A61957 Capture Pro Admin Guide en
A61957 Capture Pro Admin Guide en
Kodak
Capture Pro Software
Administrator's Guide
A-61993
Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Scanner support ....................................................................................................................................... 1
Supporting documentation ........................................................................................................................ 2
Virus scanning applications ...................................................................................................................... 2
Installing the software ............................................................................................................................... 3
Launching Capture Pro Software .............................................................................................................. 5
2 Job Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
The Job Setup function ............................................................................................................................. 7
Accessing a job setup ............................................................................................................................... 7
The Job Setup dialog box ......................................................................................................................... 8
Job Setup:
Capture tab ............................................................................................................................................. 12
General settings — Capture tab ........................................................................................................ 13
Batch settings — Capture tab ............................................................................................................ 14
Bar Code, OCR & Mark Detection settings — Capture tab ............................................................... 17
Separation settings — Capture tab .................................................................................................... 17
Sort settings — Capture tab .............................................................................................................. 21
Job Setup:
Index tab ................................................................................................................................................. 32
Adding a document index field ........................................................................................................... 33
Editing a document index field ........................................................................................................... 38
Adding a batch index field .................................................................................................................. 39
PDF Properties .................................................................................................................................. 40
Double data entry .............................................................................................................................. 42
Input formats ........................................................................................................................................... 45
Input Text formats .............................................................................................................................. 45
Input Number formats ........................................................................................................................ 47
Input time formats .............................................................................................................................. 50
Input fixed string formats ................................................................................................................... 52
Combination input formats ................................................................................................................. 52
Index Default value specification ............................................................................................................ 54
Fixed string formats ........................................................................................................................... 54
Using multiple tags ............................................................................................................................ 54
Using the OR keyword ....................................................................................................................... 55
Default value using LASTVALUE ....................................................................................................... 56
Transform Expressions ...................................................................................................................... 57
Transform text formats ....................................................................................................................... 57
Transform number formats ................................................................................................................ 60
Transform time formats ...................................................................................................................... 63
Fixed string formats ........................................................................................................................... 64
Combining Transform formats ........................................................................................................... 64
Output formats ........................................................................................................................................ 64
Index tab — Database Lookup ............................................................................................................... 65
Configuring Database Lookup ........................................................................................................... 65
Using Database Lookup .................................................................................................................... 70
Edit Index mode ................................................................................................................................. 70
Batch output ....................................................................................................................................... 71
Job Setup: Output tab ........................................................................................................................ 72
Credentials ......................................................................................................................................... 72
Destination options:
File (1) and File (2) ............................................................................................................................ 73
Setup options for File (1) and File (2) ................................................................................................ 74
Index options for File (1) and File (2) ................................................................................................. 85
Multiple records per document .......................................................................................................... 88
10 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213
Clearing errors ...................................................................................................................................... 213
Command line login .............................................................................................................................. 213
Technical Support ................................................................................................................................. 213
Scanner support Capture Pro Software supports Kodak and Alaris Scanners, and some third-
party scanners are also enabled for use with Capture Pro. A complete list can
be found at the link below::
www.kodakalaris.com/go/kcsscannersupport.
For up to date system requirements and certified operating systems see the
Specifications page on the Capture Pro web site at:
https://www.alarisworld.com/solutions/software/document-scanning-software/
capture-pro-software#Specifications.
Release Notes—contain information that may not have been available in other
supporting documentation. To view the Release Notes, go to
www.kodakalaris.com/go/kcsdownloads and navigate to the Workstation/
Client Software section of the website. This section contains a link to the
latest Release Notes.
Virus scanning If you are using a virus scanning application, system performance will improve
applications if you exclude Capture Pro Software workgroup, scanned images and batch
output folders and subfolders from the virus scanning application access.
The default folder names are:
c:\ScanPro
c:\BatchesPro
c:\Users\Public\Documents\KCS Pro
c:\Program Files (x86)\Kodak\Capture Pro
NOTE: If you modified the default installation folders by selecting the
Advanced installation option, exclude those folders when configuring
your anti-virus software.
1. Install the scanner drivers by inserting the scanner driver CD into the CD
drive and follow the prompts.
2. Connect the scanner and test the connection using the Scan Validation
Tool. See your scanner’s User’s Guide for more information.
When you install the Kodak Alaris Scanner driver, the Scan Validation Tool
will automatically be installed. This tool may be used to test that the
scanner is connected properly and working.
NOTE: Follow the manufacturer’s recommendations for installing and
testing the scanner on your PC.
• Right-click the Capture Pro software icon on your desktop and select Run
as administrator.
NOTES:
• Network Edition clients will alert you that they are obtaining a license.
• Capture Pro Software Network Edition clients will perform the initial
synchronization with the Capture Pro Server Software.
The Job Setup The Job Setup function allows you to set up the parameters for a job. This
function chapter provides information and procedures on how to select options on the
Capture, Index and Output tabs that allow you to setup a job with criteria that
meets your scanning needs. Once a job is setup, you can select a job that
meets the scanning and output requirements for a batch of documents.
To setup jobs for use with Capture Pro Software you need to access the Job
Setup dialog box. From Job Setup you can select an already-defined Job
Name and use it as a template to customize the jobs you need to use in your
environment.
There are three predefined jobs that come with Capture Pro Software:
Ready to Scan — allows you to start scanning documents without any setup
using default settings. This job does not have any indexes defined and places
all scanned images in a folder structure under the C:\ScanPro directory.
Scan to PDF — similar to Ready to Scan, except when documents are
scanned, the first page will be displayed in the Image Viewer and you will be
prompted for a filename to be entered as index data. The index data is used as
the filename when documents are output.
Scan to e-mail — similar to the Scan to PDF except a PDF file will be created
and will be included as an attachment to an e-mail. When the scan is
complete, the e-mail software application will be opened with the scanned
attachment and be ready to send to an e-mail address from your e-mail
account.
Depending on what you want to do, you can select one of these job setups to
use as a starting point to setup your job.
Accessing a job • Click File > Job Setup. The Job Setup dialog box will be displayed.
setup
Job name — lists the predefined jobs and other jobs that have been defined in
the drop-down list.
The Job Setup dialog box has three tabs: Capture, Index and Output.
Detailed information on how to use these tabs can be found in the following
sections.
• General — allows you to define the way images will be stored after
scanning.
• Batch Settings — allows you to define the batch name format for the job
setup and put limits on the numbers of batch documents or document
pages.
• Bar Code, OCR & Mark Detection — allows you to create and modify bar
code, OCR and mark detection zones and set them up for use.
• Separation — allows you to set up batch and document separations by:
count, blank page, bar code zone, OCR zone, or patch code.
• Scanner — allows you to create settings for image addressing and printing
on scanners with those capabilities. Scanner settings such as image
address, printer, and patch settings should always be done in Job Setup and
not in Page Setup. Conflicting settings will default to Job Setup settings.
• Sort — allows you to identify how you want to sort pages and documents for
a job. Sorting can be physical (automatic) sorting on scanner models that
support multiple output trays (e.g. Kodak i5x50S) or can be manual sorting.
Several kinds of sort rules can be added to your job.
The Predefined values list provides values that you can select to add to the
text formula currently in use. You can add any number of items to the batch
name by selecting the item you want from the Predefined values list.
For example, if you want your batch to be labeled with the User name, date
and time, enter the following:
User name, Date (dd), Date (yy), Time24 (HHmmss)
The result would be: John Smith0409115503.
To add a value:
1. Select the value you want to add from the Predefined values list.
2. Click Add Item. The item will be added to the formula.
NOTE: When specifying a path name, the limit is 248 characters.
3. If you want to add more values, repeat Steps 1 and 2.
NOTE: The Add leading zeros and Number length fields become available
when you select the Batch counter value.
4. If applicable, click Add leading zeros to add zeroes the left side of your
sequence number.
5. If applicable, enter a value in the Number length field to limit the number of
predefined values allowed in the text formula.
6. Click OK when finished.
NOTES:
• Clicking Delete Item will remove the last predefined value from the text
formula.
• Clicking Delete Formula will remove the text formula.
The Predefined values list provides values that you can select to add to the
text formula currently in use. You can add any number of items to the batch
name by selecting the item you want from the Predefined values list. To enable
Daily Counter Reset you must select the predefined value Batch Counter.
When Batch Counter is selected, the counter will increment for each new
batch. When Reset batch number every day is selected, the Batch Counter
will reset to the value specified by Reset value at the start of each day.
NOTES:
• To avoid duplicate batch names, the Text Formula should include at least
one value that changes daily. For example, if you want your batch to be
labeled with the date and an incrementing number, enter the following:
Date(yyyy), Date(MM), Date(dd), Batch counter
For the first batch of the day the result would be: 20120528001
The second batch will be: 20120528002
The first batch of the following day will be: 20120529001
• When using a Kodak Scanner or Alaris Scanner with an imprinter, the Daily
Counter Reset will also reset the scanner counter to a value of 1 at the start
of each day.
Bar Code, OCR & Mark See “4 Bar Code, OCR and Mark Detection Setup” for information on
Detection settings — configuring your bar code, OCR and mark detection settings.
Capture tab
Separation settings — The Separation option on the Capture tab allows you to identify how you want
Capture tab to separate batches and documents for a job. There are several ways to add
separators to your batches. The following list provides the options you can use
to create separation settings in Capture Pro Software:
• with a bar code zone (see “4 Bar Code, OCR and Mark Detection Setup”)
• with an OCR zone (see “4 Bar Code, OCR and Mark Detection Setup”)
• with Patch codes 2, 3 or T (see “3 Patch Setup”)
The sections that follow provide information and procedures for using Capture
Pro Software to automatically separate documents or batches by counting
pages and how to use blank page separation.
2. Click Every at the Batch Level and enter the number of documents that
the batch must contain before a new batch is created.
3. Click Every at the Document Level and enter the number of pages that a
document must contain before a new document is created.
When you are simultaneously scanning black and white and color/grayscale
images, Capture Pro Software can use either black and white or the color
image to determine a blank page. When the software detects a blank page, all
four images (Color front; Color back; Black and White front; and Black and
White back) of the page are either deleted or attached to the new/current
document, depending on the settings you created.
The size (in bytes) of both the front and back images of a page must fall below
the entered byte value for Capture Pro Software to recognize the page as
blank. If the software does not recognize a blank page, it will ignore it as a
separator.
NOTE: It is recommended that you test these values to ensure that the
software will detect your blank pages as a separator. See “Testing your
settings”for procedures.
Blank Page Image Separator when — activates blank page separation.
• Image size (byte) is below — creates blank page separations based on the
size (in bytes) of the blank page image. Specify the maximum amount of
data (bytes) an image can contain and still be considered blank for each
image type (Black & White, Color/Grayscale) that you will be scanning.
