Visioneer ® OneTouch 7400 USB Scanner User's Guide for Windows
Visioneer OneTouch® 7400 USB Scanner User’s Guide FOR WINDOWS
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION Copyright © 2007 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. ArcSoft Scrapbook Suite® is a registered brand name of ArcSoft, 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 OneTouch 7400 USB Scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 What You Need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Creating an HTML Web Page from Your Scanned Documents 71 Transferring Scanned Documents to Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Scanning to Multiple Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Scanning from the TWAIN Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 A Note About the TWAIN Standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Accessing the TWAIN Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
WELCOME Congratulations on purchasing your Visioneer OneTouch 7400 USB scanner. With this scanner you can quickly scan paper items such as letters, forms, photos, or magazine articles and place their electronic images on your computer. With its innovative hinged lid, you can also lay books flat on the scanner to scan pages. WHAT’S IN THE BOX Before starting the installation, check the contents of the box to make sure that all parts are included.
2 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE THE VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER Document cover Glass Reference marks OneTouch button panel Status light OneTouch buttons USB port
THE VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER 3 Document cover—Protects the document from light and contamination. Glass—Items are placed face down aligned at the reference marks. Reference marks—Marks on the border of the glass show where to align various paper sizes. OneTouch buttons—Scans to the appropriate application indicated by the button.
4 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE WHAT YOU NEED IBM-compatible Pentium 4 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 Installation is a quick, three-step process: ■ Install the software ■ Connect the scanner ■ Register your scanner BEFORE YOU BEGIN Please make sure of the following before you begin installation: ■ If your computer has AntiVirus or AntiSpyware software running, you may see messages during installation asking you to allow the installation to proceed. In each case you should allow the installation to proceed.
6 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE STEP 1: INSTALL THE SOFTWARE The Installation CD contains all the driver software and scanning software to use your scanner. To install the software: 1. Start Microsoft Windows and make sure no other applications are running. 2. Insert the installation CD into your computer’s CD-ROM drive. The Main Menu automatically opens. Note: If the CD does not start, check the following: ■ Make sure the CD drive’s door is completely shut.
STEP 1: INSTALL THE SOFTWARE 7 3. On the installation menu, select Install ScanSoft PaperPort and Scanner Driver. 4. Make sure the boxes for Nuance PaperPort® and Scanner Driver are checked. If you also want to install the ArcSoft® Scrapbook Suite® software now, select it too. You can also install it later. 5. Click Install Now.
8 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE The PaperPort installation options opens. 1. The Select Language window opens. Click the drop-down menu arrow and select the language you want to use. Click OK. The first PaperPort Installation window opens. 2. 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. 3.
STEP 1: INSTALL THE SOFTWARE The Welcome to the OneTouch 4.0 Setup Wizard opens. 1. Click Next. 2. On the Visioneer License Agreement window, read the license agreement. If you accept the terms, select I Agree. If you choose not to accept the license agreement, the installation will terminate and the scanner driver will not be installed. 3. Click Next.
10 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 4. A window opens with image quality samples asking you to select an image for your Color Space setting. The Color Space setting sets the gamma value for the scanner so scanned items look good on your monitor. Gamma controls the brightness of the midtones of colors. That setting can be changed later on as you’re scanning. 5. Select the option that looks best to you and click Next. 6. The driver installation will now begin.
STEP 1: INSTALL THE SOFTWARE 11 7. STOP when you see the “Complete the installation by connecting your hardware” window. Do NOT click on OK yet. Leave the window open and proceed to “Step 2: Connect the Scanner” on page 12. Note: If you want to see more information about your scanner and a quick explanation of how to use the OneTouch features, click the More button on the window. When you’re finished, return to the window to continue the installation process.
12 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE STEP 2: CONNECT THE SCANNER 1. Remove any tape from the USB cable. 2. Using the steps on the screen as your guide, plug the square end of the cable into the side of your scanner. Plug into the Computer Plug into the Scanner 3. Plug the flat, computer end of the USB cable into an available USB port on the computer. If the plug does not attach easily, make sure that you are plugging it in correctly. Do not force the plug into either connection.
STEP 3: REGISTER YOUR SCANNER 13 STEP 3: REGISTER YOUR SCANNER 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. 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. The OneTouch Icon. 3.
