Visioneer OneTouch 9650 USB Scanner User's Guide ® for Windows ®
Visioneer OneTouch® 9650 USB Scanner User’s Guide FOR WINDOWS
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION Copyright © 2006 Visioneer, Inc. Reproduction, adaptation, or translation without prior written permission is prohibited, except as allowed under the copyright laws. The Visioneer brand name and logo are registered trademarks of Visioneer, Inc. The PaperPort brand name and logo are registered trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc.
TABLE OF CONTENTS i TA B L E O F C O N T E N T S Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 What’s in the Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Visioneer 9650 Scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 What You Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Configuring Before Scanning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Scan and Burn to a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Scanning with Event Forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Creating an HTML Web Page from Your Scanned Documents 83 Transferring Scanned Documents to Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Checking the Hardware and Setting the Lamp Power Saving . . 89 Scanning with the TWAIN Interface . . . .
TABLE OF CONTENTS iii Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Cleaning the Scanner Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Clearing Paper Jams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Care and Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Cleaning the Automatic Document Feeder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Replacing the ADF Pad Assembly . . .
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WELCOME Your new Visioneer 9650 scanner can scan stacks of items or a single page at a time, and place their images on your computer. Warning: Do not plug in the USB cable until after you have installed the software. Carefully follow the steps and sequence described in the installation procedure beginning on page 6. WHAT’S IN THE BOX Before starting the assembly and installation, check the contents of the box to make sure that all parts are included.
2 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE THE VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER Document Cover Document Pad Glass Reference Frame Paper Stop Paper Guide Extension Paper Guide Automatic Document Feeder Lock (on underside of scanner) Status Lights USB Port ADF port Power jack Power On/Off Switch ADF Cable
THE VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER Document Cover—Protects the document from light and contamination during scanning. Document Pad—Helps to secure the document in place on the scanner glass. Reference Frame—Place items face down within this frame. Markings on the border of the frame show where to align various paper sizes. Glass—Place items face down aligned at the upper left corner of the glass. Paper Stop—Holds items in place as they are ejected from the Automatic Document Feeder.
4 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE WHAT YOU NEED An IBM-compatible Pentium PC, or AMD equivalent with: ■ A CD-ROM drive ■ An available Universal Serial Bus (USB) port; 1.1 or 2.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN 5 Installing Warning: Do not plug in the USB cable until after you have installed the software. Complete the installation steps in the order described in the installation procedure below. Installation is a quick, four-step process: 1. Assemble the scanner 2. Install the software 3. Connect the power supply 4.
6 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE STEP 1: ASSEMBLE THE SCANNER All the components to assemble the scanner are included in the box. To assemble the scanner: 1. Remove all shipping tape from the top and bottom of the scanner. 2. Slide the locking tab on the bottom of the scanner to its unlocked position. Unlocked position Note: The locking tab protects the scanner’s scan head by holding it securely in position.
STEP 1: ASSEMBLE THE SCANNER 7 3. Insert the slots (A) on the Paper Guide onto their tabs (B) on the scanner and slide the Guide down into place. The catch tabs (C) “snap” into place. Refer to the picture on page 2 to see the location of the assembled parts. A B C 4. Insert the Paper Guide Extension into the Paper Guide and “snap” its tabs into place.
8 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 5. Insert the Paper Stop onto the back of the scanner and slide it downward to “snap” its tabs into place. 6. Plug the ADF cable into the ADF port on the body of the scanner. Make sure the cable is plugged in securely. The ADF will not work if the cable is loose or not plugged in. 7. Proceed to “Step 2: Install the Software.
STEP 2: INSTALL THE SOFTWARE 9 STEP 2: INSTALL THE SOFTWARE The Installation CD contains all the driver software and scanning software to run your scanner. To install the software: 1. Start Microsoft Windows and make sure that no other applications are running. 2. Insert the Installation CD into your computer’s CD-ROM drive. Note: If the CD does not automatically start, check the following: ■ Make sure the CD drive’s door is completely shut.
10 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE When the CD starts, the Visioneer Installation window opens automatically. 3. On the Installation Main Menu, click Install Products. The next window lists the software that is available to install on your computer. 4. Select Nuance® PaperPort®, Scanner Driver, and QuickScan®. 5. Click Install Now. The PaperPort software will load first.
STEP 2: INSTALL THE SOFTWARE 11 6. The Select Language window opens for the PaperPort software. Click the drop-down menu arrow and select the language you want to use. Click OK. The first PaperPort Installation window opens. 7. On the PaperPort Welcome window, click Next. Installing PaperPort will uninstall any existing version of PaperPort and will install the newer version while retaining all of your previous PaperPort files. 8.
12 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 14. When installation of PaperPort is finished, the Welcome to the OneTouch 4.0 Setup Wizard opens. 15. Click Next. 16. On the Visioneer License Agreement window, read the license agreement. If you accept the terms, select I Agree, and click Next. If you choose not to accept the license agreement, the installation will terminate and the scanner driver will not be installed. 17. Click Next.
STEP 2: INSTALL THE SOFTWARE 13 18. Select the option you want. ■ Full Install (OneTouch, TWAIN and ISIS)—This is the recommended installation. It installs the OneTouch 4.0 software which provides the necessary driver software for the scanner. It also installs scanning interfaces for TWAIN, Microsoft’s Windows Image Acquisition (WIA), and the ISIS driver. Installing this option means that you can use several different methods to scan, as explained in this User Guide.
14 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE ■ ISIS only—The ISIS driver is installed. You can use applications that use the ISIS driver to scan. You can use WIA to scan if your computer is running Windows XP. You will not be able to use the TWAIN driver or OneTouch to scan. Note: If you decide to change your scanner’s installed drivers later on, you must first uninstall the drivers the scanner is currently using. See the section “To Install Another Driver” on page 144. 19. Click Next.
STEP 2: INSTALL THE SOFTWARE 15 21. STOP when you see this Installation Complete window. Do NOT click Finish yet. Leave the window open and proceed to the next section,“Step 3: Connect the Power Supply.” Reminder: If your computer is running AntiVirus or AntiSpyware software, you may see messages asking you to allow installation. Select the option to allow installation to proceed.
16 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE STEP 3: CONNECT THE POWER SUPPLY Connect the power supply and power cord, and plug the power supply into an electrical outlet. To connect the power supply: 1. Plug the power supply into its power port on the scanner. Make sure the ADF cable is plugged in securely. If the cable is loose the ADF will not function properly. Note: Only use the power supply (HEG42-240100-7L made by HiTRON) included with your scanner.
STEP 4: CONNECT THE USB CABLE AND TURN ON THE POWER 17 STEP 4: CONNECT THE USB CABLE AND TURN ON THE POWER Your Visioneer 9650 scanner connects to any available USB port. Check your computer’s manual for the USB port locations. Note: You can connect the scanner to your computer while the computer is running. You do not have to shut down your computer. 1. Remove any protective tape from the USB cable. 2. Plug the USB cable into the USB port on the scanner then into a USB port on the computer.
