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1. start of sample code SHELLEXECUTEINFO execInfo BOOL bSuccess execInfo cbSize sizeof execInfo execInfo fMask SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS SEE MASK FLAG DDEWAIT execInfo hwnd AfxGetMainWnd gt m_hWnd execInfo IpVerb NULL execInfo IpFile G KeyScanImaging sg exe execInfo lpParameters UserType F11 InFile Scanner OutFile c temp DO1 jpg execInfo lpDirectory NULL execInfo nShow SW_SHOWNORMAL execInfo hInstApp 0 execInfo IpIDList NULL execInfo IpClass NULL execInfo hkeyClass 0 execInfo dwHotKey 0 execInfo hIcon 0 execInfo hProcess SCH bSuccess ShellExecuteEx amp execInfo 10 ICON user Icon user is an Interactive user which takes advantage of the KeyScan Imaging built in command line interpreter to pre define and tune KeyScan Imaging application for a specific task For a list of command line syntax please refer to chapter 9 10 1 How to produce an Icon user e Create a desktop icon for KeyScan Imaging application or make a copy of your current KeyScan Imaging desktop icon e Place the mouse pointer on the new icon and left click on the mouse on the pop up menu select Properties e The Icon properties will open select shortcut e The following icon dialog should open sp exe Properties General Shortcut Compatibility af 0 ene Target type Application Target location Release Target easels
2. if you modify it to Single Page it will terminate scan after one page The scanning parameters used are those defined as default by the relevant user parameters of the F11 command the UI enable parameter on the F11 line is defined as Uldisable if you change it to Ulenable then when F11 is activated the scan dialog will popup letting the user define the scanning parameters resolution documentsize color mode Display timeout dialog to let the user feed more pages see above explanation When finished scanning activate the function defined as OUTDEF function in F11 of this example it is Image To File so we execute the function defined as Image To File on the Output Functions functions list Please note that the following parameters although exist on the command line or SG INI have no effect and ignored by the software 1 Format parameter on the Output Functions entries this parameter setting is automatically override by the output file name extension 2 Format parameter in the OutFile name file_format compression option on the command line Since F11 direct us to Image To File in output Functions table the default scanning parameters are defined by that entry to color 24 bits 300 dpi Since the path parameter on Image To File entry is empty the default setting is used this default is defined by Output Function lt TempFile gt Changing output file path and format sg exe
3. C Search removable media floppy CD ROM Z Include ttis location in the search software enter the location of lt KeyScan ALE d installation directory gt Backup Driver and click Don t search will choose the driver to install N ext butt on Choose this option to select the device driver from a list Windows does not guarantee that the driver you choose will be the best match for pour hardware rm Hardware Installation A The software you are installing for this hardware Generic USB2 0 Scanner has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility e with Windows XP Tell me why this testing is important Window may display hardware installation warning Continuing your installation of this software may impair or destabilize the correct operation of your system mes sage either immediately or in the future Microsoft strongly recommends that you stop this installation now and contact the hardware vendor for software that has passed Windows Logo testing STOP Installation AAA2 gt gt Found Now Hardware Wizard Completing the Found New Hardware Wizard The wizard has finished installing the software for 8 Genent USB20 Scanner After installation 1s finished a small message window should popup on the lower right corner of the monitor stating Your new hardware 1s installed and ready to use Check Finish to cloae the weard WARNINGS U
4. d If your hardware came with an installation CD lt 6 or floppy disk insert it now What do you want the wizard to do 6 Install the software automatically Recommended Install from a list or specific location Advanced Click Next to continue KR Found New Hardware Wizard Please wait while the wizard installs the software SS 59 Generic USB2 0 Scanner ZS Si usbscan sys To C WINDOWS system32 drivers AAA AAA AAA AAA AAA AAA Hardware Installation A The software you are installing for this hardware Generic USB2 0 Scanner has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP Tell me why this testing is important Continuing your installation of this software may impair or destabilize the correct operation of your system either immediately or in the future Microsoft strongly recommends that you stop this installation now and contact the hardware vendor for software that has passed Windows Logo testing Continue Anyway STOP Installation a Found New Hardware Wizard Completing the Found New Hardware Wizard The wizard has finished installing the software for ES Generic USB2 0 Scanner Click Finish to close the wizard A new wizard dialog pops up select Install the software automatically Windows should locate the KeyScan_KS810 inf driver installation file located under t
5. 5 7 2 lt Image gt lt Enhancement gt menu se b300 bmp File Edit Topic View POEGA Window Help D GG D H Geometric Transf Enhance Filters Paste Function Desqew Convert To Text Fig 5 38 KeyScan Image processing Enhancement Saturation Intensity Contrast Gamma Saturation Hue Hist Contrast Hist Equalize Stretch Intens 5 7 3 lt Image gt lt Filters gt menu Fig 5 39 KeyScan Image processing Enhancement Average Add Noise 1 a soc e Pew E H Clean Remove Noise 5 7 4 lt Image gt lt Paste Function gt menu Fig 5 40 KeyS se b300 bmp File Edit Topic view Dll A can Image processing regular ERA Window Help Geometric Transf Enhance Filters Paste Function Desqew v Replace Convert To Text And Multiply Not And Not Or Not Xor Not Add Not Max Not Multiply For details of Paste function please refer to Main Menu lt Edit gt lt Paste gt function After we paste clipboard data into KeyScan Region and before we terminate the Region and make the paste function permanent we can select the lt Image gt lt Paste Function gt that will be used to merge the original image with the new paste data As long as the Region is still active we can try and change the paste functions and observe the results interactively 5 7 5 lt Image gt lt Deskew gt menu Remove Skew effect from the scann
6. Check the content of the KeyScan box check if the PC complies with KeyScan minimum requirements 2 Connect and test the KS810 keyboard 3 Install the KeyScan Imaging software including the drivers the imaging application and the IRIS OCR engine 4 Connect the KS810 scanner device and setup its driver 5 Scanner calibration amp restart the KeyScan Imaging software 2 2 STAGE 1 Check The BOX Content And PC Minimum Requirements The KS810 package contains the following items KeyScan KS810 integrated keyboard scanner device The KeyScan wall mount power adapter The KeyScan USB2 communication cable White calibration sheet is not included in the box any clean A4 size printer paper can be used for calibration Software CD This installation instructions card The minimum PC configuration requirements PC Pentium 4 or higher with DVD reader free USB2 0 high speed port to connect the KeyScan you must connect the KS810 scanner directly to your PC USB2 connector do not connect it through a USB hub Free disk space of at least 1GB for installation recommended at least 2G byte free space for runtime User should be aware for example that the size of a BMP format file A4 size 24 bit color in 600dpi will be more than 100M bytes Operating system Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or higher Vista32 WARNINGS Use only the original KeyScan power adapter never attempt to use other power adap
7. Let you select one of the predefined settings You do not need both on the same command line 9 1 Introduction Third party application can activate KeyScan Imaging application using command line issued to the operating system Shell program As explained later the KeyScan Imaging application allows a very broad and versatile control over the application using the Shell command line 9 2 Shell command syntax lt prog path gt sg exe lt par ID gt lt par data gt lt prog path gt path to the sg exe application lt par ID gt one of the optional parameters commands as defined in 9 3 lt par data gt parameters data can be any ascii text until the next or character no need for blanks parameters are separated by comma If the lt par ID gt accept multiple parameters the last ones can be omitted and the interpreter will process only the given parameters 9 3 Optional Shell command parameters commands 9 3 1 UserType UserType lt user type name gt lt user type name gt can be one of the defined users F9 F10 F11 F12 DEFLT INTERACTIVE FUNC_DIALOG 9 3 2 InFile Input file if needed default is Scanner If Scanner is used then the scanner will be the source for data 9 3 3 OutFile Output file name format and compression level e OutFile out_file_name file_format compression_level e file_format bmpltiflpcxljpglfaxlpct e compression_level 2 255 2 lo
8. M Clicking on this icon will open a control dialog which let the user control the NoTouch AutoScan operation Y Enable NoTouch AutoScan Disable NoTouch AutoScan Enable Scanner Buttons Y Disable Scanner Buttons Disable Cropping v Override all to Gray scan Fixed scanned documment size Exit Tanoorsearcr If Auto Scan is not running it can be activated by performing the following steps e Run the KeyScan Imaging application by double clicking the SG EXE icon De e From file menu lt File gt select the lt Enable Autoscan gt e Within few seconds a message box should pop up on the screen KeyScan Scanner is connected indicating the Auto Scan started to run and checked that the scanner is connected e If the above message does not appear within 20 30 seconds the following message should appear after a few more seconds Failed to detect KeyScan scanner Do you wish to abort Auto Scan function 1f Yes the Auto Scan will continue to run and will detect the scanner when plugged in and will display the message KeyScan scanner is connected If select No Auto Scan will stop running e The user can activate the NoTouch AutoScan by clicking on its icon placed on the desktop display y A How to check if NoTouch AutoScan is active If the NoTouch AutoScan is active its orange icon should be placed on the active application tray Icon Tray on the right bottom corner of the monitor How to De
9. MS Word insert object menu A popup dialog appears with the list of all objects available Sg Document is the entry for KeyScan Imaging software object Create New Create from File Object type RegwWizCtrl SColorBar Control SelTree Class Sg Document Snapshot File SYG Document C Display as icon System Monitor Control Ti Document Result Inserts a new object into your document Fig 11 2 MS Word select object dialog After KeyScan Imaging object Sg Document is selected the system will alter the original MS Word menu replacing temporarily Word s lt Edit gt to lt Window gt menus with KeyScan Imaging lt Edit gt lt View gt lt Image gt and lt Help gt Y Document4 Microsoft Word Intensity Filters Contrast Paste Function Resample Saturation Desqew Hue Object function to Cremo an ar aen Hst Contrast Word dochynent Kan Hist Equalize When this object is active the MS Word menu is taken by the object s own menu S oH oe Set image gamma correction Fig 11 3 MS Word In Place active object It will create also an In Place window for KeyScan Imaging document inside the current opened Word document client area Each time the user clicks with the mouse on the KeyScan Imaging in place window the Word menu alters to KeyScan menu and each time the user click off the KeyScan in place frame the Word menu will change back to normal KeySca
10. placas KS810 USB2 0 Scanner Device driver software installed successfully 7 anoo Search BES This concludes the device driver installation for Vista32 operating system please continue to Stage 5 on this document Windows XP device driver installation Within 30 seconds a small message box should pop up for 10 20 seconds on the lower right corner of the monitor stating that a new hardware has been found USB2 Scanner Found Mow Hardware Wizard Welcome to the Found Now Hardware Wizard WW ieeegt pad sobr parar SS On on he har alan E cb oF on then w feelers j piri Web ale Dlh mer rada onl A Found New Hardware Wizard dialog should popup in about 30 60 seconds For the question Can window connect to windows update to search for software select answer No not this time Dan Vee conci ln MWeskar Urs sge ba raschle Wes Be Bee only 1 Yes reng sl rr ere dond a dere si Ma mol fer Fee Lk He lo dcr Newt gt Carcel On the next step Windows installer will ask if you wish window to try and locate your driver automatically or you should give windows the location of the driver You should let windows locate the driver in case windows failed to locate the driver you should select the other option For details please continue to next page Install the software automatically Found New Hardware Wizard This wizard helps you install software for Generic USB2 0 Scanner
11. DONE gt button Finish scanning into the current document and remove the scanner interface from the screen e lt ABORT gt button Abort current scanning Pressing the lt ESC gt keyboard key will have the same effect Scan Status window This window show the status of the scan process When green the scan process 1s not active and any of the above 3 buttons can be used When scanning this status window turn to Red color and display the function performed by the scanner As long as the status window is Red only the ABORT button should be used if required other buttons scan and done will not have any effect and be ignored lt File gt lt Scan to Current Doc gt Similar to lt Menu gt lt Scan gt operation but instead of producing a new window and a new document it will use the current selected document and convert it to a multi image document and save the new scanned image into the same document along with its current image s for more details see Multi Image Documents and file formats 5 2 15 5 2 16 Ial 5 2 19 Select Source TWAIN scanners interface This option is not available on KeyScan Imaging Acquire TWAIN scanners interface This option is not available on KeyScan Imaging Enable NoTouch AutoScan Enable NoTouch AutoScan modes The software will try to communicate with the KeyScan scanner If communication is successful than within 2 5 seconds a popup dialog should appear le