14 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE VIEW AND SAVE THE USER GUIDES The User Guides for your scanner, and for the software you received with it are on the Installation CD. If you have already removed the installation CD from your CD-ROM drive, insert the CD back into the drive to access the user guides. 1. On the Main Menu, click User Guides. 2. From the Visioneer User Guides window select the User Guide you want to view and save to your computer.
VIEW AND SAVE THE USER GUIDES 15 3. The Scanner Readme file is in HTML format and will open in any standard browser. The Scanner Readme file has late-breaking news about your scanner. Note: 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. 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.
16 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE Scanning This section describes how to scan paper documents, book pages and photographs: You can use several different methods to scan with your scanner. ■ OneTouch Scanner Buttons—Each scanner button is set up to scan for a particular function, such as Email to attach a scanned item to a new Email message, or Photo to scan photographs to the ArcSoft PhotoImpression software where you can touch up the colors.
SCANNING FROM ONETOUCH 17 SCANNING FROM ONETOUCH OneTouch is your main scanning interface for using the scanner. The OneTouch Buttons on the scanner mirror the software OneTouch Button Panel. Changing the button settings on the OneTouch Button Panel makes the same changes to the buttons on the scanner. SCAN FROM THE ONETOUCH SCANNER BUTTONS Pressing a scanner button scans the item, and then sends the image to the Destination Application associated with the button.
18 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE Button Scan Destination Preconfigured Settings PaperPort Scans in Color, 200dpi Opens the image in PaperPort Custom Storage Scans in Black & White, 150dpi Immediately saves the image file to a folder location on your computer. The image is not opened in an application for viewing. E-Mail Email Application Scans in Color, 300dpi Attaches the scanned image to a new email message.
SCANNING FROM ONETOUCH 19 SCANNING PAPER DOCUMENTS OR PHOTOGRAPHS 1. Place an item face down on the glass. Align the bottom of the item with the scanner’s reference marks. For custom sizes, align the edge of the item with the left side of the scanner glass. Reference marks 2. Close the document cover and press one of the OneTouch buttons.
20 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 3. A scan progress window opens shows the item as it is being scanned. 4. After scanning has completed the image is sent to the selected application for the OneTouch button. In the example below, the image is scanned in the TIFF format and the Destination Application is the PaperPort Desktop. The scanned item appears a thumbnail on the PaperPort Desktop. 5. You can now work with the image in its Destination Application.
SCANNING FROM ONETOUCH 21 SCANNING PAGES IN A BOOK Your OneTouch 7400 USB scanner has an innovative hinged lid so you can lay books flat on the scanner glass to scan their pages. To scan book pages: 1. Open the document cover and place the book on the glass. 2. Align the edges of the pages with the reference marks. 3. Close the document cover. Notice how the hinge at the back of the document cover lifts up so cover lays flat on the book. 4.
22 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE SCAN FROM THE ONETOUCH BUTTON PANEL Scanning from the button panel on your computer’s screen works just like pressing a button on the scanner. The scanner scans the item, then sends the image to the Destination Application indicated by the button’s icon. This method of scanning is especially helpful if the scanner is not located close to your computer. To scan from the button panel on the screen: 1. Place an item face down on the glass.
SCANNING FROM ONETOUCH 23 ONETOUCH BUTTON PANEL FEATURES The OneTouch Button Panel is your on-screen set of controls for the scanner. In addition, the panel shows information about the scanner and its settings. Click the green arrows at the top of the panel to cycle back and forth through three views of the panel. 1. From the main Button Panel: ■ Click the arrow pointing to the left to see the Hardware view which shows the scanners currently attached to your computer.
24 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE ABOUT THE ONETOUCH BUTTON PANEL’S NAMES AND ICONS The button names on the panel are the same as button names on the scanner. The icons indicate the Destination Applications so you can see, at a glance, where the image will be sent when scanning is finished. The Scan button—Scans a page in black and white and sends the image to the PaperPort software that you received with your scanner.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 25 CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS When you first connect your scanner to a computer, the scanner’s software configures each OneTouch button with appropriate settings consisting of: a Destination Application, a Scan Configuration, and a File Format. To change the settings, you reconfigure the buttons by selecting new options from the OneTouch Properties window. To open the OneTouch Properties window: 1.