18 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Note: If you have not installed the scanner driver, unplug the USB cable from the computer and install the software now. When the driver installation is complete, a message tells you when to connect the scanner. 3. Turn on the power switch, located on the back of the scanner. The status light comes on and flashes indicating that the scanner is receiving power. If you are using Windows XP Service Pack 2, and have plugged the USB cable into a USB 1.
STEP 4: CONNECT THE USB CABLE AND TURN ON THE POWER 19 4. Your computer recognizes that a scanner is plugged into the USB port and automatically loads the appropriate driver software to run the scanner. Do not proceed until you receive a message that your computer has found the new hardware, or updated the driver database. If your computer is running Windows XP, you will see the following message. 5.
20 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 6. Click OK. 7. Click Close on the Installation Complete window to close and exit the software installer. 8. When the window appears for installing the QuickScan software, click Next and follow the instructions on the screen.
VIEW THE USER GUIDES 21 VIEW THE USER GUIDES The User’s Guides for your Visioneer 9650 scanner, and for the PaperPort software are also on the Installation CD. To view the user’s guides: 1. Return to the Installation window and click User Guides. The Visioneer User Guides window opens. Use this window to view and save the User Guides you want.
22 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE The User Guides are in Adobe® Acrobat® PDF format. The CD also includes a free copy of Acrobat® Reader® in case your computer does not have it already installed. The Scanner Readme file is in HTML format and will open in any standard browser. If you need to, click Acrobat Reader to install it now. Follow the instructions on the installation windows. To view and save the User Guides: 1.
REGISTER YOUR SCANNER AND CHECK FOR UPDATES 23 REGISTER YOUR SCANNER AND CHECK FOR UPDATES Registering your scanner is important as it provides you with access to our free telephone support service. Registration also gives you free access to software updates for your scanner. The OneTouch Icon. To register your scanner: 1. Right-click on the OneTouch icon in the Windows Notification Area (at the bottom right corner of the screen). 2. Choose Check for Online Updates from the pop-up menu. 3.
24 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Scanning If you selected the recommended Full Install option for your scanner’s driver (see page 13), you have several options for scanning. Each method scans equally well so use the one with appropriate options for the item you are scanning. The scanning options available with the Full Install are: ■ OneTouch—Open the OneTouch scan panel, adjust the scan settings as needed, put the document in the scanner, then click one of the button icons on the OneTouch panel.
LOADING DOCUMENTS TO SCAN 25 LOADING DOCUMENTS TO SCAN Your scanner can scan a stack of documents or a single item. To load a stack of documents in the Automatic Document Feeder: 1. Unfold the Paper Guide Extension and adjust the Paper Guide for the size of paper. You can also adjust the Paper Stop at the back of the scanner for the size of the paper. Pull out the slide on the Stop for letter-sized pages. Push it in for legal-sized pages.
26 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 2. Load your stack of documents face up, with the top edge of the pages into the Automatic Document Feeder. Important: Items scanned using the Automatic Document Feeder must be a minimum of 5 x 7 inches (12.7 x 17.8 cm). To load a single item: 1. Place the item on the scanner glass, face down. 2. Align the item with the arrow on the reference frame. 3. Close the cover.
SCAN FROM THE ONETOUCH BUTTON PANEL 27 SCAN FROM THE ONETOUCH BUTTON PANEL OneTouch is an application installed on your computer as part of the scanner installation process. To scan from the OneTouch Button Panel: 1. Adjust the paper guide for the width of paper you want to scan, and load the documents with the top edge into the Automatic Document Feeder. The OneTouch Icon. 2. Now click on the OneTouch icon in the Windows Notification Area (at the bottom right corner of the screen).
28 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE The scanner begins scanning. When the process finishes, the scanned images appear in the Destination Application. In the example below, the Destination Application is PaperPort. To cancel scanning, click the Cancel button. Important: The OneTouch Properties window must be closed before you can scan from the Button Panel. Note: Your scanner comes with nine factory-preset OneTouch button settings.
USING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON PANEL 29 USING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON PANEL The OneTouch Button Panel is also your on-screen set of controls for the scanner. The OneTouch Button Panel shows information about the scanner and its settings. 1. To open the OneTouch Button Panel, click the OneTouch icon. It is located in the Windows Notification Area at the bottom right corner of the screen. The OneTouch Button Panel opens at its Button View, which shows the on-screen scanning buttons. The Button View. 2.
30 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE ■ The Detail View shows the current scan settings for a button. If the Properties window is not open, right-click the icon on the Detail View or Button View to open it. This sample shows the description of setting 1. This number is the Button number. The icon indicates the Destination Application for this setting. The current name of the setting. ■ Your document will be scanned with these options for setting Number 1.
USING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON PANEL 31 2. Make the changes on the OneTouch Properties window. Note: The configurations shown on this example of the OneTouch Properties window are for illustration purposes only. The configurations you see on your OneTouch Properties window may be different. 3. Click OK to save the changes. After the changes have been saved, the Detail View of the button will change to reflect your new settings. 4. To close the OneTouch Button Panel, click the close button on the panel.
32 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE ABOUT THE ONETOUCH BUTTON PANEL’S NAMES AND ICONS The button names, such as PDF, eMail or Fax, indicate the original factory settings for the Destination Application assigned to a button. When you installed OneTouch, it searched your computer for applications that will work with the scanner, then listed them as available Destination Applications on the OneTouch Button Panel and the OneTouch Properties window.
USING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON PANEL 33 THE DEFAULT ONETOUCH SETTINGS ON YOUR SCANNER Your scanner is preconfigured to scan items for various basic tasks, such as email or fax, then send the scanned image to an appropriate, preselected Destination Application. The following table shows these factory-default settings. You can change any of these settings. Button Name Destination Application Preconfigured Settings 1 Scan PaperPort Black&White @ 200dpi 8.
34 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS Each OneTouch button configuration consists of a Destination Application, a Scan Configuration, and a Document Format. The OneTouch Properties window is where you select these three elements for a button. To open the OneTouch Properties window: 1. Click the OneTouch icon. It is located in the Windows Notification Area at the bottom right corner of the screen. 2. Right-click a button on the OneTouch Button Panel.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 35 ABOUT THE ONETOUCH PROPERTIES WINDOW The OneTouch Properties window is where you can select new settings for the buttons. The OneTouch Properties window also contains special scanning features such as scanning and burning to a CD, and scanning and converting text directly into an HTML web page. The following example of the OneTouch window shows the settings for Button 2.