The image size is checked against the raw image coming from the
scanner before operations are performed.
- Black & White: enter the maximum image size in bytes for black and
white. By default, 3000 bytes is suggested for black and white images.
- Color/Grayscale: enter the maximum image size in bytes for color or
grayscale. The maximum image size that can be specified is 1,000,000
bytes (1 MB) to allow for blank page separation when color scanning.
100,000 bytes is recommended.
Testing your settings 1. Place a document in the scanner that is representative of the document
you want to test for blank page separation.
2. Click Test to display the Test Image dialog box.
3. Click the green Scan button. The results will be displayed in the Test result
box.
• The image is: indicates if the image is Blank or Not Blank.
• Image size is - (bytes): the size of the test image in bytes.
• Content is - %: the percentage of content in the test image.
4. Evaluate the values displayed in the Image size is - (bytes) and/or
Content is - % test result area and click Close.
5. Based on the results, readjust your entered values as needed and click
OK.
The sections that follow provide information and procedures for using Capture
Pro to automatically sort pages or documents.
To enable Sort by Multifeed, select the Sort by Multifeed radio button. If the
scanner supports physical sorting (e.g. the Kodak i5x50S scanner), then the
Destination field will list the trays supported by scanner, and the Message
fields will be hidden. If physical sorting is not supported by your scanner, then
the Destination drop-down will contain Pause and Continue and Stop, and the
Message field will be displayed and enabled. If Pause and Continue is
selected, then you must define the number of Seconds you want scanning to
pause for before the scanner restarts.
During Scanning: When Sort by Multifeed is enabled and a multifeed is
detected by the scanner:
• For scanners that support physical sorting, the page will go to the
Destination Tray defined for Physical sorting and scanning will continue.
• For manual sorting and Destination is Pause and Continue, scanning will
stop, the configured message will display for the specified number of
seconds and close, then scanning will resume.
• For manual sorting and Destination is Stop, scanning will stop and the
configured message will display. Button options will be Continue scanning or
Stop.
Add — Display the Add Size dialog box to enable definition of a size sorting
rule.
By Patch Code In the left pane of the Capture tab, choose Sort By Patch Code. To enable
this option, choose Sort by Patch Code if. Select Add to configure patch
code rules. The sorting rules define how to handle patch code sheets. On this
screen, each row of the table shows what patch code that rule is applied to,
whether the patch code image is kept, and where the patch code page will go
(for physical sorting) or the message that will be displayed and the scanner
action (for manual sorting).
• Patch Code: For scanners that support physical sorting, the Patch
Code pull down contains All, T, 1, 2, 3, 4 or Toggle, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13,
14, 15. For scanners without physical sorting, the pull down contains 1,
2, 3, T.
• Delete patch image: Check if the image of the patch code should be
deleted.
• Destination, Message, and Seconds: If the scanner supports physical
sorting (e.g. the Kodak i5x50S scanner), then the Destination field will
list the trays supported by scanner, and the Message field will be
hidden. For scanners without physical sorting, the Destination drop-
down will contain Pause and Continue and Stop, and the Message field
will be displayed and enabled. If Pause and Continue is selected, then
you must define the number of Seconds you want scanning to pause
for before the scanner restarts.
• Sheets after the patch to sort: allows you to select which sheets of
paper, immediately following the patch sheet, will be sent to the
Destination you set up. This feature will only enable for physical sorting
(e.g. Kodak i5x50S).
- (none)
- Specified Number: allows you to select an exact number of sheets
from 1 to 99.
- All Until This Patch: indicates every sheet of paper is sent to the
Destination, up to the next sheet of paper when this rule's patch is
detected.
NOTE: Use this option if you have an unknown number of consecutive
pages in your document set that you want to sort. In this case,
obtain two patch sheets with this patch type, then place one
patch sheet before the pages to sort and place the other patch
sheet after the pages to sort.
- All Following: indicates every sheet of paper after the patch sheet
is sent to the destination, until the scanning session ends.
NOTES:
• Sorting that is in progress will continue until finished. So if you have a
rule to sort a specific number of sheets, and a second sorting rule is met
before that number of sheets has been sorted, the second rule will be
ignored.
• Sorting will be terminated by any of the following events: Stop
scanning, Multifeed that stops scanning or Jam the stops
scanning.
Choose Sort by bar code type. The TWAIN driver UI will display, enabling
you to set up bar code sorting rules.
If you add bar code rule(s) and select OK in the TWAIN dialog box, then Sort
by bar code type will remain enabled, and the text next to the Settings button
will say (Settings are configured). If you do not save a bar code rule in the
TWAIN dialog box, then the Off radio button will be selected automatically,
since nothing was configured. The Settings button is enabled only when one
or more bar code sorting rules have been saved. Use the Settings button to
re-enter the TWAIN driver bar code sort tab.
Bar code sorting that you set up in the TWAIN UI will be stored in the Job
Setup definition for your scanner type.
Choose Sort by Bar Code Zone if to set up manual sorting rules based on
one or more predefined bar code zones. Select Add to configure bar code
sorting rules. The rules are saved in the Job Setup definition for non-sorting
scanners. On this dialog box, each row of the table shows which bar code
zone the rule is applied to, the sorting condition, and the message that will be
displayed.
• Bar code zone: List of bar code zones defined in Bar Code setup.
• Comparison: Choose an option from the list. Options for the next field,
Value, will change based on the Comparison option chosen:
Comparison Selection Value Entry
Value between Controls to enter min and max values or lengths
Length between
Value contains Text box
Value does not contain
Value starting with
Value ending with
Length equal to Control for one length or value
Length not equal to
Length less than
Length greater than
Value equal to
Value not equal to
Value less than
Value greater than
By Document Index In the left pane of the Capture tab, choose Sort By Document Index. Select
Add to configure document index rules. On this screen, each row of the table
shows which index that rule is applied to, the comparison to be made, the
value to be used for the comparison, and where the document will go (for
physical sorting) or the message that will be displayed and the scanner action
(for manual sorting).
Action when audit fails—select the action you want the scanner to take when
an audit fails.
• Continue scanning: keep scanning even when the audit finds illegal index
values.
• Stop scanning: stop scanning and automatically enter Index Editing mode
when the audit finds illegal index values.
Bypass audit during navigation—when checked, disables the audit function
when navigating through documents in the Batch Explorer. The term "audit"
refers to the verification system that verifies all index values comply with the
input/output format.
NOTE: If you created a bar code, OCR or mark detection zone, it will be
displayed in the Predefined values list (e.g., BC_[zonename] or
OCR_[zonename]. To use a bar code/OCR zone for an Index field,
you must assign the appropriate BC_[zonename]/
OCR_[zonename] as a default value for the index field. You may
need to scroll to the bottom of the Predefined value list to see the
Bar code/OCR/Mark detection index fields.
You can select to manually enter list values or import a list of existing
values from an ODBC-compliant data source or a SharePoint library.
Manual entry
• Enter the desired value in the text box in the Value column.
• Enter a description of the value in the text box in the Description
column.
• Click Add to add the value and description pair that you entered in the
two text fields. If you did not create a description, that row in the
Description column will be blank.
Importing a list
• Click Import List.
• Create a new SharePoint or ODBC connection or select and existing
connection.
• Click Next.
• Select the column that will be used to populate the Value field and
select a column that will be used to populate the Description field.
NOTE: Click Delete if you want to remove a value or click Delete All to
delete all entries in the list.
• Check Allow any value if you want to set no limitation on index values.
• Select an Indexing action from the drop-down list: Use value only, Use
description only or Use value and description.
• Click OK when finished and return to the Document - Add Index Field
dialog box.
19. Click OK on the Document - Add Index Field dialog box. The new
document index information will be displayed in the table in the Document
tab.
NOTE: To sort the table in ascending or descending order, click on the
appropriate column header. If you click on the Value column
header, the table will be sorted by the values in the Value column.
If you click on the Description column header, the table will be
sorted by the values in the Description column.
20. Click OK to save and exit the Job Setup dialog box.
6. Change the information in the dialog box as desired and click OK.
5. Complete the information in the dialog box and click OK. See “Adding a
document index field” earlier in this chapter for detailed field descriptions.
6. Click OK to save and exit the Job Setup dialog box.
2. Select the desired predefined value from the list and click Add Item.
3. Click OK when finished.
Double entry setup To use Double Entry one or more batch or document index fields must
configured for Double Entry.
1. Select File > Job Setup. The Job Setup dialog box will be displayed.
2. Select a job from the Job Name drop-down list and open the Index tab.
3. Open the Batch or Document tab.
4. Select the desired Double Entry index field and click Edit. The Batch or
Document - Edit Index Field dialog box will be displayed.
When the first index operator has entered the index values for all documents
they will select Index>Index2. This changes the Batch Status from Index1 to
Index2, meaning the batch is now ready for the entry of the second set of index
values.
The second index operator will not see the values entered by the first index
operator.
If the value entered by the second index operator matches the first value, no
action is required and indexing continues.
If the first and second values do not match, the Entry Resolution dialog box will
be displayed and the correct entry is selected by the operator.
NOTES:
• If the scanning operator is also entering the first set of index values they will
need to select Index>Index1 followed immediately by selecting
Index>Index2 when scanning and the first index operation is complete.
• The comparison of the Index1 and Index2 values is case sensitive. For
example "UPPER CASE" is not a match to "Upper Case". Also leading
zeros are significant. For example, the value 123 is not a match to 0123.
• Double Entry index fields will have all leading and trailing white space
removed before the value is saved.
For example, if the value “ Shipment “ is entered, the value is saved as
“Shipment”. This means that if Index1 is entered as “ Shipment” and
Index2 is entered as “Shipment “ the values will be a match.
• Enter a new value in the New Entry field is neither entry is correct.
• Cancel and close the Entry Resolution dialog box if they do not want to
make a choice. If the decision is made to not resolve the mismatched index
value on one or more required index fields, the following message will be
displayed if an attempt is made to output the batch, One or more index
fields require Double Entry. You may not output the batch at this time.
Do you wish to enter Index Mode?
If none of the Double Entry fields are required, the Entry Resolution dialog
box will be displayed on output. All Double Entry index fields with entry
mismatches must be resolved before output.
NOTES:
• If a Double Entry field is not a required field then one or both of the index
entries may be left blank and the Entry Resolution dialog box will not be
displayed; there will be no error on output.
• If both Double Entry values are entered and do not match, the operator must
make a selection on the Entry Resolution dialog box before output.
• An index field enabled for Double Entry may not be used to perform a
Database Lookup or be a field verified or populated by Database Lookup.
ZZZ999?
Description — 7 characters, first three characters are uppercase alphabetic
letters, next three characters are numeric, last character is any character.