26 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE ABOUT THE ONETOUCH PROPERTIES The OneTouch Properties window is where you can select new settings for the buttons. The tabs across the top of the window correspond to the buttons on the scanner. The following example of the OneTouch window shows the settings for Scan button. The button is set to scan with the scan configuration named Scan US Letter Document and then open PaperPort to display the scanned image.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 27 THE ONETOUCH PROPERTIES OPTIONS This is a brief overview of the various sections in the OneTouch Properties window. Select Destination—The list of applications that OneTouch can send a scanned image to so that this application opens immediately after scanning is complete with the scanned image ready for editing. Select the application you want OneTouch to send the scanned image to. Select Configuration—The list of available configurations to use while scanning.
28 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE You can edit the configuration by selecting the configuration then clicking on Edit or double-click on the configuration to access the Scan Configuration Properties options. Note: If you select the configuration Configure Before Scan, pressing a OneTouch button opens the TWAIN or WIA interface for you to change the scan settings, such as color or page size, prior to scanning. See “Configure Before Scan” on page 61.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 29 SELECTING SETTINGS FOR A BUTTON For each of the five OneTouch buttons, you can select a new Destination Application, Scan Configuration, and File Format To select new settings for the Scanner Button: 1. Open the OneTouch Properties window. 2. Click the tab of the button you want to change. Each button has its own settings. So, as you click the tabs, the available settings on the window change to show them for each button. 3.
30 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE DESTINATION APPLICATION PROPERTIES The different types of Destination Applications have various properties that you can select. Document Management Application—Nuance PaperPort is a document management software. The OneTouch properties for this type of destination application allows you to choose which folder on your computer the scanned image is saved.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 31 CHANGING DESTINATION APPLICATION PROPERTIES 1. Open the OneTouch Properties window. 2. On the OneTouch Properties window, click a Destination Application. 3. 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 application.
32 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 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 PaperPort Desktop in that folder.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 33 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. Click in the OCR settings boxes for the options you want. These options will apply to all the applications in the group listed above these options.
34 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE TEXT DOCUMENT PROPERTIES - ADD APPLICATION 1. 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. 2. Select the icon in Step 3 of the dialog box. That is the icon that will appear in the OneTouch Destination List. 3.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 35 IMAGE DOCUMENTS PROPERTIES These properties apply to image processing applications such as ArcSoft PhotoImpression and Microsoft Paint. 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.
36 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE IMAGE DOCUMENT PROPERTIES - ADD APPLICATION 1. 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. 2. Select the icon in Step 3 of the dialog box. That is the icon that will appear in the OneTouch Destination List. 3.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 37 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. See the section “Scan and Burn to a CD” on page 66. Note: The Burn to CD option is only available for Windows XP or Windows Vista with a CD burner installed on your computer.
38 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 2. Click the Browse button to specify the location to store the scanned documents, or type a location directly into the box. If you are scanning to a shared network drive, it must be a mapped drive. For more information about mapped drives, see your network administrator.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 39 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 do not.
40 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION 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 BUTTON OPTIONS 41 SELECTING FILE FORMAT OPTIONS The option that you select determines the file format of the scanned document. Appropriate 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; TEXT is only one of several text formats available.
42 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE To select a JPEG or PDF file size: 1. Select JPG or PDF as the format. 2. Right-click on the JPG or PDF icon. A menu opens. 3. Choose the file size/image quality option for your scanned images. Minimize Size—Smallest file size, lowest image quality. Normal—Medium file size, some loss of image quality. Maximum Quality—Largest file size, no loss of image quality.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 43 TEXT FORMATS The Text Formats are for text file types. The names of the formats indicate their file types. 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.
44 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION 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 an example for the TEXT format with Microsoft Outlook selected as the Destination Application. The menu options depend on the type of Destination Application you select. 3. Choose the file type you want for the text format.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 45 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, spell check, change font or type size, sort, calculate, and so forth. To scan with OCR: 1. Select a Destination Application that has one of the Text formats (TEXT, RTF, XLS, or HTML). 2. Scan the document.
46 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 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. Click OK.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 47 ONETOUCH OPTIONS TAB From the OneTouch Options tab you can choose what type of applications appear in each button’s tab destination list. Show or hide the scanning progress window when scanning from OneTouch. You can also choose to save permanent soft copies of your scanned images to your computer. To select options: 1. Open the OneTouch Properties window and click the Options tab. Options tab. Click the arrow to see the menu to choose the button. 2.
48 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 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 ArcSoft PhotoImpression, Microsoft Paint and other drawing and graphics applications.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 49 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 or may not 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.
