. Starting VisualTable ................................................ 2 2. Operating the hardware .......................................... 4 3. Program tools .......................................................... 5 4. Creating ebook ........................................................ 8 5.
1. Starting VisualTable (1) Connect VisualTable and run VisualTable program. VisualTable ① Turn on your PC power and check all the connections of the USB cable, power cable and power adaptor of the VisualTable to the PC. Start the program 30 seconds after connecting the USB cable. ② Double click the “VisualTable” icon on the PC screen or in the start menu in the PC screen corner. ③ Put your book, binding or paper, on the top of VisualTable with its visible side facing down.
Custom Setting > Program options Path for Captured: to select a folder where captured images are saved Path for OCR: to select a folder where OCR-formatted documents are saved Image Edit Program: to select an Image Edit program; otherwise, Windows’ Mspaint.exe has been set at default. (Open the folder of the requested edit program and click its exe file.) Web Drive: to register the site for cloud service drive (e.g. google drive).
Custom Setting > OCR options 1 OCR Option: to select a targeted language for OCR converting characters on documents. In the event of converting a document written only in English, selecting “English” will improve the recognition rate. Translation Language Selection: to select a language after translation. (The related function in the Main menu panel: Area selection Translation) 2. Operating the hardware Both the hardware and the software program menu can be used for image capture.
- LEFT : shows the left page of the book on the screen - RIGHT : shows the right page of the book on the screen - CAPTURE : captures the current image and save it. 3. Program tools (Demo Video: Click https://youtu.be/8VO61AngFR4) Left view Right view Real-time image view To show the left side of a book To show the right side of a book To show images of the book on the screen in real time. A click on the button displays Freeze-screen. To freeze a captured image on the screen.
Area selection To drag a specific area with a mouse to make selection Save To save the selected area into an image Copy To copy the selected image onto the clipboard or on other application programs running on the Windows environment.
Application program To execute an application program linked to VisualTable. e-Book To scan books and create e-Books TTS TTS is not provided. Web drive To use cloud service drive (e.g. google drive). The registered site will pop up by click of “U” button. Image Edit To edit the currently viewing page in an Image Edit program. The use of a specific edit program requires a separate registration; otherwise, Mspaint will be executed at default.
4. Creating eBook The VisualTable scanner enables user to scan texts or reference books conveniently and produce eBooks in the PDF file format. Main menu panel: Go to the Creating eBook program.
1 Saved image lineup window To display the list of scanned images To delete the saved image File name: the folder name + sequential number To get the folder of saved images and check them To delete all the files in the folder. In the event of sharing VisualTable, make sure to back up all the necessary scanned images for successive scanning in the next time before other users delete all the images by “Delete All” button.
Creating eBook Custom Setting Exit To convert saved images and create eBook in a text type PDF file. - Text type PDF file: Possible to copy and paste in a general pdf software (Image type PDF file: Not possible to copy) - Maximum pages possible to be converted into one PDF file: 300 pages. (In the event of scanning a book with over 300 pages, create a pdf file per 300 pages and then combine all the related pdf files.
(2) Scan order for the Creating eBook program ① Click on ② Click on ③ Click on ‘Save Folder’ and assign the path of a folder where images for eBook are saved ‘View Right Side’ and on ‘View Left Side’ and on , giving the book an area (in green dotted line) , giving the book an area (in red dotted line) ④ Click on ‘Beginning Page’ to enter the beginning number. ⑤ Click on to save the left and right sides automatically; click on to save the current page. Turn pages to repeat the function.
5. Precautions to take before reformatting PC Only one validation attempt is allowed per license of OCR. If you need to reformat your PC, please refer to following instructions to back up the license information of your OCR. In the event of your negligence of this instruction, supplier has no responsibility for the related OCR issue. (1) If you want to reinstall on the same PC after reformatting the PC. - Steps to back up the OCR license key Step 1: Find the file of “idrs_software_keys_14.