12. Desktop directory is used as the default directory to save all scanned images It may be changed each time the user start the program and choose a different desktop directory If the desktop window 1s opened the software will go over all the image files in the desktop directory produce thumbnail images of the files and show them on the desktop window 5 2 4 lt File gt lt Close gt Menu Close current file without saving changes 5 2 5 lt File gt lt Save gt Menu Save image to current file in the original file format 5 2 6 lt File gt lt Save As gt Menu Save image to a file set output file name and format by File I O dialog Save As Save in al Images sl Ea Bo pg id ipo 2 shay jpg tipo 12 jpg Save as type Mc as Cancel Open az read only SE Fig 5 4 lt File gt lt Save As gt menu 5 2 7 lt File gt lt Delete gt Menu Delete the current file and close 1ts window 5 2 8 lt File gt lt Print gt Menu Print document Selection ER HI E olli Fig 5 5 lt File gt lt Print gt menu 5 2 9 lt File gt lt Print Preview gt Menu See printing page layout and image before printing the document 5 2 10 lt File gt lt Print Setup gt Menu Setup printing parameters _ Print Setup EH First Available Tray Fig 5 6 lt File gt lt Print gt menu 5 2 11 lt File gt lt Send Malz Menu Send current file by Email e Activa
13. Main Menu lt File gt lt Enable AutoScan gt When the AutoScan is active and detects the KeyScan scanner the following pop up window message will show on the monitor for 20 30 seconds KeyScan Scanner Is Connected Fig7 2 AutoScan enabled message To disable auto scan Select on KeyScan Imaging Main Menu lt File gt lt Disable AutoScan gt The following message will pop up Abort Auto Scan Do you wish to abort Auto Scan function _No Fig7 3 AutoScan disable message If the user selects YES button the AutoScan application will be stopped If the user selects NO button the AutoScan will continue running 7 2 2 Working with NoTouch AutoScan Auto scan is optimized to automate scanning of documents for functions that the user uses mostly in his day to day work Auto Scan process e The User places a document on the KeyScan scanner feeding tray e The NoTouch AutoScan senses the document and activates the NoTouch AutoScan Timeout Bar Box Ke rnn MaTecech Artero EES Wo Touch Aulo Scan Delault Function is activated automalicalhy unless You move your mouse lo gal ihe Functon Selecton dialog If during the timeout period the user does not move the mouse over the Timeout Bar he indicates that he wishes to proceed with the NoTouch default scanning process The KeyScan Imaging software activates the scanning process using the default parameter settings and when finish scanning activates th
14. OCR 300 dpi is good for A4 size document with reasonable font size for small documents like business card which may contain small fonts use 600 dpi resolution e Resolution higher than 300 600 dpi When the user request to scan in resolution between 100dpi to 300dpi the KeyScan driver scans 300dpi and if requested reduces the output to required resolution For any resolution above 300dpi the KeyScan driver scans in 600dpi and transform to the required resolution If possible user should use 300dpi or 600dpi since these are the native resolutions of the driver Following are few calculation examples How to calculate image size Bitmap file format with no compression Image size BytesPerPix Image Width DPI Image Height DPI BytesPerPix is 3 for 24 bit Color and 1 for 8 bit Gray images A4 size image Image Width is 8 5 and ImageHeight is 11 600 DPI color image size will be 3 8 5 600 11 600 100 MBytes 150 DPI color image size will be 3 8 5 150 11 150 6 311 Mbytes Gray images files will be 1 3 size of the above image size File size can be reduced dramatically by saving images in JPG compressed format but high compression factors may result poor image quality which do not justify high resolution scanning In most cases there is no reason to scan a document in high resolution of 600dp1 and than save it with high compression JPG to reduce file size since we will loose the high resolution quality any way Medium and low JPG co
15. Scan Dialog User starts scanning by pressing the Scan button Abort scanning by pressing Abort button or clicking twice on ESC keyboard key or clicking on the X sign on the upper right corner of the scan dialog Once scan 1s complete the user can finish scanning process with the lt Done gt button If instead of DONE the user places another document and press again SCAN button he will scan the new image into a new page on the same document and will produce a multiple images document Scan dialog is divided into 4 sections Scan Control settings Document size Output resolution Function buttons Scan Control section Scan Control Doc Type Text C Drawing e Photo Doc Brightness Lite e Normal f Dark ti E PhotoNormal Cel Color 24bits Br 15 Ups 25 Thr 1 27 Fig 5 13 Scan Control section in Scan dialog The scan control section defines the following scanning parameters Color mode Color 24bit output Gray 8 bit output and B amp W 1 bit output Brightness in the range of 1000 to 1000 Contrast in the range of 1000 to 1000 Gamma in the range of 0 to 255 B amp W threshold in the range of 0 to 255 The scan control manage up to 15 predefined settings of the above parameters the first 9 settings are the combinations of document type Photo 24 bit color Drawing 8 bit Gray Text 1 bit Black and White B amp W Per each of the above three options the user can select 3
16. Timeout Bar Box is automatically activated when the user insert document to be scanned into the scanner feeding slot ee Bees Sea NoTouch AuioSean DCelault FPuncion is activated automalicalhy unless You move your mouse lo gal ihe Functon Selecton dialog eme If the user moves the mouse over the Timeout Bar Box he indicates to NoTouch AutoScan that he wishes to use AutoScan mode of operation to select the actual function to be performed As a result the Timeout Bar Box is replaced by the AutoScan function selection dialog e User select the target application on the AutoScan function selection pop up dialog this will also trigger the scanning operation e When finish scanning the selected application function will be activated with the selected document Fo Image to Curr App Multi page FOF fle Save to fle UT Copy Image Email multi page Modily Func Setting More Func Page Down Scan all in Gray mode Fig 3 12 AutoScan dialog 3 AutoScan to current active application This is a special mode of AutoScan where the scanned image is automatically pushed to the last active application to the current opened document cursor position MM KeyScan Fast Function E E E Image to Curr App r Fig 3 13 AutoScan image to current application 4 TWAIN source mode KeyScan Imaging contains a built in interface which enables a TWAIN compliant application to use it as a TWAIN data source As such
17. UserType F11 OutFile c temp ksimage jpg The above command will scan the document and save it into c temp ksimage jpg file you must make sure the requested folder exists The output file format is defined automatically by the file name extension Setting the compression level for JPG file sg exe UserType F11 OutFile c temp ksimage jpg jpg 2 Will produced highly compressed file sg exe UserType F11 OutFile c temp ksimage jpg jpg 250 Will produce low compressed file Setting scanning resolution sg exe UserType F11 OutFile c temp ksimage bmp Res 100 100 This command will override the scan resolution defined by Image To File changing from 300 dpi to 100 dpi Please note that due to temporary software library problem Gray scale or Black and White files can be saved only in 600 dpi Setting file format to PDF The following example saves the scanned data in JPG file format sg exe UserType F11 OutFile c temp ksimage jpg In order to save the output in a PDF or DOC text formats it is not enough to modify the output file extension since the output function defined by user F11 is Image To File we must override the setting of F11 to Text To File or modify F11 itself The following command line will produce a PDF output file sg exe UserType F11 OutFunc Text To File OutFile c temp ksimage pdf Setting scan color and related parameters SQ Lets you define the parameters OutQ
18. access to the activation bar entries through the Output Functions table settings as follows a Set the Function parameter to Image to AppBar b Set the Path parameter to the name of the entry in the application bar table c When referencing the applications bar table the application bar parameters are being read from the application bar table at runtime and override the settings of the Output function table KeyScan Command line interpreter On program activation 1 The initialization process create for each type of user F1 Fnn Interactive user TWAIN user and DEFLT user its array of parameters which are defined by the UI parameters and Output Functions entries on SG INI 2 When a user is activated and after all default user parameters are set as mentioned above the command line interpreter goes over the command line extract the various parameters in the order they appear on the command line and save them in the required user parameters array replacing the original value set by the initialization process on the UI parameters and on the Output Functions tables 3 Please note that the command line interpreter does not modify any settings on the Applications bar table so if a command line activate output function which references Application bar table entry the application bar settings will override any command line settings 4 Activate the required user based on its parameters settings In
19. addition to the above explanation please note that not all settings options are compatible to each other Setting examples We assume following table settings on SG INI file UI Parameters F11 UI F11 FKEY UlIdisable UI enable Save to file UI Title JPEGfile IconID Name Letter DocDef Image To File END_OUTDEF Same File of Pages PhotoNormal Scan Quality data DeskTop Disable DeskTop Startup ALT_F11 ALT KEY Output Functions 2 Image To File Outdef_Name Image to file Function Path File HO Method Tiff Format Filter Color 24bits Color Inch Units 300 Xres 300 Yres NoComprs CompressMethod MedCompress CompressFactor 0 Setting ENGLISH_US OCR_Lang 3 Text To File Outdef_Name Text to file Function Path File I O UU Method Text RTF Format Filter Gray Scale Color Inch Units 300 Xres 300 Yres JPGComprs CompressMethod HighCompress CompressFactor 0 Setting ENGLISH_US OCR_Lang 22 Save To File UI Outdef_Name Image to AppBar Function Save_to_file Path None Method JPG Format Filter Color 24bits Color Inch Units 300 Xres 300 Yres NoComprs CompressMethod NoCompress CompressFactor 0 Setting ENGLISH_US OCR_Lang Command line Example 1 sg exe UserType F11 This command line will attempt to scan multiple pages into single output file the parameter of pages on F11 is set to Same File
20. different settings of Brightness Contrast Gamma parameters defined by Doc Brightness Light To get a lighter document in case the original is too dark Normal To get normal document closer to the original scanned one Dark To get a darker document in case the original is too light Instead of the above presetting selection the user can select any of the 15 settings including the 9 mentioned above by their names When the user selects settings the bottom line displays the selected setting parameters values and the small photo on the dialog will be updated according to the selected parameters The SET button on the Scan Control section let the user modify any of the 15 settings to his own required values this kind of setting will last as long as the KeyScan Imaging application is running the modifications are not saved to disk so on the next time the KeyScan Imaging application is activated the user will get back the original settings In case the user wishes to modify the settings permanently he must get to the SET button using the Main Menu lt File gt lt Settings gt lt Scan Quality dialog gt Pressing SET button The KeyScan Image Capture parameters dialog pop up KoyScan Imago capiure parameters Fig 5 14 Scan Set capture parameters The dialog image and sliders will reflect the selected pre setting The user can modify the settings by using the sliders or simply writing the requi
21. it directly to the PC USB2 hub no extension USB cable or external USB hub are allowed If the scanner is connected to USB1 1 port or to external desktop USB hub you may experience unpredicted behavior and errors 2 4 Stage 3 Install KeyScan Imaging Application Software e Activate the KeyScan installation according to the installation media you have you must activate the installation as Administrator e H you downloaded the KeyScan software from KeyScan web site simply run the downloaded executable file make sure you run it as Administrator e Ifyou have a KeyScan installation CD which contain only the KeyScan application it will activate automatically the KeyScan installation and you will get the first installation menu ke em e Ifyou have the KeyScan Documentation and Installation CD you will get a selection dialog letting you browse KeyScan documents KeyScan short demo videos installation of Irfan imaging software and installation of KeyScan software Click on the KeyScan software installation label or icon to start the software installation pan ra ETE Keyscan K5810 e e Follow the installation instructions displayed Ge the installation software e Itis strongly recommended to make a full installation of all software options Following are the installation dialogs and ER A eee A bored hied Wrkrea la Pa Lec Wauad lor KS VOR Net Fre Emp kee dukia LE oa ep su cost To morir zech KEYSCAN ie Seng ee D1
