLE THE SCANNER 7

3. Carefully remove any protective foam from the ADF cover release,

then press the release and open the Automatic Document Feeder
cover.

ADF Cover Release

4. Carefully remove any foam particles that may have gotten inside the

document feeder, and close the cover.

5. Swing the input tray up until it snaps into place.

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6. Plug the ADF cable into the ADF port on the back of the scanner.

Make sure the cable is plugged in securely. The ADF will not work
if the cable is loose or not plugged in.

7. Push the locking tab down to the unlocked position.

Note: The locking tab protects the scanner’s scan head by holding it
securely in position. Lock the scanner when transporting it from one
location to another, but remember to unlock it before scanning. The
scanner will not scan when locked.

8. When you’re finished assembling the scanner, place it on a level

surface on your desk. If the scanner is on an uneven surface, it may
stall when scanning from the Flatbed.

9. Proceed to “Step 2: Install the Software.”

STEP 2: INSTALL THE SOFTWARE 9

STEP 2: INSTALL THE SOFTWARE

Note: The software is on the two CDs you received with your scanner.
Please be sure to install from Disc 1 first.

To install the software:

1. Start Microsoft Windows and make sure no other applications are

running.

2. Insert Disc 1 into your computer’s CD-ROM drive.

The Installation menu automatically opens.

Note: If the CD does not start, check the following:

■ Make sure you have inserted Disc 1.

■ Make sure the CD drive’s door is completely shut.

■ Make sure the CD was inserted in the drive in the proper

direction (label side up).

To launch the CD manually:

■ Open the Windows option for My Computer. You can do this

by double-clicking on the My Computer icon on your desktop.

■ Double-click the icon for your CD-ROM drive.

■ The Installation menu for the CD should now open.

If the menu does not open:

■ From the list of files on the CD, double-click the file named

START32.EXE.

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3. On the Installation menu, select Install Products.

4. Make sure the boxes for Scanner Driver and OmniPage Pro

checked.

Note: The software provided with your scanner may differ slightly
from the list shown in the window.

®

are

STEP 2: INSTALL THE SOFTWARE 11

Note: The OmniPage Pro software is required for installation and
provides extensive Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities
for your scanner software. It also adds special formats to the scanner’s
OneTouch 4.0 software for creating searchable PDF files (known as
sPDF and nPDF). Please note: if you do not install the OmniPage Pro
software now, but install it later, you may need to restart your
computer before the sPDF and nPDF formats are available in the
OneTouch 4.0 software.

5. Click Install Now.

6. The Select Language window opens. Click the drop-down menu

arrow and select the language you want to use. Click OK.
The Welcome to the OneTouch 4.0 Setup Wizard opens.

7. Click Next.

8. On the Visioneer License Agreement window, read the license

agreement. If you accept the terms, select I Agree then click Next.
If you choose not to accept the license agreement, the installation

will terminate and the scanner driver will not be installed.

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The next window lists the choices of the drivers that you can install
for your scanner.

Note: Some of the options
listed in this window may
not be available when you
purchase your scanner.

Please visit our web site at:
www.visioneer.com
for the latest updates.

9. Select the option you want.

■ Full Install (OneTouch, TWAIN and ISIS)—This is the

recommended installation. It installs the OneTouch 4.0
software which provides the necessary driver software for the
scanner. It also installs scanning interfaces for TWAIN,
Microsoft’s Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) if your computer
is running Windows XP, and the ISIS driver. Installing this
option means that you can use several different methods to scan,
as explained in this User Guide.

■ TWAIN and ISIS—The TWAIN and ISIS drivers are installed.

The OneTouch 4.0 Monitor will not run and you cannot use the
OneTouch features. You can use the Visioneer Patriot 680
TWAIN driver to scan from TWAIN applications and
Microsoft’s Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) if your computer
is running Windows XP. You can also scan from applications that
use the ISIS driver. You will not be able to use the buttons on the
scanner.

STEP 2: INSTALL THE SOFTWARE 13

■ TWAIN only—The TWAIN driver is installed without the

OneTouch 4.0 software or the ISIS driver. You can only scan
using the Visioneer Patriot 680 TWAIN interface or WIA
(Windows XP only) interface from a scanning application. You
will not be able to use the buttons on the scanner.

■ ISIS only—The ISIS driver is installed. You can use applications

that use the ISIS driver such as Kofax. You will not be able to use
the buttons on the scanner. You will not be able to use the
Visioneer Patriot 680 TWAIN driver.

Note: If you decide to change your scanner’s installed drivers later on,
you must first uninstall the drivers the scanner is currently using. See
“To Install Another Driver” on page 144.

10. Click Next.

During installation of the Full Feature Install you will see this
window asking you to select an image for your Color Space setting.

The Color Space setting sets the gamma value for the scanner so
scanned items look good on your monitor. Gamma controls the
brightness of the midtones of colors. That setting can be changed
later on as you’re scanning.

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11. Select the option that looks best to you and click Next.

The driver installation will now begin.

If you are installing the scanner on a Windows 2000 computer:
During the software installation, this “Digital Signature Not Found”
message may appear several times. Each time this message appears, you
can disregard it and click Yes .

STEP 2: INSTALL THE SOFTWARE 15

12. STOP when you see the “Complete the installation by connecting

your hardware” window. Do NOT click OK yet. Leave the window
open and proceed to “Step 3: Connect the Power Supply” on
page 16.

Reminder: If your computer is running AntiVirus or AntiSpyware
software, you may see messages asking you to allow the installation.
Select the option to allow the installation to proceed.

Note: If you want to see more information about your scanner and a
quick explanation of how to use the OneTouch features, click the
More button on the window. When you’re finished, return to the
window above to continue with the installation process.

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STEP 3: CONNECT THE POWER SUPPLY

Connect the power supply and power cord, and plug the power supply
into an electrical outlet.

To connect yo u r V i s i on eer Patriot 680 scanner:

1. Plug the power supply into the power port on the scanner.

Note: Only use the power supply (HEG42-240200-7L made by
HiTron) included with your scanner. Connecting any other type of
power supply may damage your scanner, and will void its warranty.

2. Plug the power cord into the power supply then into a wall outlet.

Now proceed to the next section, “Step 4: Connect the USB Cable
and Turn on the Power.”

STEP 4: CONNECT THE USB CABLE AND TURN ON THE POWER 17

STEP 4: CONNECT THE USB CABLE AND TURN ON THE

OWER

P

The Visioneer Patriot 680 scanner connects to any available USB port.
Check your computer’s manual for USB port locations.

Note: You can connect the scanner to your computer while the
computer is running. You do not have to shut down your computer.

1. Remove any protective tape from the USB cable.

2. Plug the USB cable into the USB port on the scanner then into a

USB port on the computer. Connection to a USB 2.0 High Speed
port provides optimum performance, however your scanner will
also connect to a USB 1.1 port.

USB

The USB symbol, as seen in the above diagram, identifies the
location of the USB port on your computer. If the plug does not
attach easily, make sure that you are plugging it in correctly. Do not
force the plug into the connection.

You can also connect the scanner to a USB port on the computer’s
keyboard if it has one, or to a USB hub. If you use a USB hub, it
must have its own power supply already plugged into an electrical
outlet.

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Note: If you have not installed the scanner driver, unplug the USB
cable from the computer and install the software now. When the
driver installation is complete, a message tells you when to connect
the scanner.

3. Turn on the power switch, located on the back of the scanner to the

left of the power port.

The status light comes on and flashes indicating that the scanner is
receiving power.

If you are using Windows XP Service Pack 2, and have plugged the
USB cable into a USB 1.1 port, an information bubble may open
explaining that “A HI-SPEED USB device is plugged into a non­HI-SPEED USB hub”. Plug the USB cable into a USB 2.0 port (if
available) or just disregard the message. If you leave it plugged into
the USB 1.1 port, your scanner may scan a bit slower than the 35
pages per minute, and 70 images per minute available with a USB

2.0 port.

STEP 4: CONNECT THE USB CABLE AND TURN ON THE POWER 19

4. Your computer then recognizes that a scanner has been plugged into

the USB port and automatically loads the appropriate software to
run the scanner.

Do not proceed until you receive a message that your computer has
found the new hardware, or updated the driver database. If your
computer is running Windows XP, you will see the following message.

5. When you’re certain that the software has completely loaded, return

to the “Complete the installation by connecting your hardware”
window.

6. Click OK.

The scanner’s status light is green when the scanner and computer
are communicating properly.

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7. Click Close on the Installation Complete window to close and exit

the software installer.

If you selected OmniPage Pro for installation, a window tells you to
insert the second CD to install it.

Note: OmniPage Pro is required for your scanner to have its full range
of features. Please make sure to install OmniPage Pro before scanning.