50 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE Folder Copy Options—This section of the dialog box sets the location for copies of your scanned documents and how you want to group them. To specify another location for copies, click the Browse button and find the folder you want to use for the copies. Select the grouping option for the documents. The Group by button option groups the documents under the name of the scanner button.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 51 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. Configurations. Lock Icon. Click New to create a new 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.
52 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE appears for any other buttons set for image editors, but not for buttons set for text editing applications. Thus, you can create specific sets of scan configurations for specific functions and they appear 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. THE SCAN SETTINGS TAB 1.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 53 2. 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.
54 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE THE PAGE SETTINGS TAB 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 is 8.5" by 11.69". The units of measurement can be inches or millimeters. Click the name of the units, inches or millimeters, to toggle between them.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS Original Image 55 Inverted Image 5. Click the Advanced Settings tab. THE ADVANCED SETTINGS TAB The options of the Advanced Settings tab are for the Color or Grayscale scanning mode. 1. 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.
56 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 2. Click OK to save the new configuration. It will now appear in the list of Scan Configurations list on the OneTouch Properties window for the appropriate Destination applications. 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.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 57 AutoRotate image for best fit—If the image is a Landscape format and the device is printing in the Portrait mode, or vice versa, rotate the image to fit on the page. 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.
58 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 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.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 59 EDITING OR DELETING SCAN CONFIGURATIONS Your scanner comes with a number of configurations pre-set at the factory. To ensure that your scanner will always have a set of correct scan configurations, do not delete the preset configurations. We also recommend that you keep those configurations locked so they are not inadvertently deleted. That way, you will always have the factorysettings available.
60 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION 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 BUTTON OPTIONS 61 CONFIGURE BEFORE SCAN You can set up a button so that, when you press that button or click it on the Button Panel, a different scanning interface opens before the scanning starts.You can then use the interface to select new settings or scanning options. To set up a button for this capability, you select Configure Before Scan as its Scan Setting.
62 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE Select a 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 configuring before scanning. TWAIN—The Basic Interface or Advanced Interface opens for you to configure the scanning.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 63 3. The Basic TWAIN interface will open. 4. Choose your scan settings, such as the Picture Type of Color, Grayscale or Black & White, Resolution in DPI, and Page Size. 5. Click on the Scan button in the TWAIN interface. 6. Your documents will be scanned and sent to the Destination Application specified in the OneTouch 4.0 Properties. In the example shown on the previous page, the Destination Application is PaperPort.
64 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 5. Click on the Done button when you are finished scanning all the pages in your document. 6. All of the pages you scanned will be sent to the Destination Application set in the OneTouch Properties window. CANCELING A CONFIGURE BEFORE SCAN To cancel a scan after scanning has begun: 1. Click on the Cancel button in the scanning progress window. 2. The following window will open asking you if you want to cancel the entire job.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS ■ 65 No—scanning stops, but all pages scanned in this batch, up to this point, are not deleted. You can place a new page on the flatbed glass, adjust the TWAIN settings for the new page, then click on the Scan button in the TWAIN interface to continue scanning. At the end of the scanning batch, all pages from the first portion of the scan and second will be sent to the Destination Application.
66 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE SCAN AND BURN TO A CD If you have a CD burner attached to your Windows XP or Windows Vista computer, you can scan directly from your scanner onto a CD. To scan and burn to a CD: 1. Open the OneTouch Properties window. 2. Click the Custom button tab, or other button you want to set as the Burn to CD destination. 3. Select Burn to CD as the Destination Application. You do not need to have a CD in the burner to select the destination.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 67 4. Choose a Page Format and a Scan Configuration. See the notes on page 68 for more information about the scan configurations when the Destination Application is Burn to CD. 5. Click OK. The OneTouch Properties window closes. 6. 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. 7.
68 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 9. Click the Burn to CD button. The CD burner begins and your scanned documents are written to the CD. Note: Until you click Burn to CD these files are stored in your computer at C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\CD Burning. This is where Windows XP stores all files waiting to be burned to a CD by the automatic CD writing wizard.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 69 SCANNING WITH EVENT FORWARDING You use event forwarding to specify another application to use for scanning before you start. A typical example is if you want to use another application’s interface to select scanning options before you start scanning. When you press the scanner button designated for event forwarding, the scanner waits to start scanning until you select the application to use.
70 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 5. Click OK. The OneTouch Properties window closes. 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 interface.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 71 CREATING AN HTML WEB PAGE FROM YOUR SCANNED DOCUMENTS You can convert scanned pages to HTML format 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 web-ready format in one automatic step. To scan and create an HTML web page: 1. Open the OneTouch Properties window. 2.