36 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Note: Some of the options on the OneTouch Properties Window (and other OneTouch windows and dialog boxes) may be “grayed out” and are not available. Grayed out options are not appropriate for your Visioneer 9650 scanner. The settings on the Properties window are: Select Destination—The list of applications that can open to display the scanned image for the selected button.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 37 You can also click the Edit button or double click the configuration to see more detailed information about the selected configuration. Select Format and Page(s)—A set of file formats for the scanned image for the selected button. The formats are based on the type of destination application you select. This example shows the formats that apply to Microsoft Outlook. The button names indicate their file types.
38 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE SELECTING NEW SETTINGS FOR A BUTTON For each of the nine OneTouch buttons, you can select a new Destination Application, Scan Configuration, and Document Format. Click these arrows to see the properties for the button whose settings you want to change. Select a software application as the destination to send scanned documents. Select a format for the scanned image. Select a configuration for scanning the item. To select new settings for a button: 1.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 39 3. From the Select Configuration list, select a scan configuration. The scan configuration list is preset for the application you select in the Select Destination list. If you select a different application, the configurations are for that application. However, you can create your own scan configurations as well. See “Creating a New Scan Configuration” on page 60. 4. Select a Format and Page(s) option.
40 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE SETTING DESTINATION APPLICATION PROPERTIES The different types of Destination Applications have various properties that you can select. 1. On the OneTouch Properties window, click a Destination Application. 2. Click the Properties button. Click a Destination Application. Click the Properties button A OneTouch 4.0 Link Properties dialog box opens for the type of Destination Application you selected, and the available options are for that type of application.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 41 PAPERPORT PROPERTIES These properties apply to PaperPort, and are for designating the folder to receive your scanned items. 1. Select the PaperPort folder where you want the file of the scanned image to be located. 2. Click OK. 3. Click OK or Apply on the OneTouch Properties window. When PaperPort opens after you finish scanning, the thumbnails of your scanned documents are on the Desktop in that folder.
42 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE TEXT DOCUMENTS PROPERTIES These properties apply to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel®, and the other applications indicated by their icons in the list. The properties apply to the OCR settings for the applications. 1. Click in the OCR settings boxes for the options you want. The options will apply to all the applications in the group.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 43 The Add Text Based Link dialog box opens. 3. Click Browse to find the application you want to add to the list. When you select the application using the Browse button, steps 1, and 2 on the dialog box are automatically filled in, and the application icon appears in step 3. 4. Select the icon in Step 3 of the dialog box. That is the icon that will appear in the OneTouch Destination List. 5.
44 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE IMAGE DOCUMENTS PROPERTIES These properties apply to Microsoft Paint and other image processing applications. 1. Click in the Color document handling settings boxes for the options you want. The options will apply to all the applications in the group. Convert Bitmaps using Screen Resolution—Use this option to ensure that an image will fit on the computer’s screen.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 45 2. To add another application to the list, click the Add Application button. See the steps on page 42 to add an application to the list. 3. Click OK. 4. Click Refresh on the OneTouch Properties window. 5. Click OK or Apply on the OneTouch Properties window. STORAGE PROPERTIES These properties apply to the Destination Application named Transfer to Storage. If a CD burner is attached to your computer, you can also use this dialog box to start the Burn to CD process.
46 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 1. Click the Storage Layout options you want. All documents are in the root—The scanned documents are saved in the root of the folder specified in the Storage Location. Documents are put into folders by month, week, or type— Folders are created based on your selection (month, week, or type) and the scanned documents are saved in those folders. New folders are created for each month and week so you can keep track of when you scanned the documents. 2.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 47 EMAIL PROPERTIES These properties apply to email applications so you can specify the folder for documents that you will attach to an email message. Microsoft Outlook® will accept direct attachment of documents to a blank email message as soon as scanning is finished, but other email applications may not.
48 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 3. If you need to change your email client, or any other internet options, click the Internet Options button. The Windows Internet Options Control Panel opens. Click the Programs tab and choose a new email client from the Email list. These are the standard Windows Internet options. Please see your Windows documentation for more information about Internet options.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 49 SELECTING PAGE FORMAT OPTIONS The Page Format options that you select determines the file format of the scanned document. Appropriate page format options and file types are available for the type of Destination Application selected for the button. The available options are for images and text. Image Formats. Text Formats. The Text Formats are for text file types. The names of the formats indicate their file types. See “Text Formats” on page 51 for details.
50 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE The PDF format is often used to create images of text pages. You may want to select PDF as the page format when scanning text pages that do not require OCR processing. The PDF format is also used to put multipage documents on web sites as PDF-readable files. As with the JPEG option, the PDF format can be reduced in size or quality. To select a JPEG or PDF file size: 1. Select JPG or PDF as the page format. 2. Right-click on the JPG or PDF icon. A menu opens. 3.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 51 TEXT FORMATS Selecting the text format option also selects OCR processing as an automatic step for scanning. Therefore, when you scan a document with the text format selected, the text portions of the document are automatically converted to editable text. See “Scanning with Optical Character Recognition (OCR)” on page 53. Select a text format for documents with text or numbers, such as a business letter, report, or spreadsheet.
52 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE To select a file type for the text format: 1. Select the Destination Application. 2. Right-click on the text format icon. A menu opens. The following figure shows the options for the TEXT format. The menu options depend on the type of Destination Application you select. Example menu for the Text format. 3. Choose the file type that you want for the text format.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 53 SCANNING WITH OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR) Optical Character Recognition (OCR) converts text and numbers on a scanned page into editable text and numbers. You can then work with the text and numbers to edit, spellcheck, change font or type size, sort, calculate, and so forth. Note: Visioneer recommends that all OCR processing use the original factory settings for OCR scanning that came with your scanner.
54 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 3. Choose OCR options. A dialog box of OCR options opens. 4. Select the option you want for the OCR conversion of your documents. Auto orient page—Select this option to check the page orientation and automatically rotate an improperly oriented page image so the text is recognizable by the OCR process. Single column output—Select this option to produce a single column of text in the Destination Application, even if the original image had multiple columns of text. 5.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 55 RENAMING A ONETOUCH BUTTON The OneTouch buttons have names that identify their pre-set functions, such as OCR and PDF, but you can edit the names. To change the button names: 1. Open the OneTouch Properties window. 2. Using the arrows, choose the button that you want to rename. 3. Select the name’s text and type a new name. Click the arrows to get to the button to rename, then select the name text. Type a new name for the button. 4. Click OK or Apply.
56 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE SELECTING OPTIONS FOR A BUTTON The OneTouch Options determine the types of Destination Applications available for a button, as well as the location of the files of your scanned items. To select options: 1. Open the OneTouch Properties window and click the Options tab. Options tab. 2. Click the menu arrow and choose the button for new options. 3. Select button options as described below.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 57 Select Destinations—Select this option to individually choose the types of applications to include in the list of Destination Applications. Check the boxes for the type of application to include. ■ Document Management includes PaperPort and other applications for processing and keeping track of your scanned documents. ■ Image Editors include Microsoft Paint and other drawing and graphics applications.
