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- Page 1 Capture Perfect 3.0 Operation Guide ENGLISH...
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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 guide and the ISIS/TWAIN Driver Help guide as well as your scanner's operating manual. - Page 3 • This guide is subject to change without notice. • Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information in this guide. However, Canon Electronics Inc. and its subsidiaries assume no responsibility for any errors or their consequences.
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Page 4: Table Of Contents
Contents Preface........................2 Before Using ......................5 About the CapturePerfect Window..................6 Scanner Selection and Settings ..................16 About Saving Image Files ....................18 About File Naming......................24 About MultiStream Functions ....................27 About OCR Functions .......................29 About Log Files .........................32 About Barcode/OCR Modification ..................33 About Other Functions ......................34 Scanning Methods....................38 Scan Page.........................39 Scan Batch to File (Saves scanned images to a specified file).........40... -
Page 5: Before Using
Before Using Please read the following descriptions before using CapturePerfect. • About the CapturePerfect Window (→P. 6) : Describes the menus in the CapturePerfect window. • Scanner Selection and Settings (→P. 16) : Describes scanner selection and setup procedures. • About Saving Image Files (→P. -
Page 6: 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 7 Note If security is enabled for a PDF file, you are required to enter a password to open the file. Setting PDF File Security Options (→P. 71) Save Page As or button This procedure saves open image files with a specified name. Saving an Image (→P.
- Page 8 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 Selection (→P. 16) Scanner Setting or button Sets up the scanner. Scanner Settings (→P. 16) Scan Page or button Scans and displays a single document page.
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Page 9: 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 to execute the scan job. - Page 10 Redo Executes the operation that was last undone. Brightness Displays the Brightness Adjustment dialog box for adjusting brightness and contrast of the displayed image. Adjusting Brightness of the Displayed Image (→P. 64) 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.
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Page 11: View Menu
View menu File menu Scan menu Edit menu View menu Page menu Options menu Help menu Status Bar Toolbar Switches display of the toolbar on and off. Statusbar Switches the Status Bar (→P. 15) on and off. Zoom In or button Magnifies the view of the image. - Page 12 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. 56) Thumbnail By opening the thumbnail window, open images can be viewed at reduced (thumbnail) size.
- Page 13 Page menu File menu Scan menu Edit menu View menu Page menu Options menu Help menu Status Bar Next page or button Displays the image of the next page. Prev. page or button Displays the image of the previous page. Last Page Displays the image of the last page.
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Page 14: Options Menu
Replace Page Replaces a page in the open image file. Replacement pages are read from the scanner or selected from existing files. Replacing a Page in an Image File (→P. 68) Options menu File menu Scan menu Edit menu View menu Page menu Options Help menu Status Bar TIFF File... -
Page 15: Help Menu
OCR Settings Displays the OCR Settings dialog box for setting the language for character recognition. About OCR Functions (→P. 29) Help menu File menu Scan menu Edit menu View menu Page menu Options menu Help Status Bar About Shows CapturePerfect version information. Help or button Shows this Help for CapturePerfect. -
Page 16: Scanner Selection And Settings
Scanner Selection and Settings Scanner Selection Before using CapturePerfect, follow the procedure below to select a scanner to use with it. The selected scanner setting is retained until another scanner is selected. Important Verify that your scanner is properly connected to the computer, and that the scanner and computer are both turned on. - Page 17 Make the appropriate settings for your scanning conditions. For help related to these settings, click the Help button in the dialog box to refer to the driver help. Click the OK button to exit the settings dialog.
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Page 18: 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 19 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 20 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 21 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: •...
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Page 22: Multipage Settings
• Language for OCR When the Apply OCR check box is selected, you can select from the list box the language of the text to be scanned. • Apply OCR Select this check box to cause printed characters in the image to be recognized and saved as text data attached to the recognized area. - Page 23 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. About Schema (→P.
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Page 24: 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 the 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 25 Schema Settings Selecting the check boxes in the Schema Settings dialog box causes the checked information to be automatically added to the names of files to be saved. • The example file name reflects the effects selected by the check boxes. •...
- Page 26 Schema Setting Driver Setting Characters Appended to File Name None None Drop-out color Red DRed Drop-out color Blue DBlu Drop-out color Green DGre Drop out Drop-out color Custom Dctm Red Enhance ERed Blue Enhance EBlu Green Enhance EGre Custom color Enhance Dctm •...
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Page 27: 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 28 • File Type Select the type (TIFF, BMP, PDF or JPEG) for saving files. However, JPEG is displayed when the Image Format is set to 256-level Gray or 24-bit Color. About Saving Image Files (→P. 18) • Multi Page Setting Set the Multi Page and Schema settings to suit the file type.
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Page 29: 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 30 Select the language of the text to be recognized from the list box. Note Chinese character recognition results display correctly only in Chinese environments. 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.
- Page 31 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.
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Page 32: About Log Files
About Log Files The results of recognition performed with the barcode detection function or OCR function can be saved as a log file in the CSV format. To save a log file, select the Write LogFile check box in the appropriate tab of the Barcode/OCR LogSetting dialog box shown below, and then specify a destination log file. -
Page 33: About Barcode/Ocr Modification
About Barcode/OCR Modification The barcode and OCR recognition results are saved in a log file. About Log Files (→P. 32) In the Modify Barcode/OCR dialog box, you can display and modify the recognition results stored in a log file, as needed. Note •... -
Page 34: 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 35 Rotate Right 90°: Scanned images are rotated 90° clockwise before saving. Rotate 180°: Scanned images are rotated 180° before saving. Save As Two Images Save Rotated Image Save As Two Images Capacity Warning Settings By splitting an image, two separate images are created from each one scanned, by splitting it either horizontally or vertically before saving.