22. scanning all images e On Scan window the user will see just the last scanned document please refer to Browse multi page document for how to handle the multi image document 3 6 2 Scan to the same document e In order to scan a new image into existing document and make this document a multi page document do the following steps e Open the document and select its window as the current document e On main menu select lt File gt lt Scan Multi page gt this function will open the currently selected document instead of creating a new one 3 6 3 Browsing multi page document e The Page Up and Page Down keyboard keys can be used to browse the images of multi page document e The Delete keyboard key can be used to delete image from multi page document e Main menu lt File gt lt Save As gt can be used to save multi page document as a multi page single file Other file formats will produce multiple indexed files each contains a single document 3 7 What can the user do with scanned image Process the images Keyscan Imaging application has an enhanced set of image processing functions Which allow the user to perform various functions on the image e Modify image geometric parameters Using KeyScan imaging the user can resize the image resample it to new resolution add frame around the image rotate the image and more For complete details please refer to chapter 5 User Interface Geometric Transl Enhance Filters P
23. scanning process in two modes NoTouch mode and AutoScan mode e When a document is placed on the scanner feeding tray it is sensed by NoTouch AutoScan e A timeout dialog pops up its duration can be adjusted Kebun MoTeuch fuboScom ea NoTouch AuloSean Delault Functon is activated automaticaly unless You move your mouse to gel the Funchon Selecton dialog e f during the timeout process the user does not move its mouse cursor over the dialog NoTouch AutoScan will proceed with NoTouch function which proceeds with the default pre set function e If during the timeout the user moves the mouse cursor over the timeout dialog the KeyScan will proceed with AutoScan which allows the user to select one of the 15 pre set functions This example will demonstrate How to activate the Auto Scan feature of KeyScan Imaging system How to check if Auto Scan is active How to disable Auto Scan How to use Auto Scan to scan a photo into the current active MS Word document How to activate NoTouch AutoScan NoTouch AutoScan feature of KeyScan Imaging system can be setup to start running when the computer is turned on For this feature the AutoScan shortcut icon should be placed on the Startup directory please check with you system administrator for more details Once activated the NoTouch AutoScan orange icon should appear on the active applications bar Icon Tray on the right bottom side of the screen y
24. software license prompt Dialog D12 Readme file and finish e When installation is finished remove the installation media the CD or DVD and restart your computer e The installation process should place two shortcuts on your display desktop KeyScan Imaging Application shortcut KeyScan AutoScan application shortcut 2 5 STAGE 4 Connect Scanner and Setup Its Driver Turn on the PC and wait till Windows is running make sure the KeyScan USB2 cable is connected and the KS810 keyboard is functional e Connect the power adapter to the power outlet on the wall F a em rs Insert the power adapter plug into the power connector on the KS810 rear connector panel Look into the scanner feeding slot you should see Red color light indicating the scanner received the 5V power from the adapter Windows Vista32 device driver installation If you are installing the KeyScan on a Windows XP system please proceed to Windows XP device driver installation If you are installing the KeyScan on a Windows Vista32 system you should get within 30 seconds of plugging the power adapter a small popup wagon on ne right bottom corner of you screen Installing device Driver Software D Installing device driver software Click here for status bd Yahoo Search Ba The first popup message will follow within with another small popup window declaring KS810 usb2 device installed successfully gt
25. the KeyScan Imaging TWAIN data source is a complete image processing application and not just a scanner interface as any other TWAIN scan source 5 Shell command line mode KeyScan Imaging contains a built in command line interpreter which enables 3 party applications to activate 1t using the SHELL command line interface 6 Icon command line activation mode KeyScan Imaging contains a built in command line interpreter which enables end user and integrators to add command line instructions to Icons producing application specific Icons For example the user can define a single click icon for scanning and sending fax or email sp exe Properties General Shortcut Compatibility sf 0 ene Target type Application Target location Release Target K Keyscan kS_projects4SG Alelease sa exe Start ir kK ReyscarnskS_ projects SG release L nc Shortcut key None Run Mormal window e EA Comment Fig 3 14 Icon command line setting 4 Tutorials This chapter let KeyScan user to start using the scanner and the software without getting into details and definitions it is intended to show the user how simple it is to activate the scanner and get results In case there are details which are not completely clear the user can go on with the execution of the examples or get to the relevan
26. user manipulate rectangular portions of the document image At a given point there is no more than a single region defined per each document there is no relation between regions of different documents How To Ape A Parrot 5 3 1 Create a region A region can be created only over an open document window Open or scan a document Place the cursor over any point of the document and press the left mouse button Keep the left mouse button pressed while dragging the mouse over the image window A rectangular shape will be formed over the image between the starting point and current mouse position this 1s the region area Release the mouse left button The rectangle drawn over the image 1s the newly defined region 5 3 2 Change region size and position Change region position When the cursor is moved over the region area it changes its shape from Arrow to Cross Move the cursor over the region until its shape is changed to cross Press down the mouse left button and drag the region with the mouse while the left button is pressed Change region size When the cursor is moved over the region contour lines its shape is changed from a single arrow to small double side arrow at this poit press the mouse left button and increase decrease the region area 5 3 3 Change region area to interior exterior e After a region is created it becomes by default Interior region the region area is the interior portion of the r
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29. B extension cable or external USB hub connect the KeyScan to the USB2 ports on the rear connectors panel and not to the front USB connector panel Power problem make sure the original KeyScan power adapter is being used e The scanned image is not continuous and broken in certain points or the same scanning function some times succeeds and other times fails Most likely you are using a USB1 1 connection to your PC Make sure your PC port is of USB2 type Make sure you are using the original KeyScan USB2 cable Make sure you do not use any USB extension cable Make sure your scanner is connected directly to the PC port and not to external USB hub most likely you monitor USB hub or desktop USB hub are of USB1 1 type and not of USB2 type Introduction to Scanning 3 1 Calibration 3 1 1 When to calibrate The scanner should be calibrated whenever it is installed on a PC or when the operating system installation is updated The calibration data is saved in two files KSCalibration ini and KSCalibration bin on the operating system main directory The scanner should be calibrated when it is first installed or when the calibration file is erased or when scanned images contain vertical gray lines which are not part of the original scanned image 3 1 2 How to calibrate e Run KeyScan Imaging application software e Under lt File gt menu choose lt Calibrate Scanner gt which will start the calibration p
30. File gt lt Settings gt lt Doc Def gt menu command DocDef lt doc definition name gt 9 3 9 OutFunc Select output function definition 9 3 10 OutQ Select output quality definition which sets the brightness contrast number of bits color gray B amp W parameters OutQ lt out quality name gt 9 4 Filters Functions 9 4 1 Rotate image Rotate image by given angle Syntax Rot angle 9 4 2 SHEAR image horizontally Shear image horizontally by angle Syntax ShearH angle 9 4 3 SHEAR image vertically Shear image vertically by angle Syntax ShearV angle 9 4 4 FLIP image Flip the image vertically Syntax Flip 9 4 5 REVERSE image Reverse image horizontally Syntax Rev 9 4 6 Resize image Resize image to new size 1f new size 1s smaller than current size it will cut the required size out of the current bitmap If new size is larger than the current size create a new larger bitmap and past the current image to it Syntax Size x y 9 4 7 ADD NOISE to image Add noise to image amount of noise is defined by n parameter which range is from O 1000 Syntax Noise n 9 4 8 AVERAGE image Average image to produce a blure effect parameter N defines the strength of the function and range from 0 15 Syntax Aver N 9 4 9 EMBOSS image Emboss image not ready yet Syntax Embs 9 4 10 Modify image intensity Change image intensity to make it brighter or dar
31. RAMETERS CONSIDERATIONS 20 Boe SCAN ONE PAGE aan IED REO ras 22 SA4 ABORT SCANNING PAPER JAM Susa rita 22 30 OQUIPUT DIE TA E KEN 22 305 OCAN NUMBER OF PAGE S ar ere T a e TA 23 3 6 1 Scan TOA NEW CUM stas 23 3 6 2 Klee 23 3 6 3 Browsing mulni PASE DOCUMENT eege sbavehibeaseees 23 3 7 WHAT CAN THE USER DO WITH SCANNED INMAOR 23 TUTOR A NR EE 28 Als SEAN ONE IMAGE TOP E a 28 42 SCAN MULTIPLE IMAGES TO SINGLE FIL id 28 4 3 SCAN MULTIPLE IMAGES TO MULTIPLE FILES 0cc0sccsccsescusccocscccccecccsccccccscceesscsccvcccecsecenoccevecscees 28 A 6 JE ex GG Zr REA tao DPF o ET EO TRS PN 28 Aa SENDE 5 EE EE 29 AO Ge REECH EE 29 4 7 USE KEYSCAN IMAGING APPLICATION AS AN ENHANCED TWAIN ODRIWER 29 4 8 INTRODUCTION TO WORKING WITH KEYSCAN AUTO SCAN gt occnoccnconoconocnnccnaconocnnconaronoconccnaronacnnconos 30 4 8 1 WORD PROCESSOR DOCUMENT EXAMPLE AUTO SCAN TO MICROSOFT WORD DOCUMENT 31 4 8 2 DOCUMENT EXAMPLE AUTO SCAN TO ADOBE ACROBAT ssssessesseseeseseessesersereessessrsersersessee 32 4 8 3 IMAGING EXAMPLE AUTO SCAN TO ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ERROR BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED USER INTERFACE FOR INTERACTIVE OPERATION cccccsssccscsccsscccccsccccscsccsscccees 34 Sl INTRODUCTION Sea AAA A 34 e GE Dune GE ON 34 5 2 1 ELTON EN EWS MEN Circerscesa eae a eee SEL eT Uae 34 Vibra UE gt gt OP en gt MES 35 De lt File gt lt Open Desktop gt Menu Not available on KeyScan Jmoggeimg 3
32. Scan Imaging will try to locate the user s default printer to be used by copy function At any time the user can reactivate this search for printer process by selecting lt File gt lt Settings gt lt Update App Path gt Performing Color copy function 4 5 4 6 4 7 e Use KeyScan Imaging to scan a document e When done select the scanned document window e Click on the applications bar at the bottom of the KeyScan Imaging on the Icon of the DfltCopy e The scanned document will be send and printed on the default printer e Same function can be done using the AutoScan interface Send FAX The process of sending a fax 1s very similar to Color Copy described in section 4 4 above In fact KeyScan Imaging is using the FAX function print interface to print the document to the fax instead of to a printer In order to use the fax function the user must have a fax modem installed or built into his PC system and install fax software or activate the Windows XP built in fax interface Same function can be done using the AutoScan interface Send Email e Use KeyScan Imaging to scan a document e When done Select from menu lt File gt lt Send Mail gt KeyScan will activate your email software and attach the scanned image to a new email message using TIF as its default file format e Instead the user can select from menu lt File gt lt Send Mail UI gt anf KeyScan will prompt first for the file name an
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34. User Manual KeyScan Imaging KeyScan Ltd 19 Nov 2009 Notice The data contained in this document has been submitted in confidence and contains trade secrets and or privileged confidential technical commercial or financial information Such data should be used only for evaluation purposes and should not be copied or distributed without written permission of KeyScan Tech Inc 1 2 INTRODUCTION susi ani a aaao 6 PRODUCTIN STAELATION lt 02 S ZINI ROD O O a NA A A SR 8 TV CTA AWE Ceasers sr ics ac atte staph es SST A ate Rene asp hd en eee S TRON OY EIA EE 5 INSTALLA TION PROCE D EENEG 8 2 2 STAGE 1 CHECK THE BOX CONTENT AND PC MINIMUM REOUIREMENTg 9 The KS810 package contains the following emie 9 The minimum PC configuration requirements ocooooccnnooaaaaaaannononccnnnnnnnnnononnnnnnnnannnnnnc nono nnn nro non nn nnnnnnns 9 2 3 STAGE 2 CONNPCTANDTESTTHEKaSIOUKENBOARD 10 2 4 STAGE 3 INSTALL KEYSCAN IMAGING APPLICATION BOPTWARER 11 2 5 STAGE 4 CONNECT SCANNER AND SETUP ITS DRIVER cccccseccssccescccssccesccecceesccusccesceesccecceess 12 2 65 LAGE 3 SCANNER CALIBRATION Sia iia 16 2 7 HANDLING PROBLEMS DURING INSTALLATION BROCEsgs 17 Others problems you MAVWEexpertenCe esis Ria RRR as 18 INTRODUCTION TO SCANNIN G 000iaa ii ds 19 Sl CALIBRATION EE 19 3 1 1 When lO CONDI GICs enana dic 19 3 1 2 FLOW LO CANDI OIE E ati adas 19 3 1 3 Automatic check and prompt for coaltDragtton 20 3 2 SCANNING PA