STEP 4: CONNECT THE USB CABLE AND TURN ON THE POWER 21

To install Omni Pa g e Pro:

1. Click Exit Disc 1 and remove Disc 1 from the CD-ROM drive.

2. Insert Disc 2 into the CD-ROM drive.

The OmniPage Pro Installation menu opens automatically. If it
does not open, see the note on page 9.

3. Select Install OmniPage Pro.

4. Follow the instructions on the screen to install OmniPage Pro.

5. When installation is finished, remove Disc 2 and store it in a safe

place.

6. If you want to install other software from Disc 1, re-insert it into

the CD-ROM drive now and see the next section, “Additional
Applications for Your Scanner.”

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ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS FOR YOUR SCANNER

Your scanner includes free, additional applications on the
installation CD.

Note: Some of the software
listed in this window may
not be available when you
purchase your scanner.

Please visit our web site at:
www.visioneer.com
for the latest updates.

To install the additional applications:

1. Return to the Installation window and select the additional

applications you want to install on your computer.

2. Click Install Now.

3. Follow the instructions on the installation windows.

®

If you want to install the Kofax VRS

software, you may see the

following message.

Please disregard this message and click OK. The Kofax VRS
Certified ISIS

®

driver is installed correctly when you install your

Visioneer Patriot 680 scanner.

STEP 4: CONNECT THE USB CABLE AND TURN ON THE POWER 23

4. When installation is finished, return to the Installation window and

click Main Menu.

5. On the Main Menu, click User Guides.

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The Visioneer User Guides window opens. Use this window to view
and save the User Guides you want.

The User Guides are in Adobe
also includes a free copy of Acrobat

computer does not have it already installed. The Scanner Readme
file is in HTML format and will open in any standard browser.

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Acrobat® PDF format. The CD

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Reader® in case your

If you need to, click Acrobat Reader to install it now. Follow the
instructions on the installation windows.

To view and save the User Guides:

1. Click the name of a User Guide you want to view and it will open

in Acrobat Reader. Use the Acrobat Reader Save command to save
that User Guide on your computer.

2. Return to the Visioneer User Guides window and repeat the process

to open, view, and save all the other User Guides you want. The

Scanner Readme file has late-breaking news about your scanner.

3. When you’re finished, click Main Menu to return to the main

Visioneer Installation window and click Exit.

4. Remove the CD and store both CDs in a safe place.

That’s it! Installation is finished and your Visioneer scanner is ready to scan.

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REGISTER YOUR SCANNER AND CHECK FOR UPDATES

Registering your scanner is important as it provides you with access to
our free telephone support service. Registration also gives you free access
to software updates for your scanner.

To register your scanner:

1. Right-click on the OneTouch icon in the Windows Notification

Area (at the bottom right corner of the screen).

2. Choose Check for Online Updates from the pop-up menu.

The OneTouch Icon

3. Follow the instructions on the screen and register your scanner by

entering your scanner’s serial number and your email address.

Note: A valid email address is required.

The serial number is located on the side of the scanner.

The Serial Number

After registration is complete you will receive an email message with
your RegID.

Your RegID is important as you will need it when accessing free
telephone support, or checking for online updates.

4. Write down your RegID below so you will be able to find it easily in

the future.

RegID:_________________________________

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Scanning

If you selected the recommended Full Install option for your scanner’s
driver (see page 12), you have several different scanning options with
your Visioneer Patriot 680 scanner. Each method scans equally well, so
use the one with appropriate options for the item you are scanning.

■ Scanner Buttons—When you press the Simplex or Duplex button,

documents are scanned using the scan settings indicated by the LED
number. The scanned images are then sent to a software application
(known as the Destination Application) or to a storage folder on your
computer. See “Load and Scan Documents” on page 27.

■ OneTouch—Use this scan option when you want to scan from the

computer screen. Open the OneTouch scan panel and window,
adjust the scan settings as needed, put the document in the scanner,
then click the icon on the OneTouch panel. Also use this OneTouch
method of scanning if you want to access the advanced features of
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) available from the OmniPage
Pro application. See “Scan from the OneTouch Button Panel” on
page 33.

■ TWAIN Interface—This option uses your scanner’s TWAIN

interface to scan. Select the TWAIN scan settings, put the document
in the scanner, then click a button on the TWAIN interface window.
See “Scanning with the TWAIN Interface” on page 107.

■ Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)—This option uses the

Microsoft Windows set of choices for scanning. Select the WIA scan
settings, put the document in the scanner, then click a button on the
WIA window. Scanning with WIA is only available if your computer
is running Windows XP. See “Scanning with the Windows Image
Acquisition” on page 125.

■ ISIS Interface—This option uses ISIS driver to scan. Select the ISIS

scan settings, put the document in the scanner, then use your ISIS
application to scan using the ISIS Interface. See the ISIS Interface on
page 131.

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LOAD AND SCAN DOCUMENTS

When you press either the Simplex or Duplex button, documents are
scanned using the scan settings indicated by the LED number. The
scanned images are then sent to a software application (known as the
Destination Application) or to a storage folder on your computer.

Note: Always remove any staples or paper clips from documents
before inserting them into the scanner. Staples and paper clips can jam
the feed mechanism and scratch the internal components. Do not scan
any document with labels, stickers or Post-It™ notes on the pages. If a
label, sticker or Post-It note comes off during the scanning process, the
item can get stuck in the scanner and this will void your scanner’s
warranty.

1. Adjust the paper guide for the width of paper. Then load the

documents so the tops of the pages are inserted into the Automatic
Document Feeder.

For Simplex (one-sided) scans, load the documents face up. To
maintain the original order of the documents when they are sent to
the Destination Application, the scanner starts at the first page and
scans to the last page.

For Duplex (two-sided) scans, the documents can be face up or
down because both sides are scanned.

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2. Check the LED number to make sure you are using the scan setting

you want.
To choose a new scan setting, press the Up or Down Destination

Selector buttons.

Press the Up or Down Destination Se­lectors to cycle through the scan settings
to select the one you want.

The current scan setting. See “Check
the Scan Settings Before Scanning” on
page 30 to check the settings.

3. To scan a one-sided document, press the Simplex button.

To scan a two-sided document, press the Duplex button.

A scan progress window opens and, when scanning is finished, the
image is sent either to the selected Destination Application from
the OneTouch utility, or to a folder for storing scanned documents.

Cancel
button

Pause
button

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To Cancel scanning, click the Cancel button.
To pause the scanning, click the Pause button. It will change to a

Continue button. Put the page back into the scanner and click
Continue to resume scanning.

Note: Your scanner comes with factory-preset OneTouch button
settings. Buttons 1, 2 and 7 are preset to scan documents into the PDF
or sPDF format and, without opening them first, send them to the
storage folder located at C:\Documents and Settings\<your user
name>\My Documents\My OneTouch Archive\PDF Documents.
In that case, you won’t see the image of the scanned document until
you open it with an application that can open the PDF or sPDF
format. You can also set up the buttons to scan to different file
formats, such as jpg or tiff. In that case the location would be

C:\Documents and Settings\<your user name>\My Documents\My
OneTouch Archive\JPG Documents or TIF Documents. Please see

the section “The Storage Options Tab (Archive)” on page 70 for
selecting options for the storage file format and location.

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CHECK THE SCAN SETTINGS BEFORE SCANNING

1. To check the scan settings before scanning, click on the OneTouch

icon in the Windows Notification Area (at the bottom right corner
of the screen).

The OneTouch Button Panel opens. Click on the arrows to cycle
through to the other buttons.

2. Right-click a button on the panel to see its description.

The OneTouch Button Panel shows the description of the selected
setting. This sample shows the current description of setting 6.

This number corresponds to
the LED on the scanner.

The icon indicates the
Destination
Application for this set­ting.

The current name of the
setting.

Your document will be scanned with

tions for setting Number 6.

these o

Right-clicking also opens the OneTouch Properties window for that
setting also opens so you can change any settings before scanning.

Note: The configurations
shown on this example of
the OneTouch Properties
window are for illustration
purposes only. The
configurations you see on
your OneTouch Properties
window may be different.

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3. When you are ready to scan, click the button on the OneTouch

Button Panel. See “Scan from the OneTouch Button Panel” on
page 33 for more about the Button Panel.

SCAN FROM THE FLATBED GLASS

Use the Flatbed glass to scan documents or lighter weight paper, such as
credit card receipts, or items that cannot be scanned with the Automatic
Document Feeder, such as pages in books.

Note: You must remove any pages from the Automatic Document
Feeder before scanning from the Flatbed glass. If pages are in the
Automatic Document Feeder, they will be scanned instead of the page
on the Flatbed glass.

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To scan from the Flatbed glass:

1. Remove any pages from the Automatic Document Feeder.

2. Open the scanner lid and place the page on the scanner glass, face

down.

3. Align the paper with the arrows on the scanner for the size of paper

you are using.