- Page 36 Select the split orientation. divide up and down: Splits the scanned image horizontally into two separate images. divide right and left: Splits the scanned image vertically into two separate images. Note When saving split images, the names of the single-page files are applied in the order top-bottom or left- right.
- Page 37 Select Capacity Warning Settings in the Options menu. The Capacity Warning Settings dialog box appears. Select a folder number (1 to 5) to monitor for the Register Folder item. Specify which folder to monitor. Enter the warning threshold (MB). Select the Display Warning Dialog check box. An asterisk appears with the Register Folder item.
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Page 38: Scanning Methods
Scanning Methods The following scanning methods are available with CapturePerfect. Select the scanning method as occasion demands. • Scan Page (→P. 39) : Scans a document to a single page image. The scanned image can be saved or printed as needed. •... -
Page 39: Scan Page
Scan Page Scan Page scans one page of a document. You can save or print the scanned image as needed. Saving an Image (→P. 58) Printing an Image (→P. 62) Select Scanner Setting in the Scan menu or click the button to open the scanner's setup dialog box. -
Page 40: Scan Batch To File (Saves Scanned Images To A Specified File)
Scan Batch to File (Saves scanned images to a specified file) Scan Batch to File saves scanned images to a file or files with a name and type specified before scanning. Scan Batch to File is performed by the following steps: Click the button, or click Scan Batch to File in the Scan menu. - Page 41 Scanner Supports Patch Code Search • None Disables batch separation. • Scan, Continue Scanning When a patch code sheet is found, the image on the patch code sheet is saved, regardless of the type of patch code, and scanning continues. •...
- Page 42 When no documents remain in the scanner, scanning is interrupted and the Continue Scanning dialog box appears. Note • If the specified file name is the same as that of an existing file, a dialog box prompts to confirm overwriting the existing file. Click the OK button to overwrite the file. •...
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Page 43: 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 Scan Batch to File (→P. 40) to print the scanned images after saving. - Page 44 Click Printer Setting to select the printer to use. The Print dialog box appears. Note To set printer details, click the Properties button. The dialog box for the current printer driver appears. For details about settings, refer to the user's manual for your printer driver. Click Scanner Setting and set the scan conditions.
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Page 45: Scan Batch To Mail (Attaches Scanned Images To Email)
Scan Batch to Mail (Attaches scanned images to email) Scan Batch to Mail attaches scanned images to email for sending. (Images are not saved with Scan Batch to Mail.) Note • To use Scan Batch to Mail, a MAPI (Microsoft Messaging Application Programming Interface) -compliant email application program must be installed on the computer. - Page 46 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. Note When "Use Continue Scanning dialog" is disabled (a check mark does not appear in front of it) in the Scan menu, the scan procedure ends when no documents remain in the scanner.
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Page 47: Scan To Presentation (Displays Scanned Images Full-Screen)
Scan To Presentation (Displays scanned images full-screen) Scan To Presentation displays a scanned image full-screen. Useful in an environment where the computer is connected to a big-screen display or projector, such as for presentations, documents can be scanned and displayed as they are described. Scan To Presentation operates as follows. - Page 48 When the loaded document is finished, scanning stops. To continue scanning, load another document. When finished, click "×" at the top right. Note • You can press the ESC key on the keyboard to exit Scan To Presentation. • Scanned images can be saved as occasion demands when exiting Scan To Presentation. Screen Operations with Full-Screen Display Screen operations can be performed during full-screen display by right-clicking the mouse and using the functions in the submenu that appears, or their assigned shortcut keys.
- Page 49 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.
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Page 50: 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 51 Enter a Job Title. Note Job titles may consist of up to 64 alphanumeric characters. 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. •...
- Page 52 • Scan To Mail: Refer to Scan Batch to Mail (→P. 45) for setting details. • Scan To Print: Refer to Scan Batch to Printer (→P. 43) for setting details. Note The Details of File Settings button appears in the Scan Batch to File Setting and Scan Batch to Mail Setting dialog boxes.
- Page 53 Click the OK button to close the Register/Edit/Delete dialog box. Note • Up to 99 jobs can be registered. • To modify the contents of a registered job, select it and click the Create/Edit button. • To delete a registered job, click it and then click the Delete button. Scan Job Execution Register a job by clicking Job in the Edit menu.
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Page 54: 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. 55) : Displays the thumbnail window. -
Page 55: 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 56: 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 57 Two-screen view Four-screen view...
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Page 58: 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 59 – 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 Setting JPEG File Image Quality (→P. 20) for details. Important If you select JPEG file (*.jpg) when a black and white image file is open, it is saved as a Grayscale Image.
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Page 60: 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 61 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.
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Page 62: 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 63 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.
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Page 64: 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 65: Inserting/Adding Pages To An Image File
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. Note •... - Page 66 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. When "from File"...
- Page 67 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.
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Page 68: Replacing A Page In An Image File
Replacing a Page in an Image File You can replace a page in a saved multi-page TIFF or PDF file. For the replacement image, 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. Click Replace Page in the Page menu to display the submenu. - Page 69 Replace the page. 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. When "from File"...
- Page 70 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.
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Page 71: 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 72 • 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.
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Page 73: Index
Index Setting Capacity Warning ..36 Adding (Pages) ....65 Multi-Page Files....22 JPEG File ....20 Adjusting Brightness ..64 MultiStream ...... 27 PDF File...... 21 Pointer ......10 Scanner ...... 16 TIFF File ..... 19 Barcode/OCR Modification 33 OCR Functions ....29 Setting JPEG File .....