58 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Create copies of scanned documents—Sometimes the image of a scanned document is only saved as a temporary file until its Destination Application is finished using it. In those cases you may want an additional, permanent copy saved on your hard drive. For example, if you scan a picture to an email application, the scanned image is saved as a temporary file, then attached to the email, and the email is sent. Later, the temporary file of the scanned picture is deleted.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 59 scanned documents by the type of file, such as .doc or .jpg. If you also want to group them by date you can choose the week and month options. The following example shows the folders when the selections are Group items by type and Group items by month. 5. Click OK to save the options for the selected button.
60 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE CREATING A NEW SCAN CONFIGURATION The scan configurations are where you select the scanning resolution, brightness, mode (color, black&white, or grayscale), and a number of other settings. The Scan Configurations. The Lock Icon. Click New to create a new Scan Configuration. Note the lock icon on the preset configurations. Although you can unlock and edit the preset configurations, we recommend that you leave them locked, and only add new configurations.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 61 buttons set for text editing applications. Thus, you can create specific sets of scan configurations for specific functions and they are listed only when appropriate. 3. Click the New button. If you want to start from the settings of another configuration, select the configuration, then click the Copy button. If the Scan Settings tab is not selected, click it. 4. On the Scan Configuration Properties dialog box, type a name. Type a new name for the configuration.
62 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 5. Select scan settings for the new scan configuration. Mode—Select a scanning mode: ■ Black&White to scan in black and white. For example, letters and memos are usually scanned in black and white. This scan mode produces the smallest file size. ■ GrayScale to scan items such as documents containing drawings or black and white photographs. The scanning produces an image of up to 256 shades of gray. ■ Color to scan color photographs and other color items.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 63 7. Click the Page Settings tab to select page settings. Click to toggle between inches and millimeters. Size—Click Standard, click the menu arrow and choose a page size from the list, or click Custom and enter the horizontal and vertical page dimensions in the boxes. The maximum size for items scanned with the Automatic Document Feeder is 8.5" x 14". The maximum size for items scanned on the Flatbed glass is 8.5" x 11.69".
64 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE When using the AutoCrop to Original option for a single page on the Flatbed Glass, make sure to align the top left corner of the item with the arrows at the top left corner of the Flatbed Glass. When using the AutoCrop to Original option with the Automatic Document Feeder, make sure to adjust the paper guides on the scanner so the page is not skewed when it feeds into the scanner. Skewed pages may not scan properly and the autocropped image may not be correct.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 65 page is fed through at an angle. However, if the page is fed through at too great an angle, the image may not straighten correctly. In that case, re-scan the page using the paper guides to feed the paper in straight. ■ Invert Image—Only available for Black&White Mode, this option reverses the black and whites of an image. Original Image ■ Inverted Image Color Filter—Color filter is the ability of your scanner to automatically remove a color from a scanned item.
66 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 8. Click the Advanced Settings tab. The options of the Advanced Settings tab are for the Color or Grayscale scanning mode. Saturation is the strength or purity of a color, hue is the color your eyes see as reflected from the image, and gamma controls the brightness of the midtones of the color. 9. Drag the sliders to the left and right to change the color settings. As you do, the image changes to show the effects of the new settings. 10.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 67 THE DEVICE SETTINGS TAB A Device Settings tab appears on the Scan Configurations dialog box when your selected Destination Application sends the scanned image to a printer, fax application, or other device. You use the options on the Device Settings tab to select settings for the device. 1. Click on the Device Settings tab.
68 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Collate copies—If you’re printing more than one page, collate the copies. Enter the number of copies in the Copies box. Advanced—Click to see additional settings for the device. The dialog that opens is specific to the device. For example, if the device is your printer, the dialog box is your printer’s setup settings. 2. Click OK or Apply.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 69 1. Click on the Storage Options tab. 2. Click the Storage Layout options you want. All documents are in the root—The scanned documents are saved in the root of the folder specified in the Storage Location. Documents are put into folders by month, week, or type— Folders are created based on your selection (month, week, or type) and the scanned documents are saved in those folders.
70 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE SCANNING TO MULTIPLE FOLDERS When archiving documents with the Transfer to Storage option, you can scan them to multiple folders. For example, one folder might be for “Business Receipts,” a second folder might be for “Personal Receipts,” and a third folder might be for “Annual Receipts.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 71 5. Click the Scan Settings, Page Settings, and Advanced Settings tabs, and select the settings you want. To help you remember which folder it is, give the new configuration a name that indicates the folder name, such as “Storage for Business Receipts.” 6. Click the Storage Options tab. 7. Click the Browse button. 8. Select the folder you created for storing the scanned documents.
72 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 9. Click OK. The selected folder will now be set as the Storage Location, such as “Business Receipts.” 10. Click Apply. The new configuration is now listed as a Transfer to Storage configuration. 11. Repeat the process to create additional new configurations, such as one named “Storage for Personal Receipts.” 12. Make sure to designate separate folders as the Storage Locations for the new configurations.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 73 The new configurations apply to the Transfer to Storage Destination Application. 13. Now click the arrow buttons to select a button for each new configuration. Click Apply to set that button for that configuration. The following examples show that buttons 7 and 8 have been set to scan to each of the new configurations.
74 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Scan to multiple storage folders: 1. Insert the documents you want to scan to multiple storage folders. 2. Open the OneTouch Panel and click the arrows to get to one of the buttons set up for scanning to storage. 3. Click the button on the OneTouch Panel. 4. When scanning is finished, put the next set of documents into the scanner and click the arrows on the OneTouch Panel to get to the next button you have set up for scanning to storage. 5.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 75 EDITING OR DELETING SCAN CONFIGURATIONS Note: Your scanner comes with a number of configurations pre-set at the factory. We recommend that you keep those configurations locked and do not edit or delete them. That way, you will always have the factory-settings available. If you do edit or delete them, and want to get the factory pre-sets back again, you will need to uninstall then reinstall your scanner. To edit or delete a scan configuration: 1.
76 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 4. To edit the configuration, click the Edit button. The Scan Configuration Properties dialog box opens for that configuration. You can make changes to a configuration, but for the changes to be saved, the configuration must first be unlocked. Click the lock icon to unlock the configuration. Clicking it toggles between locking and unlocking the configuration. The key icon indicates the configuration is unlocked.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 77 3. Select the scan configuration Configure Before Scan. Click the arrows to select the button. Select Configure Before Scan. Right-click on Configure Before Scan to get the menu, and choose the interface to use for scanning. 4. Right-click on Configure Before Scan and choose an interface to use for scanning. TWAIN—The TWAIN Interface opens for you to make changes prior to scanning. See “Accessing the TWAIN Interface from PaperPort” on page 93.