4. Close the lid.

5. Press the Up or Down Destination Selector buttons to choose a

scan setting. Then press either the Simplex or Duplex button.

6. The face-down side of the page is scanned and the image is sent to

the selected Destination Application from the OneTouch utility.

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SCAN FROM THE ONETOUCH BUTTON PANEL

You can scan from the OneTouch Button Panel on the screen.

1. Adjust the paper guide for the width of paper and load the

documents with their tops into the Automatic Document Feeder.
For Simplex (one-sided) scans, load the documents face up.
For Duplex (two-sided) scans, the documents can be face up or

down because both sides are scanned.

2. Now click on the OneTouch icon in the Windows Notification

Area (at the bottom right corner of the screen).
The OneTouch Button Panel opens and shows the first five on-

screen scanning buttons. Click the arrows to cycle through all
button settings. When it reaches the last button, clicking again goes
back to one.

Click the button you
want to use to scan.

Click these arrows
to navigate through
the buttons.

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3. On the screen—not on the scanner—click the button you want to

use to scan.

For example, if you want to
scan with button 2, which
converts the document to
sPDF, click here.

Or if you want to scan with button 4,
which attaches the scanned document
to a blank email message, click here.

Note: Your scanner comes with factory-preset OneTouch button
settings. You can reconfigure and rename the buttons for your specific
scanning requirements. For information see “The Default OneTouch
Settings on Your Scanner” on page 38.

The scanner begins scanning. When the process finishes, the
scanned images appear in the Destination Application or are stored
in a folder, just as if you scanned with the Simplex or Duplex
scanner buttons.

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USING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON PANEL

The OneTouch Button Panel is also your on-screen set of controls for
the scanner. The OneTouch Button Panel shows information about the
scanner and its settings.

1. To open the OneTouch Button Panel, click the OneTouch icon. It

is located in the Windows Notification Area at the bottom right
corner of the screen.

The OneTouch Button Panel opens at its Button View, which
shows the on-screen scanning buttons.

The Button View

2. To scan from the panel, click the icon you want to use to scan.

3. To see the details for a button, right-click on it. The Properties

window for that button also opens.

Right-click on a button to see its details in
the Detail View and Properties Window.

Clicking the icon in either view
starts the scanner scanning using the
button’s settings.

The Detail View

4. To cycle through the buttons, click the arrows on the right side of

the panel.

Click these arrows to cycle
through the buttons.

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5. To navigate through the panel’s three views, click the green arrows

at the top of the panel.

Click these
arrows to
navigate
through the
panel’s three
views.

The Hardware View The Detail View

■ The Button View is your main scanner control panel. Use it to

scan or to see all the buttons.

■ The Detail View shows the current scan settings for a button.

■ The Hardware View shows the current scanners connected to

your computer.

The Button View

If the Properties window is not open, right-click the icon on the
Detail View or Button View to open it.

From the Hardware View and Detail View, click the green arrow to
return to the Button View. You can also click on the hardware icon to
return to the Button View.

6. To close the OneTouch Button Panel, click the close button on the

panel.

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ABOUT THE ONETOUCH BUTTON PANEL’S NAMES AND ICONS

The button names, such as PDF, eMail or Fax, indicate the original
factory settings for a button. For example, the eMail button is set up to
scan documents then immediately attach them to a new email message
in Microsoft Outlook Express

®

. But you can change the name, the

Destination Application, and any of the other aspects of the button.
A question mark for a button, such as shown for button 5, means your

computer does not have appropriate software for the initial factory
settings (Fax software in this example). In that case, you would probably
want to change the name and Destination Application to something
else. For example, if you scan a lot of documents that have faint images,
such as hand-drawn sketches in light pencil, you might want to change
the button’s name to Sketches, and the Destination Application to
Microsoft Paint, or some other drawing program.

A folder icon for a button, such as shown for buttons 1, 2, and 7, means
that the scanner sends the scanned image to the default folder at

C:\Documents and Settings\<your user name>\My Documents\My
OneTouch Archive\PDF Documents without first opening it in a

Destination Application. To see the scanned image, open the file using
the appropriate application for the file’s format. The file will be named
with the current date. Buttons 1 and 7 are preset to scan documents into
the PDF format. Button 2 scans to the sPDF format. Use an application
that can read the PDF or sPDF format to open the scanned document.

See “Configuring the OneTouch Buttons” on page 39 to change the
settings of the buttons on the OneTouch Button Panel.

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THE DEFAULT ONETOUCH SETTINGS ON YOUR SCANNER

The scanner buttons are preconfigured for basic tasks, such as email or
fax, then send the scanned image to a storage location or preselected
Destination Application. Settings 10 through 99 are unnamed. You can

change or rename any of these settings.

Button Name Destination Preconfigured Settings

1 Scan Store in the folder My Documents/My

OneTouch Archive/PDF Documents

2 PDF Store in the folder My Documents/My

OneTouch Archive/PDF Documents

3 Print Printer Black&White @ 300dpi Simplex

4 eMail Microsoft Outlook (as attachment) Black&White @ 200dpi Simplex

5 Fax Fax Application Black&White @ 200dpi Simplex

6 OCR Microsoft Word (if installed)

If Word is not installed, documents are stored
in the folder My Documents/My OneTouch

Archive/PDF Documents

7 Archive Store in the folder My Documents/My

OneTouch Archive/PDF Documents

8 Custom Microsoft Paint Color @ 100dpi Simplex

9 Paint Microsoft Paint Color @ 300dpi Simplex

Black&White @ 200dpi Duplex

8.5" x 11" page, Brightness 50%

Black&White @ 300dpi Duplex

8.5" x 11" page, Brightness 50%

8.5" x 11" page, Brightness 50%

8.5" x 11" page, Brightness 50%

8.5" x 11" page, Brightness 50%

Black&White @ 300dpi Duplex

8.5" x 11" page, Brightness 50%

Black&White @ 300dpi Duplex

8.5" x 11" page, Brightness 50%

6" x 4" photo size
Brightness 50% Contrast 50%

8.5" x 11" page
Brightness 50% Contrast 50%

10-99 Unnamed Microsoft Paint Color @ 100dpi Simplex

6" x 4" photo size
Brightness 50% Contrast 50%

Note: If you install new applications on your computer, and they do
not appear in the Select Destination list, click the Refresh button.

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CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS

Each OneTouch button configuration consists of a Destination
Application, a Scan Configuration, and a Document Format. The

OneTouch Properties window is where you select these three elements
for a button.

To open the OneTouch Properties window:

1. Click the OneTouch icon. It is located in the Windows

Notification Area at the bottom right corner of the screen.

2. Right-click a button on the OneTouch Button Panel.

Note: Remember that left-clicking a button on the OneTouch Button
Panel starts the scanner scanning. Right-clicking opens the OneTouch
Properties window.

The OneTouch Properties window opens for that button.

Right-click on a button (for example, button 02)
and the Properties window opens for that button.

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ABOUT THE ONETOUCH PROPERTIES WINDOW

The OneTouch Properties window is where you can select new settings
for the buttons. The OneTouch Properties window also contains special
scanning features such as scanning and burning to a CD, scanning and
converting text directly into an HTML web page, and scanning with
optical character recognition (OCR) that turns a scanned image into
text that you can edit.

Note: Some of the options on the OneTouch Properties Window (and
other OneTouch windows and dialog boxes) may be “grayed out” and
are not available. Grayed out options are not appropriate for your
Visioneer Patriot 680 scanner.

The following example of the OneTouch window shows the settings for
Button 6. The button is set to scan with the scan configuration named
Quality US Letter (Duplex) and to display the scanned image in the
Destination Application, Microsoft Word. The Format and Page(s)
option is set to scan in the DOC image format.

The button number and name.

The Destination Application.
This is the application that
opens when you are finished
scanning.

Click to select
options.

The file format
used when
scanning.

The settings that
the scanner uses
when scanning
with the current­ly selected button
(in this case
button 6).

Note: If you install new applications on your computer, and they do
not appear in the Select Destination list, click the Refresh button.

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 41

The settings on the Properties window are:

Select Destination—The list of applications that can open to display
the scanned image for the selected button. To configure the list of
available applications, click the Options tab at the top of the dialog box
and select the desired options. See “Selecting Options for a Button” on
page 58 for more information.

Select Configuration—The list of available scan configurations for the
selected button. The configuration settings include: scanning mode,
resolution (dpi), page size, brightness, color saturation, hue, and
gamma. To see a selected scan configuration’s settings, click its icon.
Click the icon again to close the detailed information.

Click the icon of a selected
configuration to view its
settings.

The icons next to each scan configuration indicate the scanning mode.

Color GrayscaleBlack and White

Configure
Before Scan

Note: Use Configure Before Scan if you want to set the scanning mode
manually before scanning. See “Configuring Before Scanning” on
page 78.

