Operation Manual

Section 5: Scanning and Opening Documents
o When using multiple Watched Folders, it is very useful to use the feature Add time
stamp to filename.
This way, you avoid generating output files that have the same file name, which
would be overwritten when using the same output destination. A time stamp looks
as follows <filename>_YYYYMMDDHHMMSS and contains the year, month, date,
hour, minutes and seconds of the creation time.
• When you are done, click OK to start monitoring the Watched Folder. Or click New watched
configuration to configure another Watched Folder.
During monitoring, Readiris processes any images it spots inside the folder.
Tip: click Minimize to have Readiris run in the background.
To add documents to the Watched Folder while it is being monitored by Readiris:
• Scan documents using your scanner's interface, or
• Move existing image files to the Watched Folder.
Opening Image Files
Besides scanning documents, you can also open image files and PDF files with Readiris.
Readiris supports the following image file formats.
Image file format
File
extension
Adobe PDF
*.pdf
DCX fax
*.dcx
DjVu images
*.djv, *.djvu
JPEG images
*.jpg, *.jpeg
JPEG 2000 images
*.j2c, *.j2k,
*.jp2
Portable Network Graphics
*.png
(Compressed and multipage) TIFF
images
uncompressed and LZW, PackBits, Group 3, Group 4 and JPEG
compressed
*.tif, *.tiff
Windows bitmap
*.bmp
ZSoft Paintbrush images
*.pcx
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