35. a is being cut off the image leaving White space e The region image removed from the document is placed on the clipboard can be placed back to any application using Paste command Fig 5 24 KeyScan cut image EDIT menu 5 4 3 lt Edit gt lt Copy gt Copy a region of document se b300 bmp File Maxi Topic View Image Window Help D Undo Ctri 2 Ki Cut Ctrl x Copy Paste Paste Special PasteLink Delete obs Properties Resample Resolution Resize Fig 5 25 KeyScan copy image EDIT menu Ctrl Define a region and place it over the document area you wish to copy Select Main Menu lt Edit gt lt Copy gt The region area is being copy onto the clipboard the original image remains unaffected The region image copied from the document is placed on the clipboard and can be placed back to any application using Paste command 5 4 4 lt Edit gt lt Paste gt Paste image placed on the clipboard by copy cut command into a region defined on the current document se b300 bmp File Mails Topic View Image Window Help Di Undo Ctrl Z Ki Cut Ctrl x P Copy Ctrl C rete cate Paste Special PasteLink Delete R Del Properties Resample Resolution p Fig 5 26 KeyScan Paste image EDIT menu e Copy or cut image using any application into the clipboard e Define a region on the target document e Select from Main Menu lt Edit gt lt Paste gt command the clipboard i
36. activate NoTouch AutoScan e Click on the NoTouch AutoScan icon located on the Icon Tray on the right bottom corner of the monitor e The control dialog is opened wd Enable NoTouch AutoScan Disable NoTouch AutoScan Enable Scanner Buttons wd Disable Scanner Buttons Disable Cropping d Override all to Gray scan Fixed scanned documment size Exit wonn Taree se arc ER lt A Select Exit Another option to deactivate the NoTouch AutoScan is Run the KeyScan Imaging application by double clicking the KS EXE icon From file menu lt File gt select the lt Disable Auto Scan gt Within few seconds a message box should pop up on the screen Do you wish to abort Auto Scan function the user can select Yes to quit the Auto Scan or No to continue the Auto Scan How to Enable Disable NoTouch AutoScan function Once NoTouch AutoScan is active we have its icon placed on the Active applications bar Icons Bar e Click on the NoTouch AutoScan icon placed on the active applications bar e On the popup menu select Enable NoTouch AutoScan to enable its function e Select Disable NoTouch AutoScan to disable its function e Please note that scanner buttons scanning functions and NoTouch AutoScan scanning functions can not be active at the same time 4 8 1 Word processor document example NoTouch AutoScan to Microsoft Word document How to AutoScan into Microsoft Word document e The NoTouch AutoSca
37. activates the required function The comprehensive setting capability let the user choose between a fully automated process and the option to define scanning functionality multi page and other features within the scanning process 7 2 3 Examples 7 2 3 1 Image to current application e The user is processing some document using Window application for example MS Word application e The user wishes to scan an image and insert it into the current Word document and place it in the current position of the cursor e Assuming that the AutoScan menu F9 function is set to Scan Image To e Current Application The user inserts the document into the scanner scanning slot e The NoTouch AutoScan is activated and displays the Timeout Bar Box Kebun Maiech Dutetrsn F sl NoTouch AuioSean Delault Functon is activated automaticaly unless You move your mouse to gal ithe Funchon Selection dialog CH e During the timeout period the user moves the mouse over the Timeout Bar to indicate that he wishes to activate AutoScan e AutoScan is activated and replaces the Timeout Bar with a function selection pop up menu Mi KeyScan Fast Function EOR Image to Curr App Email color Image to file F12 OCR to MS Word E DEFLT TA Fax Set Change Func Setting e The user selects the F9 function e The scanner perform scanning scanning parameters are predefined for this function One of the options availa
38. aste Function Desqew Convert To Text Fig 3 7 Geometry parameters Rotate 90 deg Rotate 180 deg Rotate 270 deg Rotate Angle Shear Horizontal Shear Vertical Flip Reverse Enhance image quality Using KeyScan Imaging the user can enhance image quality using various functions and tools such as image histogram etc For complete details please refer to chapter 5 User Interface Geometric Transl Enhance Filters Paste Function Desqev Convert To Text Intensity Contrast Tam E Saturation Hue Hist Contrast Hist Equalize Stretch Intens Fig 3 8 Image enhancement Merge images Using KeyScan Imaging the user can combine overlap images controlling the interaction functions between the merged images pixels For complete details please refer to chapter 5 User Interface Window Help Geometric Transl Enhance Filters Paste Function Convert To Text F Replace And ar or Max Multiply Mot And Mok Or Mot or Mot Add Plot Max Mot Multiply Fig 3 9 Image paste Artistic processing Using KeyScan Imaging the user can add artistic appearance to the scanned images For complete details please refer to chapter 5 User Interface Geometric Transl Enhance Average Paste Function Clean Desqew Remove Moise Add Noise Convert To Text Sharpen Posterize Mosaic Fig 3 9 Image Filters e Translate document image into compound document te
39. ate a searchable PDF file 5 User Interface for interactive operation 5 1 Introduction Interactive operation covers any operation and function of KeyScan Imaging software done by the user using his keyboard and mouse and the KeyScan application s user interface As we will see later in chapters 6 10 there are other ways to activate and control the KeyScan Imaging software 5 2 lt File gt Menu AG Edit Topic View Image Window Help Ctrl N Ctri O Ctrl 5 Print Print Preview Print Setup Send Mail Send Mail UI Settings Calibrate Scanner Scan Scan Multi Page Select Source Aquire Enable 4utoScan Disable AutoScan Exit Fig 5 1 File menu 5 2 1 lt File gt lt New gt Menu Create a new and empty bitmap The default properties of the new bitmap are defined by the SG INI file and can be modified by the user Fig 5 2 lt File gt lt New gt menu 5 2 2 lt File gt lt Open gt Menu Open existing file Open Look in Sy Wint sl El Al cl oor ieee liNGervicePack Uninstall Madow tm TJ CatRoot History Profiles 3 i in Repair La Java C ShellNew Media SS System Msapps Systems gt File name temp Files of type A Files D Cancel Open as read only Fig 5 3 lt File gt lt Open gt menu 5 2 3 lt File gt lt Open Desktop gt Menu Not available on KeyScan Imaging Open the desktop directory and the desktop window
40. bits D Scan Parameters Brightness A De G Contrast e G Threshold A 127 G Gamma R f oo G Set Scan Parameters Image Enhancement 105 G 105 B fios Edge removal Auto y Desqew Disable DI Method Dark D Histogram Enable N Lines 2 MaxDif D Enhance Bw Disable D Intensity Disable D MContrast 5 KeepGray TRUE D Color Management sRGB filter active Enable D Detection FA r Filters No Of Filters fo Set Filters a Clean Noise Pre 0 Post 0 Cancel Fig 5 10 lt File gt lt Settings gt lt Scan Quality gt menu e Application Bar Activates the Application bar dialog which lets the user setup the applications he can activates by the KeyScan Application Bar For more details see Chapt 11 2 5 KeyScan Applications Bar Dialog Application Name MSWord el Ut Uldisable v Path _ E Microsoft Office OFFICE11 WINWORD EXE Compression Type NoComprs zi Factor NoCompress DI Icon ID MS Wordlmg gt Data transfer Method MEE d a Out File Temp_KeyScan test jpg Fig 5 11 lt File gt lt Settings gt lt Application Bar gt menu e 3 Party Applications Activates update process which goes over the list of 3 party applications defined in SgApps ini and update the applications path according to registry information This information is used by the KeyScan Application Bar AutoScan and other methods to activate applications For more details see pa
41. ble for setting is to have the scanner scanning user interface appear before scanning so the user can reset the scanning parameters each time he uses F9 e When scanning is finished KeyScan Imaging will trim the image black edges and enhance the image colors e KeyScan Imaging will perform the selected function In our example it will push the image into the current application providing the application accept the method for pushing the data usually the Windows clipboard 7 2 3 2 Text to MS WORD The default setting of AutoScan sets F12 to perform the Scan OCR to MS Word This function will scan a document when finished scanning 1t will process the document automatically using the Integrated IRIS OCR engine and produce a compound document of images and translated text all created in MS WORD file format The user press F12 button OCR to MS WORD function The scanner perform scanning scanning parameters are predefined for this function When finished scanning the KeyScan Imaging activates automatically the integrated OCR Image analysis and image to text translation engine and produces a compound document of combined text and images in the requested MS WORD file format The KeyScan Imaging software will open automatically the MS Word application if installed on the PC with the newly created document opened and ready for processing 7 2 3 3 Email high compression low compression Email will follow the same process as explained
42. ction let us do multiple zoom in out The center of the zoom function will be the cursor tip which will change to a plus minus magnifying glass cursor In quick zoom mode click on right mouse button is zoom in and click on left mouse button is zoom out Before Zoom In After Zoom In Fig 5 35 KeyScan Quick Zoom 5 5 2 3 lt View gt lt Clear Zoom gt menu Clear any existing zoom factors and bring image to its original display 5 5 2 4 lt View gt lt Display Mode gt menu Full Image Full Window RS Dist e ajeje DE Tt sel pm E Fig 5 36 KeyScan display mode Whole image is displayed but Whole window is covered Part of the window is empty in Part of image is out of window Case the aspect ratio of the image And the application s window is not the same 5 6 Image Menu se b300 bmp File Edit Topic View Peete Window Help Olla z Geometric Transf Enhance Filters Paste Function Convert To Text Fig 5 36 KeyScan lt Image gt menu Function Parameter Fig 5 37 KeyScan Image processing 5 7 1 lt Image gt lt Geometric Transformations gt menu For other resize and stretch See Edit menu sg b300 bmp File Edit Topic view GEN Window Help Enhance Filters Paste Function Desqew Convert To Text Rotate 90 deg Rotate 180 deg Rotate 270 deg Rotate Angle Shear Horizontal Shear Vertical Flip Reverse
43. ctivates a TWAIN compliant scanner interface For details see chapter 8 6 3 NoTouch AutoScan Hot keys amp Icon Scan user KeyScan Imaging application is activated automatically by the insertion of a document to the scanner or by special functions Icons on the desktop In addition there are 4 scanner Hot keys and 6 functions Hot keys In these modes of operation the KeyScan Imaging application is activated as a NoTouch or AutoScan application For details see chapter 7 6 4 OLE2 in place user Third party application activates KeyScan Imaging application using OLE programming interface For details see chapter 10 6 5 SHELL user Third party application activates KeyScan Imaging application using command line For details see chapter 9 7 Auto Scanning amp Scanner Hot Keys 7 1 Introduction NoTouch AutoScan is a software module which monitors the KeyScan scanner When the user inserts a document to the scanner feeding slot the software activates automatically the KeyScan Imaging software in NoTouch AutoScan mode of operation In this mode it displays a Timeout Bar Box Eeun Mafech Autotee Es NoTouch AulioSean Delault Functon is activated automaticaly unless You move your mouse to gal ha Functon Selecton dialog gt If during the timeout period the user does not move the mouse cursor over the timeout bar he indicates that he wishes to proceed with the default scannin
44. cument etc The keyScan application is OLE COM server User can insert KeyScan scanned document using Insert Object interface built in 3 party applications The KeyScan application is OLE COM client 3 party or VAR OEM with specific requirement can use exposed COM interface to integrate KeyScan Imaging with their own software applications COM interface requires special license from KeyScan Ltd Application Bar activation User can use KeyScan application to scan documents and then select from KeyScan Imaging Application Bar the a 3 party application to be activated with the scanned document new applications can be added or removed from the Application Bar KeyScan Imaging software dual functionality e KeyScan Imaging can be used as a stand alone imaging application which can control the KS810 scanner and also activate and transfer data to third party applications e KeyScan Imaging with all its functionality can be used as an imaging layer between third party applications and KeyScan KS810 scanner which complement other application with a comprehensive set of imaging tools and uniform image processing interface this layer can be accessed by the user and third party applications through standard interfaces such as COM or TWAIN or WIA or KeyScan unique AutoScan application Whichever interface the user or third party IT application are using for the KS810 scanner they get the complete imaging and scanning functionality of