You can also click the Edit button or double-click the configuration to
see more detailed information about the selected configuration.

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Select Format and Page(s)—A set of file formats for the scanned image
for the selected button. The formats are based on the type of destination
application you select. This example shows the formats that apply to the
Microsoft Outlook.

The icon names indicate their file types. See “Selecting Page Format
Options” on page 53 for more about the formats.

Use Document Feeder/Use Flatbed—These two options are pre-set to
remain selected so you can scan from both the Automatic Document
Feeder and the Flatbed glass. Your scanner senses if pages are in the
Automatic Document Feeder and automatically scans them when you
press the Simplex or Duplex button, or you click a scan button in the
OneTouch 4.0 utility.

To scan from the Flatbed glass using the Simplex or Duplex buttons, or
the scan buttons in the OneTouch utility, you must first remove any
pages from the Automatic Document Feeder. Otherwise, the scanner
will sense those pages, and scan them instead.

Note: When scanning using the WIA or TWAIN interfaces, you must
choose to scan from the Automatic Document Feeder or the Flatbed
glass. See the sections “Scanning with the TWAIN Interface” on
page 107 and “Scanning with the Windows Image Acquisition” on
page 125 for details.

Options tab—Displays a window for selecting options related to the
selected destination application for the scanned image.

Click these arrows to see the
properties for the button
whose settings you want to
change.

Select a software application
as the destination to send
scanned documents.

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SELECTING NEW SETTINGS FOR A BUTTON

For each OneTouch button, you can select a new Destination
Application, Scan Configuration, and Document Format.

Select a format for the
scanned image

Select a configuration
for scanning the item.

To select new settings for the Scanner Button:

1. Click the button selection arrows to select the button you want to

change.
Each button has its own settings. So, as you click the arrows to cycle

through the buttons, the available settings on the window change to
show them for each button.

2. From the Select Destination list, select the application where you

want documents sent when scanning is finished.
See “Selecting Options for a Button” on page 58 to display a full list

of the Destination Applications that you can use with the scanner.

Note: If you select a word processing program such as Microsoft
WordPad or Microsoft Word and a page format that can be used for
OCR (such as TEXT, RTF, DOC, sPDF, or nPDF), the text in
scanned images is automatically converted to word processing text. See
“Scanning with Optical Character Recognition (OCR)” on page 80
for details.

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3. From the Select Configuration list, select a scan configuration.

To scan in color, select one of the configurations indicated by the
small color icon, such as the Color Document configuration.

The scan configuration list is preset for the application you select in
the Select Destination list. If you select a different application, the
configurations are for that application. However, you can create
your own scan configurations as well.

4. Select a Format and Page(s) option.

The available options apply to the Destination Application you
select. For example, if you select Microsoft Word as the Destination
Application, the available formats are for text, such as .doc, .txt, and
.rtf. However, if you select Microsoft Paint as the Destination
Application, then the available formats are for graphics, such as
.bmp, and .jpg.

5. Click OK, or if you want to keep the window open and work with

other features, click Apply.
Note that while the OneTouch Properties window is open, you

cannot scan yet by clicking a button on the OneTouch Panel. You
must click OK or close the OneTouch Properties window first.
However, you can scan at any time by pressing the Simplex or
Duplex button on the scanner.

When you are finished selecting new settings for a button and you
press or click a scanner button, the document is scanned using the
newly configured settings for that button.

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SETTING DESTINATION APPLICATION PROPERTIES

The different types of Destination Applications have various properties
that you can select.

1. On the OneTouch Properties window, click a Destination

Application.

2. Click the Properties button.

Click a Destination
Application.

Click the Properties
button

A OneTouch 4.0 Link Properties dialog box opens for the type of
Destination Application you selected, and the available options are
for that type of application.

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Text Documents Pr o p e r ti e s

These properties apply to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel
Acrobat Reader, and the other applications indicated by their icons in
the list. The properties apply to the OCR settings for the applications.

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, Adobe

1. Click in the OCR settings boxes for the options you want.

The options will apply to all the applications in the group.
Always send a file, even when no text was found—The scanned

file is sent to the OCR reader even if the image does not appear to
contain text. This could occur if you scanned a photograph with a
OneTouch button set for text applications.

Show message if text recognition failed—A message will open on
the screen if the OCR reader does not detect text in the image.

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 47

2. To add another application to the list, click the Add Application

button.
The Add Text Based Link dialog box opens.

3. Click Browse to find the application you want to add to the list.

When you select the application using the Browse button, steps 1
and 2 on the dialog box are automatically filled in, and the
application icon appears in step 3.

4. Select the icon in Step 3 of the dialog box. That is the icon that will

appear in the OneTouch Destination List.

5. In step 4 of the dialog box, select the file formats that the

application will accept.
Refer to the documentation that you received with the application

to see which text formats the application accepts.
The options you select at step 4 determine the page format icons in

the OneTouch Properties window for that group of applications.

6. Click the Add button.

7. Click OK or Apply on the Link Properties window.

8. Click Refresh on the OneTouch Properties window.

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Image Documents Properties

These properties apply to the OmniPage Pro software that you received
with your scanner, plus Microsoft Paint and other image processing
applications.

1. Click in the Color document handling settings boxes for the

options you want.
These options will apply to all the applications in the group.
Convert Bitmaps using Screen Resolution—Use this option to

ensure that an image will fit on the computer’s screen. When a
computer screen is set to a lower resolution, bitmap images with a
higher resolution may be too big to fit on the screen. Converting
the bitmap image to match the screen resolution ensures that the
image fits on the screen.

Convert Bitmaps to JPEG—JPEG files can be compressed to
produce smaller file sizes and, therefore, shorter transmission times.
Use this option to provide that compression capability to image
files.

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2. To add another application to the list, click the Add Application

button.
See the steps on page 47 to add an application to the list.

3. Click OK.

4. Click OK or Apply on the Link Properties window.

5. Click Refresh on the OneTouch Properties window.

Storage Properties

These properties apply to the Destination Application named Transfer
to Storage. If a CD burner is attached to your computer, you can also
use this dialog box to start the Burn to CD process. See the section
“Scan and Burn to a CD” on page 92.

Note: The Burn to CD option is only available for Windows XP.

You can also set up multiple configurations to store scanned items in
separate locations. See “The Storage Options Tab (Archive)” on page 70
and “Scanning to Multiple Folders” on page 72.

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Note: If you do not have a CD burner attached to your computer, the
CD options are not shown on the dialog box.

1. Click the Storage Layout options you want.

All documents are in the root—The scanned documents are saved
in the root of the folder specified in the Storage Location.

Documents are put into folders by month, week, or type—
Folders are created based on your selection (month, week, or type)
and the scanned documents are saved in those folders. New folders
are created for each month and week so you can keep track of when
you scanned the documents.

2. Click the Browse button to specify the location to store the

scanned documents.
If you are scanning to a shared network drive, it must be a mapped

drive. For more information about mapped drives, see your
network administrator.

If you have a CD burner attached to your Windows XP computer,
the option Show message when ready to burn 5" CD (700MB),
should also be selected so you will see a message when it’s time to
click the Burn to CD button.

3. Click OK on the Link Properties window.

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eMail Properties

These properties apply to email applications so you can specify the
folder for documents that you will attach to an email message.
Microsoft Outlook

®

will accept direct attachment of documents to a
blank email message as soon as scanning is finished, but other email
applications do not. If you’re using one of those applications, such as
America Online

®

(AOL), you need to know which folder contains the
scanned documents so you can manually attach them to your email
messages.

1. Click the Browse button for Folder for storing attachments and

choose a folder for your email attachments.

2. Click the Browse button to specify the location to store them, or

type a location directly into the box.
See the steps on page 49 to add an application.

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3. If you are using AOL on your computer, and the folder name for

AOL is incorrect, click the Browse button and find the correct
AOL folder.

For scanned images to be auto-attached to a blank email address,
you must have the specific folder location AOL uses to find the
attachments. Please contact AOL for more information about the
folder location in which AOL stores attachments.

4. If you need to set or change any internet options for AOL, click the

Internet Options button.
The Windows Internet Options Control Panel opens. See your

Windows documentation and AOL user manual for the settings on
the Windows Control Panel.

5. Select the options for color document handling.

Convert Bitmaps using Screen Resolution—Use this option to
ensure that an image will fit on the computer’s screen. When a
computer screen is set to a lower resolution, bitmap images with a
higher resolution may be too big to fit on the screen. Converting
the bitmap image to match the screen resolution ensures that the
image fits on the screen.

Convert Bitmaps to JPEG—JPEG files can be compressed to
produce smaller file sizes and, therefore, shorter transmission times.
Use this option to provide that compression capability to image
files.

