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Canon Capture Perfect 3.0 Operation Manual

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  • Page 1 Capture Perfect 3.0 Operation Guide ENGLISH...

  • Page 2: Preface

    CapturePerfect 3.0 is an ISIS-compatible application program that enables the computer to acquire images from the Canon Document Scanner. To fully understand the CapturePerfect 3.0 functions and to be able to use them effectively, please read this Help guide and the ISIS/TWAIN Driver Help guide as well as your scanner's operating manual.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Preface...2 Before Using ...4 About the CapturePerfect Window...5 Scanner Selection and Settings ...15 About Saving Image Files ...17 About File Naming...23 About MultiStream Functions ...25 About OCR Functions ...27 About Log Files ...30 About Barcode/OCR Modification ...31 About Other Functions ...32 Scanning Methods...36...

  • Page 4: Before Using

    Important • Confirm that your scanner is properly connected to the computer. Refer to your scanner's operating manual for details. • Before using CapturePerfect, install the ISIS/TWAIN driver for the scanner. Refer to your scanner's operating manual for ISIS/TWAIN driver installation.

  • Page 5: About The Captureperfect Window

    About the CapturePerfect Window The following window appears when CapturePerfect launches. The items in the window's menu and status bar are described here. File menu Scan menu Edit menu View menu Page menu Options menu Help menu Status Bar File menu File menu Scan menu Edit menu View menu Page menu Options menu Help menu Status Bar Open or...
  • Page 6 Note If security is enabled for a PDF file, you are required to enter a password to open the file. File Security Options (→P. 68) Save Page As or button This procedure saves open image files with a specified name. Close Closes the open image file.
  • Page 7 Scan menu File menu Scan menu Edit menu View menu Page menu Options menu Help menu Status Bar Select Scanner Selects the scanner to be used. Scanner Setting or Sets up the scanner. Scanner Settings (→P. 15) Scan Page or button Scans and displays a single document page.

  • Page 8: Edit Menu

    Note In an environment with a projector connected to the computer, such as a presentation meeting, paper documents can be scanned and instantly projected onto the screen for description. Scan JOB or button Select a job title from the JOB list box and click According to a Previously Registered Job) (→P.
  • Page 9 Copy Copies the images selected by Select All or in the area specified by Pointer - Selection to the clipboard. Images copied to the clipboard can be pasted into other applications. Select All Selects all parts of the displayed image. Pointer Changes the pointer setting from the submenu when selecting a part of the displayed image area.

  • Page 10: View Menu

    View menu File menu Scan menu Edit menu Toolbar Switches display of the toolbar on and off. Statusbar Switches the Status Bar (→P. 14) Zoom In or button Magnifies the view of the image. Each time you select Zoom In in the View menu or click the Zoom In button, the view of the image is magnified (Maximum 400%).
  • Page 11 Rotate Left or button Rotates the page image(s) specified in the submenu counterclockwise. Rotate Right or button Rotates the page image(s) specified in the submenu clockwise. Split View Splits the image display window into two or four screens. Split View (→P. 53) Thumbnail By opening the thumbnail window, open images can be viewed at reduced (thumbnail) size.
  • Page 12 Deletes the open page. Insert/Add Pages Inserts or adds a page to the open image file. Added pages are read from the scanner or selected from existing files. Image File (→P. 62) Page menu Options menu Help menu Status Bar...

  • Page 13: Options Menu

    File Saving Options (→P. 20) MultiStream Settings MultiStream Settings are enabled if the scanner specified in Select Scanner in the Scan menu supports MultiStream output functions, allowing you to set scanning criteria and file type for MultiStream output. About MultiStream Functions (→P. 25)

  • Page 14: Help Menu

    Displays information about the open image file. Status Bar File menu Scan menu Edit menu View menu Page menu Options menu Help menu The image's display zoom (%), page number and scanner settings (mode, resolution and paper size) are displayed on the Status bar. Note When CapturePerfect starts, the Status bar is displayed as "---".

  • Page 15: Scanner Selection And Settings

    Click Select Scanner in the Scan menu. The Scanner Selection dialog box appears. Note If the name of the scanner does not appear in the dialog box, install the ISIS/TWAIN driver for the scanner. Select the scanner to be used, and click the OK button.
  • Page 16 Make the appropriate settings for your scanning conditions. For help related to these settings, press the Help button in the dialog box to refer to the driver help. Click the OK button to exit the settings dialog.