78 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE SCAN AND BURN TO A CD If you have a CD burner attached to your computer, you can scan directly from your Visioneer 9650 scanner onto a CD. This feature is available only on computers running Windows XP. To scan and burn to a CD: 1. Put a blank CD into your computer’s CD Drive. 2. Open the OneTouch Properties window. 3. Using the arrows, choose a button to use for scanning and burning to a CD. 4. Select Burn to CD as the Destination Application.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 79 7. Now start scanning using the button you selected to use to scan and burn to CD. When scanning is finished, a bubble message on the screen tells you that files are waiting to be burned to the CD. 8. Open the OneTouch window and make sure that the Burn to CD Destination Application is still selected and click the Properties button. The OneTouch 4.0 Link Properties window opens. 9. Make sure a CD is in the CD burner. 10. Click the Burn to CD button.
80 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Note: When scanning items to burn to a CD, you should always use one of the factory-set default configurations, or a custom configuration specifically set up for CD burning. The default configurations are already set up to send the scanned images to the proper storage location where the Windows XP CD writing wizard can find the files to burn to the CD.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 81 3. Select Still Image Client as the Destination Application. Note that you cannot choose a page format for this option because the actual destination application is not selected until after the scanner feeds in the first page of your document. 4. Choose a Scan Configuration. 5. Click OK. The OneTouch Properties window closes.
82 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 6. Start scanning using the button you selected for event forwarding. A dialog box opens for you to select the application to use for scanning. 7. Select the application in the box and click OK. Now the application you selected opens and you can continue the scanning from that application’s TWAIN interface.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 83 CREATING AN HTML WEB PAGE FROM YOUR SCANNED DOCUMENTS If you scan a document, whether a single page or multiple pages, you can have the pages converted directly to HTML formatted pages for posting directly to your web site. Those pages are then viewable by visitors to your web site without the need for any internet plug-ins or other special processing. This is, essentially, from your scanner to a webready format in one automatic step.
84 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 6. Click OK. The OneTouch Properties window closes. 7. Now on the OneTouch Button Panel, click Button 8 (Custom) (or if you used another button, click it). When scanning is finished, the document is first converted to editable text using the OCR process, then is converted into an HTML format. Microsoft Internet Explorer then opens showing your converted page. Note: Depending on the complexity of the document, its conversion to the HTML format may take a few moments.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 85 TRANSFERRING SCANNED DOCUMENTS TO STORAGE With the Transfer to Storage scanning process, you can scan documents and save them in a folder in one step. The process is ideal for archiving documents without having to manually save or process them in any other way. If you choose a text format for the file format, the documents are also automatically converted by the OCR process into editable text and numbers before being stored.
86 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Your scanned pages are stored in the location that you specified on the OneTouch 4.0 Link Properties window. Your scanned documents will be stored at the location you specified on the OneTouch 4.0 Link Properties window. Note: The Storage Location shown in the example above is the default place where your scanned documents are stored if you haven’t created any new scanning configurations or selected a new storage location.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 87 4. Choose a Scan Configuration. 5. Click OK. The OneTouch Properties window closes. 6. Now start scanning using Button 7 (Archive) (or other button you set up for archiving). When scanning is finished, the documents are saved in the text file format and in the location you specified. TO TRANSFER DOCUMENTS TO A SERVER OR MAPPED DRIVE When selecting the storage location for scanned documents, you can select a local folder, or a folder on a server or mapped drive.
88 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 3. Select a storage location on the mapped drive or server for the scanned documents. Servers and mapped drives are represented by an icon that indicates its network connection. Select a mapped drive or server as indicated by the icon. 4. Click OK. Now when you scan using Transfer to Storage as the Destination Application, the documents are stored on the server or mapped drive.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 89 CHECKING THE HARDWARE AND SETTING THE LAMP POWER SAVING 1. Right-click on the OneTouch icon and choose Show Hardware from the pop-up menu. You can also click the scanner icon at the top of the OneTouch Button Panel. The Hardware icon. If the Hardware View of the panel is open you can also right-click on the 9650 icon.
90 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE The Hardware Properties dialog box opens and shows information about your Visioneer 9650 scanner. 2. Click the Properties button.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 91 Your scanner has a built-in power saving feature that is set to power down after 15 minutes of idle time. You can change the time before the scanner powers down, from 1 minute to a maximum of 10 hours. 3. Click the arrows for the Lamp timeout setting and choose a time. To turn the lamp on and off manually without turning off power to the scanner, click the Lamp On or Lamp Off buttons. To return the scanner to its factory settings, click Reset Device. 4.
92 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE Scanning with the TWAIN Interface SCANNING WITH THE TWAIN INTERFACE Instead of using the OneTouch Button Panel to scan, you can scan from the TWAIN interface. The PaperPort application that you received with your scanner uses the TWAIN interface for scanning. This scanning method is particularly helpful when you’re using PaperPort to file and save scanned items, or to adjust scanning settings prior to scanning.
ACCESSING THE TWAIN INTERFACE FROM PAPERPORT 93 ACCESSING THE TWAIN INTERFACE FROM PAPERPORT The instructions in this section are for accessing the TWAIN interface from the PaperPort application. To access the TWAIN interface from PaperPort: 1. On the Windows taskbar, click Start, point to Programs, point to ScanSoft PaperPort, then click PaperPort. The PaperPort desktop opens. Scan icon. Folders pane. 2. Click the Scan icon on the PaperPort command bar.
94 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE The Folders pane (which shows folders for organizing your scanned images) is replaced by the Scan pane. Scan pane. Click the arrow to see the list of scanners. If this Scan button is not active, see the section on page 114 to setup PaperPort to work with your scanner. 3. Click the Scanner drop-down arrow, and select TWAIN: Visioneer 9650 from the drop-down list. Note: Please wait a few moments for your selection from the dropdown list to become active.
ACCESSING THE TWAIN INTERFACE FROM PAPERPORT 95 4. In the “Scan what?” section, choose to scan a Document or Photograph. If you want to change the format of the scanned item’s file name or file type before you start scanning, click Settings. The default file type for documents is .pdf and the default for photographs is .jpg. 5.
96 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE THE TWO TWAIN INTERFACE OPTIONS When scanning with TWAIN, you have two interface options: ■ Basic Interface—Use the Basic Interface if you don’t need to make many adjustments to the image before scanning. You can adjust brightness, contrast, resolution, and page size. You can also use the Basic Interface to scan in color, grayscale, or black and white, and choose to scan from the ADF or Flatbed. See “Scanning from the TWAIN Basic Interface” on page 97.
SCANNING FROM THE TWAIN BASIC INTERFACE 97 SCANNING FROM THE TWAIN BASIC INTERFACE The Basic Interface can scan a preview of the image so you can adjust its appearance before scanning the final image. After adjusting the appearance, you click the Scan button on the Basic Interface to scan the item. Click the Advanced Interface button if you would rather scan with the Advanced Interface. To scan from the Basic Interface: 1.