6. Click OK.

7. Click OK or Apply on the OneTouch Properties window.

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SELECTING PAGE FORMAT OPTIONS

The Page Format options that you select determines the file format of
the scanned document. Appropriate page format options and file types
are available for the type of Destination Application selected for the
button.

The available options are for images and text.

Image Formats Text Formats; sPDF is

only one of several text
formats available.

The Text Formats are for text file types. The names of the formats
indicate their file types. See “Text Formats” on page 55 for details.

IMAGE FORMATS

Select an image file format for photos, artwork or other documents that
you want to save as images. BMP and TIFF are standard image file
formats generally used if you want to do additional image processing,
such as photo touch-up or color correction. Both of those file formats
tend to be larger than the JPEG format.

Because JPEG image files can be reduced in size, the JPEG format is
often used for images on web pages, or if file size might be a problem
when electronically sending the files. JPEG files are reduced in size by
lowering their image quality, and you can select the degree of quality for
your scanned images from the JPEG page format icon.

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The PDF format is often used to create images of text pages. You may
want to select PDF as the page format when scanning text pages that do
not require OCR processing or other processing. The PDF format is
also used to put multi-page documents on web sites as pdf-readable
files. As with the JPEG option, the PDF format can be reduced in size
or quality.

Note: The two other PDF formats—nPDF and sPDF—are for
scanning with OCR processing and with the ability to search the
scanned text. See the next section, “Text Formats,” and also “Scanning
with sPDF or nPDF and Searching for Text” on page 89 for details.:

To select a JPEG or PDF file size:

1. Select JPG or PDF as the page format.

2. Right-click on the JPG or PDF icon.

A menu opens.

3. Choose the file size/image quality option for your scanned images.

Minimize Size—Smallest file size, lowest image quality.
Normal—Medium file size, some loss of image quality.
Maximum Quality—Largest file size, no loss of image quality.

Your selection pertains only to the button currently selected on the
OneTouch Properties window. Other buttons that have JPG or
PDF selected as the Page Format are not affected, so you can set the
JPEG or PDF file size/image quality independently for each button.

4. Click OK or Apply on the OneTouch Properties window.

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TEXT FORMATS

Selecting the text format option also selects OCR processing as an
automatic step for scanning. Therefore, when you scan a document
with the text format selected, the text portions of the document are
automatically converted to editable text. See “Scanning with Optical
Character Recognition (OCR)” on page 80.

Select a text format for documents with text or numbers, such as a
business letter, report, or spreadsheet. The text format icon has several
file formats available, depending on the Destination Application you
select.

The specific file format is the file name extension on the text format
icon.

The specific text format; this example is

for Microsoft Word format (.doc).

As you select Destination Applications that are text applications, the
text format icon changes to match the file type of the application. In
some cases, the Destination Application supports several file types, and
you can right-click on the icon to choose the particular file type for that
application.

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To select a file type for the text format:

1. Select the Destination Application.

2. Right-click on the text format icon.

A menu opens. The following figure shows samples for different
formats.

Example menu for the
DOC text format.

Example menu for the
nPDF text format.

3. Choose the file type that you want for the text format.

Your selection of a file type pertains only to the button currently
selected on the OneTouch Properties window. Other buttons that
have a text option selected as the Page Format are not affected, so
you can set the text file type independently for each button.

Simple Text—The .txt file format. Text with no formatting; used
by the standard Microsoft Notepad application.

Rich Text Format—The .rtf file format. Text that retains
formatting when converted. Available with Microsoft Wordpad and
Word.

Word Do cum en t—The .doc file format used by Microsoft Word.

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Comma Delimited—The .csv file format; used for database or
spreadsheet data with fields separated by commas. When the
document is converted into editable text by the OCR software, the
fields are maintained so you can copy and paste them to a database
or spreadsheet application.

Excel Spreadsheet—The .xls file format used by Microsoft Excel.

HTML Document—The .htm file format used to create web

pages.

Searchable PDF—The sPDF file format used by Adobe Acrobat
and OmniPage Pro. This format converts scanned text into PDF
with text search and OCR capabilities. It is only available if you
have installed OmniPage Pro on your computer. See “Scanning
with sPDF or nPDF and Searching for Text” on page 89 for details.

Normal PDF—The nPDF file format used by Adobe Acrobat and
OmniPage Pro. This format also converts scanned text into PDF
with text search and OCR capabilities, plus you can edit the text in
an nPDF image if you have a PDF editing program. The nPDF
format is also only available if you have installed OmniPage Pro on
your computer. See “Scanning with sPDF or nPDF and Searching
for Text” on page 89 for details.

4. To change the OCR settings, choose OCR Options.

The OCR Options provide a series of selections for the OCR
feature when you scan text. This menu option is only available if
you have installed OmniPage Pro on your computer. See “Selecting
OmniPage OCR Options” on page 82 for details.

Note that the OCR Options settings apply to all buttons. If you
change them for one button, those changes apply to the other
buttons as well.

5. Click OK on the OneTouch Properties window.

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RENAMING A ONETOUCH BUTTON

The OneTouch buttons have names that identify their pre-set functions,
such as OCR and PDF, but you can edit the names.

To change the button names:

1. Open the OneTouch Properties window.

2. Using the arrows, choose the button that you want to rename.

3. Select the name’s text and type a new name.

Click the arrows to get to
the button to rename, then
select the name text.

Type a new name for the
button.

4. Click OK or Apply.

The button is now renamed.

SELECTING OPTIONS FOR A BUTTON

The OneTouch Options determine the types of Destination
Applications available for a button, as well as the location of the files of
your scanned items.

Note: To get to a button quickly instead of clicking the forward and
back arrows on the button panel, open the OneTouch Properties
window, click the Options tab, then click the Select Button drop­down menu. You can then select the button from the menu list. Click
the Multi Function tab to get back to the button settings.

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To select options:

1. Open the OneTouch Properties window and click the Options tab.

Options tab

2. Click the menu arrow and choose the button for new options.

3. Select button options as described below.

Show All Destinations—This option selects all the Destination
Application categories. The list of Destination Applications
available for the selected button will include all the applications on
your computer that fall into these categories. This is the default
selection for Button 8 (Custom). The list also includes printers and
other devices connected to your computer so, for example, you can
scan an item and have it printed immediately.

Select Destinations—Select this option to individually choose the
types of applications to include in the list of Destination
Applications. Check the boxes for the type of application to
include.

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■ Document Management includes applications for processing

and keeping track of your scanned documents.

■ Image Editors include Microsoft Paint and other drawing and

graphics applications.

■ Tex t E d i t o r s include Microsoft Word and WordPad, Microsoft

Excel, and other word processing and spreadsheet applications.
Select this option if you want OCR processing to convert your
scanned documents to text that you can edit. See “Scanning with
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)” on page 80 for more
about OCR.

■ PDF applications are for documents scanned to PDF format.

■ Email includes Microsoft Outlook and other email applications.

See “eMail Properties” on page 51 for details about attaching
scanned documents to your email messages.

■ Storage and CD-R/W is for either storing scanned documents

in a folder, or sending them to a CD burner to create a CD
containing the scanned documents. See “Transferring Scanned
Documents to Storage” on page 98 and “Scan and Burn to a
CD” on page 92 for details.

■ Fax and Print is for sending your scanned documents directly to

your printer or fax software for faxing.

■ Sti event forwarding is for using another application’s interface

for scanning. The OneTouch Event Forwarding dialog box opens
so you can select which application to use to continue scanning.
See “Scanning with Event Forwarding” on page 94 for details.

4. After selecting a new category of Destination Applications, click the

Multi Function tab to see which ones are added to the list.
Show Progress Window—Select this option to display the progress

window of the document(s) during scanning.
Create copies of scanned documents—Sometimes the image of a

scanned document is only saved as a temporary file until its
Destination Application is finished using it. In those cases you may
or may not want an additional, permanent copy saved on your hard
drive.

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For example, if you scan a picture to an email application, the
scanned image is saved as a temporary file, then attached to the
email, and the email is sent. But because you already have the
original picture, you may not want to also save a permanent file of
that image as well. The same situation may occur when you scan
directly to a printer or scan to a fax application. You already have
the paper version (and in the case of a printer, you would have two
paper copies—the original and the scanned printed version) so
there’s no need for an electronic file too. However, by selecting this
Create copies of scanned documents option, you can choose to
save permanent copies of those types of images on your hard drive.

The copies will be saved in the folder specified in the Folder Copy
Options section (see the figure on page 59 and the description
below).

You can selectively choose the types of Destination Applications
that will have their scanned images saved permanently. For
example, if your computer is connected to multiple printers and fax
machines, each one is considered a separate Destination
Application. By selecting the Fax and Print box and clicking the
Create copies of scanned documents option, every scanned
document you fax or print from the scanner is also saved as a
permanent file on your hard drive.