  • Page 17: About Saving Image Files

    About Saving Image Files Image file types, file name requirements and multi-page files that can be saved with CapturePerfect are described here. About File Types Images scanned with CapturePerfect can be saved as TIFF (*.tif), BMP (*.bmp), JPEG (*.jpg) or PDF (*.pdf) files.
  • Page 18 Setting TIFF File Compression Options When TIFF file (*.tif) is selected for the file type in Save Page As dialog box, the compression format specified here is applied. Click TIFF File in the Options menu. The TIFF File Settings dialog box appears. Select the image type (Black and White, or Grayscale or Color).
  • Page 19 Setting JPEG File Image Quality Select the image quality to be applied when saving scanning images as JPEG files. The file size depends on the selected image quality. Click JPEG File in the Options menu. The JPEG File Setting dialog box appears. Make the following settings: Quality Select the quality of files to be saved from the following choices.
  • Page 20 Setting PDF File Saving Options When saving scanned images as PDF (*.pdf) files, set the compression and OCR object language saving options. Click PDF File in the Options menu. The PDF File Setting dialog box appears. Make the following settings: •...

  • Page 21: Multipage Settings

    – When the Apply OCR check box is selected, deskewing is performed regardless of the scanner driver's Deskew setting. If you scan sizes smaller than the set scan size or you set the TWAIN driver Margin to a large value, the image is moved to the upper-left corner.
  • Page 22 When BMP or JPEG is Selected Only Single Page is available in the list box, and one image is saved per file. Also, the Schema Settings button is enabled, and scanning information can be included in the specified File Name. (→P.

  • Page 23: About File Naming

    About File Naming Requirements and limitations of file names assigned to images scanned and saved by CapturePerfect are described here. About File Name Settings • After selecting BMP, JPEG, TIFF or PDF file type and specifying Single Page as the MultiPage Setting, the character string specified for Schema Setting is automatically appended to the specified file name.
  • Page 24 • Selecting the OCR check box enables OCR recognition and adds the first 64 recognized characters to the file name. • Imprinter is valid when supported by the scanner, adding to the file name the character string that is printed with the imprinter.

  • Page 25: About Multistream Functions

    About MultiStream Functions If your scanner supports MultiStream functions, you can scan two different types of image data (such as color and black and white or grayscale and black and white) at once, and output the different types of image data for the front and back of a page.
  • Page 26 • When you use MultiStream, the "Skip blank page", "Prescan", "Text Orientation Recognition", and "Batch Code (File Separator)" functions are disabled. • In the DR-7080C scanner's settings, if Feeding Option is set to Standard Feeding, the MultiStream output functions are not valid on images scanned from the flatbed. To enable the MultiStream output functions...

  • Page 27: About Ocr Functions

    About OCR Functions CapturePerfect provides OCR functions that can recognize characters in scanned images as text information. Character recognition is activated when the Enable check box is selected in the OCR Settings dialog box. Note • When OCR functions are enabled, deskewing is performed on the scanned image. •...
  • Page 28 Click the Area button. The OCR Area Settings dialog box appears. Enter the area in which to search for text. Load one document page on which character recognition is to be performed, and click the Preview button. The scanner scans the document.
  • Page 29 Note • The displayed image size can be changed by the Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons so that characters in the image can be compared with recognition results. • The area for OCR can be changed by dragging the mouse diagonally on the previewed image. Click the OK button to close each dialog box and finish OCR settings.

  • Page 30: About Log Files

    Note • The barcode tab is activated when the scanner supports barcode scanning. • If editing (addition, deletion, replacement) is performed on the image file page for which a log file is saved, the corresponding log file is also edited.

  • Page 31: About Barcode/Ocr Modification

    About Barcode/OCR Modification The barcode and OCR recognition results are saved in a log file. In the Modify Barcode/OCR dialog box, you can display and modify the recognition results stored in a log file, as needed. Note • Modifications to the recognition results are applied to the log file. •...

  • Page 32: About Other Functions

    About Other Functions CapturePerfect provides the "Save Rotated Image" and "Save As Two Images" functions that save scanned images after specified rotation, or after splitting into top and bottom or left and right halves, respectively. Select the "Save Rotated Image" or "Save As Two Images" option before scanning so that scanned images are processed efficiently.
  • Page 33 Rotate Right 90°: Scanned images are rotated 90° clockwise before saving. Save As Two Images By splitting an image, two separate images are created from each one scanned, by splitting it either horizontally or vertically before saving. This is useful for documents containing two pages per image, when you want to save them as two images (one page per image).
  • Page 34 Note When saving split images, the names of the single-page files are applied in the order top-bottom or left- right. Capacity Warning Settings Save Rotated Image Save As Two Images After specifying the folder in which to save image files, the storage capacity of that folder can be specified for Capacity Warning.
  • Page 35 Note • When capacity warning is enabled and the total size of files in the specified folder would exceed the specified threshold, the warning message appears when starting to scan, regardless of scanning method. • Files that are not normally displayed, such as hidden and system files, are not included in the capacity warning threshold calculation (nor are folders).

