Image Access scanners are designed to run as standalone devices as well as in a network environment. They can be operated either through their internal ScanWizard interface or through a scan application installed on a server or workstation.

Regardless of how the scanners are operated, a large amount of data may be generated, depending on the size and complexity of a scan, which is transferred to a local or network destination, uploaded to a remote server, sent by email, or sent to a remote printer.

The scanners perform this processing fast and smoothly, provided that other hardware and software components involved in this process do not slow down the workflow. Scan applications such asBatch Scan Wizard or BCS-2 have their own requirements regarding operating system, RAM, CPU.

External scan applications are not discussed here.

The target audience of this FAQ document are the operators and the administrators of WideTEK scanners. They should have experience in modifying scan parameters and in creating and modifying scan templates.

The document will provide a guideline to:

• reduce speckles, especially from a bitonal image
• improve colors
• make a white background of the document appear white in the image, even if the document has large paper pores, the paper is transparent or half transparent or very thin, the printing is faded, or the background of the original is yellowed or otherwise discolored.

The target audience for this FAQ document is the administrator of a Scan2Net scanner and the administrator of the customer’s PCs. The administrator should have experience setting up and configuring Windows PCs, network, firewalls and virus checkers.

The document will provide a guideline to:

• Purchasing PrintWizard.
• Installing and activating PrintWizard.
• Troubleshooting any issues encountered with PrintWizard.

Other concerns are about the safety of the operators. High levels of UV or IR radiation can cause harm to the human eye. Sudden exposure to high levels of visible light may not be harmful but can be extremely annoying thus reducing operator satisfaction and productivity.

The pictures in this FAQ are only examples and might not exactly match the kind of documents that you typically have to handle, but we believe that this FAQ can provide answers to most questions regarding the use of the document carrier.

The target audience for this FAQ document is the operator of a Scan2Net scanner who would like to use the built in WiFi hotspot.

The document will provide a guideline to:

• Install and enable the internal WiFi hotspot of a Scan2Net scanner.
• Access the scanner via WiFi from laptops, pads, smartphones and other mobile devices.
• Download and use the Android app Scan2Pad.
• Download and use the iOS app Scan2Pad.

Image Access scanners always include a PC running under Linux. The system can communicate with user identification servers; databases or simple external card readers to charge the scanning and transferal of the images. The option "Journal / Billing" can be purchased through our portal https://portal.imageaccess.de. The communication to many third party billing systems is integrated in the Scan2Net® software including: Shomäcker, Intercard, Copytron, Emos Pharos, Cartadis and Mifare.

This document does not replace any calibration procedures and software tools. The intent is to provide an overview and to compare the three guidelines.

The target audience for this FAQ document is the scan operator of a WideTEK scanner. The operator should have experience measuring the difference between the printed and original document.

The document will provide a guideline to:

• Why there may be a difference between the original and a copy
• How to measure the difference
• How to setup micro scaling in ScanWizard

Image Access scanners are not only a peripheral, like other scanners and printers, they also include a Linux PC which can actively send data to various network resources. If this functionality is not needed, the installation process is as simple as installing any other network peripheral. The scanner needs a valid IP address and a correct subnet mask. In some cases, it might be required to also define the IP address of the gateway to connect to other subnets. If the scanner and the host are in the same subnet, the gateway should have the same IP as the scanner or it should be left blank.

To leverage the full functionality including the capability to scan to remote resources like SMB shares, the scanner and the host(s) must be configured correctly. There are many network architectures and many operating systems existing and this FAQ will guide you through the typical setup procedures necessary to accomplish this task. The screen shots are only examples and the descriptions might not exactly match what you find in your current system environment, but we believe that this FAQ can give answers to most questions. The intended target audience is the administrator of the target network, who would also have all the necessary access right to include a new PC into the network.

Image Access scanners always include a PC running under Linux. The Scan2Net® software includes a basic zonal OCR functionality and has now been enhanced with an OCR module based on the Tesseract OCR engine and the layout analysis software Leptonica. This enhancement, known as the ?background OCR? option can be purchased through our portal https://portal.imageaccess.de.

The Tesseract engine is known to be one of the best OCR software engines and currently supports more than 100 languages, including many from Asia. Many language packages can be downloaded for free from our portal and can all be installed on the target scanner. The engine works best however, if only one or a maximum of two languages are activated at the time of reading.

The OCR engine runs in the background at a low priority level and uses all remaining computing power. The multitasking software will not slow down the scanning process or any other processes. If OCR is enabled the user scans as always and depending on the size of the document and the speed of the operator, it will OCR page by page and may not keep up at certain stages. The software shows the progress on each page and at the end it may take a couple of extra seconds to complete if it did not keep up from the beginning.

This FAQ describes both the zonal OCR single scan functionality as well as the optional background OCR for OCR processes in job mode. Since background OCR is an option, the purchase and installation processes are also described here. The intended target audience is the operator and the administrator of the scanner at the customer site.