Operation Manual
Section 5: Scanning and Opening Documents
Smoothen color images
This option is selected by default. It improves the appearance of color and grayscale images in your
documents.
Note: with some scanners, image smoothening is required to recognize color and grayscale
images successfully.
Duplex
When using a duplex scanner - a scanner that can scan both the front and the back side of
documents - the Duplex scanning option is available. Select this option to have Readiris scan the
front and back side of documents.
Fast Binarisation (Readiris Corporate only)
When you are using a high-speed scanner it is recommended to activate Fast Binarisation. This
option increases the processing speed considerably.
Tip: avoid selecting this option when scanning very low-quality documents.
Scanning batches of documents
(This section applies to Readiris Corporate only)
If you need to scan entire batches of documents you can use Readiris' Watched Folder feature.
This way, you can scan all your documents to specific folders that are being monitored by Readiris.
Whenever Readiris spots a new document inside one of the Watched Folders, it processes it and
exports it to a destination of your choice: in an output folder, in the Cloud or on an FTP server.
Readiris supports up to 32 Watched Folders. Each watched folder can have a specific configuration.
One watched folder configuration can for instance generate Compressed PDF documents and export
them to Therefore. Another can generate RTF documents and export them to Google Drive, where
they can be edited. While yet another one can also send documents to a different instance of
Google Drive, using different credentials (user name and password) and settings (output folder,
etc.).
Important notes:
• When using a Readiris Watched Folder, it is not possible to use Readiris as scanning
application at the same time.
• When you already have documents open in Readiris, the Watched Folder option is
unavailable. Either process or delete the documents to access the Watched Folder option.
• Watched Folders can either use the Default settings - being the settings you configured in
Readiris - or Specific settings. In the latter case, the settings you configure for a watched
folder have nothing to do with the settings you configured inside Readiris itself.
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