Valid input examples
BAT001%
BOX123a
Invalid input examples
BAT12b3 sixth character must be a numeric
Bat123a second and third letters must be uppercase alphabetic
characters
BAT12345 too long
?<0>
Description – any text value.
#<minlength, maxlength> — used to represent a fixed or variable length
input value that may have a minimum and maximum length.
• If minlength is 0, the input string may be empty.
• If minlength is greater than 0, the input value length must greater than or
equal to minlength.
• The minlength may not be less than 0.
• If minlength is equal to maxlength, the input value must have the specified
number of characters.
Examples
X<2,10>
Description — an input value that contains 2 to 10, upper or lower case
alphabetic or numeric characters.
Valid input examples
Batch0001
1234abcABC
A1
Invalid input examples
Batch-001 The ‘-‘ character is not a valid ‘X’ character
A too short
1234abcdABCD too long
AB Inc space character is not a valid ‘X’ character
A<4,4>
Description — a string of exactly 4 alphabetic characters. The same format as
AAAA.
9<0,3>
Description — a string of 3 or less numeric characters. String may be empty.
A<3,2>
Description — invalid input format, maxlength must be greater or equal to
minlength if maxlength is greater than 0.
n
Description – any integer or decimal number.
Valid input examples
123
123.456
-123.
#(min, max) — used to specify a value that is greater than min and less than
max.
Examples
i(-100, 100)
Description — any integer number greater than –100 and less than 100.
Valid input examples
-99
0
99
Invalid input examples
-100 too small, must be greater than –100
-99.9 must be an integer (decimal not allowed)
100 too large, must be less than 100
#(min, max] — used to specify a value that is greater than min and less than
or equal to max.
Examples
i(-100, 100]
Description — any integer number greater than –100 and less than or equal
to 100
Valid input examples
-99
0
100
Invalid input examples
-100 too small, must be greater than –100
-99.9 must be an integer (decimal not allowed)
101 too large, must be less than or equal to 100
#[min, max] — used to specify a value that is greater than or equal to min
and less than or equal to max.
Examples
n[-100, 100]
Description — any integer number greater than or equal to –100 and less
than or equal to 100.
Valid input examples
-100
0
100
Invalid input examples
-100.1 too small, must be greater than or equal to –100
100.001 too large, must be less than or equal to 100
i[100, *)
Description — any integer number greater than or equal to 100
Valid input examples
100
1000
Invalid input examples
99 too small, must be greater than or equal to 100
100.5 integer values cannot have a decimal point
i(-1.0, +1.0)
Description — this is an invalid input format because the min and max are not
integer values as the “i” specifies.
n(+1.0, -1.0)
Description — this is an invalid input format because max is less than min.
T<HH":"mm":"ss>
Description — a time with : as separator.
Valid input examples
23:59:59
00:00:00
Invalid input examples
99:59:00 invalid hour
120000 no separator
T<hhmmsst>
Description — a full time.
Valid input examples
010000a
120000p
Invalid input examples
010000A A should be lower case
000000a invalid time
1355101 invalid hour must be 00-12
T<HHmmssTT>
Description — this is an invalid input format because HH represents 00 to 23
hours and TT represents AM/PM which is not valid with a 24-hour time string.
T<yyyyMMyyyy>
Description — this is an invalid input format for yyyy because it was used more
than once in a timeformat.
“Text”ABC””
Description — this is an invalid input format because it includes two extra “
characters in the format.
Combination input An input format can consist of multiple formats that are used in combination.
formats To use multiple formats to define an input format connect the format
expressions together with or without a blank space.
No format expression may follow a format that is of variable length. For
example: A<1,0>”-Comment” is not valid because A<1,0> may be any length.
The format: “Comment-“A<1,0> is valid because the variable length format is
at the end of the combination input format.
Following are valid and invalid combination formats.
Examples
"ID"999999
Description — combined formats: "ID" and 999999.
Valid input examples
ID123456
Invalid input examples
IDabcdef the letters abcdef must be numbers
id123456 the first two letters id do not match format which is ID
“DATE”T<yyyyMMdd>
Description — combined formats “DATE” and T<yyyyMMdd>.
T<“DATE”yyyyMMdd> is equivalent to the above format.
Valid input example
DATE20051025
Using multiple tags A default value may include more than one tag expression used in
combination. For example you may want the default value to include the date,
time and Station ID separated by a dash. To do this concatenate them
together.
For example:
<sys.date:ddMMyy>"-"<sys.time:hhmmss> "-“ <sys.stationid>
When using time formats, you must specify an Input Time format to define the
contents of the string that is to be formatted for output.
Examples
ddMMyyyy
Description — a date in day, month and year format.
Examples
Input Format: T<yyyyMMdd> the string “20051026” “26102005”
Input Format: T<yyyyMM> the string “102005” “102005”
Combining Transform A Transform Expression can consist of multiple formats that are used in
formats combination. To use multiple formats to define a Transform Expression simply
connect the format expressions together with or without a blank space.
Examples
"Revenue"c<20, 2>
Description — combination with formats "Revenue" and c<20, 2>.
Examples
"123456" ==> "Revenue 123,456.00"
yyyy"/"MM"/"dd"-"HH":"mm":"ss
Description — combined with formats: yyyy, "/", MM, "/", dd, "-", HH, ":", mm, ":"
and ss.
Examples
"20051026080405PM" ==> "2005/10/26-20:04:05"
Input Format: T<yyyyMMddhhmmssTT>
Output formats An Output Format is a text expression to format the data of a particular index
field into an output value. Transform Expressions are used to define the output
format for an index field.
Output format: when a batch is output, the index data for the batch and for
each document in the batch will be reformatted based on the output format.
For instance, a date index with a value of MMddyy can be reformatted to:
MM/dd/yyyy.
The syntax can be one or a combination of the following formats:
• Text formats — see Transform Expressions, Text formats
• Number formats — see Transform Expressions, Number formats
• Time formats — see Transform Expressions, Time formats
• Fixed string formats — see Transform Expressions, Fixed string formats
• Combination formats — see Transform Expressions, Combining
Transform formats
Configuring Database Configuring Database Lookup starts with defining the batch and document
Lookup index fields that will be used by the Lookup. Database Lookups are configured
for each job.
NOTE: Defining index fields in Job Setup has not changed from previous
versions of Capture Pro Software.
To add or edit a new lookup:
1. Click File>Job Setup. The Job Setup dialog box will be displayed.
2. Select a job setup from the Job Name drop-down list. The settings for the
job setup will be displayed.
3. Select the Index tab.
4. Select the Database Lookup tab. The Lookups table will be displayed with
the following fields: Name, Input Index Field, Output Index Field (Batch)
and Output Index Field (Document) for each Lookup.
• Select Validate index fields from Lookup results if you want to verify
one or more index field values that match data in your data source.
Check Create a document index to store the validation result if you
want to store the results of the look-up in an index field to be used for
other processing, such as Sort by Document Index.
• Select Populate index fields from Lookup results if you want to fill in
one or more index fields from the Lookup.
10. Select the index field(s) to be used by the Lookup to find matching values
in the selected database from the Lookup index field drop-down list. This
list contains all defined document and batch index fields. If a single index
field is to be used for the Lookup, it must be in the left column before the
“And”. If two Lookup index fields are provided, then only database records
that contain both values will be matched. At the time of index data entry, if
one value is not known, it may be replaced by the asterisk (*) character.
For more information, see the section entitled, “Using Database Lookup”
later in this chapter.
11. Select the table column(s) to be searched for values matching the selected
Lookup index field from the Lookup table column drop-down list. This list
contains all table column names from the selected database table.
12. For each batch or document index field that you want to populate or
validate, select the database column that contains the desired data. Click
in the column to the right of the index field name and select the database
column from the drop-down list.
16. Click Test Query. The Test Query dialog box will be displayed.
17. Enter a valid value for the parameter that is used to perform the Lookup. If
you leave the value blank, the first 25 records in the data table will be
displayed.
18. Click OK.
During Scanning - Populating When Disable Lookup during capture is not checked, Lookups will occur on-
index fields the-fly during scanning.
The Lookup will only take place when the index field that is being used for the
Lookup has a value that was populated during scanning (e.g., as a result of a
barcode, OCR or mark detection zonal read).
During Scanning - Validating When Disable Lookup during capture is not checked, Lookups configured for
index fields index field validation only will also occur on-the-fly during scanning.
The Lookup Validation will only take place when the index field that is being
validated has a value that was populated during scanning (e.g., as a result of a
barcode, OCR or mark detection zonal read).
NOTE: When Disable Lookup is not checked, Database Lookups will always
be performed during scanning. Even if the Index Field setup option
Check field during scanning is disabled, the Database Lookup
validation will still be performed.
Edit Index mode After scanning has been performed and the user enters Index mode
(Index>Edit Index Fields), the Lookup will always be performed on a
document whenever the document is navigated to while in indexing mode.
If the index field that is being used for the Lookup already has a value (e.g.,
from barcode, OCR or mark detection zonal read) then the Lookup for a
document will be performed automatically when navigating to the document.
If data is manually being entered in the index field, then the Lookup will be
performed when the user leaves the index field. If the Tab key is used to
navigate away from the index field just entered, the results of populating the
other index fields will be displayed for verification. If the Enter key is used or
one of the other indexing mode function keys (i.e., F9, F10, F11) to navigate to
another document, then the Lookup will be performed and the other index
fields will be populated. However, you will not see the results of the Lookup as
that document is no longer being displayed in indexing mode.
If the Lookup index field is populated using Drag n’ Drop OCR or clicking OCR,
then the Lookup will be performed immediately and the results of populating
the other index fields will be displayed for verification.
Batch output Database Lookup only occurs on output if the Disable Lookup on Output
option is not checked. When you click the Output tool, as part of Index field
validation, Database Lookup for populating and validating index fields is
performed immediately before the batch is queued for output processing. If a
Database Lookup is populating index fields, errors will be ignored. If no record
is found or multiple records are found, the current value in the index field will
be unchanged or left empty. If a Database Lookup is validating index fields, an
error will occur if no matching record is found. The batch will not be submitted
for output and the error must be corrected before the batch can be
successfully output.
If a batch is output from the Batch Manager screen or is automatically output
from Job Setup, Database Lookup is performed immediately as part of the
background batch processing. If a Lookup fails, the batch will be put into Index
Error status.
When the batch is opened to correct the error, the document that had the
Lookup failure will be automatically displayed and you can go into Index mode
to correct the indexing problem and re-submit the batch for output processing.
Credentials Select Credentials when the Destination output location is a network share for
which the Capture Pro operator may not have access.
• Enter the server and share name in the format \\server _name\share_name.
The server machine name or the server IP address may be entered.
