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Table of Content Disclaimer .............................................................................................................. 2 Warranty ............................................................................................................ 2 Notice to User .................................................................................................... 2 Publication .........................................................................................................
ID Card authentication (*ScanShellOCR Only) .................................................... 34 To authenticate a card:..................................................................................... 34 Understanding the authentication status light ................................................... 35 What to do when verification fails? ................................................................... 35 Reading Passports (*ScanShellOCR Only) ...................................................
Getting Started Before using the scanner The application has been carefully packaged to avoid damage during transportation. Before operating the scanner, please remove the packaging materials.
:\Scanner Driver\MagShell900 (for magnetic reader model MagShel900) After you specify the driver, click Next until the installation is complete.
Installation To install the software on the computer, do the following: 1. Close all programs. 2. Insert the CD into the CD ROM drive. 3. Wait until the install program begins and follow the instructions on the screen. 4. If the install program does not automatically start, click the My Computer icon on the desktop and then select the CD ROM drive. 5. Double click on the Setup program. Once the Setup program starts, select the application name from the left list and click on the Setup icon.
Introduction Important! This manual refers to two versions of ScanShell: ScanShell and ScanShellOCR. Please note that if you purchased ScanShell only, some of ScanShellOCR advanced features (namely text recognition, extraction and manipulation) are not available in your version. Whenever this manual refers to options that are only included in ScanShellOCR, they will be marked as “*OCR Only”. ScanShell scans medical insurance cards, and saves their image in a variety of ways.
The Program Interface The following figure shows the application main screen: Note: Some features are only available in ScanShellOCR – see details below, and the first paragraph in chapter 2 - Introduction. Figure 1: Main Screen The main screen controls Always on Top: Toggles the application window between normal mode and always-on-top mode. Help: Shows this document. Print Preview: Shows the scanned image and the data before printing. Print: Prints the scanned image and the data.
Live Update: Updates your software with the most recent version, using the Internet. Category: Toggles between the available document types, according to the scanner used, and sets the source for data detection accordingly. ScanShell800N: Support barcode, business card and general non-OCR reading.
Rotate Image: Rotates the image 90 degrees clockwise. This allows you to control the image orientation prior to saving. Zoom Image: Click to enlarge the image for better reading. Scan Image: Starts the image scan if using manual scan and the image source is set to scanner. Otherwise, activates the FILE OPEN dialog. Note: ‘Toggle to file’ is possible only if a scanner is physically connected to the PC, or if the license key used is a temporary key.
Background Save Progress: Shows the background saving progress (used in automatic save mode only). FTP Progress (Status bar): Shows the progress of FTP Export Detected State (Status bar): Displays the detected state when State Auto Detect is selected.
Configuring the Program Before you start scanning, it would be a good idea to configure the program’s scanning and file saving parameters. Click on the ‘Open configuration screen’ button in the main screen (see figure 1 page 9). The following configuration panel will be displayed: Image source section Manual file - save section Auto file save section Figure 3: Scanner configuration panel Automation tab The configuration panel first tab is the Automation tab.
Data Source The Data Source section determines the data input source: Scanners, magnetic strip or image file. Checking the ‘Scanner’ option does the following: Sets the scanner as the input image device. Sets the Scan button icon to a scanner image in the main screen. Enables the lower checkbox, titled ‘Paper auto detection’. Checking the ‘Image File’ option does the following: Sets the image source as a local image file from the hard disk.
Scanner button assignment If you use the ScanShell 1000 scanner, clicking the 'Scanner button assignment' will open the following window, allowing you to assign specific document category to each of the scanner buttons. Figure 4: Scanshell 1000 button configuration To configure the scanshell 1000 buttons: Select the a document type from the dropdown list of the desired scanner button. Note that an arrow is marking the appropriate button. Click OK. Repeat the selection for the other buttons.
Saving options Once an image is imported, it can be saved to a file or to the clipboard. Images can be saved in two ways: Manual save: The image is saved to the hard disk or to the clipboard as soon as the user clicks on the Save button or immediately after the scanning, depending on user settings. Automatic save: The image is saved to the hard disk in a predefined directory. Saving can be performed as soon as scanning is complete, or when the next card scanning starts.
File Naming Clicking on the ‘File naming and type’ button will take you to the following configuration screen: Figure 5: File naming configuration – Driver license This dialog sets the naming properties of the automatically saved image files. The file destination folder can be typed into the ‘File Path’, or selected by clicking the File Path button. In the window that opens you can navigate to the directory in which you want to save the files.
NAME field from the ID card. Accordingly, if the ID card belongs to JOHN SMITH, the saved file name will be JOHN SMITH.BMP. File name: Type in a name select the start number with which the files are automatically numbered, and select the graphic file type to use .Click on brows button left of the path field, to specify a path for the saved files. General documents images Use this tab to specify general documents saving options.