98 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 4. Adjust the Brightness, Contrast, and Resolution until the picture is what you want. You can also change the picture type again, for example, from color to grayscale, and you can change the paper size from the Paper Size menu. To scan only a portion of the image see the section “Scanning Part of an Image” on page 99. 5. When you are satisfied with the preview image, remember to place the document into the ADF again if you’re scanning a stack of pages. Click Scan.
SCANNING FROM THE TWAIN BASIC INTERFACE 99 SCANNING PART OF AN IMAGE To scan part of an image, you draw a box around the part you want. The scanner then only scans that portion of the image and places it in the scanning application (in this case the PaperPort Desktop). 1. Put the pointer on the image and drag a box around the section of the image that you want to scan. A dotted outline shows the selected area in the image. This is the image that appears on the PaperPort desktop when scanning is finished.
100 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE SCANNING FROM THE TWAIN ADVANCED INTERFACE The Advanced Interface has a wide range of image adjustments for scanning. 1. Open the TWAIN Interface as described in the section “Accessing the TWAIN Interface from PaperPort” on page 93. 2. If the Basic Interface opens, click the Advanced Interface button. The Advanced Interface opens. Choose a scanning option. Scan Auto Document Feeder - Simplex is for scanning items in the ADF.
SCANNING FROM THE TWAIN ADVANCED INTERFACE 101 3. From the Scan Type menu, choose the option to scan: ■ Scan Reflective Using—Scans the document on the Flatbed. ■ Auto Document Feeder-Simplex—Scans one-sided documents from the Automatic Document Feeder. 4. Click one of the icons to select a configuration. For example, select Color Configurations and then select Custom to scan a color item with the preset Custom scan settings. The configuration settings appear as a list.
102 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 9. When you’re satisfied with the image, load all the documents into the ADF Input Tray and click the Scan button. A scan progress window opens. To Cancel scanning while it is in progress, click the Cancel button on the progress window. 10. When you’re finished scanning items, click Done to close the Advanced Interface. 11. If you’re using PaperPort, the PaperPort Scan message box opens. Click Done.
SCANNING FROM THE TWAIN ADVANCED INTERFACE 103 ADJUSTING THE IMAGE ON THE ADVANCED INTERFACE You can adjust the scan settings on the Advanced Interface to produce the best possible image for the documents you’re scanning. To adjust a setting: 1. On the left side of the Advanced Interface, select a configuration, for example, Color Configurations. 2. Click a setting in the list of settings, or click its corresponding button on the right side of the Advanced Interface. Resolution. Brightness/Contrast.
104 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE The following figure shows an example of the Advanced Interface if you click the Resolution setting in the list, or click the Resolution button. Click to close the settings panel Note: The information in the scan settings list and the options you select on the various settings panels are interactive. As you change the settings on the panel, the numbers in the list on the left also change.
SCANNING FROM THE TWAIN ADVANCED INTERFACE 105 ADJUSTING THE RESOLUTION Resolution determines the amount of detail you can see in the scanned image. The resolution setting for a scan is in dots-per-inch (dpi). The higher the resolution, the finer the details. However, higher dpi settings also take longer to scan and produce larger files sizes. Usually the higher resolution settings are used for precision work, such as photographs or fine artwork. The following figure shows the resolution options.
106 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE To adjust the resolution: 1. To use one of the preset resolutions for typical scanned items, click one of the options in the list. For example, to set the resolution for scanning a business card, select Business Card. That setting is preset to read small print on a typical business card. 2. To set the resolution manually, drag the Resolution slider to the left to decrease the resolution or to the right to increase it.
SCANNING FROM THE TWAIN ADVANCED INTERFACE 107 ADJUSTING THE BRIGHTNESS AND CONTRAST Sometimes an item is scanned with the brightness and contrast set to be too light or too dark. For example, a note written with a light pencil may need to be scanned darker to improve legibility. The following figure shows the brightness and contrast options. Contrast is only available for Color and Gray Scale configurations. To adjust the brightness and contrast: 1.
108 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE ADJUSTING GAMMA, SATURATION, AND COLOR HUE If you’re using the Color Configuration to scan, you can adjust a group of color settings. Gamma controls the brightness of the color midtones. Saturation is the strength or purity of a color and hue is the color your eyes see as reflected from the image. The following figure shows the color options. To adjust the color settings: 1.
SCANNING FROM THE TWAIN ADVANCED INTERFACE 109 ADJUSTING INPUT SIZE You can scan documents up to 8.5" x 14" in the Automatic Document Feeder, or up to 8.5" x 11.69" when using the Flatbed glass, but you can select other scan sizes, or adjust the input size to scan only specific sections of an image. For example, if you’re scanning a photograph and want to focus on one section, adjusting the input size removes the rest of the photograph from the final scanned image.
110 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE This is the image that appears on the PaperPort desktop when scanning is finished. The Scan Info box shows the size and position of the area. The selected scan area. Note that the selected area in the example has the number “1” in its upper left corner indicating it is your first selected area. You can select up to six separate areas on an image at a time. You can now move or resize the outline to select the specific area you want to scan. 2.
SCANNING FROM THE TWAIN ADVANCED INTERFACE 111 4. If you want to remove the selected area and start over, click Remove on the Scan Info box. Note: Clicking Remove re-selects the entire 8.5" x 14" area. 5. When the settings are what you want, click Scan. THE RULER UNITS The ruler around the edges of the image help you precisely position a custom sized image. You can change the ruler units to suit the type of measurements you want. To set the ruler units: 1. Click the Ruler Units button. 2.
112 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE CREATING A NEW ADVANCED INTERFACE PROFILE You cannot change the settings of the preset profiles in the Advanced Interface. However you can create new profiles and save them for future use. To create a new profile: 1. On the Advanced Interface, select one of the preset profiles, for example, Black&White Configurations/Custom. 2. Adjust the settings as required and then click the Save As button. The Save Profile dialog box opens. 3.
SCANNING FROM THE TWAIN ADVANCED INTERFACE 113 DISPLAY THE DEVICE CONFIGURATION 1. Click the Device Configuration button. The Device configuration window opens and shows the information about your scanner. See the section “Checking the Hardware and Setting the Lamp Power Saving” on page 89 for more information about the device settings.
114 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE SETTING UP PAPERPORT TO WORK WITH YOUR SCANNER On the PaperPort window, when you selected a scanning option from the Scanner drop-down list, such as TWAIN: Visioneer 9650 or WIA: Visioneer 9650, the Scan button at the bottom of the panel should become active after approximately 5 to 10 seconds. If it doesn’t, you need to set up PaperPort to work with that scanning option. If this Scan button is not active, you need to set up PaperPort to access your scanner.
SETTING UP PAPERPORT TO WORK WITH YOUR SCANNER 115 To set up PaperPort for your scanner: 1. From the Scanner drop-down list, select one of the options, such as TWAIN: Visioneer 9650. 2. Click the Setup button. A window opens to begin the setup process. 3. Click Yes then click Next. The next window offers you the option to run hardware diagnostics.
