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Program Operation - Scanning modes 12

SCANNING MODES

idScan has several scanning modes, available according to the scanner used.

SCANNER SUPPORT

Magshell scanners (magnetic readers): Support Driver License and General Document

modes (if the documents have magnetic strips). General document (in magnetic mode)

extracts data from magnetic strips of general document (e.g., credit cards) and displays

the text data as-is.

ScanShell800N: Supports barcode, business card and general non-OCR reading.

ScanShell800\1000: Support all modes as follows:

♦ Driver License

♦ Business card

♦ Barcode

♦ Passport

♦ 2D barcode – extract the data form 2D barcodes

♦ 1D barcode – extract the data form 1D barcodes

♦ Checks

SCANNING A NEW DOCUMENT

To scan a new document, just feed the document 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 23. 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 SCANNING MODE

1. To scan a document in ID data scanning mode, select one of the following

categories:

Driver License ID, Business card

Driver License ID

Passport

2D Barcode

1D Barcode

2. Scan the ID document using either auto detect or manual scanning mode.

3. After scanning and processing an ID card in one of the categories above, you can

review the text data by opening the ID Data window. To open the ID Data window,

press the OCR button on the main screen.

The ID Data window shows the data retrieved either by OCR (Optical Character