Destination options: File (1) option — select a file format (TIFF, PDF, JPEG, PNG, etc.) for your
File (1) and File (2) output. Your choice of formats will depend upon your type of output:
• All (black and white and color/grayscale)
• Black and white
• Color/grayscale — when this is selected, a Filter option may be selected to
only output grayscale images or color images.
NOTE: For a description of the file format dialog boxes, see the section
entitled, “Setup options for File (1) and File (2)” later in this chapter.
Setup options for File (1) When you select a file format (i.e., TIFF, PDF, JPEG, PNG, etc.) for your
and File (2) output, your choice of formats will depend on how you configure the setup for
that file format.
• Click Options for the file format you want to configure.
When the Options button is selected, a dialog box for the file format you
selected will be displayed.
Selecting PDF as your file If you select PDF as your file format, the PDF Setup dialog box will be
format displayed.
1. Select either Single Page or Multi-Page as the way to group your image
files in output. Every input (scanned) image file will be a separate output
file.
4. If you want to encrypt the PDF file, enter a password that will be required to
open and view the PDF file in the Password field. If you do not want to
encrypt the file, leave the Password field blank.
5. When finished, click OK.
1. Select either Single Page or Multi-Page as the way to group your image
files in output. Every input (scanned) image file will be a separate output
file.
• If you select Single Page, every image you scan is a separate image
file in output. Therefore, if you scan a page, you will have two separate
image files in output (one for the front and one for the back). If you are
scanning dual stream, you will have four image files in output.
• If you select Multi-Page, the For each drop-down list becomes
available.
- For each: Page — every image for every page scanned becomes
one file. When you open the file, there will be two images, one for the
front and one for the back. If you are scanning dual stream, you will
have four images.
- For each: Document — every page scanned into one document will
become the contents of one file. There may be several (or many)
images in one file.
- For each: Batch — all images scanned into the batch will become
one output file. There may be many images in the output file.
2. If your output includes black and white images, the Black & White
compression option is available. Select Group-4 or (none) from the drop-
down list.
3. If your output includes color or grayscale images, the Color/Grayscale
compression and Color quality options are available.
• Color/Grayscale compression: select JPEG, JAPED (TIFF 6), or
(none).
• Color quality: select one of the following settings from the drop-down
list: Same as scanned, Draft, Good, Better, Best, or Superior. Same
as scanned is recommended.
Selecting Searchable PDF as If you select Searchable PDF as your file format, the Searchable PDF Setup
your file format dialog box will be displayed.
1. Select either Single Page or Multi-page as the way to group your image
files in output. Every input (scanned) image file will be a separate output
file.
• If you select Single Page, every image you scan is a separate image
file in output. Therefore, if you scan a page, you will have two separate
image files in output (one for the front and one for the back). If you are
scanning dual stream, you will have four image files in output.
Selecting JPEG or JEPG2000 If you select JPEG2000 as your file format, the JPEG2000 Setup dialog box
as your file format (if your will be displayed.
output type is Color/
Grayscale)
Selecting PNG as your file No setup is required when selecting PNG as your file format. The PNG file
format format is a lossless, single-page format requiring no configuration.
1. Select either Single Page or Multi-Page as the way to group your image
files in output. Every input (scanned) image file will be a separate output
file
• If you select Single Page, every image you scan is a separate image
file in output. Therefore, if you scan a page, you will have two separate
image files in output (one for the front and one for the back). If you are
scanning dual stream, you will have four image files in output.
• If you select Multi-Page, the For each drop-down list becomes
available.
- For each: Page – every image for every page scanned becomes one
file. When you open the file, there will be two images, one for the front
and one for the back. If you are scanning dual stream, you will have
four images.
- For each: Document – every page scanned into one document will
become the contents of one file. There may be several (or many)
images in one file.
- For each: Batch – all images scanned into the batch will become
one output file. There may be many images in the output file.
2. Select one of the following formats from the drop-down list: Text only,
Formatted text, Text only – Unicode or Formatted text - Unicode.
3. Select an OCR Setting to balance your speed verses accuracy needs. As
you move the slider to the right, additional tools such as language
dictionaries and multiple OCR engines are used to improve accuracy.
1. Select either Single Page or Multi-Page as the way to group your image
files in output. Every input (scanned) image file will be a separate output
file.
• If you select Single Page, every image you scan is a separate image
file in output. Therefore, if you scan a page, you will have two separate
image file in output (one for the front and one for the back). If you are
scanning dual stream, you will have four image files in output.
• If you select Multi-Page, the For each drop-down list becomes
available.
- For each: Page – every image for every page scanned becomes
one file. When you open the file, there will be two images, one for
the front and one for the back. If you are scanning dual stream, you
will have four images.
- For each: Document – every page scanned into one document will
become the contents of one file. There may be several (or many)
images in one file.
- For each: Batch – all images scanned into the batch will become
one output file. There may be many images in the output file.
2. Select an OCR Setting to balance your speed verses accuracy needs. As
you move the selector to the right, additional tools such as language
dictionaries and multiple OCR engines are used to improve accuracy.
You can create a Batch Index file, a Document Index file and an Image
Index file.
NOTE: If you only want to output an index file with no image file output, select
the index file type (Batch, Document, Image), then select the
destinations (File(1), File(2)) and uncheck all output types (All, Black &
White, Color/Grayscale). The File(1)/File(2) label will change to No
images to indicate that only the index data will be output.
Each index file (e.g., Batch, Document and Image) provides an Options
button, a Setup button and a Content button.
Options — displays the available index file type:
• Capture Software 6.x — no property setup is required.
• Index to ODBC Database — sends selected batch and/or document index
statistics to an ODBC compliant database.
Index to ODBC Database Use this System Output Destination if you want to save your index data to an
ODBC-compliant data source such as SQL Server and Microsoft Access. On
output, selected batch and document index fields will be used to create a new
record for each document and will be written to the database.
Three additional document index fields that contain the path to where the
document images were stored are provided. If you are storing all images to a
single location, then the Image Location – All field will contain the path of the
images for each document. If you are storing black and white and color / gray
scale images to different locations, then the Image Location – Black & White
and Image Location – Color/Grayscale fields will contain the path for the
respective image types. These fields may be used in your database to
associate the stored image to the document index data.
Supported Output files/Grouping — multi-page, by document, all image
types.
Supported Channels — All, Black and White, Color/Grayscale.
1. Access the ODBC Database system output destination.
NOTE: For Microsoft Access 2016 support, you must install the MS
Access Database Engine 2010 Redistributable from the Microsoft
web site: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/
details.aspx?id=13255
• Data Source name: browse to an existing or create a new File or
Machine Data Source.
• Database table: select the drop-down control to display a list of
available tables for the data source selected. Select the table where
you wish to store the index field data.
2. Select the fields you want to populate.
You will notice that the left column of the data grid has been populated
with your current batch and document index field names. There are also
three additional document index fields: Image Location – All, Image
Location – Black & White and Image Location – Color/Grayscale.
If you want to save four records to the database where each record contains
three fields, Description, Quantity and Price:
1. Create an index field for each database field that is to be populated. For
example, Description, Quantity and Price. These index fields will be used
to hold the data for the first item set.
2. Create index fields for the remaining item sets. The index field names must
be the same as the first item set with a number appended. The numbers
must start at 1 and be sequential. For example:
Product Item 2: “Description1”, “Quantity1” and “Price1”
Product Item 3: “Description2”, “Quantity2” and “Price2”
Product Item 4: “Description3”, “Quantity3” and “Price3”
3. Use the Database Lookup Wizard to map the first item set index field
names to the database field names. Only the first item set field names are
used in the Database Lookup Wizard.
1. Select a predefined value from the list on the left side of this dialog box.
The formula currently in use is in the Filename Formula field on the right
side of the dialog box.
2. Click Add Item to add the predefined value to the end of the formula.
When specifying a path name, the limit is 248 characters in length.
NOTES:
• Clicking Delete Item will delete the predefined value at the end of the
formula.
• Clicking Delete formula will delete the formula.
3. If you want to define digits of sequential numbers and add zeroes to the left
side of your sequence number, check Add leading zeros. This option is
only available with number values.
If you are defining index content for the Text (delimited) index type only, select
an entry in the following fields:
The following options only apply to the Text (delimited) index type:
2. Select (tab) or (space) from the Field delimiter drop-down list. You can
also manually input other characters as the custom delimiter.
3. Select (none), single quote (') or double quote (") from the Item delimiter
drop-down list.
4. Check the Include header record option if you want to include image file
header information in the output index file.
If you are defining index content for the Text (delimited) index type and XML
index type, you can apply the following option:
5. Select any item from the Available Indexes list and click Add to add it into
the Current Indexes list.
NOTES:
• Click Remove to delete the selected index item from the Current Indexes
list.
• Click Add All to move all the index items from the Available Indexes list to
the Current Indexes list.
• Click Remove All to delete all the index items from the Current Indexes list.
• Click Move Up/Move Down to move the selected index item one position
up/down in the Current indexes list.
6. When finished, click OK.
System (1) option — if selected, check the Send to checkbox and then select
a system (System Output Destination) from the drop-down list.
To change the system settings, click Setup and a specific dialog box for the
selected system output destination will be displayed. For additional information
about these dialog boxes, see the System Output Destinations guide
(A-61638).
To change the output root path, click Setup and the Location Setup dialog box
will be displayed. For more information, see the section entitled, “Building
location and filename formulas using the Location Setup dialog box” earlier in
this chapter.
Select a file format (TIFF, PDF, JPEG, PNG, etc.) for your output. Your choice
of a file format will depend upon the Send to output type you selected.
NOTE: The All, Black & White and Color/Grayscale options may not be
available for the system output destination you selected. If that is the
case, click the Setup button to select your setup options.
System (2) option — if selected, follow the same instructions as for System
(1).
More Output Formats — provides a complete listing and links to Kodak
Capture Pro and third-party system output destinations that are available from
the Kodak Alaris website.
• Select the values you want to add to the e-mail title from the Predefined
values list. With each addition, click Add Item.
• Click OK when finished.
NOTE: If you want to delete the last value, click Delete Item. To
delete the entire formula, click Delete Formula.
• Enter any text you want to appear in the e-mail. The information you
enter must be enclosed in double quotes (“ “). You can also select any
values from the Predefined values list and click Add Item.
• Click OK when finished.
11. Check Save images to disk if you want to save the output image files to
your hard drive in addition to sending the email output.
12. Click OK when finished.
NOTE: If you check Image under the E-mail option on the left side of the
Output tab, you can check destination options (TIFF, PDF, JPEG, PNG,
etc.) depending on your type of output.
2. Select the desired printer from the Printer name drop-down box.
3. If you want to change the printer properties, click Properties. The
properties for the selected printer will be displayed.