  • Page 36: Scanning Methods

    Scanning Methods The following scanning methods are available with CapturePerfect. Select the scanning method as occasion demands. • Scan Page (→P. 37) : Scans a document to a single page image. The scanned image can be saved or printed as needed. •...

  • Page 37: Scan Page

    Set the scan criteria. For help related to these settings, press the Help button in the dialog box to see the driver help. Place a document in the scanner. Refer to the scanner's operating manual for details about placing documents for scanning.

  • Page 38: Scan Batch To File (Saves Scanned Images To A Specified File)

    Select the file name and file type to be created. Select the batch separation type. Batch separation settings are determined by the scanner driver. Batch separation type selections depend on whether your scanner supports patch code searching, as follows. Scanner Supports Patch Code Search •...
  • Page 39 To use batch separation, first make the Scan Condition Settings. Set the other setting to suit the documents to be scanned. Place a document in the scanner. Refer to the operating manual of the scanner for details about placing documents for scanning.

  • Page 40: Scan Batch To Printer (Prints Scanned Images)

    Scan Batch to Printer (Prints scanned images) With Scan Batch to Printer scanning, scanned images are printed directly to the specified printer. (Images are not saved with Scan Batch to Printer.) Note To save and print scanned images, use saving. Scan Batch to Printer is performed by the following steps: Select Print Format in the File menu, and select a format.
  • Page 41 For details about settings, refer to the user's manual for your printer driver. Click Scanner Setting and set the scan conditions. For help related to these settings, press the Help button in the dialog box to see the driver help.

  • Page 42: Scan Batch To Mail (Attaches Scanned Images To Email)

    For help related to these settings, press the Help button in the dialog box to see the driver help. Set the other setting to suit the documents to be scanned. Place a document in the scanner. Refer to the operating manual of the scanner for details about placing documents for scanning.
  • Page 43 Click the OK button. The documents are scanned. When no documents remain in the scanner, scanning is interrupted and the Continue Scanning dialog box appears. To continue scanning, load more documents in the scanner and click Continue Scanning. When finished scanning, click the Stop Scanning button.

  • Page 44: Scan To Presentation (Displays Scanned Images Full-Screen)

    • Scan To Presentation scans with the above scanning conditions regardless of ISIS driver settings. • Depending on the scanner, the above scan conditions may not be supported. • Actual performance of the "Skip blank page" function is affected by the ISIS driver's "Ratio of black pixels"...
  • Page 45 When the loaded document is finished, scanning stops. To continue scanning, load another document. When finished, click "×" at the top right. Note • You can click ESC: Exit to exit the Scan To Presentation. • Scanned images can be saved as occasion demands when exiting Scan To Presentation. Screen Operations with Full-Screen Display Display image operations can be performed during full-screen display using the keyboard shortcuts listed in the submenu displayed by clicking the right mouse button.
  • Page 46 Exit Scan To Presentation Exit Scan To Presentation mode by pressing the Esc key on the keyboard, or by clicking Exit Scan To Presentation on the submenu. When exiting Scan To Presentation mode, a message asks if you want to save image files. Save the image files as occasion demands.

  • Page 47: Scan Job (Scan According To A Previously Registered Job)

    Scan JOB (Scan According to a Previously Registered Job) Scan JOB utilizes previously registered scan conditions and methods (Scan Batch to File, Scan Batch to Print or Scan Batch to Mail) to scan according to the specified job. Job Registration Use the following procedure to register jobs for access by Scan JOB.
  • Page 48 Select a Function from the list box. • Scan To PC: Scanned images are saved to the specified PC. • Scan To Mail: Attaches scanned images to an e-mail. • Scan To Print: Scanned images are printed by the specified printer. Click Detail Settings.
  • Page 49 • Scan To Mail: Refer to Scan Batch to Mail (→P. 42) • Scan To Print: Refer to Scan Batch to Printer (→P. 40) Click the OK button (the Save button for Scan To PC) to close the Settings dialog box. Registered contents are displayed in the Register/Edit/Delete dialog box.
  • Page 50 Select a job title from the Note You can verify the registered contents of the job by selecting Job in the Edit menu. Place a document in the scanner. Refer to the scanner's operating manual for details about placing documents for scanning. Click the button to scan according to the conditions registered for the job.

  • Page 51: Scanned Image Operations

    Scanned Image Operations The operations you can perform on scanned or opened images are described here. The way scanned images are viewed can be changed, and images can also be saved or printed. • Displaying the Thumbnail Window (→P. 52) •...