72 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 6. Click OK. The OneTouch Properties window closes. 7. Put the document on the scanner glass and close the lid. 8. Press the scanner button you’ve set up for HTML scanning. 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.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 73 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 they are stored.
74 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 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. If you create a new scan configuration that has its own storage location and you use that configuration to scan, your scanned documents will be stored at the new location instead of the default.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 75 4. Select Transfer to Storage as the Destination Application. Select Transfer to Storage. Click the New button. 5. Click the New button. The Scan Configuration Properties dialog box opens. 6. 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.” 7.
76 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 8. Click the Browse button. 9. Select the folder you created for storing the scanned documents. If you haven’t created the folder yet, you can click the Make New Folder button and type the name for the new folder. 10. Click OK. The selected folder will now be set as the Storage Location, such as “Business Receipts.” 11. Click OK. The new configuration is now listed as a Transfer to Storage configuration. 12.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 77 13. Make sure to designate separate folders as the Storage Locations for the new configurations. You will now have multiple configurations set up for the Transfer to Storage destination, and each configuration stores scanned documents in separate folders. The new configurations apply to the Transfer to Storage Destination Application. Scan to multiple storage folders: 1. Open the OneTouch Properties window. 2.
78 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 5. Click OK. The OneTouch Properties window closes. The OneTouch panel will show the name of the configuration. 6. Scan the documents you want to store. The documents are scanned to the folder specified for the configuration. 7. When scanning is finished, open the OneTouch Properties window again and select the other configuration you created for storage. 8. Click OK. The OneTouch panel will show the name of the other configuration. 9.
CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON OPTIONS 79 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. You select a mapped drive using the Browse button. 1. See “Scanning to Multiple Folders” on page 74 or “Transferring Scanned Documents to Storage” on page 73 for the steps to select the Transfer to Storage options. 2. On either the OneTouch 4.
80 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION 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.
SCANNING FROM THE TWAIN INTERFACE 81 SCANNING FROM THE TWAIN INTERFACE You can scan from any TWAIN scanning application instead of scanning from the OneTouch buttons on your scanner or using the OneTouch button panel. A NOTE ABOUT THE TWAIN STANDARD Your scanner uses the TWAIN interface to scan photographs and documents. TWAIN is a widely recognized standard that computers use to receive images from scanners, digital cameras, and other digital devices.
82 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE ACCESSING THE TWAIN INTERFACE As previously stated, you can access the TWAIN interface from any TWAIN compliant scanning application. You can configure any of your OneTouch buttons to automatically open the TWAIN interface when you press a button on the scanner. Below are instructions for accessing the TWAIN interface from OneTouch and from PaperPort. Opening the TWAIN Interface from OneTouch 1.
SCANNING FROM THE TWAIN INTERFACE 83 6. Click OK to save your changes and close the OneTouch Properties window. 7. Press the button on the scanner or click on the button on the OneTouch Panel. 8. The TWAIN interface will now open. This is the Basic TWAIN Interface Click either Advanced Interface or Basic Interface to toggle between the two TWAIN interface options.
84 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE Opening the TWAIN Interface from PaperPort 1. Open the PaperPort software. 2. Select your Visioneer 7400 scanner in the Scan Pane. If you do not see a Scan pane down the left side of the PaperPort window, click on the scan button on the toolbar. The scan button is on the PaperPort tool bar. 3. Now click on the Scan button in the scan pane window. 4. The TWAIN interface will now open.
SCANNING FROM THE TWAIN INTERFACE 85 SCANNING FROM THE BASIC TWAIN INTERFACE The Basic Interface allows you to choose modify the basic settings for scanning. In this interface you can preview the item, make adjustments, then scan the item with the adjustments appearing in the final image. 1. The Scan Type menu’s option is only Scan Reflective Using for scanning paper items. 2. Choose the color, grayscale, or black and white option from the Picture Type menu. 3. Click the Preview button.
86 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 7. Change the page size from the Paper Size menu. If you do not want to use one of the preset paper sizes available, you can create a custom size by telling the scanner to scan only a certain area. Simply click in the Preview window then drag a box around the area that you want to scan. Click and drag a box in the preview window to scan only that area of the image. This is the image that appears in your application when scanning is complete.