Step 1: SharePoint setup: 1. Select a connection to the SharePoint site where you want to place the
create, edit and select a batch images and data. A connection specifies the Host name, Site name
SharePoint connection and the Credentials required to access the site. You may provide a
meaningful name to the connection for future use.
Step 2. Creating document After selecting one of the available SharePoint lists found on your SharePoint
index fields based on your site and selecting the Document Type, the SharePoint columns will be
existing SharePoint columns displayed.
The Column Type will be shown and the Required checkbox will be checked if
the column is required by your SharePoint list.
By default the Create Index checkbox will be checked for all column types that
may be populated by the automatically created and configured index fields. If
you do not want to populate a specific column or do not require a new Index
field to populate a specific column, then uncheck the Create Index checkbox.
If you want to create an index field for a SharePoint column that is not
checked, check the Create Index check box and then click Edit to configure
the index field. Later you can specify the data that will be stored in a column.
The SharePoint columns that require a value are shown at the top. By default
the index field created in Step 2 is used to populate the column. To select a
different value, select the SharePoint column and select the change control
icon. You can select one or more items from the list, including fixed text strings
enclosed in double quotes. For example "Created : "<DATE_DDMMYY>.
Any SharePoint column that was not included in Step 2 (Create Index
checkbox not checked) will not show a default value. This is because no index
field was created for this column. You can still define a value for this column
using other index fields, system values, OCR, barcode or mark detection zone
values or a combination of these values.
NOTE: The SharePoint Name column will define the name of the file stored in
SharePoint. Step 4 describes how to group images.
If you group by Multi-Page for each document, then each document must
have a unique name. For example Name can be
<DOCUMENT_SEQUENCENUMBER>.
If you group by Single page, each image must have a unique name which
means the Name column must contain a value that will be unique for each
image. For example Name can be
<IMAGE_SEQUENCENUMBER_DOCUMENT>.
The Starting Folder is the path to an existing folder in the current SharePoint
site. The image paths you specify for All, Black & White and Color/Grayscale
will start at this folder. Select Setup to view the available folders.
If you have Black & White and Color/Grayscale images and all the images are
to be stored at the same location using the same image format, select the All
checkbox.
Select the file type (Text, TIFF, PDF, etc.) for your output. Select Options to
configure the file format for the file type you selected. For a description of the
file format dialog boxes see the section entitled, “Setup options for File (1) and
File (2)” in Job Setup: Output tab later in this chapter.
You can specify a folder location for the image in the box below the file type.
Select Setup to build the folder location from available system and field index
values.
NOTE: The Setup buttons allow you to specify the path and folder name in
which to store images (SharePoint documents). Each document must
have a unique path and name or the document may be overwritten. If
versioning is configured, a duplicate filename error may result. Verify
that the SharePoint Name you choose in Step 3 is compatible with the
path and image grouping selection.
If you only have Black & White or Color/Grayscale images or you want to have
different file types for your Black & White and Color/Grayscale images, select
the Black & White and Color/Grayscale checkboxes.
Keep blank images — when this option is enabled (checked), blank images
are highlighted rather than deleted.
Images may be marked as blank either by clicking Mark as blank from the
Tools menu
This option is active only when images are selected, and highlights marked
images with a red border in the Image Viewer.
NOTES:
• Image index files are populated with the “<IMG_MARKBLANK>” tag when
Image marked as blank is added to the Current indexes: column in the
Index Content Setup dialog.
• <IMG_MARKBLANK> = 1 if an image is marked as blank, otherwise the
value = 0.
Auto-orientation This option analyzes the content of your documents and orients each
document so it is right-reading.
Auto orientation does not work with all character sets. It is recommended that
you scan some test documents to ensure the document will be oriented
correctly.
Image Edge Fill This option allows you to fill and clean up the unwanted edges on a scanned
image by covering the area in Black or White (as selected). This option can be
applied to the front and/or back of an image.
You may want to use this option if you have pages with punch holes or ragged
images that you want to clean up.
Original: 3-hole punch without Image with 37/100th of an inch: Image with 62/100th of an inch: Image with 150: fills the entire
Image Edge Fill fills half of the hole. Value is fills the entire hole and keeps hole AND fills some text. Value
not enough. all text. Value is good. is too large.
• Select a value in the Top, Left/Right and/or Bottom area(s) from each side
of the scanned image to be filled in 1/100ths of an inch, or select All sides
match to fill in the same amount on all sides.
NOTE: When using Image Edge Fill, be careful not to enter a value too large
as it could fill in image data that you want to keep.
Front/Back: Stamp string — click Setup to display the Stamp String Setup
dialog box. You can combine one or more items from the list to build a stamp
string formula. For more information, see “Building location and filename
formulas using the Location Setup dialog box” in the “Setup option for File (1)
and File (2)” section earlier in this chapter.
Location: Top or Bottom — places the stamp on the top or bottom of the
image as selected.
Location: Left, Middle or Right — places the stamp on the left, middle or right
of the image as selected.
Margin — select a margin size in 1/100ths of an inch to indicate how far from
the Top, Bottom, Left or Right margin you want the stamp to be placed.
Font size — select the font size of the stamp: 16 or 18 point.
Bold — enable this checkbox for bold print.
Copy front to back — if you want the same setup values on the back as the
values you set up on the front, enable this checkbox.
2. Select the items from the list of available Stamp String formulas that you
want to include in your stamp string. For each item you select, click Add
Item.
NOTES:
• The Add leading zeros and Number length fields become available
when you select the following: Document ID, Page Sequence
Number, Image Sequence Number, Image Address Level 1, Image
Address Level 2, or Image Address Level 3. When selecting Page
Sequence Number or Image Sequence Number you will also have
the option to specify when the page or image sequence number should
be reset and the value to which it should be reset.
• To remove an item from the stamp string formula, click Delete Item.
• To delete an entire formula from the stamp string formula, click Delete
Formula.
3. When finished defining your stamp string, click OK.
4. Define the location of the stamp string by specifying the placement of the
image stamp on either side of the page. Margin defines the size of the
border between the text and adjacent page edge(s), either from the right or
left edge horizontally and top or bottom edge vertically. If Middle is
selected, the margin is only applied to the vertical dimension.
5. Select the desired font size: 16 or 18.
Rotate This option allows you to select the desired rotation of 0, 90, 180 or 270
degrees. The degree of rotation applies to all images in the batch.
Split When this option is selected, the front and rear image will be converted into
multiple (up to 6) images. Images must be the same type (color/grayscale or
black and white).
Split Page or Image — enable this checkbox to activate the Split option.
Number of resultant images — choose from 2 to 6 images that you want to
split from the drop-down list.
NOTE: When using a simplex-only scanner, only select Front. Selecting both
Front and Back will result in no split.
Output order — the page order will be displayed in this field. Click on each
image segment in the order you want the images to be output. As you click on
an image segment, the red "X" disappears.
Any image segment that is still marked with a red "X" will be deleted and not
sent to output. This option might be useful for the last page of a pamphlet that
is always blank.
Reset Order — any order that you originally specified will be deleted and you
can reorder your images.
2. Select the parameter you want to add from the list of Available parameters.
3. Click Add Item.
NOTES:
• You can click Delete Item to delete a parameter from the Parameter
formula, or delete the entire parameter formula by clicking Delete Formula.
• You can also enter literal strings in the Parameter Formula dialog box.
Variable parameters are added to the formula enclosed in <> marks (e.g.
<BATCH_NAME>).
When the batch is output, the actual value will be substituted and the value
passed as a parameter.
For example, the parameter formula <BATCH_NAME> one two "three four"
produces the following four parameters:
/BATCH_NAME=Batch99999
one
two
three four
Omit “/tagname=” identifiers on parameters — by default, parameters will
be passed to the invoked application preceded by a string of the form /
tagname= where tagname identifies the parameter type (e.g. /
BATCH_NAME=Batch001). Selecting this option will omit this identifier and the
program will have to know the number and sequence of passed parameters in
order to interpret them properly.
For example, if Omit “/tagname=” identifiers on parameters was selected,
the formula: <BATCH_NAME> one two "three four" would produce the
following parameters:
Batch99999
one
two
three four
In the XML file, string literals will be in a PARAM_LIST element which contains
one PARAM element per literal.
Variable parameters will be contained in elements which identify the parameter
type (like <BATCH_NAME>).
A schema file KCCustomApplication.xsd (see Appendix D) can be used to
validate resultant XML files and as a reference during code development.
For example, the location and file name formula
<EXPORT_PATH>"\"<BATCH_NAME>"\" and Parameters.XML generated the
parameter C:\BatchesPro\Batch001033841\Parameters.XML.
The Parameters.XML file had the following content:
Scanner Options The Kodak i3000/S3000/i4000/i5000/i1800 Series Scanners and the Kodak
S2085f and i2900 Scanners provides the Scanner Options box which allows
you to access the TWAIN Datasource and setup Message Configuration and
other options (e.g.,Printing, Image Addressing, Patch, Batch, etc.)
NOTE: Printing, Image Addressing, Batch and Patch options are described in
detail in the Scanning Setup Guide for your scanner. To obtain a copy
of the Scanning Setup Guide, go to: www.alarisworld.com/go/support
and select your scanner.
Scanner Options
When you click this icon, the TWAIN Datasource will be displayed
allowing you to configure your Printer, Image Address, Batch, Patch,
etc. options. For information and procedures on using the TWAIN
Datasource, refer to the on-line help for the TWAIN Datasource.
2. Click Setup for each message you want to configure. The Message Setup
dialog box will be displayed.
3. Select a value from the Predefined values list and click Add Item.
4. Click OK when finished.
NOTE: Click Delete Item to remove the last value in the formula, or Delete
Formula to delete the entire formula.
About patch codes Capture Pro Software allows you to separate pages and documents on your
scanner with pages containing patch codes. It also allows you to create
attachments to your documents. Before you can use patch code separators,
you must set up your job to recognize patch codes.
Capture Pro Software supports three types of patch codes:
Patch Type Function Patch kept?
Patch 2 Separates pages into documents yes
Patch 3 Separates documents into batches no
Patch T Separates pages into documents no
(programmable) Separates documents into batches
Creates an attachment
You can define the separation method for each patch code. This is useful for
existing jobs where Patch 2 codes were used as document separator pages
instead of Patch T codes. You can also define a patch code to create an
attachment. For new jobs and for compatibility reasons, it is recommended that
you use patch codes the way they were designed to be used.
• For information on patch code reading when color or grayscale scanning,
see “Using separators when color scanning” in Chapter 4.
• For information on using patch codes on Kodak i800 and i1800 Series
Scanners, see “Job Setup: Scanner-specific settings”. When patch code
reading is enabled on a Kodak i800/i1800 Series Scanner, patch code
reading with Capture Pro Software is not allowed. Conversely, when patch
code reading is enabled with Capture Pro Software, patch code reading on
Kodak i800/i1800 Series Scanners is not allowed.