This option is not available if either the Document Management
or Storage and CD-R/W options are selected because, by default,
file copies for those types of Destination Applications are already
automatically saved in the folder for copies.

Likewise, the option is also not available for the default setting of
Buttons 1 (Scan), 2 (PDF), and 7 (Archive) because they are set as
Transfer to Storage with the Destination Application type set as

Storage and CD-R/W.
Folder Copy Options—This section of the dialog box sets the

location for copies of your scanned documents and how you want
to group them.

All copies of your scanned documents, regardless of type of
Destination Application, are saved in this folder.

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Note that if the Button selected at the top of the dialog box is set to
Tra nsfe r to Stora ge as the Destination Application, and the type of
application is Storage and CD-R/W, (such as Button 7), the
location in this section is where your scanned documents are stored.
When you use the OneTouch 4.0 Burn to CD feature, the location
is where scanned documents are stored before they are burned onto
the CD.

Click the Browse button and find the folder for the copies. Select
the grouping option for the documents. The Group by button
option groups the documents under the name of the OneTouch
button. For example, if the button is named Printer, the documents
are grouped under the name Printer. Group by type arranges the
scanned documents by the type of file, such as .doc or .jpg. If you
also want to group them by date you can choose the week and
month options.

The following example shows the folders when the selections are
Group items by type and Group items by month.

5. Click OK to save the options for the selected button.

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CREATING A NEW SCAN CONFIGURATION

The scan configurations are where you select the scanning resolution,
brightness, mode (color, black&white, or grayscale), and a number of
other settings.

The Scan Configurations.

The Lock Icon.

Click New to create a
new Scan Configuration.

Note the lock icon on the preset configurations. Although you can
unlock and edit the preset configurations, we recommend that you leave
them locked, and only add new configurations. That way, you will
always have the original factory-set configurations available.

To create a new configuration:

1. Open the OneTouch Properties window and make sure the Multi

Function tab is selected.

2. Scroll through the applications in the Select Destination list and

click the type of application for which you want to create a new
scan configuration.

When you create a new scan configuration, it will be listed for the
buttons that are set for the same types of Destination Applications.
For example, if you create a new configuration for a button that is
set to show image editor applications, that new configuration is also
listed for any other buttons set for image editors, but not for

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buttons set for text editing applications. Thus, you can create
specific sets of scan configurations for specific functions and they
are listed only when appropriate.

3. Click the New button.

If you want to start from the settings of another configuration,
select the configuration, then click the Copy button.

If the Scan Settings tab is not selected, click it.

4. On the Scan Configuration Properties dialog box, type a name.

Note: If you’re going to set up the new configuration to scan duplex
(two-sided), include that in the name, such as “Scan for Dark Print
(Duplex),” to remind you that it is a duplex scan.

Type a new name for
the configuration.

Select the scan mode
and drag the slider to set
the resolution.

Drag the sliders to set
the Brightness and
Contrast.

If the configuration
is locked, click the
lock to unlock it.
The icon becomes a
key.

Note: If you select a printer or other device in the Select Destinations
list, the dialog box may have an additional Device Settings tab for
setting specific options for the particular device.

5. Select scan settings for the new scan configuration.

Mode—Select a scanning mode:

Black&White to scan in black and white. For example, letters

and memos are usually scanned in black and white. This scan
mode produces the smallest file size.

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GrayScale to scan items such as documents containing
drawings or black and white photographs. The scanning
produces an image of up to 256 shades of gray.

Color to scan color photographs and other color items. Color
scans have the largest file size.

Resolution—Drag the slider to the right or left to adjust the
dots per inch (dpi) of the resolution. The maximum resolution
is 600 dpi; the minimum is 50 dpi. The higher the dpi setting,
the sharper and clearer the scanned image. However, higher dpi
settings take longer to scan and produce larger files for the
scanned images.

Brightness and Contrast—Sometimes an item is scanned with
the brightness and contrast set too light or too dark. For
example, a note written with a light pencil may need to be
scanned darker to improve legibility.

Brightness refers to the lightness or darkness of the image. Contrast
is the range between the darkest and lightest portions of the image.
The greater the contrast, the more difference between the lighter
and darker shades in the image.

Drag the sliders to the right or left to adjust the brightness and
contrast of the scanned image. The Contrast setting does not apply
to the Black&White mode.

6. If you want to lock the configuration, click the key icon to change

it from a key to a lock.

7. Click the Page Settings tab to select page settings.

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Size—Click Standard, click the menu arrow and choose a page size
from the list, or click Custom and enter the horizontal and vertical
page dimensions in the boxes. The maximum size is 8.5" x 14". The
units of measurement can be inches or millimeters. Click the name
of the units, inches or millimeters, to toggle between them.

Click to toggle
between inches and
millimeters.

Improvements and Settings—Only the options that apply to the
selected Destination Application are available.

Reduce Moire Patterns—Moire patterns are wavy, rippled lines
that sometimes appear on the scanned images of photographs or
illustrations, particularly newspaper and magazine illustrations.
Selecting Reduce Moire Patterns will limit or eliminate moire
patterns in the scanned image. This option is only available for
the Grayscale or Color Mode at 300 dpi or less.

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Invert Image—Only available for Black&White Mode, this
option reverses the black and whites of an image.

Original Image Inverted Image

Duplex—Scan both sides of the page. If this option is not
selected, the scanner will scan the front side of the page only.

Note: Because you can set Duplex and Simplex for the OneTouch
buttons, there could be a conflict when you press the Simplex or
Duplex button on the scanner. Regardless of the OneTouch setting,
the scanner button always takes precedence. In other words, even if the
LED number on the scanner has a setting for Duplex, when you press
the Simplex scanner button the scanner scans in Simplex mode, and
vice versa.

Skip Blank Originals—Skips pages that are completely blank.
Typically you use this option when you will scan a stack of two­sided pages which have a number of blank sides. This option is
only available for Duplex scanning.

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Color Filter—Color filter is the ability of your scanner to
automatically remove a color from a scanned item. For example,
if you are scanning a letter with a red watermark, you can
choose to filter out the red so the scanned letter just shows the
text and not the red watermark. Color filter applies to
Black&White or Grayscale Mode.

The original with a red
watermark over black text.

The scanned item with the
red filtered out.

8. Click the Advanced Settings tab.

The options of the Advanced Settings tab are for the Color or
Grayscale scanning mode.

9. Drag the sliders to the left and right to change the color settings. As

you do, the image changes to show the effects of the new settings.

Saturation is the strength or purity of a color, hue is the color your
eyes see as reflected from the image, and gamma controls the
brightness of the midtones of the color.

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10. Click OK to save the new configuration.

It will now be listed in the list of Scan Configurations on the
OneTouch Properties window for the appropriate Destination
Applications.

THE DEVICE SETTINGS TAB

A Device Settings tab is on the Scan Configurations dialog box when
your selected Destination Application sends the scanned image to a
printer, fax application, or other device. You use the options on the
Device Settings tab to select settings for the device.

1. Click on the Device Settings tab.

Fit to page, reduce image if necessary—If the scanned image is
too big to be printed or faxed on a single page, the image will
automatically be reduced to fit the page.

Actual size, crop image if necessary—If the scanned image is too
big to be printed or faxed on a single page, the image will
automatically be cropped around its edges to fit on the page.

Center image on page—The image will be printed in the center of
the page instead of at the top right corner.

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Maintain aspect ratio—The aspect ratio is the length-to-width
relationship of the image’s dimensions. Select this option so the
image’s relative proportions remain constant.

AutoRotate image for best fit—If the image is a Landscape format
and the device is printing in the Portrait mode, or vice versa, rotate
the image to fit on the page.

Collate copies—If you are printing more than one page, collate the
copies. Enter the number of copies in the Copies box.

Advanced—Click to see additional settings for the device. The
dialog box that opens is specific to the device. For example, if the
device is your printer, the dialog box is your printer’s setup settings.

2. Click OK or Apply.

THE STORAGE OPTIONS TAB (ARCHIVE)

A Storage Options tab is on the Scan Configurations dialog box when
the selected Destination Application is set as Transfer to Storage. You
use the options on this tab to select where you want to save your
scanned items for storage when scanning with that particular Scan
Configuration. Button 7 is set as the default Archive button for
scanning to storage, with Transfer to Storage as the destination. So if
you want to have the Scan Configuration apply to Button 7, switch to it
first before creating the new Scan Configuration.

Note: The selections you make using the Storage Options tab override
the storage options that apply to the Storage Properties. This means
that you can create separate Scan Configurations to store scanned
items at various locations in addition to the main location set by the
Storage Properties. See “Storage Properties” on page 49 and
“Transferring Scanned Documents to Storage” on page 98 for more
details.

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1. Click on the Storage Options tab.

2. Click the Storage Layout options you want.

All documents are in the root—The scanned documents are saved
in the root of the folder specified in the Storage Location.