116 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 4. Click Yes (recommended) then click Next. The next window is for checking the connection between your scanner and the computer. 5. Click Next. After the Setup Wizard checks the connections, the next window is displayed. It has a series of setup options, but only the Basic scan test is necessary because your scanner was already tested when you installed the OneTouch 4.0 software.
SETTING UP PAPERPORT TO WORK WITH YOUR SCANNER 117 6. Click Next. The TWAIN Basic Interface opens. Note: If you are setting up PaperPort for the WIA or ISIS scanning options, the WIA or ISIS interface opens instead. 7. Insert a page into the scanner, face up, and the Scan button on the Basic Interface will become active.
118 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 8. Click the Scan button on the Basic interface. The Setup Wizard runs the scan test. A message window opens that says “Basic scan test passed.” 9. Click Next on the message window. The final Setup window opens to let you know the setup process is finished. 10. Click Finish. PaperPort is now set up for the scanning option you selected (in the example above, it’s the TWAIN option) and the Scan button on the PaperPort window will now become active.
SCANNING WITH THE WIA INTERFACE 119 Scanning with the WIA Interface SCANNING WITH THE WIA INTERFACE Microsoft Windows XP includes its own scanning interface—known as Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)—for acquiring images from scanners, digital cameras, and other digital devices. You can scan from many Windows XP applications using the WIA interface. The instructions in this section explain how to scan from WIA using the PaperPort software you received with your scanner.
120 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE To scan an item from PaperPort using WIA: 1. On the Windows taskbar, click Start, point to Programs, point to ScanSoft PaperPort, then click PaperPort. The PaperPort desktop opens. Scan icon. Folders pane. 2. Click the Scan icon on the PaperPort command bar.
SCANNING WITH THE WIA INTERFACE 121 The Folders pane (which shows folders for organizing your scanned images) is replaced by the Scan pane. Scan pane. If this Scan button is not active, see the section on page 114 to set up PaperPort for the WIA scanning option. 3. From the Scanner drop-down list, select WIA: Visioneer 9650. Note: If the Scan button at the bottom of the panel is not available when you select from the Scanner drop-down list, PaperPort needs to be set up for the WIA scanning option.
122 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 5. When scanning documents, use the Create single page items check box as follows: ■ When the check box is selected, all pages in the Automatic Document Feeder are scanned, the WIA interface closes, and each page is placed on the PaperPort Desktop as an individual file.
SCANNING WITH THE WIA INTERFACE 123 The WIA scan window opens. Use this window to select scanning options and start the scanner. 9. From the Paper Source drop-down list, choose Document Feeder to scan from the Automatic Document Feeder, or Flatbed to scan a from the Flatbed glass. 10. If you’re scanning from the Automatic Document Feeder, select a paper size from the Page Size list. If you’re scanning from the Flatbed glass, you can change the size of the scanned image after seeing a preview. 11.
124 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 12. If necessary, adjust settings of the previewed image: ■ Change the button selection for the type of image. ■ Adjust the custom settings; refer to the next section, “Fine Tuning Your Scans”. ■ If you’re scanning from the Flatbed, change the size of the scanned image. To do this, click and hold the mouse pointer over one of the four sizing-boxes on the corners of the previewed image. Then drag the box to increase or decrease the size of the image.
SCANNING WITH THE WIA INTERFACE 125 FINE TUNING YOUR SCANS You can select new settings before you scan an item to fine tune exactly how you want to scan a particular item. To select the scanner settings before you scan: 1. On the scan window, click Adjust the quality of the scanned picture. The Advanced Properties dialog box opens.
126 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 2. Select the options for scanning. Brightness and Contrast—Drag the sliders to the right or left to adjust the brightness and contrast of the scanned image. The Contrast setting does not apply to the setting Black and White picture or text. Resolution (DPI)—Click the menu arrow and choose the dots per inch (dpi) of the resolution. The maximum resolution is 600 dpi; the minimum is 50 dpi. The higher the dpi setting, the sharper and clearer the scanned image.
SCANNING WITH THE ISIS INTERFACE 127 Scanning with the ISIS Interface SCANNING WITH THE ISIS INTERFACE The ISIS interface for scanning is available from any OneTouch button that has Configure Before Scan set as the Configuration, and ISIS selected as the interface to use. The interface is also available from ISIS scanning applications. If you are using an ISIS application to scan, please see its User’s Guide for the steps to open the interface.
128 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE When you press the button to scan, the OneTouch ISIS Scan window opens. Use this window to scan from either the ADF or the Flatbed, and to select scanning options then start scanning. To scan with the Automatic Document Feeder: 1. Click the Auto Feed tab at the top of the window. Click the Auto Feed tab. Click a button to choose the type of scan. Click Define to change the scan settings for the selected button.
SCANNING WITH THE ISIS INTERFACE 129 4. Click the Define button and adjust the scan settings, if necessary. You can also click one of the other scan type buttons if you would rather scan with it. For example, if Color Document is selected you can click GrayScale in case you decide to scan with it instead. 5. When you’re ready to scan, replace the preview page in its original position in your document then click Scan All.
130 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 4. Click the Define button and adjust the scan settings, if necessary. You can also click one of the other scan type buttons if you would rather scan with it. For example, if Color Document is selected you can click GrayScale in case you decide to scan with it instead. 5. When you’re ready to scan, click Scan. The document is scanned with the new scan settings. ADJUSTING THE ISIS SCAN SETTINGS You can adjust the scan settings for the selected type of scan.
ADJUSTING THE ISIS SCAN SETTINGS 131 Brightness—Drag the sliders or click the arrows to the right or left to adjust the brightness one unit at a time. Click the buttons Darken, Normal, or Lighten to move the slide in larger steps. Contrast—Contrast is set automatically for Color Document or GrayScale Document. Because the Text Document option scans in Black and White, the contrast option does not apply. Resolution—Click the menu arrow and choose a resolution (dpi).
132 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 256-Level Gray—Scans the image using up to 256 true shades of gray. Use this setting to scan black and white photographs and other higher quality black and white images. You can also scan a color photo with this setting to turn its colors into gray shades. The file size is about one third the size of a color scan. 24-Bit Color—Scans the image in full color. Use this setting to scan color photographs and other color images.
ADJUSTING THE ISIS SCAN SETTINGS 133 2. To scan only a specific area of the image, click the Area button. The Set Scanning Area dialog box opens. 3. Click in the image and drag a rectangle around the area you want to scan. The boxes to the left show the relative position and size of the selected area. You can now move and resize the rectangle to adjust the specific area to scan. 4. To move the rectangle, put the crosshairs cursor in it, hold down the Ctrl key and drag the mouse.
134 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE SCANNING FROM ISIS IN OTHER APPLICATIONS You can also use the ISIS interface from the QuickScan software that you received with your scanner. Note that the ISIS interface for the other applications may vary from the descriptions provided in this User’s Guide. If you open the QuickScan software to scan directly from it, you may see the following warning message: 1. Please disregard this message and click Continue.