SCANNING FROM THE TWAIN INTERFACE 87 SCANNING FROM THE ADVANCED TWAIN INTERFACE Here are the basic steps for scanning with the Advanced TWAIN Interface. The next section will walk you through all of the image adjustment options that are available in the Advance TWAIN Interface. 1. Start your TWAIN application and open the TWAIN interface. If the Basic Interface opens, click the Advanced Interface button. 2. The Advanced Interface opens.
88 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 3. Click one of the icons to select a configuration. For example, select Color Configurations then select Custom to scan a color item with the preset Custom scan settings. The configuration settings appear as a list. Click the + (plus) sign to see the full list. Click the - (minus) sign to collapse the list. ■ Black&White is for letters, memos, pen and ink drawings, and other black and white material.
SCANNING FROM THE TWAIN INTERFACE 89 ADVANCED INTERFACE IMAGE ADJUSTMENT OPTIONS There are several features you can adjust in the Advanced Interface to produce the best possible image for the items you’re scanning. To adjust a setting: 1. On the left side of the Advanced Interface, select a configuration, for example, Color Configurations. Click a setting in the list of settings, or click its corresponding button on the right side of the Advanced Interface.
90 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION 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 INTERFACE 91 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.
92 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION 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 INTERFACE 93 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 Grey Scale configurations. To adjust the brightness and contrast: 1.
94 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION 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 INTERFACE 95 ADJUSTING INPUT SIZE You can scan documents up to 8.5" by 11.69", 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. The following figure shows the input size options.
96 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE CREATING MULTIPLE CROP AREAS When you click and drag your mouse in the preview window a dotted outline shows the selected area in the image. The following figure shows an example of a manually selected area. The images that appear in the scanning application when scanning is finished. The Scan Info box shows the size and position of the area. Note that there are two tabs at the tope of the scan info box, one tab for each crop area.
SCANNING FROM THE TWAIN INTERFACE ■ 97 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" by 11.69" area. ■ When the settings are what you want, click Scan. THE SCAN INFO BOX The following figure shows the information on the Scan Info box: Tabs for each selected area. Click a tab to see the information for its area. Location of the top left corner of the image in the Preview window.
98 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE CREATE A SCANNING 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 then click the Save As button. The Save Profile dialog box opens. 3.
SCANNING FROM THE WINDOWS IMAGE ACQUISITION (WIA) INTERFACE 99 SCANNING FROM THE WINDOWS IMAGE ACQUISITION (WIA) INTERFACE Microsoft Windows XP and Vista include their own set of scanning options—known as Windows Image Acquisition (WIA)—for acquiring images from scanners, digital cameras, and other digital devices. The instructions in this section are for scanning using WIA from within the Microsoft Paint application. In most scanning applications the scanner will be listed as WIA: Visioneer 7400.
100 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 2. The scan window opens. Use this window to select scanning options and start the scan process. 3. Choose the desired scanning mode of Color, Grayscale, or Black and White. Please see the next page Fine Tuning Your Scans for instructions using the Custom Settings. 4. Click Preview to preview the image before scanning. The image is displayed on the right side of the window. 5.
SCANNING FROM THE WINDOWS IMAGE ACQUISITION (WIA) INTERFACE 101 FINE TUNING YOUR SCANS You can select new settings before scanning to adjust how you want to scan a particular item. To select the scanner settings before you scan: 1. On the Scan using Visioneer OneTouch 7400 window, select the Custom Settings button, and then click Adjust the quality of the scanned picture. The Advanced Properties dialog box opens. 2. Select the options for scanning.
102 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE SETTING UP YOUR SCANNER TO WORK WITH PAPERPORT When you open the PaperPort software the first time, you will be looking at the PaperPort desktop. This initial view has a tree of folders down the left side of the desktop. Click on the Scan button on the toolbar to open the Scan pane on the left side of the screen.
SETTING UP YOUR SCANNER TO WORK WITH PAPERPORT 103 To setup your scanner: 1. In the scan pane, click on the Select button. 2. When the Available Scanners window opens, select either TWAIN: Visioneer 7400 or WIA: Visioneer 7400. Reminder: You will have to run the setup wizard for each driver. 3. Click on the OK button. A window opens to begin the setup process. 4. Click No then click Next. The next window offers you the option to run hardware diagnostics.
104 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 5. Click Yes (recommended) then click Next. The next window is for checking the connection between your scanner and the computer. 6. 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 and calibrated when you installed the OneTouch 4.0 software.