Documents are put into folders by month, week, or type—
Folders are created based on your selection (month, week, or type)
and the scanned documents are saved in those folders. New folders
are created for each month and week so you can keep track of when
you scanned the documents. Type refers to the file type selected as
the Page Format on the OneTouch Properties window.

By default, the location of the archived documents is at

C:\Documents and Settings\<your user name>\My
Documents\My OneTouch Archive and then in a folder based on

your selection for the Storage Layout. For example, if the file type is
TIFF, and you select Documents are put into folders by type, the
default location of scanned archive documents is at C:\Documents

and Settings\<your user name>\My Documents\My OneTouch
Archive\TIFF Documents.

3. If you want to store your archive documents in some other location,

click the Browse button to specify the new location.

4. Click OK or Apply.

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SCANNING TO MULTIPLE FOLDERS

When archiving documents with the Transfer to Storage option, you
can scan them to multiple folders. For example, one folder might be for
“Business Receipts,” a second folder might be for “Personal Receipts,”
and a third folder might be for “Annual Receipts.”

To scan to multiple folders, you create multiple scan configurations with
Transfer to Storage as the Destination Application, and assign each scan
configuration to one of the scanner buttons.

Setting up multiple folders for transfer to storage:

1. Using Microsoft Windows, create the folders that you want to use

for storing scanned items. Note that you can also create the folders
later while creating the new scan configurations.

2. Open the OneTouch Properties window.

3. Select Transfer to Storage as the Destination Application.

4. Click the New button.

Select Transfer to Storage.

Click the New button.

The Scan Configuration Properties dialog box opens.

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5. Click the Scan Settings, Page Settings, and Advanced Settings

tabs, and select the settings you want.
To help you remember which folder it is, give the new

configuration a name that indicates the folder name, such as
“Storage for Business Receipts.”

6. Click the Storage Options tab.

7. Click the Browse button.

8. Select the folder you created for storing the scanned documents.

If you haven’t created the folder yet, you can click the Make New
Folder button and type the name for the new folder.

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9. Click OK. The selected folder will now be set as the Storage

Location, such as “Business Receipts.”

10. Click Apply. The new configuration is now listed as a Transfer to

Storage configuration.

11. Repeat the process to create additional new configurations, such as

one named “Storage for Personal Receipts.”

12. Make sure to designate separate folders as the Storage Locations for

the new configurations.
You will now have multiple configurations set up for the Transfer to

Storage destination, and each configuration scans documents to
separate folders.

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The new configurations
apply to the Transfer to
Storage Destination
Application.

13. Now click the arrow buttons to select a scanner button for each new

configuration. Click Apply to set that button for that
configuration.

The following examples show that buttons 7 and 8 have been set to
scan to each of the new configurations.

Note that the button names have also been changed to Storage 1
and Storage 2 to remind you that both send documents to storage,
but to different locations. To change button names, see “Renaming
a OneTouch Button” on page 58.

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Scan to multiple storage folders:

1. Insert the documents you want to scan to multiple storage folders.

2. Press the Destination Selector buttons on the scanner to get to one

of the buttons set up for scanning to storage.

3. Press the Simplex or Duplex button to scan the documents.

4. When scanning is finished, re-insert the documents and press the

Destination Selector buttons to get to the next button you have set
up for scanning.

5. Press the Simplex or Duplex button to scan the documents.

When scanning is finished, the documents are stored in the two separate
folders.

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EDITING OR DELETING SCAN CONFIGURATIONS

Note: Your scanner comes with a number of configurations pre-set at
the factory. We recommend that you keep those configurations locked
and do not edit or delete them. That way, you will always have the
factory-settings available. If you do edit or delete them, and want to
get the factory pre-sets back again, you will need to uninstall then re­install your scanner driver.

To edit or delete a scan configuration:

1. Open the OneTouch Properties window.

2. Select the scan configuration you want to edit or delete.

Select the scan configuration
to edit or delete. It must be
unlocked, as indicated by
having a key or no icon
displayed here.

3. To delete the configuration, click the Delete button.

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4. To edit the configuration, click the Edit button.

The Scan Configuration Properties dialog box opens for that
configuration.

You can make changes to a configuration, but for the changes to be
saved, the configuration must first be unlocked. Click the Lock
icon to unlock the configuration. Clicking it toggles between
locking and unlocking the configuration. The key icon indicates
the configuration is unlocked.

Click the Lock/Key icon
to toggle between locked
and unlocked.

5. Edit the settings and click OK.

6. Click OK to close the dialog box.

CONFIGURING BEFORE SCANNING

You can manually configure the scan settings before beginning the
scanning process. In that case, you select Configure Before Scan as the
Scan Setting. When you press a scan button, one of the scanning
interfaces opens for you to set the scanning options.

To configure before scanning:

1. Open the OneTouch Properties window.

2. Using the arrows, choose the button that you want to set to

configure before scanning.

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3. Select the scan configuration Configure Before Scan.

Click the arrows to
select the button.

Select Configure
Before Scan.

Right-click on
Configure Before Scan
to get the menu, and
choose the interface to
use for configuring.

4. Right-click on Configure Before Scan and choose an interface to

use for configuring before scanning.
Some interface options may not be available, based on the drivers

you installed for your scanner.
TWAIN—The TWAIN Interface opens for you to configure the

scanning. See “Scanning with the TWAIN Interface” on page 107.
ISIS—The ISIS Scan interface opens for you to configure the

scanning. See “Scanning with the ISIS Interface” on page 130
WIA—The Windows Image Acquisition Interface (WIA) opens for

you to configure the scanning. See “Scanning with the Windows
Image Acquisition” on page 125.

Note: The WIA option is only available if your computer is running
Microsoft Windows XP.

5. Click OK or Apply on the OneTouch Properties window.

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SCANNING WITH OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR)

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is like a printer in reverse.
Instead of printing what’s on the screen onto paper, OCR converts text
and numbers on a scanned page into editable text and numbers. You can
then work with the text and numbers to edit, spellcheck, change font or
type size, sort, calculate, and so forth.

Note: Visioneer recommends that all OCR processing use the original
factory settings for OCR scanning that came with your scanner. When
scanning with other settings, use at least 300 dpi for the resolution. If
the original documents are of poor quality and have small type, 400
dpi can be used as the maximum resolution.

You must have installed the OmniPage Pro software on your computer
in order to use the OCR options with the OneTouch 4.0 software and
your Visioneer Patriot 680 scanner. OneTouch 4.0 and OmniPage Pro
work together to combine scanning with OCR processing into one
integrated step. OmniPage Pro is on the Disc 2 CD that you received
with your scanner in case you haven’t installed it yet.

If OmniPage Pro is installed, the OCR process is automatic when the
page format on the OneTouch Properties window is a text format, such
as DOC, TEXT, XLS, RTF, and so forth.

Note: OneTouch Button 6 is preset as your OCR button. But you can
also set up any other button to scan and OCR the text.

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To scan with OCR:

1. To scan using the buttons on the scanner, press the Destination

Selector until the LED is at 6, then press the Simplex or Duplex
button.

2. To scan from the OneTouch Button Panel, click the OneTouch

icon in the Windows Notification Area, click the arrows to see
Button 6, then click Button 6.

Click the arrows until
Button 6 is on the panel,
then click Button 6.

Your scanned pages appear in the Destination Application with
their text ready for editing and other text processing.

Note: OCR scanning is also for spreadsheets so you can work in
Microsoft Excel (or other spreadsheet application) with the figures and
text from the original spreadsheets.

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SELECTING OMNIPAGE OCR OPTIONS

The OmniPage OCR Options are only available if you have installed
OmniPage Pro on your computer.

Note: OmniPage OCR options apply globally to all the OneTouch
buttons that perform OCR. For example, Button 6 is set by default to
OCR text, but Button 8 is not. If you reconfigure Button 8 to also
OCR text, the OCR options you select for Button 8 will also apply to
Button 6.

To select OmniPage OCR options:

1. Open the OneTouch Properties window.

2. Using the arrows, choose a button that has Destination

Applications that use the text format as their file type.

3. Select the Destination Application to get one of the text format file

types as the page format.

4. Right-click on the page format icon to see the menu.

5. Choose OCR Options from the menu.

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The OmniPage OCR Options window opens with the OCR tab
selected.

6. Choose the options you want from the OCR window.

Languages in Document—Select the language(s) in the documents
to be scanned. These are the languages that will be recognized
during the OCR process. For faster and more reliable language
recognition, select only the languages in the document.

The languages at the top of the list are your recent choices. Below
that the languages are in alphabetical order. Type a letter to jump to
one of the languages in the list.

The dictionary icon indicates a language with dictionary support
available. The dictionary is consulted to help in the OCR process.
It can also offer suggestions during proofing.