  • Page 52: Displaying The Thumbnail Window

    Displaying the Thumbnail Window Thumbnail (reduced) views of opened images are displayed in the Thumbnail window, and the selected thumbnail in the Thumbnail window is displayed in the Image View window. To turn display of the Thumbnail window on and off, click Thumbnail in the View menu. Note •...

  • Page 53: Split View

    Split View By splitting the display window, you can display multiple page images at once. To split the display window, select Split View from the View menu. You can split the window into 2 or 4 screens. Important With split view, the size of images you display or the number of screens you display can use a lot of memory.
  • Page 54 Two-screen view Four-screen view...

  • Page 55: Saving An Image

    Saving an Image This procedure saves open image files with a specified name. Note If multiple image files are open, all pages are saved. Important If several image files have been opened and a PDF file with password security is among them, you cannot save files with a new name (Save As).
  • Page 56 – When the selected file type is JPEG File (*.jpg), the image quality set by the JPEG File setting in the Options menu is applied. Refer to Important If you select JPEG file (*.jpg) when a black and white image file is open, it is saved as a Grayscale Image.

  • Page 57: Opening An Image File

    Opening an Image File This procedure opens image files that were saved by CapturePerfect. Note The following file types saved by CapturePerfect can be opened: TIFF (*.tif), JPEG (*.jpg), BMP (*.bmp) and PDF (*.pdf) files. Click the button on the toolbar. (Or click Open in the File menu.) The Open dialog box appears.
  • Page 58 Note Multiple files can be selected to be opened together. By selecting one file and holding the Shift key while selecting another file, all files in between are selected. Multiple files can also be selected by holding the Ctrl key while selecting each file.

  • Page 59: Printing An Image

    Printing an Image The following procedure prints the image displayed in the window: Click Printer Setting on the File menu. The Print Setup dialog box appears. Select the printer, paper and printing orientation as needed, and click the OK button. Note To set printer details, click the Properties button.
  • Page 60 Click the button on the toolbar. (Or click Print in the File menu.) The Print dialog box appears. Verify the settings, and click the OK button.

  • Page 61: Adjusting Brightness Of The Displayed Image

    Adjusting Brightness of the Displayed Image You can adjust the brightness and contrast of the displayed image. Select Brightness in the Edit menu to open the Brightness Adjustment dialog box. Moving the sliders left and right adjusts the brightness and contrast of the displayed image. Note •...

  • Page 62: Inserting/Adding Pages To An Image File

    Pages can be inserted and added to TIFF or PDF files. For the image to insert/add, you can specify an image from the scanner or a file saved with CapturePerfect. Open the TIFF or PDF file in which to insert the page.
  • Page 63 When "from Scanner" is selected 1) The Append Page dialog box is displayed. 2) Select the location to add or insert the page, make the Scanner Settings, and click OK. Scanning begins, and pages are added or inserted. 3) When there are no more documents, scanning stops.
  • Page 64 2) Select the image file to add or insert, and click Open. The Insert/Add from the file dialog box appears. 3) Select the location to add or insert the page, the image file page to be inserted, and click OK. When finished inserting/adding the page, confirm that the page was added or inserted in the specified location.

  • Page 65: Replacing A Page In An Image File

    Select the image to add/insert from saved image files. Note • When "from Scanner" is selected, pages following the displayed page are replaced by scanned images. • When "from File" is selected, pages following the displayed page are replaced by the selected...
  • Page 66 When "from Scanner" is selected 1) The Replace Page dialog box is displayed. 2) Set the Scanner Settings, and click OK. Scanning begins, and pages following the displayed page are replaced. 3) When there are no more documents, scanning stops.
  • Page 67 2) Select the image file containing the image to be replaced, and click Open. The Replace the page from the file dialog box appears. 3) Confirm the replacement image(s) in the image file by clicking Next Page and Prev. Page, specify the page range for replacement, and click OK.

  • Page 68: Setting Pdf File Security Options

    Setting PDF File Security Options Set the security options to restrict viewing, printing and page editing of PDF files. Security Settings Open a PDF file, and click Password Settings in the Edit menu to open the Password Settings dialog box. Select check boxes to set passwords.
  • Page 69 • Forbid users to Print Prohibits printing of the PDF file. • Forbid users to Edit Prohibits page operations (add, insert and replace). Important When setting authority, set the Permissions Password to prevent users from canceling security. Enter the same password in Password Confirmation that you entered in Password Settings. Click OK to activate security.

  • Page 70: Index

    Scan Batch to Printer ... 40 Scan JOB ... 47 Scan menu ... 7 Scan Page ... 37 Scan To Presentation... 44 Scanner Selection ... 15 Scanner Settings ... 15 Schema ... 23 Security Settings ... 68 Canceling ... 69 Setting Capacity Warning ...

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