45. d file format to be used on the attachment Use KeyScan Imaging application as an enhanced TWAIN driver Run Photoshop application or any other application which can use TWAIN interface to import images From Photoshop menu select lt File gt lt Import gt a pop up window will show the list of available TWAIN sources select KS810 which is the KeyScan TWAIN source Scanner The complete KeyScan Imaging application is activated as a TWAIN interface Use KeyScan Imaging to scan a document When finished scanning press DONE the KeyScan Imaging application will be removed and the scanned image transferred to PhotoShop Instead of pressing the DONE button the user can use any of the KeyScan Imaging functions to modify and enhance the scanned image before transferring it to the calling application For example mark a region on the image using the mouse and than select lt Edit gt lt Cut New gt the selected region will be extracted as a new image deleting the old one Press DONE button KeyScan Imaging will disappear and the new image transferred to Photoshop 4 8 Introduction to working with KeyScan NoTouch AutoScan What is KeyScan NoTouch AutoScan NoTouch AutoScan has preset of 15 functions the user can redefine each of these functions and select one of them as its default function When NoTouch AutoScan is enabled it is activated automatically by the insertion of a document into the scanner feeding tray It can proceed with the
46. e InMethod Method of data input to the DDE filter program File Clipboard OutMethod Method of data output from the DDE filter to the program File Clipboard Input file name in case InMethod is File 1 the actual path for the file If empty than a Check InputFilePath entry in the SgApps ini entry InFile b If the InputFilePath entry 1s empty get the default file name of the OutDev definition QutFile See InFile If InMethod OutMethod InFile OutFile are not defined or some of them attempt to locate the relevant information in the relative DDE entry in the SgApps ini if the entry does not exist there get default values as defined by OutDev definitions the default for InMethod and OutMethod is File For more information see lt DDE Filter settings Appendix XX gt 9 5 Command lines Examples Example 1 CommandLinel c sg exe UserType F11 OutFile c temp ttt bmp BMP Res 300 300 Filter BW Example 2 CommandLine2 c sg exe UserType F11 OutFile c temp ttt jpg JPG 180 Res 150 150 Filter FlipQ RevQ 9 6 Shell Activation by third party applications 9 6 1 Activation using the operating system UI Under Windows 2000 and XP the user can issue directly a command line using lt Start gt lt Run gt command care should be taken regarding the O S RUN command buffer length 9 6 2 Activation using C application SHELL command interface under C CPP
47. e pre assigned default function All of it is done without having the user done any more clicking on the mouse or menu selection beyond his decision to proceed with AutoScan If on the other hand the user wishes to skip the NoTouch default setting and instead select other function he should move the mouse cursor over the NoTouch AutoScan Timeout Bar Box before the timeout elapses This indicates that he wishes to use the AutoScan selection options AutoScan is activated and replaces the Timeout Bar Box with a function selection pop up menu E KeyScan Fast Function A a E Image to Curr App Email color Image to file OCR to MS Word DEFLT Fax LU Set Change Func Setting Fig7 4 AutoScan pop up dialog The AutoScan pop up selection menu contains a list of 5 icons which represent 5 different functions the user can choose from This feature 1s enhanced with the option to press the ALT key on the keyboard while choosing the function icon The ALT key redirect the 5 functions to a different set of functions resulting a total of 10 functions to choose from In addition the user can press Page Up or Page Down keys on the keyboard to get additional sets of functions on the AutoScan pop up dialog The user can easily change the settings of the various functions as explained later The user choose the required function by left click on the mouse button Once the user chooses a function the scanner scans the document and
48. e through its built in TWAIN Data Source interface DFLT user a user activated by NoTouch function automatically Fnn user a user which activates KeyScan Imaging software application through NoTouch AutoScan interface or through commandline interface Initialization process user parameters setting The keyscan initialization process read user information from the SG INI file and set the relevant user parameters table this process is done only when the program is activated and a separate parameters table is being set per each user User parameters are defined by section UI Parameters on the SG INI file Per each user 1 Read the user entry from SG INI file and set the parameters which appear on the line relevant to the user 2 Extract the OutDef parameter s these are the parameters between the DocDef and the END_OUTDEF and save them as the output functions to be performed 3 Go over section Output Functions in SG INI and create the Output Function table 4 The OutDef parameters on user parameters line serve as a reference to the Output Functions table entries 5 Go over section Activation Bar in SG INI file and create the application bar table which set up the functionality of the application bar icons at the bottom of the KeyScan Imaging application These functions are activated when the KeyScan Imaging interactive user clicks on the relevant icon 6 All KeyScan Imaging users have programmatically
49. ed image 5 7 6 lt Image gt lt Convert to Text gt menu Fig 5 41 KeyScan OCR functions sg b300 bmp File Edit Topic View NECE ERA Window Help Geometric Transf Enhance Filters Paste Function Desqew Convert To Text WORD File Text File Acrobat PDF File Internet HTML File E Mail attachment Excell File Other Apps Select OCR Language The IRIS OCR engine is integrated with KeyScan Imaging software This engine let the KeyScan software convert scanned images into compound documents of text and data in one of the following file formats 1 Microsoft MS Word 2 Adobe PDF 3 HTML 6 Other type of KeyScan Imaging Users Chapter 5 discussed the details of Interactive User function Interactive User is the user which activates the KeyScan Imaging software and uses the application graphic user interface PC keyboard and mouse to work with the KeyScan Imaging application User and User Type A user is an entity which activates the KeyScan Imaging application 1t can be a person or 1t can be another program UserType defines the method used to activate the KeyScan Imaging application and the related scanning parameters 6 1 Interactive User A user which uses his keyboard and mouse and the application s user interface to operate the KeyScan Imaging application 6 2 TWAIN user KeyScan Imaging application is activated as a TWAIN Source by a third party application which a
50. eees T1 9 6 1 Activation using the operating system UI 77 9 6 2 Activation using C application oooooonnnnnanaaaaaaa nano no cono nnn nono nn nono non nnnnnncnn cnn n nn nn nn nro nn nnnnnn ns 77 10 HN 79 11 11 1 LE 11 3 11 4 OLE COMACTIVATITON lt eg Ee ee SU INTRODUCTION EE 80 OLED MODES OF OPERATIONS e See 80 STANDARD USER INTERFACE e EE 80 PROGRAMMING MODE w anra e SO e 82 1 Introduction KeyScan Imaging software 1s a scanning and imaging application It is designed to give the end user and system integrator maximum flexibility in using the KeyScan keyboard scanner product as a productivity tool seamlessly integrated with their application environment The KeyScan scanner and its KeyScan Imaging application can be activated and used in various ways a KeyScan stand alone application The user can click on the KeyScan icon on his Windows desktop and activate KeyScan Imaging application which enable scanning and processing documents using the KeyScan scanner KeyScan TWAIN source Most applications which are designed to interface with scanners should have built in TWAIN software interface An industry standard which allows any TWAIN compatible software and scanner to communicate and have the scanner activated by that application KeyScan Imaging application is a TWAIN compliant data source When a 3 party application tries to activate KeyScan scanner using TWAIN interface it will actually acti
51. egion rectangular border line e A single left mouse button click outside the region rectangle will convert the region from Interior to Exterior meaning the region area is all the image area outside of the rectangle e A single click inside the rectangle will convert back Exterior region into Interior region 5 3 4 Terminate region A single left mouse button click inside the region rectangle of Interior region or outside the rectangle of Exterior region will terminate the region definition and its rectangle will be removed from the image 5 4 Edit Menu se b300 bmp File Ad Topic View Image Window Lindo Chr ut Chr Copy Ctro Ctrl Paste Special PasteLink Delete Delete All Properties Resample Resolution Resize Add Frame Cue New Ctrl L Insert Mew Object Links Object 22 2 2 3 SR e 1 Fig 5 22 KeyScan Imaging EDIT menu 5 4 1 lt Edit gt lt Undo gt Restore image to its state before the last modification user should be aware that not all modifications are reversible se b300 bmp File Pasi Topic View Image Window Help TER Cut Ctrl Copy Ctro Paste Chr Paste Special K PasteLink Delete Fig 5 23 KeyScan Imaging EDIT menu 5 4 2 lt Edit gt lt Cut gt Cut a region from the document e Define a region and place it over the document area you wish to cut e Select Main Menu lt Edit gt lt Cut gt e The region are
52. exe UserType F11 Res 300 300 Start in KoMKeyscamiK5_projectsiSGrrelease Shortcut keu More Aun Normal window Comment ER Fig 10 1 Icon setting dialog e The Target entry should be modified from having only the KeyScan Imaging program path SG EXE to a required command line which contains the KeyScan Imaging path followed by additional parameters e The command line parameters should be placed in parenthesis for example on UserType F11 Res 300 300 11 OLE COM Activation 11 1 Introduction Third party application or interactive user can activate KeyScan Imaging application using Windows OLE COM interface KeyScan Imaging application allows a very broad and versatile control over the application functionality using the OLE COM technology available with Windows 2000 and XP The significant advantage of OLE2 interface is that it can allow any Windows application which conform with the OLE COM standard to activate KeyScan Imaging software When activated using OLE2 The KeyScan Imaging application window can become part of the calling 3rd party application window in place activation as if it is part of the application and without any additional code written specific for KeyScan Imaging 11 2 OLE2 modes of operation OLE2 activation of KeyScan Imaging can be done in two modes e Standard user interface mode using the lt Menu gt lt Insert gt lt Object gt command
53. ft to right Refresh Favorites Cancel Search Explorer eMail 2 Scanner hot keys 4 keys located on top of the scanner The Scanner hot keys are dual functions by default they serve as multi media control keys and only when KeyScan Imaging application is active and the user selected to enable them as scanner keys they change their functions to scanning functions for the duration of the current KeyScan Session Hot keys multimedia functions The hot keys multimedia functions from left to right are Mute Volume down Volume up Media player Hot keys scanner functions The hot keys scanner functions from left to right are File Copy eMail Fax Hot keys are directed to activate the AutoScan relevant functions and their functionality can be tuned using the AutoScan function setting interface 8 Twain user A Twain User is a 3 party application which activates the KeyScan Imaging through its TWAIN data source interface Such TWAIN User sends instructions and retrieves data from the KeyScan Imaging application KeyScan Imaging application has a built in TWAIN DATA SOURCE interface this interface enable any application which contain TWAIN API functionality to communicate activate and perform set of functions as defined by the TWAIN API using the complete KeyScan Imaging application The KeyScan Imaging application will retrieve the 3 party applications TWAIN API requests and perform them w
54. g and keyboard should be functional Tf still not blinking disconnect both power and USB cable reconnect first the USB cable wait for the Green blinking light and than connect the power cable e Very slow scanning speed Most likely the KeyScan is connected to USB1 1 port instead of USB2 high speed port KeyScan is connected to the PC through a USB1 1 external hub e Scanning produce vertical gray or color shadow lines across the whole image Open the scanner door and clean the scanner glass above the feeding roller Recalibrate the scanner after cleaning its optical glass e When trying to scan a pop up dialog box requests the user to perform calibration Whenever the user attempts to start scanning and the calibration files KSCalibration ini and KSCalibration bin are missing in the Windows directory the software will prompt the user for calibration and will not start scanning Run scanner calibration e The scanner starts scanning or calibrating and stops in the middle without completing its function Check to make sure the scanner back door is closed and locked its right back side should be aligned with the keyboard back frame if the door is not locked the document sensor may detect end of document pre maturely A low quality USB1 1 cable is used to connect the scanner to the PC instead of the original USB2 cable supplied by KeyScan can cause unpredicted random errors Do not use a US
55. g settings If on the other hand the user moves the mouse over the Timeout Bar before the timeout elapses he indicates that he wishes to skip NoTouch default settings and proceed with AutoScan that allows him to select other function In this case the AutoScan will replace the Timeout Bar with a function selection pop up menu Function activation is done either by placing the mouse cursor on the icon of the required function and left clicking on the icon or by pressing the keyboard s function key which appears to the right of the icon Pressing ALT key with either the mouse or function key will activate an alternate function The user can also browse the optional functions by pressing the Page Up and PAGE Down keyboard keys i KeyScan Fast Function F9 Image to Curr App Si F10 Email Ms Outlook RW Fil Image to file Li F12 Check to Notes MEE DEFLT Fax Set Change Func Setting Fig7 1 AutoScan pop up dialog The AutoScan pop up dialog functions can be set by the user to perform his most frequent used functions 7 2 NoTouch AutoScan operation 7 2 1 Activating Stopping AutoScan NoTouch AutoScan is a software application it can be activated in one of three ways e On startup when the PC is started Y i e By double clicking on the AutoScan Icon on the PC desktop 4 e Activating deactivating NoTouch AutoScan from KeyScan Imaging software To activate NoTouch AutoScan Select on KeyScan Imaging