CLEANING THE SCANNER GLASS 135 Maintenance This section contains information on maintenance activities, troubleshooting, uninstalling, technical support, and scanner specifications. CLEANING THE SCANNER GLASS Scanning items that have excessive amounts of dirt or dust may dirty the glass. To ensure the best quality scanned item, wipe the scanner glass with a soft clean cloth to rid the glass of dust or other debris.
136 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE CARE AND MAINTENANCE Regular maintenance of your scanner can help to ensure continual optimal performance. CLEANING THE AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT FEEDER You may need to clean the ADF feed mechanism if your documents do not feed easily into the ADF, or several feed in at the same time. To clean the ADF: 1. Wet a soft cloth with some Isopropyl rubbing alcohol (95%). 2. Open the ADF cover. 3. Wipe the feed roller from side to side.
CARE AND MAINTENANCE 137 REPLACING THE ADF PAD ASSEMBLY The ADF pad will wear out and is designed to be a user-replaceable part. Problems with documents feeding into the ADF is an indication that the pad is wearing thin. You received a replacement pad in the original scanner box, and you can also order a new one. See the “Visioneer 9650 Scanner Parts List” on page 146 for ordering information. To replace the ADF Pad assembly: 1. Open the ADF cover. 2.
138 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE REPLACING THE ROLLER ASSEMBLY After extended use, the roller may wear out and may need to be replaced. It is a user-replaceable part and can be ordered. See the section, “Visioneer 9650 Scanner Parts List” on page 146 for the part number. Frequent paper jams are a symptom of a worn roller assembly. A worn roller can cause documents to feed in skewed at an angle, or multiple pages to feed at the same time. In both cases, paper jams may occur.
CARE AND MAINTENANCE 139 3. Squeeze the plastic clamp that holds the roller in place, and then rotate the clamp forward until the locking tabs are free from the ADF cover. 4. Gently slide the roller to the right until the left side is free from its mounting hole. 5. You can now angle the roller assembly out and away from its housing. 6. Reverse the procedure to replace the new roller. Make sure both sides of the roller assembly are seated properly into their housings.
140 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE TROUBLESHOOTING In addition to the troubleshooting information contained in this section, please see the Readme file in the PaperPort directory on your computer’s hard drive. The Readme file contains additional information that may help you diagnose problems with the scanner. If you try all the troubleshooting procedures described in this section and in the Readme file, and the scanner still has problems, you may have a malfunctioning scanner.
TROUBLESHOOTING 141 Problem: During installation I got the error message: PaperPort Installation is not complete. What do I do? The installation procedure was not successful. You need to reinstall the PaperPort software. Problem: I got the error message: PaperPort cannot allocate enough memory to perform internal critical operations. What do I do? Close any other active applications so that additional memory is available.
142 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE STATUS LIGHT TROUBLESHOOTING CODES A green status light indicates the normal state of the scanner. NORMAL OPERATION ■ Blinking green: indicates the scanner is waking up from power saving and preparing to scan. ■ Steady green: indicates the scanner is ready to scan. ERROR CODES If your scanner experiences hardware problems, the status light turns to an amber color and will blink. The number of blinks before a 3-second pause indicates the type of error.
HOW TO UNINSTALL YOUR SCANNER 143 HOW TO UNINSTALL YOUR SCANNER To uninstall the Visioneer 9650 scanner, remove the OneTouch 4.0 scanner software first, and then remove PaperPort, or other scanner software. STEP 1: UNINSTALLING THE ONETOUCH 4.0 SCANNER SOFTWARE 1. On the Windows taskbar, click Start, point to Settings, then click Control Panel. 2. Double-click the Add or Remove Programs icon. The Add or Remove Programs window opens. 3. Select OneTouch 4.0 then click the Remove button. 4.
144 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE TO INSTALL ANOTHER DRIVER Before you can install another driver for your scanner, you must remove the currently installed driver first. Then the new driver can be installed. 1. Uninstall the OneTouch 4.0 driver. a. Open the Windows Control Panel. b. Double-click the Add or Remove Programs icon. c. Select OneTouch 4.0 then click on the Remove button. d. An “Add or Remove” message box opens and asks if you are sure you want to remove OneTouch 4.0 from your computer.
VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER SPECIFICATIONS VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER SPECIFICATIONS Bit depth True 48-Bit color (internal), 16-Bit gray (internal), 1-Bit line art/text Scanning resolution Maximum item sizes Optical resolution: 600 x 1200 dpi ADF Mode 8.5 x 14 inches (21.6 x 35.6 cm) Flatbed Mode 8.5 x 11.69 inches (21.6 x 29.7 cm) Up to 12 pages per minute @ 200 dpi B&W 50 pages Cold cathode fluorescent lamp Hi-Speed USB 2.0; compatible with USB 1.
146 VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE VISIONEER 9650 SCANNER PARTS LIST Please use the following part names and numbers when ordering replacements for your Visioneer 9650 scanner.
INDEX INDEX Numerics 24-Bit Color 132 256-Level Gray 132 A ADF 3 ADF cable 3 ADF pad assembly replace 137 ADF port 3 ADF, cleaning 136 Advanced Interface 100 adjust settings 103 new profile 112 profile 112 Advanced Properties 125 advanced settings 66 Archive button 85 aspect ratio 67 Autocrop to Original 63 Automatic Document Feeder 3 AutoRotate image 67 B Basic Interface 95, 97 bit depth 145 Black&White 62, 101, 131 blurred image 106 BMP 49 Brightness 62, 107, 126, 131 Burn to CD 45, 78 Destination Appl
INDEX 148 help information 140 htm file format 52 HTML Document 52 HTML page 84 HTML Web Page 83 hue 66 I image blur 106 preview 101 Image Documents Properties 44 Image Editors 57 image file 49 image file format 49 image size 109 improvements and settings 63 input size 109 invert image 65 ISIS 77 ISIS interface 127 J JPG 49 JPG file size 50 L lamp malfunction 142 Lamp timeout setting 91 Link Properties 40 locking tab 3, 6, 140 M Microsoft Internet Explorer 84 Microsoft Outlook 47 Microsoft Paint 44 Mo
INDEX S T saturation 66, 108 scan from PaperPort 92 minimum size 26 Scan Configuration 34 Scan Info box 111 scan with event forwarding 80 scanner locking tab 6 uninstall 143 scanner features 3 Select Configuration 36, 39 Select Destination 36, 38, 57 Select Format and Page(s) 37 Show All Destinations 56 Show Hardware 89 Simple Text 52 size 63 skewed page 63 spreadsheet 53 status light 3, 18, 140 troubleshooting codes 142 Sti event forwarding 57 Storage and CD-R/W 57 Storage Properties 45 Straighten Image
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