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Acquiring Items
There are many ways to bring images and documents into PaperPort so
that you can use PaperPort’s viewing, editing, annotation, indexing, OCR,
and file management tools. For example, you can:
• Scan photos, pages, and other images on a scanning device.
• Add folders to PaperPort that already contain images and
documents.
• Import files from other programs on your computer.
• Download files from web storage sites via PaperPort Anywhere or
Nuance Cloud Connector.
• Print documents from other programs to the PaperPort desktop.
• Drag or cut-and-paste images and documents from Windows
Explorer, or other programs to the PaperPort desktop.
• Acquire photos from a digital camera.
• Bring files into PaperPort Professional using DesktopDelivery.
• Print web pages to PDF files for use in PaperPort.
Scan to the PaperPort desktop
PaperPort is designed to work with TWAIN- and WIA-
compatible scanners.
Click the
Scan Settings button to display the Scan or
Get Photo pane. Choose a scan profile. Profiles are
optimized for typical scanning tasks.
Then choose between using the native interface of the
s
canner or utilizing the new Scanner Settings pane of
PaperPort for best scanning results. To use the interface
of the scanner driver, mark the checkbox
Display
scanner dialog box
. Leaving it empty will put the
scanned item onto the active Workspace.
T
urn on the Capture Assistant to add subject, author and keywords to items
and
(in PaperPort Professional) to view and control scanning progress.