56. he KeyScan application and serves as immediate status and information display 5 5 1 2 lt View gt lt Application Bar gt Application bar is a strip of one or more lines of icons at the bottom of the KeyScan application window each icon represents application which can be activated by the user When the application is activated it receives also the current opened KeyScan Imaging document 044290 HeiicriTeat Adobe Acro ME Mopo Aita Fob Fig 5 33 KeyScan Application Bar Scan or Open disk document Click on the required application on the Application Bar The application 1s activated with the selected document The Application Bar can be enabled disabled by clicking on the Main Menu lt View gt lt Application Bar gt For information on how to expand and add more applications to the Application Bar please refer to the KeyScan Imaging Advanced Settings manual 5 5 1 3 lt View gt lt Tool Box gt Not available on KeyScan Imaging 5 5 2 Image Zoom 5 5 2 1 lt View gt lt Zoom In gt menu This function let us have one level of image zooming of a given region on screen If a rectangle region 1s defined zoom the rectangle into the whole image frame This function will be disabled if a region is not defined or if Quick Zoom mode is activated Before Zoom In After Zoom In Fig 5 34 KeyScan Zoom In 5 5 2 2 lt View gt lt Quick Zoom gt menu This fun
57. he system32 subdirectory of windows this file and the KSDrvr dll driver file has been copied to the system32 sub directory by the installation process In case Windows failed to detect the KeyScan driver please continue with install the software from a list of specified locations below Window may display Hardware installation warning message during the installation process Installation is completed with this message press Finish to get out of installation process Install the software from a list of specified locations Found New Hardware Wizard This wizard helps you install software for Generic USB2 0 Scanner You can change your selection from Install the software automatically to install the software from a list of specified locations D If your hardware came with an installation CD aP or floppy disk insert it now What do you want the wizard to do Install the software automatically Recommended Install from a list or specific location Advanced Click Next to continue lt Back lL New gt Cancel Found New Hardware Wizard Please choose your search and installation options Na Y Search for the best driver in these locations Use the check boxes below to limit or expand the default search which includes local paths and removable media The best driver found will be installed e Window let you specify the location of the driver
58. in 11 2 2 1 but when the auto scan function is performed KeyScan Imaging will activate the email software installed on the system and attach the scanned image to the new email message 7 2 4 Setting and changing AutoScan functions The user can easily set the AutoScan functions In order to set the function the user needs to activate the Auto Scan setting dialog this can be done either by pressing the lt Set gt button on the bottom of the Auto Scan dialog or by using the lt File gt lt Settings gt lt FuncKey Def gt The PopUp Function Setting dialog should appear Se EU E z KeyScan PopUp Functions Setup Image to Curr App F Kep Fo sel FAI AUT E ll Title Image to Cum nn leon KodakImagingl sean Ul Uldisable Page Single Page v Caneel Email color Image to file Out Det Image Tour App e Set OCR to MS Word Doc Det Letter Set scantlt PhotoNormal Set Desk Top Disable D Dir e Memp Set Change Func Setting Fig 7 5 AutoScan setting dialog For more details on setting functions using the PopUp Function Setting dialog see KeyScan Imaging Advanced setting manual 7 3 Hot keys functions The KeyScan keyboard has two sets of hot keys on the top left side there is a set of 6 Internet functions and on the scanner there is a set of 4 scanner functions 1 Internet hot keys 6 keys located on the op left side of the keyboard 1 000006 The Internet hot keys functions from le
59. ithin this process the user can take advantage of additional functionality that the KeyScan Imaging application can offer and he may not have on the calling application There are two significant advantages of KeyScan Imaging TWAIN Source operation over regular TWAIN source drivers Most TWAIN Source drivers are DLL libraries which run in the calling application space and as such can bring down the calling application or be affected by the calling application The KeyScan Imaging is a stand alone application running in its own application space and can not affect or be affected by the calling application When 3 party application activates the KeyScan Imaging TWAIN source it actually gets a complete imaging application with much more functionality than defined by the TWAIN API 9 Shell command user SHELL user is a 3 party application which activates the KeyScan Imaging application programmatically using the Windows SHELL command line and KeyScan built in command line interpreter which can analyze and execute a set of command line instructions Overview of KeyScan command line KeyScan scanning user KeyScan defines scanning Users as entities that can initiate scan function manually or programmatically based on set of parameters assigned to that entity Interactive user a user that activates Keyscan Imaging software application by clicking on its Icon on the desktop TWAIN user a user that activates KeyScan Imaging softwar
60. ker Parameter N range from 1000 for darkest to 1000 for brightest Syntax Intns N 9 4 11 9 4 12 9 4 13 9 4 14 9 4 15 9 4 16 9 4 17 9 4 18 9 4 19 9 4 20 9 4 21 9 4 22 9 4 23 9 4 24 9 4 25 9 4 26 MEDIAN filter Syntax Median MOSAIC filter Syntax Mosaic N POSTERIZE image Postr N SHARPEN image Syntax Sharpn N GAMMA correction Syntax Gamma N Set Image CONTRAST Syntax Contrast N Image SATURATION Syntax Satr N HUE Syntax Hue N HISTOCONTRAST Syntax HistContr N HISTOEQUAL Syntax HistEqual N CLIPBOARD_PASTE Syntax Past Convert to Black amp White Convert gray 8bit image to B amp W Syntax BW flgs trshld high_trshld low_trshld localmin_trshld localmax_trshld histrgrm_lines histerm_dist Translate text image to character OCR Perform OCR Not available yet Syntax OCR Process image by MATRIX Operate a matrix Not available yet Syntax Matrix d m11 m12 m13 m21 m22 m23 m31 m32 m33 COMPRESS image data Compress jpg images Syntax Compres level 2 low compr 255 high compr DDE external filter application Activate external filter application and use DDE protocol to transfer To and receive data from the filter application This option is not available in KeyScan Imaging application Syntax DDE EntryName InMethod OutMethod InFile OutFile EntryName name of DDE definition entry in SgApps ini fil
61. mage to current application entry on the function selection menu Do not press any more on the mouse buttons the rest of the process will be carried out automatically After selection of the function on the function selection menu the scanner starts scanning you should see the scanned image on the scanning window Scanner finishes scanning and removes its user interface and scanned image from screen The scanned image is inserted automatically to the MS Word document at the cursor position 4 8 2 Document example AutoScan to PDF To AutoScan into Adobe Acrobat document The NoTouch AutoScan application must be running see 4 7 on how to activate Auto Scan and how to check that it is running Place a document on the scanner feeding tray the NoTouch AutoScan Timeout Bar Box should be displayed Kedun Meesch Autoras A NoTouch AuioSean Delault Function is activated automalicalhy unless You move your mouse lo gal ihe Functon Selecton dialog Within the timeout move the cursor over the Timeout Bar this will activate the AutoScan process and replace the Timeout Bar with AutoScan function selection pop up menu Image to Curr_App Multi page FOF le Save to fle UT Copy Image SC GEI DEFLI Email multi page Set Modily Func Setting More More Func Fage Down E Scan all in Gray mode On AutoScan popup menu select the PDF function Scanner will scan the document and cre
62. mage will be merged with the current region area e Refer to lt Image gt lt Paste Functions gt for the options of merging the two images Fig 5 27 KeyScan Paste image EDIT menu 5 4 5 lt Edit gt lt Paste Special gt Not Active on KeyScan Imaging 5 4 6 lt Edit gt lt Paste Link gt Not Active on KeyScan Imaging 5 4 7 lt Edit gt lt Delete gt Delete document from application this command will not delete the relevant file 1f there is a permanent file saved on the disk In case of multi page document this command will delete the current page and continue to show the document displaying the next page of the document 5 4 8 lt Edit gt lt Delete All gt Delete document if the document is a multi page document it will delete all the pages of the document and remove it from the application 5 4 9 lt Edit gt lt Properties gt menu Display current image properties CSS HEatord Ir Fili D Zfreg CA a iian a Bede kke Amm PH Epiese Aiia h Fig 5 28 KeyScan lt Edit gt lt Properties gt menu 5 4 10 lt Edit gt lt Resample Resolution gt menu Resolution resolution Y resolutiory Cancel Fig 5 29 KeyScan lt Edit gt lt Resample gt menu Resample given document to higher or lower resolution 5 4 11 lt Edit gt lt Resize gt menu Key5can Stretch Bitmap Dialog Current width Le Current Height 887 New Width 1799 New Height 887 Stretch Mode Keep Propo
63. mpression will still reduce file size but will have much smaller affect on the image quality 3 3 Scan one page Ke an Scan Parameters m Scan Control Doc Type C Text C Drawing Photo Doc Brightness C Lite Normal C Dark e PhotoN ormal Set Color 24bits Br 0 Urs 0 Thr 127 Scan Status Doc Size Output Resolution Letter D Set Image To Cur pp D Set Width 850 Height 1150 Res X 300 Y y 300 E Fig 3 5 Scan Dialog On Main Menu select lt File gt lt Scan gt and get the Scan Dialog Use Scan Dialog to setup scan parameters Press SCAN button to perform scanning When finished scanning press DONE button to close the scan dialog 3 4 Abort Scanning paper jam e Any time during the scanning process the user can ABORT the scanning function e Abort command can be done by the following means 1 Press ABORT button on the scan dialog 2 Press x close window on the upper right corner of the scan dialog 3 Double click the ESC keyboard key 3 5 Output file formats sg shay100_color jpg File Edit Topic view Image Window Help Deg Je eigwi Save in E temp D ex ES Shortcuts St Zon Filename em Gas ID RIGA Save astype CCITT TIF _ Cancel A Va d S A e MSWord Save JPG file DfltEmail DfltPrintFax DfltCopy MSWordText Adobe_Acro MS_IExplorer Fig 3 6 Save A
64. n Imaging functions when activated In Place within a third party OLE2 client application While the OLE2 client application MS Word in our case is in KeyScan Imaging In Place mode of operation the user can activate KeyScan Imaging functions using the menu options For example Scanning a new page select from main menu lt Edit gt lt Scan gt KeyScan imaging scanning user interface should appear on screen and let the user perform scanning Activate KeyScan Imaging processing functions Select from main menu lt Image gt and the required image processing function MS Word screen image when activating KeyScan Imaging OLE2 In Place mode 11 4 Programming mode ijt ay ini wi a The details for OLE COM interfaces and Type Library please refer to the KeyScan Imaging Advanced setting document This option is not available on KeyScan Imaging x Correct disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Instructions applicable in European Union Member States EE The device is labelled in accordance with European Directive 2002 96 EC on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment WEEE This symbol on the product or on its packing or documentation indicates that it may not be treated as household or commercial waste at the end of its life utility Correct disposal avoids negative effects to environment and human health and ensures recycling of useful raw materials For more information on how to dispose of this
65. n application must be running see 4 7 on how to activate NoTouch AutoScan and how to check that it is running The MS Word application must be active as the current used application 1ts window 1s the front window The required document must be opened and the cursor positioned where the scanning output should be placed Autoscanning into MS Word s opened document is design to let the user place the scanning output in its currently opened MS Word document right where the cursor is positioned without having to leave its current Word application Make sure NoTouch AutoScan is active and enabled Open an MS Word document Place the cursor between the two lines where you wish to insert scanning output Insert document to scanner feeding slot NoTouch AutoScan Timeout Bar Box should appear on screen ep Reiz Age KS MoToauch utoScan Delault Function is activated automaticaly unless You move your mouse to gel the Functon Selection dialog mg Move the cursor over the Timeout Bar Box you should do it within the timeout period This indicates that you wish to override the NoTouch default operation and get to AutoScan AutoScan will replace the Timeout Bar with function selection menu KeyScan Fast Function foe E Image to Curr_App Multi page PDF fle Save to lle UT Copy Image DEFLI Email multi page Modily Func Setting More Func Page Down Scan all in Gray mode Select I
66. n the equipment and receiver c Connect the equipment to an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected d Consult the dealer or an experienced radio TV technician KA FCC Warning Modifications not expressly approved by the manufacturer could void the user authority to operate the equipment under FCC Rules KeyScan FCC Agent Ms Dalia Oud 6408 Richwood Rd Odessa TX 79762 5141
