Document scanning

In this dialog the settings for scanning are and the scanning process is triggered either automatically or manually. manually. The scanned images are displayed in the preview, depending on the settings only the front side or front and or front and back side.

View

In the upper half of the dialog, surrounded by a margin the scanner settings and the buttons for operating the scanner settings and the buttons for the operation of the scanner settings and the scanning process. Below that you see the preview of the scanned image(s). scanned image(s). Depending on the setting of the duplex option, one or or two images will be displayed side by side, these are the preview of the front side and the back side. When multiple documents are scanned, you can scroll through the previews to see all the images. images can be displayed.

Operation

To select and set a scanner, proceed as follows proceed as follows:

• Scanner
  Select a supported scanner connected to your computer supported scanner connected to your computer or the virtual scanner displayed in the selection box. Next to the selection box are the following buttons for the selected scanner:

  • Update scanner
    With this button, all scanners detected by the system which support the Intake option are searched for again and displayed in the selection box.

  • Scanner settings
    This button displays the scanner settings of the actively selected scanner. This is a a settings dialog from the scanner manufacturer, It is independent of CodX PostOffice and is described in the scanner manufacturer's Help of the scanner manufacturer. After exiting this manufacturer specific settings dialog, the scanners will be the scanners are updated with their profiles.
    Please take into account that if you create new scanner profiles do not scan them larger than 300dpi resolution, otherwise the otherwise the resolution will be too high for processing with CodX PostOffice. processing with CodX PostOffice. This will take too long and usually ends in a timeout.
    With the virtual scanner, only the directory selected, the images are read in the resolution in which they are available.

• Scanner profile
  Select one of the profiles supported by the actively supported by the actively selected scanner. These profiles contain the source source of the sheet feeder and the setting whether single or double-sided should be scanned. In addition, depending on the manufacturer of the hardware, various settings can be made for the image quality.
  Please note that there is a standard profile for the virtual scanner, but this profile is available for the virtual scanner, but it is not relevant for the the scanner.

• Scan
  With this button you initiate the scan process, provided that the dialog does not operate in automatic mode.

If the dialog is working in automatic mode When this dialog is displayed, a message dialog appears with the text text "Scanning will start as soon as the scanner is ready...". is ready...". Here the program waits until the scanner is ready and paper is paper is inserted in the selected source. After that the the scanning process is executed automatically. This process can be cancelled or interrupted with the can be canceled or interrupted with the displayed "Cancel" button. interrupted.
Automatic mode supports 2 types of scanning, either Single scan or Multiple scan. In single scan, after the automatic scanning of a document, the preview screen is displayed and the scanning process must be triggered again with the "Scan" button. button again. If the multiple scan mode is set all documents in the source will be scanned, then the dialog for waiting the dialog for waiting for the scanner to be ready appears again. If you want to view the scanned documents, you have to press the Cancel" button. After that you can activate the automatic multiple scan again by pressing the Scan" buttons.

The selection of the scanner and the scanner profile are saved are saved, so that the next time you start a scanner dialogue scanner dialog the last selected scanner and profile are automatically selected. are automatically selected.

Image preview

All scanned documents are displayed in the image preview. documents are displayed. Please note that when you scan again, the the scanned images will be deleted from the preview. will be deleted. To view the scanned documents, proceed as follows as follows:

• Scroll
  You can scroll between scanned documents using the scroll bar displayed on the page. scroll between the scanned documents; these functions are are displayed in a context menu using the right mouse button on the scroll bar. Or you have the possibility to scroll directly using the keyboard to scroll directly, use the following keys:
  Cursor up or Page up: back one page
  Cursor down or page down: one page forward
  Home: to the first screen
  End: to the last picture

• Show direct page
  You have the option of entering a number in the input field in which the number of pages and the current page are displayed. number of pages and the current page is displayed, you can enter a number of a page in the input field in which the number of pages and the current page are displayed. to scroll directly to this document. The input you have made is then reset to the current page / total number of pages Pages

Operation in the image preview

Within the screen you can use the following keyboard and mouse commands:

• Left mouse button
  Rotate image 90 degrees to the right

• Shift + left mouse button
  Rotate image 90 degrees to the left

• Right mouse button
  Enlarge image by 10 percent

• Shift + right mouse button
  Reduce image by 10 percent

• Right mouse button and select
  Pressing the right mouse button and moving the mouse at the same time and moving the mouse at the same time. After the mouse button mouse button is released, the marked area will be is enlarged.