NOTES:
• If the Detect patch check boxes are disabled in all three Patch Code
windows, the patch reader is disabled.
• If you have checked Detect patch on any of the Separation by Patch dialog
boxes, Capture Pro Software checks each page for the type of patch code
you selected.
Detect patch—when checked, enables the Detect patch option.
• Alternatively search on 180 rotated images—if patch code reading is
unsuccessful, this option rotates the image and searches for the patch code
again. This option helps prevents a patch code read failure because a page
was scanned upside down.
NOTE: The software always searches for patch codes in the first 4 inches
(10 cm) of the top of the image after rotation, deskew, and cropping
(if any). If a patch is vertical, the image should be rotated with the
Software rotation option defined on the Page Setup dialog box.
• Alternatively search on back—if patch code reading is unsuccessful, this
option searches the back side of the document for the patch. If the software
detects a patch code on the front side, it will not look for a patch code on the
back side.
Creating an attachment 1. Select File > Job Setup. The Job Setup dialog box will be displayed.
with a patch code 2. Select the job from the Job Name drop-down list that requires patch code
separation.
3. Open the Capture tab and select Separation>Patch Code.
4. Select the patch type that you want to define: Patch 2, Patch 3 or Patch T.
The Patch Code window will be displayed.
5. Click Detect patch.
6. Under What to do if a patch code is selected, check the Create
Attachment.
7. Check all other desired options in the Patch Code window.
8. Click OK.
Overview To use bar codes, OCR zones or mark detection zones for indexing in your job
setup, do the following:
• Select the Page Setup that will be used when scanning into this kind of job.
• Edit the job setup.
• Scan a page to use as a template for defining your bar code, OCR or mark
detection zone.
• Define where on the template image the bar code, OCR or mark detection
zone will be found.
• Specify how a correct bar code, OCR or mark detection zone value will be
recognized.
• Define the page(s) where you want to apply the zones.
In addition to using bar codes or OCR zones for separation in your job setup
you must do the following:
• Set up the actions connected to that bar code or OCR zone (e.g., create a
new batch, create a new document in the current batch or populate one or
more index fields).
This chapter explains these steps, except for populating index fields.
Populating index fields can be found in Chapter 2, Job Setup.
NOTE: Setting eight or more bar code zones for a job may adversely affect
your scanning speed.
Image—if desired, select a pre-existing image from the drop-down list. The
Image drop-down list contains all the images that have been scanned for bar
code setup. You must have at least one image in this list before you can define
a bar code, OCR or mark detection zone.
NOTE: For typical job setups using bar code zones, OCR or mark detection
zones, a single image is all that is required. Multiple images are
needed for job setups that have batch and document header sheets,
each containing bar code, OCR or mark detection information.
Zones—displays the name of a bar code, OCR or mark detection zone. When
you click on one of the zones listed, the image in the display area will highlight
where the zone is located on the image. Any bar code, OCR or mark detection
zone that you defined will be displayed on the current image, even if you
defined those zones using a different image.
Bar Code, OCR & When you right-click on an image in the Bar Code, OCR & Mark Detection
Mark Detection window, a context-sensitive menu will be displayed. If no bar code, OCR or
mark detection zones are selected, a more limited menu will be displayed.
windows context-
sensitive menu
Cut—removes the selected bar code, OCR or mark detection zone. If you
want, you can paste this bar code, OCR or mark detection to another location
on the same image by left-clicking on the zone and dragging it to the new
location.
Copy—copies the selected bar code, OCR or mark detection. Copy is also
useful when several bar code, OCR or mark detection zones of the exact same
properties (except for location) are required. After defining the first zone, use
the Paste option to duplicate it. After creating each duplicate zone, move it by
left-clicking on the zone and dragging it to the desired location.
4. Select the green Start/Scan button. The Scan Image dialog box will be
displayed.
NOTES:
• Any auto-rotation, auto-cropping and deskew settings from the current
template will also be applied to the scanned image before it is displayed.
• If the image is acceptable, enter a name in the Image name field. The
image name should not contain any of the following characters: : “? * . <
>\/.
• To discard the image, click Cancel.
6. Click OK to save the image.
NOTES:
• Before you can define a bar code, you must save at least one image in the
Image drop-down list.
• You can also transfer an image from the Image Viewer to the Bar Code
window. See “Transferring an image to the bar code window” later in this
chapter.
Zone name—enter the name for your new bar code zone. This name identifies
the bar code and appears in Index setup as BC_[zonename] in the list of
default values. The bar code Label (from the Barcode and OCR Values dialog
box) does not define or identify a Capture Pro Software index field.
Side: Front or Back—select whether the bar code is located on the front or
back of an image.
Keep bar codes with mask—use this option when one or more Anywhere bar
code zones are defined. The bar code value is only retained for the defined
zone when it complies with the mask specified in the Keep bar codes with
mask field. This ensures that the bar code values read on a page are assigned
to the correct bar code zone.
This option is also useful when more than one bar code zone is in the same
physical location on a page but have different values and meanings (e.g., a
zone defined for a batch header sheet versus a zone defined for a document
header sheet). To comply with a specified mask, each character of the bar
code value must match the mask syntax for that character’s position in the
mask.
For example, a mask of A<8> will retain a bar code value of up to, but not
exceeding, eight alphabetic characters:
Bar Code Value Retained?
SURGERY Yes
ADMISSION No
If applicable, enter a mask value.
Pages to read OCR zones—used to select the page or pages to apply all the
defined OCR zones. Multiple pages may be entered by separating the page
numbers with commas “,”. For example, “3-8”. For each of the defined OCR
zones, the specified page or pages will be checked for valid text. If valid text is
found in the zone, the zone will be assigned the text read. Any valid text within
the zone on a following page will replace any previous text that had been read.
If a document has less pages than the page entered, then the zone value will
remain empty. For example, if a document has 6 pages and the pages to read
is set to “8, 11-15”, the zone value will remain empty even if the first 6 pages
contained valid text within the zone.
If you need to always read the value in the zone on the last page of the
document and the document may contain a variable number of pages, the
asterisk ‘*’ may be used to read every page of the document. The value read
on the last page will be the final value assigned to the zone.
NOTE: If the value on the last page is not readable or valid, then a valid value
on a previous page will be assigned to the zone.
If the Pages to read Bar Code is empty, then none of the OCR zones will be
read.
Editing a bar code 1. Select File > Job Setup. The Job Setup dialog box will be displayed.
zone 2. Select a job setup from the Job Name drop-down list.
3. Open the Capture tab and select Separation > By Bar Code Zones. The
Separation by Bar Code Zone window will be displayed.
4. Click on the bar code zone that you want to change, or click on the bar
code zone name in the list on the right side of the Separation by Bar Code
Zone window.
5. Right-click the mouse button to display the context-sensitive menu and
click Zone Properties. The Bar Code Zone Setup dialog box will be
displayed.
6. After you change your settings, click OK to close the dialog box.
7. Click OK to save your settings and close the Job Setup dialog box.
8. After editing a bar code zone, test the bar code to verify that it is still
readable.
Transferring an Capture Pro Software allows you to transfer an image containing bar codes
image to the bar code from the Image Viewer into the Bar Code window for creating bar code zones.
window 1. In the Main window, scan your image containing the bar code.
2. Locate and right-click on the image you want to transfer in the Image
Viewer.
3. Select Copy Image to Job Setup. The Copy Image to Job Setup dialog
box will be displayed.
NOTE: If a bar code zone does not exist, this option will not be available
until a bar code zone is defined.
5. Check the Extract bar codes/OCR from images between checkbox and
set a range for minimum and maximum byte size.
6. After you make your settings, click OK to close the dialog box and return to
the Bar Code window.
7. Click OK to save your settings and close the Job Setup dialog box. The
new image range is now saved.
8. After editing a bar code zone test the bar code zone to verify that it is still
readable.
NOTE: When scanning both color/grayscale and black and white images,
specify the range of the black and white image.
Testing bar code When you define a new bar code zone from an image, Capture Pro Software
zones automatically checks your zone to verify that it is readable. However, if you edit
the bar code zone or change its properties later, it may no longer be readable.
You can manually test your bar code zones to verify that Capture Pro Software
can still read them.
1. Select File > Job Setup. The Job Setup dialog box will be displayed.
2. Select a job setup from the Job Name drop-down list and open the Capture
tab.
3. Select Separation > By Bar Code Zones. The Bar Code window will be
displayed.
4. Click the Test All Bar Code, OCR & Mark Detection Zones icon to test all
bar codes or click Test Selected Bar Code, OCR & Mark Detection
Zones icon to test an individual bar code zone. The Bar Code, OCR &
Mark Detection Values dialog box will be displayed.
5. After viewing the values in this box, click OK to return to the Bar Code
window.
6. Click OK to save your settings and exit the Job Setup dialog box. All your
bar code zones have now been tested. If you make any changes to the bar
code settings, test them again.
Special syntax for two- When using two-dimensional bar codes, a single bar code can be used to
dimensional bar codes contain all the index data for a document or batch. To facilitate indexing with
two-dimensional bar codes, a special substring syntax has been added:
<barcode.zonename:[start;length]>
<barcode.zonename:[start;end]>
<barcode.zonename:[# of data elements, delimiter (in single quotes)]>
The delimiter can either be the actual character symbol or its ASCII decimal
numeric value (for symbols that cannot be printed or typed). The delimiter must
be contained in double quotes (“ “).
For example, if a PDF417 bar code contains the following data:
12345678*NURSERY*11/19/1962 the following could be used as default
values for the three index fields of data:
• For best results, use 300 dpi resolution and 12-point sans serif font (or
larger if using resolutions lower than 300 dpi). Do not use skewed
documents.
5. Select the language of your text from the available languages on the
Language drop-down list.
Scanning an image for Capture Pro Software allows you to separate scanned pages into batches and
OCR setup documents based on OCR zones. These OCR zones also allow you to create
attachments to your documents.
Before you can use OCR text as separators, you must:
1. Scan an image containing the OCR text into Capture Pro Software.
2. Create and define the OCR zones.
3. Set up your job for OCR zone separation.
NOTES:
• Any settings from the current job setup will also be applied to the
scanned image before it is displayed.
• If the image is acceptable, enter a name in the Image Name field. The
image name should not contain any of the following characters: : “ ? * . <
>\/.
• To discard the image, click Cancel.
• Before you can define an OCR zone, you must have at least one image
in the Image drop-down list.
• You can transfer an image from the Image Viewer to the Separation by
OCR Zone window. For more information, see “Transferring an image to
the OCR window” later in this chapter.
5. Click OK.
Zone name—enter a name for the OCR zone. You must name the OCR zone
in order to save it.