Data extraction tab (*ScanShellOCR Only) Figure 7: Scanner configuration panel - License data processing tab Extract full image: extracts the complete ID card image and saves it as a separate file. Extract face image: Isolates the face image rectangle from the ID card image and saves it as a separate file. Extract signature image to file: Isolates the signature image rectangle from the ID card image and saves it as a separate file.
about file naming methods, see the Image manual save and Image auto-save sections on page 16. Extract face image to file The face image rectangle is extracted from the ID image and saved to a file. The face image is saved under the ID image name with the .Face extension (e.g. if the card image name is c:/images/ID-1.bmp, the face image is saved as c:/images/ID-1Face.bmp). To find out more about file naming methods, see the Image manual save and Image auto-save sections on page 16.
Document type export strings The document type is specified in the exported text file with the following (exact) strings: When scanning driver licenses using OCR, the last fields will contain the string: "Driver license (ocr)" When scanning driver licenses using barcode, the last fields will contain the string: "Driver license (barcode)" When scanning driver licenses using a magnetic reader, the last fields will contain the string: "Driver license (mag)" When scanning passports using OCR, th
OCR text export tab (*ScanShell OCR Only) Figure 8: Scanner configuration panel – Image tab By checking the checkbox, text extracted from the scanned card will be saved to a text file, which will have the same name as the image file (ending with the .txt extension), and which will be placed in the directory where the image files are saved.
Image tab The following scanned image parameters can be controlled from the Image tab: Document size: The scanned area size in the document, Passport or Driver License. Color scheme: The number of colors used by the image. Resolution: Number of dots-per-inch used for scanning the image (dpi). JPG Quality: Set the image compression factor when saving the image in JPG format.
Height 24 Width Figure 10: Document Measurements The document Passport size drop-down list offers the following options: Full size (3"x5") Data section only The document Driver License size drop-down list offers the following options: ID card (landscape) ID card (portrait) Photo size (3” x 5”) Large Photo size (4” x 6”) Custom size: offers variable scan size from (1.85” x 2”) to (4.
Accordingly, if a certain document scanned in black and white format produces a file of 50KB, the same document produces an image file of 400KB when scanned in 256 colors (or gray scale), and 1.2 MB for true color. Resolution: The resolution parameter defines how vividly the image will be displayed. In general, an image that is scanned in higher resolution shows more details of the original document image. However, as with the color scheme – higher resolution means larger image file size.
Printing – Print tab Image Print Size Surprisingly, the printed image size depends very much on the graphic program used. In some low-end graphic applications (such as Microsoft Paint that comes with Windows), the printed image size depends on the image resolution. The more dpi – the larger the image size that will be printed.
Print data from driver’s license card: Places the data from the card under the card image. The printed image and data fields can be selected using the appropriate check boxes. Printing Font: Select the desired printing font parameters. Printing custom fields: Allows you to print custom, user defined fields. This is useful for creating badges and other purposes. Custom fields can be added in the OCR window, see Custom fields - User defined fields, page 33. This is useful to print badges.
Live Update Live Update checks for updates whenever you are connected to the Internet, and updates your program automatically with the most recent version of your program available. Note: If you don’t configure your software for automatic Live Update, you can still update it manually using the Live Update button in the main screen. To use the automatic Live Update feature, go to the Live Update tab in the configuration screen: Figure 13: Live Update tab 1. Check the Live Update checkbox. 2.
ABC12345 jfk80DD Figure 14: Live Update user details 4. Fill in your details. Note: License, Email and Company are obligatory and must be filled in. 5. Click ‘OK’.
Program Operation Overview ScanShell operation can be divided into six main operation categories: 1. Scanning and Image import 2. Saving and exporting data and images 3. Magnetic Strip reading (*ScanShellOCR Only) 4. Extracted text manipulation and export (*ScanShellOCR Only) 5. ID card Verification (*ScanShellOCR Only)? 6.
Scanning a new document To scan a new document, just feed the driver’s license into the scanner. If the scanner is set to automatic scan mode, the scanner will start scanning the card automatically. In manual scan mode, the scanner starts scanning when you click on the Scan button in the main screen. See Paper auto detection page 14. Once the scan is complete, the program will process the image. The scanned image and data will be saved according to the settings you specified in the configuration panel.
ID Data (*ScanShellOCR Only) After scanning and processing the ID card, you can review the acquired text information by opening the ID Data window. To open the ID Data window, press the button titled ‘OCR’ on the main screen. The ID Data window shows the data retrieved either from the scanned image by OCR (Optical Character Recognition), or from the scanned image Barcode, depending on the option selected. Irrelevant fields are disabled (depending the state).
Custom fields - User defined fields Custom fields can be useful for creating badges and other purposes. Click on the 'OCR' button at the bottom left of the main screen. Click on the 'Details' button at the bottom left of the window that opens. Click on the 'Custom' button at the bottom left of the window that opens.
ID Card authentication (*ScanShellOCR Only) Use this option to check if the card you scan is genuine. ScanShell will scan the data on the card using OCR, and then compare it to data from a second source on the card, either the barcode or the magnetic strip (if available). If the data from the two sources match, the card is genuine. Else, the card is either faked, or one of the data sources on the card is corrupted. To authenticate a card: 1.