User Dictionary—A user dictionary is your personal dictionary
with words that you want the OCR proofreading process to
recognize as legitimate words. For example, if you scan documents
with highly technical terms not found in typical dictionaries, you
can add them to your personal dictionary. You can also add names
that you expect to be in the documents too. That way, when the
OCR process proofreads the text, names will not be considered
misspelled words.You can create multiple user dictionaries.

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Click the menu arrow and select a user dictionary from the list. Any
Microsoft Word user dictionaries detected on your computer
system are also listed. A dictionary named Custom is your default
Word dictionary.

To create a user dictionary, click the button next to the menu arrow.
Click New, type a name for the dictionary, and click OK. Click
Close then choose your new dictionary from the list. It will be used
during the OCR process. You add words to a dictionary during the
proofreading process. To turn on the proofreading process for your
scanned documents, see the OmniPage Pro documentation.

Professional Dictionaries—These are legal and medical dictionaries
containing highly specialized words and phrases. The options are:
Dutch Legal, Dutch Medical, English Legal, English Medical,
French Legal, French Medical, German Legal, and German
Medical. Click the checkbox next to a dictionary name to select it.

Reject Character—This is the character that the OCR process
inserts for an unrecognizable text character. For example, if the
OCR process cannot recognize the J in REJECT, and ~ is the reject
character, the word would appear as RE~ECT in your document.
The ~ is the default reject character.

Type the character you want to use in the Reject character box. Try
to choose a character that will not appear in your documents.

Font Matching—Your computer system usually has a number of
fonts available for the OCR process to use to recognize text.
However, not all of the fonts may be selected for the OCR process.
Using Font Matching you can select the fonts on your computer
that match the fonts in your documents.

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Click the Font Matching button to see the Font Matching dialog
box.

The list on the left are the fonts available on your computer system.
The list on the right are the fonts that will be used by the OCR
process to recognize the text in your documents. If possible, the list
of Fonts for your document should include all the fonts in the
documents you plan to scan. To add new fonts to that list, select a
font in the Fonts on System list and click Add. Note that when
you select a font, a sample appears in the text box so you can
compare it with the fonts in your document to see if that’s the right
font. To remove a font, select it and click Remove. To return the
lists to their defaults, click Use Defaults. Click OK when you’re
finished.

7. Click the Process tab and choose the options from the Process

window.

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When bringing in a new image—Click the menu arrow and select
where you want new pages added to your current document. The
choices are After last page, After current page, Before current
page, and Before first page.

Automatically prompt for more pages—Select this option if the
document is too big to fit into the scanner’s paper guide.

Automatically correct page orientation—Select this option to have
the OCR process check orientation and automatically rotate an
improperly oriented page image by 90, 180 or 270 degrees prior to
recognition. All pages are automatically straightened (de-skewed) if
necessary.

Retain text and background color—If your document contains
colored text or backgrounds, select this option to have them
detected and displayed in the text editing application you have
selected. The colored text and backgrounds will also be available for
export. Deselect this option if you want color pictures in the
document but do not want colored text and backgrounds. You can
change the color of texts and backgrounds in the OmniPage Pro
Text Editor.

Retain inverted text—Inverted text is white or pale letters on a
black or dark background. Select this option to retain inverted text,
deselect it to have inverted text transformed to normal text of black
text on a white background.

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Look for facing pages—Select this option if you want to scan two
facing pages of an open book in one step, and then to recognize and
store them as two separate pages (as if they had come from two
separate scannings).

User interface language—Click the drop-down arrow and select
the language to use on the OmniPage windows. The available
languages may differ for different parts of the world.

8. Click the Format tab and choose the options you want from the

Format window.
Note that as you select formats, the image changes to represent the

selection so you can see, at a glance, what the layout will look like.

Automatic—Choose this option to let the OCR process determine
the layout of the pages. It is the fastest type of format processing.
Typically you select this option when the document has different or
unknown types of layouts, pages with multiple columns and a table,
or pages containing more than one table. The OCR process will
then determine if text is in columns, an item is a graphic or text,
and tables are present.

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Single Column no Table—Choose this option if the document
contains only one column of text and no tables. Business letters are
normally in this form. You can also use this option for documents
with words or numbers in columns if you do not want them placed
in a table or decolumnized or treated as separate columns.

Multiple Columns, no Table—Choose this option if some
document pages contain text in columns and you want it kept in
separate columns, similar to the original layout. If table-like data is
encountered, it is placed in columns, not in a gridded table.

Single Column with Table—Choose this option if your document
contains only one column of text and a table. The table will be
placed in a grid in the text editing application you have selected.
You can later specify whether to export it in a grid or as tab­separated text columns.

Spreadsheet—Choose this option if the entire document consists of
a table that you want to export to a spreadsheet program, or have
treated as a table. No flowing text or graphics zones will be
detected.

Te m pl a t e—If you created a zone template in OmniPage Pro,
choose a zone template file to have its background value, zones and
zone properties applied to all OCR scanned pages from now on.

No Formatting (NF)—The document will be plain text,
decolumnized and left-aligned in a single font and font size. You
can export plain text to nearly all file types and target applications,
and graphics, tables and bullets can be retained. When exporting to
Text or Unicode file types, graphics and tables are not supported.

Retain Fonts and Paragraphs (RFP)—This output format retains
the font and paragraph styling, including graphics and tables
without columnized text. This output format is available for nearly
all file types.

Flowing Page (FP)—This format keeps the original layout of the
pages, including columns. This is done wherever possible with
column and indent settings, but not with text boxes or frames. Text
will then flow from one column to the other, which does not
happen when text boxes are present.

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Tru e Page ( TP)—This output format keeps the original layout of
the pages, including columns. This is done with text, picture and
table boxes and frames. True page is offered only for target
applications capable of handling the formatting. True Page
formatting is the only choice for XML export and for all PDF
export, except to the file type “PDF Edited”.

9. When you’re finished selecting the OCR options, click OK on the

Options window.
These options will now apply to the OCR processing when you

select any scan button with a text format as the page format.

SCANNING WITH SPDF OR NPDF AND SEARCHING FOR TEXT

Searchable PDF (sPDF) and Normal PDF (nPDF) are special forms of
an Adobe PDF file. sPDF converts scanned text into the PDF format
with text search and OCR capabilities. nPDF has those same features,
plus you can edit the text in an nPDF image if you have a PDF editing
program.The two PDF formats can also produce images with different
image quality, so you may want to experiment with them to determine
which is better for your scanned documents. sPDF and nPDF are only
available as page format options if you have installed OmniPage Pro on
your computer.

Note: If you did not install the OmniPage Pro software as part of the
scanner installation, and you choose to install it at this time, you may
have to restart your computer before the sPDF and nPDF formats are
available in the OneTouch software.

To scan with sPDF or nPDF:

1. Open the OneTouch Properties window.

2. Using the arrows, choose a OneTouch button to use for the sPDF

or nPDF scanning.

3. Select a Destination Application that uses a text format as the page

format.

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4. Right-click on the text format icon.

5. Choose the Searchable PDF or Normal PDF option for the page

format.

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Note: Not all Destination Applications have the sPDF and nPDF
options. Microsoft Word, for example, does not have them as scanning
options.

The settings for the button (button 8 in this example) now show
your page format selection.

The page format
icon is now set to
the selection from
the menu.

6. Choose a Scan Configuration.

7. Click OK.

The OneTouch Properties window closes.

8. Now scan with that button and the scanned document will be in

the sPDF or nPDF format that was selected for the button.

Note: The Transfer to Storage selection for a Destination Application
also has the sPDF and nPDF options. That means you can scan and
store items directly to a server in these formats.

9. To search for the text, open Adobe Acrobat Reader or Adobe

Acrobat.

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10. From the Adobe Acrobat File menu choose Open, and open the file

you just scanned.

11. From the Adobe Acrobat Edit menu choose Find.

The Find dialog box opens.

12. Enter the text you want to find, and click the Find button.

See the Adobe Acrobat user manual for more about finding text in a
PDF file, or about editing PDF text.

SCAN AND BURN TO A CD

If you have a CD burner attached to your computer, you can scan
directly from your Visioneer Patriot 680 scanner onto a CD.

Note: This feature is available only on computers running Windows
XP.

To scan and burn to a CD:

1. Put a blank CD into your computer’s CD Drive.

2. Open the OneTouch Properties window.

3. Using the arrows, choose a button to use for scanning and burning

to a CD.

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4. Select Burn to CD as the Destination Application.

The Burn to CD Destination Application is only available if you
have a CD burner attached to your computer, but you do not need
to have a CD in the burner to select the destination.

5. Choose a Page Format and a Scan Configuration.

6. Click OK.

The OneTouch Properties window closes.

7. Now start scanning using the button you selected to use to scan and

burn to a CD.
When scanning is finished, a bubble message on the screen tells you

that files are waiting to be burned to the CD.