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68. ny installation problems please consult the Installation troubleshooting in section 2 7 2 7 Handling Problems during Installation Process KeyScan team invested time and efforts to setup a smooth installation process in case you experience any problem please consider the following comments we believe that most problems may be resolved by the user following carefully the instructions below Installation Stage 2 The KeyScan is connected to the PC with the KeyScan USB2 cable but the green LED on the rear of the KeyScan connector panel is not blinking Try the following operations Make sure the original KeyScan USB2 cable is being used and connected to a USB2 port on your PC Detach and after 10 20 seconds reconnect the cable no need to shutdown the PC the LED should start blinking 1t may take 10 30 seconds If still do not blink restart the PC H still do not blink try another USB port if possible check the same port with another USB device to make sure the USB port on your PC is functional Installation Stage 3 In case the software media is damaged download the KeyScan software from the KeyScan WEB site It is recommended to check the KeyScan WEB for software updates Installation Stage 4 When power adapter is connected a red light should be seen when looking inside the document feeding slot the red light should be ON for at least 30 seconds and turned off automatically sometime later If no red light appea
69. on the 3 party application menu This mode does not require any programming or any other special preparations by the calling third party application The only requirement is that the third party application will be an OLE2 client application and it will have an Insert Object command on its menu options A good example for such application is the Microsoft WORD application e Programming mode using the Type Library exposed interfaces This mode of operation gives a third party application a full control over KeyScan Imaging operation using application interfaces exposed by KeyScan Imaging through 1ts type library 11 3 Standard user interface mode When a third party application is an OLE2 client application it should expose in its menu or other user interface options a method to let the user insert objects produced by other applications OLE COM servers into the application document We will follow an example based on Microsoft MS WORD application Selection of KeyScan Imaging object from the list of available objects On the MS Word main menu select lt Insert gt entry On the lt Insert gt entry select lt Object gt Document3 Microsoft Word E ple view Insert Format Tools gt Break Page Numbers Date and Time AutoText Field Symbol Comment Reference SR Web Component Picture Diagram Text Box File Bookmark Hyperlink Ctrl K Fig 11 1
70. place another page and press SCAN again the new scanned image will be developing in the same window over the previous scanned image When finished scanning the second image press DONE e The document window shows the last scanned page but represents a two page document you can navigate between the documents by pressing the keyboard Page Up and Page Down keys e Save the document to file by selecting lt File gt lt Save As gt on the file type select TIF file type Since TIF file format can accept multiple images inside a single file KeyScan Imaging will create a single TIF image file and save into the file the two images User should be aware that most imaging software applications will not support and will mot be able to read the second image but only the first image in the saved file KeyScan imaging will read both Scan multiple images to multiple files Use KeyScan Imaging application to scan multi page document Repeat the steps of 4 2 above but when saving the image to file select JPG format instead of TIF format Since JPG format do not accept multiple images in a single file KeyScan Imaging will produce 2 separate files using the file name the user selected and add index to that file name Color copier Color copier function is simulated by KeyScan Imaging by scanning a document and sending the scan results to a printer This function can be performed only if the user PC has access to a printer During installation process Key
71. product correctly or about the penalties in the event of illegal handling contact the local authority responsible for waste disposal or the distributor from whom the product has been originally purchased FCC Compliance Product KeyScan Integrated Keyboard Scanner Model KS810 P Company KeyScan Inc This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions this device may not cause harmful interference and 2 this device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation The FCC Wants You to Know This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and 1f not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures a Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna b Increase the separation betwee
72. ragraph 11 2 6 e Update Applications Path Activates update process which goes over all tables in the Sg ini which may use the application path from SgApps ini and update the relevant applications entries 5 2 13 lt File gt lt Calibrate Scanner gt Calibrate the scanner A dialog will appear asking the user to insert a blank white A4 size paper for scanner calibration Any white paper used for printing is sufficient as long as it is clean and do not carry any folding signs Key5can Calibration scanner must be calibrated To start calibration Put a white paper In the scanner and press OK Cancel When calibration process is completed the following message will appear KeyScan Finished calibration Finished Calibration Press OK to continue 5 2 13 lt File gt lt Scan gt Menu The lt Scan gt command under lt File gt menu starts the scanning process Scan Dialog pops up on the screen KeyScan Scan Parameters Scan Control Doc Type C Text Drawing Photo Doc Brightness C Lite f Normal C Dark o Photo orrmal eee Set Color 24bits Br Cp 0 Thr 127 Doc Size gt p Output Resolution Letter Sel Image To Curr 4pp Sel width 850 Height 1150 Res 300 le 300 y Fig 5 12 lt File gt lt Scan gt Dialog User may change scanning parameters using the
73. red values Whenever any of the values changes the results are reflected on the small image window Switching between color and Gray modes is done by the COLOR and GRAY buttons while switching to Black and White is done by changing the BW Threshold slider When finished the user press CANCEL button to discard the changes or OK to accept them if pressed OK the change will get into effect on the next scan Document Size section Doc Size Letter 7 Set width 850 Height 1100 Fig 5 15 Doc Size settings This section of the scan dialog let the user define the max size of the document by selecting one of the pre defined document size names or directly writing the required size in hundreds of Inch Output Resolution section Output Resolution Image To Curr App ll Set Res 300 Sie 300 Fig 5 16 Output resolution settings 5 2 14 This section of the scan dialog let the user define the scanning resolution by selecting one of the pre defined names or by writing the required resolution in DPI Scan dialog Buttons section DONE ABORT BL Scan Status i e lt SCAN gt button Start scanning using current parameters Each time we press lt SCAN gt button the application scans the document and create additional image in the current document A document can contain multiple image and the user can browse through them by pressing lt Page Up gt or lt Page Down gt on the keyboard e lt
74. rocess ES Edit Topic View Image Window Help New Ctrl N E q Ki Open Ctrl 0 Close Save Ctrl S Save As Delete Print Setup Send Mail Send Mail UI Settings Scan scan Multi Page Select Source Aquire Enable AutoScan Disable AutoScan Exit Fig 3 1 Calibrate command e When prompted insert a regular A4 size white paper as calibration reference document The scanned calibration paper should be aligned to the mark on the right side of the document feeding slot of the scanner KeyScan Calibration Scanner must be calibrated To start calibration Put a white paper in the scanner and press OK Cancel Fig 3 2 Calibrate doc dialog 3 1 3 Automatic check and prompt for calibration When working with KeyScan KS810 KeyScan Imaging software monitors the existence of the calibration data file KSCalibaration ini When the software detects that the file is missing or its length is 0 it will automatically trigger the calibration process Monitoring of the calibration file is done each time a new Scanning User activates the scanning software nea je a Scanner must be calibrated To start calibration Put a white paper inthe scanner and press ORT k gt UE ge S S thier Ber CR A E JD y DE gi i SR Fig 3 3 Automatic calibration prompt 3 2 Scanning parameters considerations KeyScan Imaging application is designed to help the user get good scanning results
75. rs then disconnect and reconnect the power adapter recheck again for the red light This light indicates that the scanner receives the 7v power from the power adapter and the scanner optical unit is functioning If the red light is still off check power outlet to make sure you do have power on that outlet you should check it by connecting another instrument to the same outlet You should always use only the KeyScan original power adapter Installation Stage 5 When trying to calibrate or scan an error message that the scanner is not recognized or does not exist appears Try to disconnect and connect the KS810 both power and USB cables If still not working try to restart the PC after restart make sure the Green LED is blinking If still not working Installation problem try to reinstall the scanner software The USB cable is not the original USB2 cable supplied with the product use only original cable A USB extension cable is connected remove it Power adapter is not connected or other power failure problem Others problems you may experience e The KeyScan keyboard does not function Make sure the KeyScan original USB2 cable is connected to KeyScan and to high speed USB2 port on the PC do not connect to external USB1 1 hub If Green LED on the rear connector panel of the KeyScan is not blinking disconnect the USB cable from the KeyScan and reconnect it after 5 10 seconds the LED should start blinkin
76. rtions D OK Cancel d Hat LP Sie ei Free FL Fig 5 30 KeyScan lt Edit gt lt Resize gt menu Resize current image to new size in X amp Y Inches 5 4 12 lt Edit gt lt Add Frame gt menu KeyScan Resize Bitmap Current width 799 Current height 887 New Width New Height jo Position Centered D Origin X Y jo Back Color White D Cancel OK Fig 5 31 KeyScan lt Edit gt lt Add Frame gt menu Keep document width and height add a frame around it 5 4 13 5 4 14 If new size is smaller than current size than this operation will cut the required rectangle out of the existing image If the new size is larger than the current size this operation will create a new image of required size and past to it the current image lt Edit gt lt Cut New gt Cut the selected region and replace current image with the content of the region Size is changed to the actual size of the new image lt Edit gt lt Insert New Object gt Insert a COM object into document 5 5 View Menu se b300 bmp How lo File Edit Topic Biz Image Window H Ape A Parrot SE w Status bar Ge eer 2 EE Tool Box oom In Quick Zoom Clear Zoom Whole Doc Region word Seve FG fe Otima Mr e Coty Foie Afte Ano pp Epire ataban ber Fig 5 32 KeyScan lt View gt menu 5 5 1 Tools amp Bars 5 5 1 1 lt View gt lt Status Bar gt The status bar is located on the bottom frame of t
77. s dialog e On main menu select lt File gt lt Save As gt e Save As dialog box will pop up see fig 3 6 and let the user select the save location the save file name and file format e If the user selects a compression file format such as JPG he can select Low Medium or High compression modes low compression will result a larger file than high compression but it will be of better quality image 3 6 Scan number of pages KeyScan Imaging can produce and handle multiple images document files the standard file format which can handle multiple images is the TIF file format Using KeyScan the user can scan several images into the same document and than save the document as a single TIF file which contains multiple images User can also open such file browse through the images using the Page Up and Page Down keys on the keyboard or delete images from such a file using the Delete keyboard key The user should be aware that most applications will be able to read only the first image in a multiple image TIF format 3 6 1 Scan to a new document e On main menu select lt File gt lt Scan gt to create a new document and activate the scanner e Press the SCAN button to scan a new image e If the user wishes to scan additional images into the same document whenever the current scan is finished instead of pressing the DONE button the user should place the next image in the scanner and press SCAN button and repeat it until finished
78. se only the original KeyScan power adapter usage of other power adapter may cause permanent damage to the KS810 and revoke any warranty for the product 2 6 STAGE 5 SCANNER CALIBRATION e After installation the KeyScan KS810 scanner must be calibrated e Activate the KeyScan imaging software by double clicking on the KeyScan Imaging shortcut icon Pm The KeyScan Imaging application is Sg exe al e On first installation the KeyScan will prompt you for license number please pay attention to upper and lower case of the license number and make sure you place each 4 group letters numbers in its window e From the Main MENU select lt File gt lt Calibrate Scanner gt e Place a white calibration paper any printer A4 White and clean paper in the scanner feeding slot the paper must be adjusted to the right side of the feeding slot to the mark on the scanner door e The scanner will start feeding the calibration paper the calibration process may take 30 40 seconds The generated calibration information is saved on the windows directory in file KSCalibration ini file e After calibration you should restart the KeyScan Imaging application no need to restart the PC e If it is not the first time you install the software on the current PC you should select from KeyScan Imaging main menu lt File gt lt Settings gt lt Update App Path gt in order to update the location of 3 party applications on your system In case you have a