7. ScanShell will scan the card, and than prompt you to scan the card a second time. Insert the card again in the scanner/reader and repeat the steps above. 8. If the data from the two sources on the card matched, the icon on the authentication button will be green. If it did not match, the icon will be red, which means the card is not in order, (either faked, or one of the data sources on the card is corrupted. 9. Press OK to save the record to database.
Reading Passports (*ScanShellOCR Only) Passports scanning can only be done with the ScanShell 1000 scanner. This scanner was designed specifically for reading / scanning of passports; however, it can be used also for ID / Driver License reading / scanning. With the ScanShell software the ScanShell 1000 has full functionality for Passport and ID / Driver Licenses. Both Passport and ID cards should be placed on the glass of the scanner with the side to be scanned facing the glass.
Appendix A – Supported States for Detection The following table shows the countries and states supported by ScanShell. This list will be updated in each new version release of ScanShell. Region Name USA Region ID 0 Country Name USA Country ID 0 Document Name Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Washington D.C.
Region Name Region ID Country Name Country ID Canada 1 Canada 3 America 2 Chile Mexico Brazil Bermuda 4 6 8 13 Bahamas 21 France United Kingdom and Ireland Israel Germany 5 7 9 10 Spain Romania Norway Holland Luxemburg Lithuania 11 12 15 17 18 19 Europe 3 Document Name Document ID South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Hawaii Permanent Resident (Green Card) USA Army Social Security Card Ontario Alberta British Col
Region Name Australia Asia Region ID 4 5 Country Name Swiss Sweden Italy Australia Malaysia New Zealand Singapore Country ID Document Name Document ID 20 22 23 1 Swiss Sweden driver license Italian driver license New South Wales Australian Capital Territory Queensland Victoria Tasmania Western Australia South Australia Northern Territory Malaysia New Zealand Singapore 240 260 270 50 51 2 16 14 52 53 55 56 57 58 60 200 180
Appendix B – Supported Scanners Before using ScanShell, the scanner driver must be installed. ScanShell can work with the following scanner types: Scanshell 800: Driver for the scanner can be found at http://www.id-scan.com/FTP/Scanner_Drivers/scanshell800 ScanShell 900: Driver for the scanner can be found at http://www.id-scan.com/FTP/Scanner_Drivers/MagShell900 ScanShell 1000: Driver for the scanner can be found at http://www.id-scan.
Appendix C - Maintaining the scanner Calibrating the scanner With time, the scanner colors detection tends to change to incorrect values. This phenomenon affects the text detection accuracy as well as the resulted image quality. To reset the scanner to the proper colors, the scanner needs to be calibrated.
Appendix D - Minimized Interface Mode & CommandLine Switches The ScanShell application behavior can be modified to best suit your needs. This is done by running the program while using command lines switches. ScanShell offers the following switches: MI – Runs the application with minimum amount of control buttons on the main screen and eliminate access to the configuration dialog screens.
This alters the program main screen as follows: Calibrate Scanner Clean Scanner Select country & State Help Barcode Scanner connection status Figure 19: Main screen in minimized mode Main screen function controls: Help: Opens this help document. Calibrate Scanner: Activates the scanner’s Calibration Wizard. Clean: Activates the scanner Cleaning Wizard. Country list: Selects the current country.
Note: All the settings described in previous sections of this documents apply when running in Minimized Interface mode.
Appendix E – Full Export Fields List The following table shows the full list of exported fields from idScan (in this order). Field name and index 1. ID number 2. License number 3. Name 4. Address 5. City 6. State 7. Zip 8. Issue date 9. Expiry date 10. Birth date 11. Sex 12. License class 13. Social security 14. ID image file name 15. First name 16. Middle name 17. Last name 18. Name suffix 19. Scan time 20. Scan date 21. Text line1 22. Text line2 23. Eyes color 24. Hair color 25. Height 26. Weight 27.
31. Issuing Country passport field 32. Nationality passport field 33. County. 34. mAddress2; 35. mAddress3; 36. mAddress4; 37. mAddress5; 38. CustomData0 39. CustomData1 40. CustomData2 41. CustomData3 42. CustomData4 43. CustomData5 44. CustomData6 45. CustomData7 46. CustomData8 47. CustomData9 48. mDuplicate 49. Title Business card field 50. Company Business card field 51. Country Business card field 52. City2 Business card field 53. State2 Business card field 54.
65. Phone0 Business card field 66. PhoneLabel1 Business card field 67. Phone1 Business card field 68. PhoneLabel2 Business card field 69. Phone2 Business card field 70. PhoneLabel3 Business card field 71. Phone3 Business card field 72. PhoneLabel4 Business card field 73. Phone4 Business card field 74. FaxLabel0 Business card field 75. Fax0 Business card field 76. FaxLabel1 Business card field 77. Fax1 Business card field 78. FaxLabel2 Business card field 79.
99. Text line3 100. Country name (for driver license document only) 101. Ammount 102. Date Bank Cheque field 103. Issuer Bank Cheque field 104. Issuing bank Bank Cheque field 105.