Side: Front or Back—select whether the OCR zone is located on the front or
back of an image.
Rule for values to keep—any valid Input format text expressions may be
entered or you can leave this field blank. If any Input format text expression is
entered, then only OCR read strings that meet this rule will be kept. For
example, if the expression entered is A<10>, then only OCR read strings
containing 10 or less alpha characters will be kept. For more information see
“Input formats” in Chapter 2.
Search for value in zone—when the Rule for values to keep is a fixed string
format, then the OCR zone read value only needs to contain fixed strings for a
value to be kept.
For example, if the Rule for values to keep was set to Form 1099, then the
following read strings would be valid reads and batch/document separation
would occur if selected.
“77644 Form 1099 - revision 1.2”
“81763 Form 1099 - revision 1.4”
“77644 Form 1099 - revision 2.2”
Character set rule—not applicable at this time.
Primary language —selecting the appropriate primary language ensures that
Capture Pro Software properly OCR’s special language-specific characters
(e.g., ç or ü). Use the drop-down list to display a list of supported languages.
Secondary language—one or more secondary languages may be selected
when a zone may contain characters from more than one language.
Applying OCR zones to For information on how to select the page or pages to apply all the OCR zones,
specific pages see “Zone Pages Setup dialog box” earlier in this chapter.
Separating documents 1. Select File > Job Setup. The Job Setup dialog box will be displayed.
with OCR zones 2. Select a job setup from the Job Name drop-down list and open the Capture
tab.
3. Select Separation > By OCR Zones. The Separation by OCR Zone
window will be displayed.
4. Select an image from the Image drop-down list. If you need to scan the
image, click the green Start/Scan icon on the Separation by OCR Zone
window.
NOTE: Use your mouse to draw the OCR zone. The OCR Zone Setup
dialog box will be displayed.
5. Under Separation, click the Create a new document option.
6. Click OK to exit the dialog box and return to the Separation by OCR Zone
window.
7. Click OK to save your settings and exit the Job Setup dialog box.
NOTE: A Batch Header page exists whenever batch separation is defined
using patch codes, bar codes or OCR zones (at least one zone in
the job setup is configured for Batch separation).
Deleting an OCR 1. Select File > Job Setup. The Job Setup dialog box will be displayed.
zone 2. Select a job setup from the Job Name drop-down list and open the Capture
tab.
3. Select Separation > By OCR Zones. The Separation by OCR Zone
window will be displayed.
4. Click on the OCR zone that you want to delete. You can also click on the
OCR zone name in the list on the left side of the Separation by OCR Zone
window. The zone is highlighted.
5. Click Delete.
6. Click OK.
Transferring an You can scan an image containing text for OCR directly into the Image Viewer
image to the OCR and then transfer it to the Separation by OCR Zone window to create an OCR
zone.
window
1. Scan your image containing the OCR text.
2. Locate the image in the Image Viewer and right-click on it.
3. Select Copy image to job setup. The Copy Image to Job Setup dialog
box will be displayed.
4. Enter the new image name in the Save image as field.
5. Click OK.
NOTE: If an OCR zone does not exist, this option will not be available until a
OCR zone is defined.
5. Check the Extract bar codes/OCR from images between checkbox and
set a range for minimum and maximum byte size.
6. After you make your settings, click OK to close the dialog box and return to
the Separation by OCR Zone window.
7. After editing an OCR zone, test your OCR zone to verify that it is still
readable.
Using separators Capture Pro Software can scan color, grayscale, and black and white images
when color scanning with separators (bar code zones, OCR zones or patch codes). Images can be
separated or mixed together. To separate these color/grayscale images quickly
and reliably, Capture Pro Software uses their duplicate black and white images
for reading the separators.
When scanning both color/grayscale and black and white images and the
software detects a bar code zone, patch code or OCR zone, the software
either deletes all four page images (color front, color back, black and white
front, and black and white back) or attaches them to the new or current
document or batch. This action will be determined by the settings in the Bar
Zone Code Setup dialog box, Patch Code setup, or OCR Zone Setup dialog
box.
When you are scanning only color/grayscale images, the software reads the
duplicate black and white images. While these black and white images are
never displayed or outputted, they are used for bar code reading, patch code
reading and OCR indexing.
2. Select a simultaneous scanning page setup from the list (e.g., Color and
Black & White - 200 DPI - Delete Blanks).
3. Place the color/grayscale original in the scanner and click the green Start/
Scan icon. The images will be displayed in the Image Viewer.
4. Select the black and white image containing bar codes and OCR zones
and click the right mouse button to display the Image context-sensitive
menu.
5. Select Edit>Copy Image to Bar Code/OCR setup. The Copy Image to Job
Setup dialog box will be displayed.
6. Enter the new image name in the text box and click OK.
7. Click File > Job Setup. The Job Setup dialog box will be displayed.
8. Open the Capture tab and select either Separation > By Bar Code Zones
or Separation By OCR Zones. Depending on your selection, the
Separation by Bar Code or Separation by OCR Zone window will be
displayed.
9. The new image name will be displayed in the Image drop-down box.
Follow the procedures for defining a bar code zone or OCR zone described
in the previous chapter.
10. Click OK.
Using Mark Detection Mark Detection is a method of detecting the presence or absence of an ink
zones mark within a specific area that is used to convey some intended information.
Good document design and clear instructions to respondents are very
important in getting high accuracy. Printing model samples of ideally filled and
filled-in-error checkboxes in the instructions is recommended. Respondents
should be urged to fill in the document with a dark blue or black pen. Pencils
are to be avoided, as are pens with an ink color close to a dropout color if the
form is color is dropped during scanning.
Mark Detection setup allows you to define:
• The name of the Mark Detection zone.
• The physical location where you will find the mark (zone location on the
image).
• The value when a mark is detected.
• The value when a mark is not detected.
• If the mark is contained within a frame such as a box or circle.
• The sensitivity to distinguish a mark due to random dirt or scratch “noise”.
• A group of mark detection zones to return a single set of values.
Use the Bar Code, OCR and Mark Detection Setup option on the Capture tab
in the Job Setup dialog box to setup the mark detection parameters for one or
more Mark Detection zones.
NOTES:
• Batch and document separation is not provided for Mark Detection
zones.
• For best results, use 300 dpi resolution images.
Deleting a mark 1. Select File > Job Setup. The Job Setup dialog box will be displayed.
detection zone 2. Select a job setup from the Job Name drop-down list.
3. Open the Capture tab and select Bar Code, OCR & Mark Detection. The
Bar Code, OCR & Mark Detection Zone window will be displayed.
4. Click on the mark detection zone that you want to delete.
5. Click Delete.
6. Click OK to save your settings and close the Job Setup dialog box.
Zone name—enter the name for your new mark detection zone. This name
identifies the mark area and appears in the Index setup as MD_(zonename) in
the list of default values.
Filled value—the zone will return this value when it is detected to be “filled”.
The value may be a single value such as “1” or a multi-character value such as
“This checkbox was marked”. The value may also be left empty.
If the zone is added to a group of mark detection zones, this value is included
in the value returned by the zone group. See “Mark Detection Zone Group
Setup” later in this section.
Unfilled value—the zone will return this value when it is detected to be
“unfilled” or empty. The value may be a single value such as “0” or a multi-
character value such as “This checkbox was not marked”. The value may also
be left empty.
If the zone is added to a group of mark detection zones, this value is not used.
The unfilled value returned by a group of zones is defined in the group setup.
See “Mark Detection Zone Group Setup” later in this section.
Side: Front or Back—select whether the mark area is located on the front or
back of an image.
Applying mark detection For information on how to select the page or pages to apply all the mark
zones to specific pages detection zones, see “Zone Pages Setup dialog box” earlier in this chapter.
1. Select Add zone to group. A list of existing mark detection groups will be
displayed. Select the group in which you want to add this mark detection
zone.
• If there is no existing mark detection group, the Create New Zone Group
dialog box will be displayed.
• Enter a name for the new group and click OK.
Page Setup dialog Use the Page Setup dialog box to define image scanning parameters,
box automatically delete images, split images or merge images.
To access Page Setup click File > Page Setup.
Page setup name—select an existing Page Setup from the drop-down list.
Icons
Add: displays the Save As dialog box, which allows you to add a
new page setup.
Image tab The Image tab allows you to set up scanning parameters and make changes to
your images before they are stored.
• Image size (byte) is Above—select this option if you want to delete pages
with a lot of busy, explanatory content on them. For example, if you are
scanning documents with similar content (e.g. insurance forms) on the front
and back page, and the front page has content you need to keep, but the
back page contains instructions on how to file a claim (that you do not need
to keep), enter the number of bytes that you want Capture Pro Software to
delete any image file greater than that amount. Any image that is more than
this value will be considered too large and will be deleted.
• Image size (byte) is Below—select this option if you want to delete pages
with no content or very little content. Enter the number of bytes that Capture
Pro Software will consider the image size to be blank. Any image that is less
than this value will be considered blank and will be deleted.
Keep blank images — when this option is enabled (checked), blank images
are highlighted rather than deleted.
NOTE: The Merge and Split options cannot be active at the same time. To
disable the Split option, open the Split tab and uncheck the Split
Page or Image checkbox.
2. Set the minimum and maximum image widths and heights in 1/100ths of
an inch for front and back images to be merged in the if width is between
and the if height is between fields. Capture Pro Software merges only the
images that meet these parameters. Any other images are not merged.
3. Click Horizontal or Vertical for the desired orientation on the merged
image.
4. Click Front, Back or Back, Front for the desired order of the front and
back on the merged image.
5. Click OK to save your settings and close the Page Setup dialog box.
Image Adjustments
• Enable Binarize—check this option to adjust the Contrast.
- Contrast: sets the contrast for each image. If your document set contains
images with faint text or colored / dark backgrounds then you may wish to
increase the contrast.
If your documents are light weight paper and content on the back side is
visible on the front then decreasing the contrast may produce better
results. In many cases a contrast of 0 will produce the best result.
Create Grayscale from Color Create Grayscale from Color will create a grayscale image for every color
image sent from the scanner. Both the color and grayscale image will be
added to the batch. There is no configuration required.
Hole fill Hole fill will fill round or rectangular holes found near the edge of the page.
The scanner background must be black. You can select Fill Front, which fills
holes found on the front side of a page, or Fill Back, which fills holes found on
the back side of a page.
Auto crop Auto crop will crop the scanned image to remove the background border that
may appear at the end of the image. It is recommended that you use the Auto
crop feature of your scanner if available. There is no configuration required.
Deskew Deskew will correct minor rotation or skew of an image. When selected, Auto
crop will be automatically selected. There is no configuration required.
Button Manager When scanning shortcuts have been created, you can assign each shortcut
name to a particular value for the Scanner button (if your scanner has buttons).
