User guide

Record Management Adding a new record

Figure 5-3: Scan cycle

no. of images set to 2

Magnetic reader – Extract the data from the card’s magnetic strip (requires a

magnetic reader).

Signature – Capture a signature using the SigniShell pad\LCD.

2. Select the data extraction method: OCR or Barcode.

OCR uses Optical Character Recognition technology to extract data from the

scanned card text.

Barcode extracts the data from the barcode.(N/A in magnetic mode)

3. If you scan driver licenses, you can click on the Region Auto Detect button to

toggle between Region Auto Detect mode and manual country/state selection.

Region Auto Detect is only applicable to regions that support this feature.

Figure 5-2: Region/State selection

4. If you choose manual region selection, select a state from the Region/State

dropdown list (For OCR). Note that the list has several levels, which you can

navigate using the list arrows.

5. Select the module that you want to use for storing this record.

6. Select the number of images that you want to scan for this

record, by using the arrows next to the images number,

located under the image.

7. Place the ID card in the scanner. If auto detect is enable, the

scan will start automatically. Else, click on the Scan button.

Note: All of these parameters can be configured in the Setting panel, see Application Settings,

page 62. Scanshell.net will use this configuration as its default setup.

ADDING MORE IMAGES

If you selected a value greater that 1 in the number of images selection, insert a second

card or image into the scanner, and scan it in. The second card image will be added to the

record. This is also useful for scanning a card from both sides. (In the idScan module the

data will be extracted automatically from all the images, and not only from the first image

scanned. However, if the fields already contain data, this data will not be replaced with

data extracted from consequent images)