SETTING UP YOUR SCANNER TO WORK WITH PAPERPORT 105 7. Click Next. The next window tells you to insert a page or photo into the scanner. 8. Place an item face down on the glass. Align the edge of the item with the arrow at the upper-left corner of the glass and close the lid. 9. Click Next. The TWAIN Interface opens. Note: If you are setting up the scanner for WIA, the WIA interface opens instead.
106 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 10. Click the Scan button on the TWAIN interface. The Setup Wizard runs the scan test. A message window opens that says “Basic scan test passed.” 11. Click Next on the message window. The final Setup window opens to let you know the setup process is finished. 12. Click Finish.
CLEANING THE SCANNER GLASS 107 Maintenance This section contains information on cleaning, troubleshooting, uninstalling, 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.
108 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE • Did you restart the computer after installing the software? If you didn’t restart the computer, it may not have loaded all of the software files. Try restarting your computer. • Did you plug in your scanner before installing the software? If you plugged in your scanner before installing the software Windows may not have associated the correct driver files to the scanner.
TROUBLESHOOTING 109 Problem: The installation will not complete successfully. If installation finishes, the scanner’s OneTouch 4.0 options do not seem to work properly. What do I do? A likely cause is that some driver programs are already installed on your computer for another scanner. They are interfering with the installation and OneTouch options, and you need to remove those other drivers and re-install your Visioneer 7400 USB scanner.
110 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 7400 USB SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE UNINSTALL YOUR SCANNER To uninstall the scanner, remove the Visioneer OneTouch 7400 software, the PaperPort software, or other scanner software provided with your scanner. UNINSTALLING THE ONETOUCH SOFTWARE 1. Open the Windows Control Panel from your start menu. 2. Windows 2000 or XP: Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon. Windows Vista: Double-click the Programs and Features icon. 3. From the list of programs, select OneTouch 4.0. 4.
VISIONEER 7400 USB SCANNER SPECIFICATIONS 111 VISIONEER 7400 USB SCANNER SPECIFICATIONS Bit Depth Scanning resolution Maximum Item sizes Scanner dimensions Height Width Length Weight USB Standard Operating temperature Relative humidity 48-Bit color (internal), 16-Bit gray (internal), 1-Bit line art/text Optical resolution: 1200 x 1200 dpi 8.5 x 11.69 inches (21.6 x 29.7 cm) 1.4 inches (33 mm) 10.1 inches (257 mm) 14.9 inches (378 mm) 3.3 pounds (1.46 kg) USB 2.
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INDEX INDEX Numerics 7400 USB Scanner Document Cover 2, 3 Maintenance 107 OneTouch Buttons 2, 3 Reference Marks 2, 3, 19 Scanner 1, 2 Serial Number 13 Specifications 111 Status Light 3 Status light 2 Troubleshooting 107 USB Cable 1, 111 USB Port 2, 3 A Actual size 56 Adobe Acrobat Reader 15 Adobe PhotoShop 30 America Online® (AOL) 39 ArcSoft Scrapbook Suite 15, 30, 35, 48 AutoRotate Image 57 B Black&White 53, 54, 88, 100 Blurred Images 54, 92 Brightness 53, 101 Burn to CD 37, 48, 66 C Center image on pa
INDEX 114 I Image Editing Applications 48 Image File BMP 41 JPG 41 PDF 41 TIFF 41 Improvements and Settings 54 Installation 5, 6 CD 6 Connect the Scanner 11, 12 OneTouch 9 PaperPort 8 Internet Options 40 Invert Image 54 M Maintain aspect ratio 56 Microsoft Excel 30, 33, 44, 46, 48 Internet Explorer 46, 71 Notepad 44 Outlook 28, 30, 39, 44, 48 Outlook Express 30 Paint 29, 30, 35, 48, 99 Word 16, 24, 29, 30, 33, 43, 44, 46, 48 WordPad 43, 44, 48 Moire Patterns 54, 92 O OneTouch 17, 28, 29 Add Image Applic
INDEX Event Forwarding 69 TWAIN Interface 81 WIA 99 Shortcut Menu 25 Spreadsheet Applications 45 Sti Event Forwarding 48 Still Image Client 69 System Requirements 4, 109 T Text Editing Applications 48 Text File 43 Excel Spreadsheet (*.xls) 44 HTML Document (*.htm) 44 Options 44 Rich Text Format (*.rtf) 44 Simple Text (*.
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