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Scanning individual documents

 

 

 

 

Scanning Individual Documents

 

When images are received from the scanner in a single-document job, they are displayed in an interface as shown below:

 

 

A thumbnail image of each page in the document is shown in the first column on the left, and by default the first page of the document is displayed. It is possible to cycle through each page by clicking on the required thumbnail or using the arrow buttons at the bottom left of the screen.

 

The right-hand column on screen shows a series of buttons and the document metadata underneath. Depending on the metadata requirements in the job setup, the user may be prompted to enter any index data that:

has been set as mandatory by the administrators.

has not been able to be identified through other automated means (e.g., OCR, OMR, web service call, etc).

 

In the second column on the left of the screen, the Advanced Tools section allow for the adjustment and rotation of the page being viewed. You can also zoom in and out to read a specific part of the document text by drawing a box around the required area with a mouse or your finger.

 

Hand Tool

Allows users to use the cursor as a regular mouse pointer.

Crop Page

Allows users to use the cursor to crop the page of a document.

Select OCR

Allows users to draw a rectangle that will be OCR'd into a selected metadata field.

Zoom In

Allows users to zoom in into a page of a document.

Zoom Out

Allows users to zoom out into a page of a document.

Zoom Reset

Allows users to go back to the default zoom level.

Fit Width

Allows users to fit a page of a document by its width on the screen.

Fit Page

Allows users to fit all four corners of a page of a document on the screen.

Multi-Page

Allows users to switch between multi-page, single-page, and grid views.

-90 degrees

Allows users to rotate the document page 90 degrees anti-clockwise.

180 degrees

Allows the user to rotate the document page 180 degrees

90 degrees

Allows users to rotate the document page 90 degrees clockwise.

Move Up

If there are multiple pages, this allows user to move up to a page of the document.

Move Down

If there are multiple pages, this allows user to move down to a page of the document.

Delete Page

Allows users to delete a page of a document.

Select All Pages

Allows users to select all pages in a batch.

Move selected items

Allows users to move the selected items to a specific page number.

Arrow Button

Confirms the action of the users.

 

 

From the Scan Preview screen, sensitive information can be easily redacted before scans are finalized. Using the Redaction Tools, specific areas of the document can be selected and hidden from view. Once redacted, these sections will no longer be visible or included in the final output. Actions can be undone, all changes can be reset, or redactions can be applied to make them permanent. This ensures full control over the protection of confidential data directly from the preview window.

 

Checkboxes are provided next to each thumbnail in the scan preview screen, enabling the selection of multiple pages for applying the Advanced Tools functions mentioned earlier. For instance, if pages 1, 3, and 5 need to be rotated, you can simply select those pages and click the Rotate button once. By using the Select All Pages option, users can select the entire batch of pages and either move them to a specific location or rotate them just as they would with a single page.

 

Scan2x can also be used to scan multiple documents of the same type. By defining a way in which Scan2x can detect when one document ends and the other starts, Scan2x can receive multiple documents from a scanner in one batch and split them into individual documents. 

 

When scanning jobs in which Document Splitting is enabled, the document display shows a list of documents in the batch on the far left together with the metadata for each of the documents.

 

If the metadata is verified by Scan2x as being correct, it is displayed in green. If however some requirement in any of the document metadata fails a check, all the metadata for that document will be displayed in red.

 

 

 

 

 

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