79. sfer Method File 1 0 e Filters sv E Delete Format PG e DCH Language ENGLISH_US e _ Delete Cancel Help Data Compression Method JPGComprs ei Factor HighCompre y Fig 5 7 lt File gt lt Settings gt lt Out Def gt menu e Doc Def Activate the document definition dialog to set the document parameters such as units and dimensions For more details see Chapt 11 2 3 KeyScan Document Def Dialog IES Name Letter DN Units inch DI _Laneel Delete Size SE 850 Y 1100 Horz fi Vert f Images doc Fig 5 8 lt File gt lt Settings gt lt Doc Def gt menu e FuncKey Def Activates the auto scan settings dialog which lets the user define the functions that can be activated by Auto Scan pop up dialog For more details see Chapt 11 2 1 KeyScan PopUp Functions Setup F Key F9 D Eat ALT_F9 D Title Image to Cum App Icon KodakImaging1 D Scan UI Uldisable D Page Single Page D Out Def Image To Cum App y Doc Def Letter v ScanQlt PhotoNormal DeskTop Disable D Dir c temp Fig 5 9 lt File gt lt Settings gt lt FuncKey Def gt menu e Scan Quality Activates the Scan Quality setting dialog which let the user setup various scanning parameters such as color mode brightness contrast etc For more details see Chapt 11 2 4 KeyScan Scan Quality Dialog Name PhotoNormal DI Color Mode Color 24
80. t chapter and learn the missing details In any case the examples are designed to let the user go through without the need for complete understanding of each detail 4 1 Scan one image to file 4 2 4 3 4 4 Use KeyScan Imaging application to scan a single page document e Activate KeyScan Imaging application by clicking on its desktop icon e Select a document of your choice and scan it by selecting from KeyScan Imaging menu lt File gt lt Scan gt the scanning user interface should pop up e Use the scanning user interface to perform scanning of a single page document press SCAN button on the scanning dialog to start scanning e While scanning you can see the image developing on the preview screen you can also see the status window which changes to Red during scanning and show you the scanning steps when finished scanning it will change to Green e After scanning is finished and status window shows Finished in Green color press DONE button on the scanning user interface to close the scanning operation e At this point you can perform image processing on the scanned document e When finished select from main menu lt File gt lt Save As gt and put the file name and image file format file extension to be used for saving the image Scan multiple images to single file Use KeyScan Imaging application to scan multi page document e Repeat step 4 1 above but instead of pressing DONE after the first scanned page
81. te the Email e Create anew mail message e Attach the image file to the mail message 5 2 12 lt File gt lt Settings gt Menu Settings and changing of application parameters saved in SG INI initialization file se b300 bmp wie Edit Topic View Image Window Help New Ctrl N 3 PI Open Ctrl O Close Save Ctrl S Save As Delete b300 bmp Print Ctrl P Print Preview Print Setup Send Mail Send Mail UI Output Def Settings Calibrate Scanner How lo Scan Funckey Def Scan Multi Page Scan Quality Select Source Application Bar Ape A Par Aquire 3rd Party Apps Update App Path Enable AutoScan Disable AutoScan Color copy this 3 on our most brilliant papi Test Exit Seu want ie alk aoa superb cals his co and bx cape yaa jas mace ab 3 ba loto zue Haam ape vote org e e the brigt NPT Hammera 5 veer mur Are a s ara a dap mago El across cl males whi will tu lus GEI liver rees ba opp as cick z the val chirg yt Chose Himmerill Cole Fig 5 6 lt File gt lt Settings gt menu e Output Def Activates the Output Device Setting dialog which covers various processing handlig parameters For more details see Chapt 11 2 2 KeyScan Output Function Setting Dialog r Function Parameters Name DE mail mE en Function Image to its y Path ID Dit mal e Set Special Settings CSR Data Tran
82. ter which may cause permanent damage to the KS810 Use only KS810 supplied hi quality USB2 cable The KeyScan is a high speed device Low quality USB cables may cause random errors and unexpected problems Connect the KS810 scanner directly to you PC USB2 connector Do not connect the scanner to desktop USB hub If your PC USB ports are of USB2 type as required but you have an external desktop USB hub most likely of USB1 1 type and you connect the scanner to the hub then the whole connection behaves as a USB1 1 connection and not as a USB2 connection Connecting the KS810 scanner to a non USB2 port will result random installation and scanning problems 2 3 STAGE 2 Connect and test the KS810 keyboard Connect the KeyScan USB2 high speed cable to a USB2 port on the PC do not connect to external USB1 1 hub Connect the other side of the USB2 cable to the middle connector up steam USB port on the KS810 rear connector panel Do not connect the power adapter yet e The Windows system should recognize the new connected keyboard and USB2 HUB and install their drivers automatically The green LED on the connector panel should be blinking it is located between the power connector and the USB upstream connector The blinking light indicates that the PC recognized the USB2 hub of the KS810 and both the hub and the keyboard are functional WARNING Make sure you are using only the original KeyScan supplied USB2 cable and connect
83. the KeyScan Imaging application COM interface requires a special license and information from KeyScan WIA interface is not available on the current version of KeyScan 2 Product Installation 2 1 Introduction The following installation process instructs how to install KeyScan KS810 device 1ts software applications and drivers The Hardware The KeyScan KS810 is a Multi Function Peripheral MFP which integrates 3 different devices 1 A USB PC keyboard 2 A fast USB2 color sheet feed scanner 3 A fast USB2 HUB with two free downstream ports which the user can use for WEB CAM memory stick smart card reader mouse etc The keyboard is activated automatically when connected to the PC using the USB cable supplied by KeyScan No external power adapter is required for the keyboard to be fully functional The built in document scanner and the built in USB2 hub with its 2 free downstream ports become operational only when the power adapter is connected The SOFTWARE The KeyScan Imaging software includes the following components e Drivers for the KS810 scanner there is no need for drivers for the USB2 HUB and the keyboard they use the built in Windows drivers KeyScan Imaging scanning application KeyScan Imaging TWAIN driver KeyScan NoTouch AutoScan application ReadIRIS OCR technology by IRIS SA integrated within KeyScan Imaging software INSTALLATION PROCESS KeyScan installation is composed of 5 stages Stage Action 1
84. tting the user know that the KeyScan NoTouch AutoScan modes are active KeyScan Scanner Is Connected Fig 5 17 Enable AutoScan If no communication then a pop up message will appear letting the user know that the communication with KeyScan scanner failed Seagull Tech Inc AutoScan Application Failed To Detect KeyScan Scanner Do You Wish To Abort Auto Scan Yes Fig 5 18 AutoScan failed to detect the scanner Should the user press the NO button the KeyScan AutoScan software remains active and once the scanner is connected it will be detected by the AutoScan software which will display the following pop up dialog KeyScan Scanner Is Connected Fig 5 19 KeyScan scanner detected Disable NoTouch AutoScan Disable NoTouch AutoScan modes The following popup message will appear on the PC monitor Abort Auto Scan Do you wish to abort Auto Scan function Fig 5 20 Abort AutoScan 5 2 20 Enable Scan Hot keys By default the 4 hot keys on top of the scanner function as multimedia function keys When KeyScan imaging application is active we can convert these key into scanning function keys 5 2 21 Disable Scan Hot keys Disable the scanner hot keys and convert their finctions to multimedia keys 5 3 Handling Regions A Region is a rectangular segment of the document image the region does not exist in the document itself it is an add on tool of KeyScan Imaging which let the
85. vate the full flagged KeyScan Imaging application gaining enhanced set of capabilities not available to standard TWAIN interfaces Automatic scanning activation KeyScan Imaging application is accompanied by KeyScan NoTouch AutoScan application The NoTouch AutoScan runs in the background and automatically activates its Timeout Bar Box when the user inserts a document into the scanner feeding slot The user can either proceed with default setting NoTouch mode or move the mouse cursor over the timeout dialog and proceed with the AutoScan to select the function to be performed as soon as scanning is completed Scan to current application KeyScan has a built in interface which automatically push the scanned image into the last active application Any application which can accept paste clipboard command should be automatically enabled for this interface No further programming or interfaces are required Dedicated command line and desktop icon activation The KeyScan Imaging application includes internal command line interpreter which allow the user to define its operation using set of simple instructions on a single command line For example the user can instruct the KeyScan imaging to scan in color mode at specific resolution and when finished scanning activate the email program and attach the scanned document to the email This kind of command line can be embedded in a desktop icon so the user has a single click icon for email or fax scanned do
86. w 255 high can be used only with JPG file format 9 3 4 Filter Activates special functions on the input file scanned image Filters performs image processing or geometrical processing on the image data in case the command line contains more than one filter function the filters are executed serially one after the other in the same order they appear on the command line Filter lt FilterFunction gt lt FilterFunction gt lt FilterFunction gt lt FilterFunction gt lt filter name gt parl parN lt filter name gt name of valid filter see in paragraph 9 4 parl parN optional parameters for the filters see specific requirements for every filter in paragraph 9 4 9 3 5 SQ This command sets the followin scan parameters Scan colors and quality parameters SQ lt color gt lt highlight gt lt contrast gt lt BW trshld gt lt color gt B amp W or Gray Scale or Color 24bits lt highlight gt 127 gt 127 lt contrast gt 127 gt 127 lt BW trshld gt 0 gt 255 9 3 6 Res Setup scan resolution x and y resolution should be equal Res Xresolution Yresolution 9 3 7 SizeU Scan size and units SizeU width height lt units gt lt units gt Inch or MM 9 3 8 DocDef Select document definition which sets document dimensions document units and number of images saved on the same document Valid document names are defined in SG INI file and can also be view through lt
87. with little effort The user should be aware of the meaning of various scanning parameters options Scanning dialog ji KeyScan Scan Parameters Scan Control Doc Type Text Drawing e Photo Doc Brightness C Lite Ce Normal Dark C PhotoNormal Cel Color 24bits Br 0 En 0 Thr 12 Doc Size Output Resolution Letter Set Image To Curr App Set width al Height 1150 Des xw 300 sl y 300 Fig 3 4 Scan dialog For Scanning dialog items and parameters details please refer to Chapt 5 2 12 all the parameters considered here may be modified using the Scanning Dialog Scanning dialog is divided into 4 sections e Scan control Let the user select the image quality parameters image Brightness Contrast Gamma and B amp W threshold level e Doc Size Let the user select the maximum document size for scan session e Output Resolution Let the user select the scanned image resolution e Function Buttons The function to be performed Considerations when choosing scanning parameters e Image size Color scanning versus Gray scale do not scan high resolution if you do not really need it scan Gray mode if you just need text e No need to scan in high resolution just for image displaying on PC monitor 100 150 dpi is enough e No need to scan in high resolution and save it on file in JPG format with high compression factor which reduce image quality anyway e Translation to text
88. xt images User can process scanned image using integrated OCR engine and produce compound document of image and text in MSWord or Adobe pdf or HTML file formats Window Help Geometric Transf Enhance Filters Paste Function Desqew Convert To Text WORD File Text File Acrobat POF File Internet HTML File E Mail E Mail attachment Excell File Other Apps Select OCR Language Fig 3 10 Image Convert to Text Save images to file e The user can save images to file in a wide range of image file formats e Multiple page documents can be save as multiple page files in compressed and uncompressed single TIF formatted file or compressed uncompressed indexed files for single image file formats Transfer images to other applications KeyScan Imaging let the user transfer images to other applications using several mechanisms 1 Stand alone interactive scan mode User can transfer scanned or any document opened by KeyScan Imaging to other applicants through the Application bar positioned on the bottom of the KeyScan Imaging window e Select the window of the document to be transferred e Click on application bar on the icon of the application that should be activated with the required document Ber eg Seta stnk 2 2 BB Mivord Zeg iit Oii D megs bieri is des Fi vier Arte Ip Pree Adobe Pi Hi feelt tl ee Pain Pid prepa EI Fig 3 11 Application Bar 2 NoTouch AutoScan modes of operations NoTouch AutoScan

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