You can assign up to 9 buttons. Once the numbers are assigned, you can
quickly access and use these scanning options by using the Start button on the
control panel.
To access the Button Manager dialog box:
1. Right-click on the Capture Pro Software icon in the system tray and select
Button Setup:
3. Click Shortcut Setup to display the Shortcut Setup dialog box which
allows you to assign a Job Shortcut name, Page Setup and Job Setup.
4. Click OK.
NOTE: If you experience any issues with the Button Manager, review the
Frequently Asked Questions in Chapter 9, Troubleshooting.
1. Select the desired Job Shortcut name from the drop-down list. You can
also use the icons to add, rename or delete a job shortcut.
• Add: displays the Save As dialog box which allows you to add a new
job shortcut.
• Rename: displays the Rename dialog box which allows you to rename
the currently selected job shortcut.
• Delete: displays a confirmation box which allows you to delete the
selected job shortcut.
2. If desired, select a page setup from the Page Setup drop-down list or click
Setup to display the Page Setup dialog box and create a new page setup.
3. If desired, select a job setup from the Job Setup drop-down list or click
Setup to display the Job Setup dialog box and create a new job setup.
4. Click OK.
User Setup dialog The User Setup dialog box allows you to set up and manage users of Capture
box Pro Software. The user setup functions can only be set by individuals with
Capture Pro Software administrator access.
To access User Setup, select File > User Setup. The User Setup dialog box
will be displayed.
The User Setup dialog box has three tabs: General, User and Group.
General tab The General tab allows you bypass the login function for a user by checking
the Windows user ID login checkbox.
If you want to authenticate users with your Active Directory Server, click the
Active Directory checkbox.
Setting up users and When Active Directory is checked and a new user logs in, Capture Pro
groups using Active Software will check each Active Directory group that the user is a member to
find a match to a Capture Pro Software group. The new user will be added to
Directory the first Capture Pro Software group that matches a user’s Active Directory
group.
If no matching group is found, the new user will still be added to Capture Pro
Software and a new group based on one of the user’s Active Directory groups
will be created in Capture Pro Software. By default, the new group will have no
permission or Jobs in Capture Pro Software. A Capture Pro Software user with
permission to modify the User Setup will need to enter User Setup and either
assign the new group permissions and Jobs or assign the new user to an
existing Capture Pro Software group.
If a new user is not a member of any Active Directory group, the user will
receive a warning message when first logging in that they must be a member
of at least one group.
User tab Users and user groups can be configured in Capture Pro Software to limit
access to specific jobs and Capture Pro Software functions.
Adding a user to a group 1. Select File > User Setup and open the User tab. The User Setup dialog
box will be displayed.
2. Select a user name from the User name drop-down list.
3. Select a group name from the Add to Group drop-down list.
4. Check Allow automatic login if you want to bypass the login function for
Capture Pro Software and automatically login this user when Capture Pro
Software is launched.
NOTE: If you want to login as another user, select File > Logout and then
login as the new user.
5. Click OK.
Deleting a user 1. Select File > User Setup and open the User tab. The User Setup dialog
box will be displayed.
2. Select the user you want to delete from the User name drop-down list.
3. Click Delete. A confirmation box will be displayed.
4. Click Yes to complete the deletion.
5. Click OK.
Resetting a password 1. Select File > User Setup and open the User tab. The User Setup dialog
box will be displayed.
2. Select the user you want to reset a password for from the drop-down list.
3. Click Reset Password. The Change Password - sysadmin dialog box will
be displayed.
Setting up a user group 1. Select File > User Setup and open the Group tab. The Group tab of the
User Setup dialog box will be displayed.
2. Click the Add icon. The Save as dialog box will be displayed.
3. Enter a new group name and click OK. The new group name will be
displayed in the Group name drop down list. You can also add notes about
the group in the Description field.
NOTE: When creating a new group, you must create the group first and
then go to the User tab to add members to the group.
4. Use the Add, Remove, Add All, Remove All buttons in the Members
boxes to move users in or out of the selected group. The Members boxes
contain all users who are eligible to be added to the group. When creating
a new group, the Not in group and In group fields will be blank.
Deleting a group 1. Select File > User Setup and open the Group tab. The Group tab of the
User Setup dialog box will be displayed.
2. Select the group that you want to delete from the Group name drop-down
list.
3. Click the Delete icon. A confirmation box will be displayed. Click Yes to
delete the group.
NOTE: When you delete a group, the users in that group are removed
from the group and returned to the Members: Not in Group list.
Renaming a group 1. Select File > User Setup and open the Group tab. The Group tab of the
User Setup dialog box will be displayed.
2. Select the group that you want to rename from the Group name drop-down
list.
3. Click the Rename icon. The Rename dialog box will be displayed.
4. Enter the new group name and click OK.
Overview Auto Import allows you to import images into Capture Pro Software without
the use of a local scanner or manual intervention. This is done by observing
special directories called “watch folders”. Files to be imported will be copied
into subfolders within a watch folder which are called Auto Import or AI batch
folders. Auto import extracts images from these files and streams them into the
Capture Pro Software workstation just as if they had originated from a local
scanner.
To auto import files create an AI batch folder in a watch folder. The processing
instructions for this AI batch folder have been defined in the Auto Import Setup
process and associated with the watch folder that the AI batch folder is
contained within. A countdown timer will then be started on the new AI batch.
The user will copy files (which may be contained in nested subfolders) into the
AI batch folder. Every time a new file appears anywhere in the AI batch folder
or its subfolders, the countdown timer will be reset to its initial value and the
countdown will begin again. If the timer expires, the AI batch folder will be
locked and added to the end of an auto import capture queue for processing.
See “Auto Import operation” for more information.
For MFP (Multiple Function Printers) type devices that are not able to create AI
batch folders, image files may be copied directly to the watch folder.
Special batch separation rules can be specified for auto import so new batches
can optionally be created for each new AI batch. Aside from that, processing
will occur as in any other scan job according the job and page setup rules.
Every AI batch will be completely processed before moving to the next.
These image file formats are supported: tiff, jpg, pdf, bmp, ioca, modca, gif,
cmp and png.
9. Select Backup the files to and specify a backup location if you want to
archive the contents of the AI batch when auto import is complete.
Archive will copy the entire content of an AI batch to the specified archive
location including any unprocessed files (such as spreadsheets or word
processing documents) in their original form along with the original image
files.
• A single archive location can be used for multiple watch folders.
• You do not have to create a unique archive folder for every auto import
setup.
• The archive location must be a local or mapped drive.
10. Specify the number of errors that are allowed before auto import
processing is interrupted. Errors occur when an image file cannot be
properly read. These errors do not apply to indexing errors or anything else
other than the ability to open and read the contents of a supported image
file. If the value in Maximum import errors drop-down box is exceeded,
processing will stop and a dialog box will be displayed allowing the user to
retry the bad image, skip the bad image, or abort the auto import. See
“Error handling” for more information regarding error handling and
recovery.
11. Specify a location for unreadable files to be copied to in the Cache the
error files and data to field. During auto import processing, if a supported
file cannot be opened, a “place holder” image will be substituted and the
erroneous image will be copied into the error cache.
NOTE: The error cache location must be a local or mapped drive.
12. Click OK when finished.
To enable Auto Import, select File > Workstation Setup, then select Auto
Import as your source. This disables all scanners and scanner-specific
setups. If you have not selected Start Auto Import when application is
launched, then you will need to select Start as if you were starting a scanner.
Auto import will begin watching all previously defined watch folders for
incoming files, actively monitors all watch folders and processes any new AI
batch jobs in first-in, first-out order until Stop is selected. To resume normal
scanning operations, select File > Workstation Setup and select your
scanner.
NOTE: If an auto import setup becomes obsolete, it should be deleted before
related folders are manually removed to avoid error messages.
To create a new AI batch, a new AI batch folder will be created in the watch
folder.
Whenever a file appears in the AI batch folder, or any subfolder of the AI batch
folder, the timer is reset.
NOTE: Paths that exceed 256 characters may not be supported by the
Windows operating system. It is recommended that subfolders and file
names be kept within this limit.
A new AI batch folder can appear in the watch folder at any time. It will get its
own timer and operate independently of other AI batches.
Other jobs will be inserted into the processing queue as their timers expire.
The Auto Import processing queue will be processed in first-in, first-out order.
In this example, the entire contents of 06112009_AIBatch will be processed
followed by 06112009_AIBatch2. Since these two AI batches have the same
job setup (they came from the same watch folder), a batch separator will be
inserted between the two AI batches according to the AIDemo1 job setup.
Files within an AI batch will be processed by recursively iterating through files
and subfolders and processing their contents in alphanumeric order.
Server/Service Installing Auto Import on a Windows Server operating system provides a more
configuration robust environment and minimizes operator involvement. It is recommended
that the watch folder also be located on the same server.
1. Install Capture Pro Auto Import on the server using the procedure found in
the Auto Import Setup section.
2. Launch Capture Pro and configure your Auto Import job(s).
Be sure to check the option: Start Auto Import when application is
launched.
NOTE: If the watch folder is not located on the server, the Capture Pro
Auto Import Service will need to have read and write access to the
watch folder. This is typically difficult because services have no
defined user.
3. Verify that Auto Import works properly.
4. Shut down Capture Pro Software.
5. Download the Capture Pro Auto Import Service from the Capture Pro
Software website at www.kodakalaris.com/go/CaptureProAIService.
6. Install Capture Pro Auto Import Service on the same server on which
Capture Pro Auto Import is installed.
7. By default the Capture Pro Auto Import Service will be configured for
Automatic startup and will have an initial status of Stopped. Manually start
the service or restart the server.
Capture Pro Auto Import is now running on the server. Any image files placed
in the watch folder will be imported and processed as described by the Job
selected in the Auto Import setup.
Auto Import will be launched automatically whenever the server is restarted.
To modify or add job setups, stop the Capture Pro Auto Import Service and
manually launch Capture Pro Software. When updates are complete, shut
down Capture Pro Software and manually start the Capture Pro Auto Import
Service or restart the server.
NOTE: If a Job setup is modified in a shared workgroup environment, Auto
Import needs to be stopped and restarted for the changes to take
effect.
Error handling When a batch is being processed, if a supported image file cannot be opened:
• the bad file will be copied into the error cache,
• a generic “error” image will substituted, and
• the error count for the AI batch will be incremented.
If the error threshold defined in the batch setup has been reached, processing
of the batch will stop. A dialog box will be displayed with the following options:
- Ignore: move ahead to the next image. The batch will resume processing
until the next bad image is encountered.
- Abort: the remaining files in the batch will be copied into the error cache
and auto import will stop. Following an abort, when restarted, auto import
proceeds with the next batch in the queue. There is no automated recovery
procedure for batches copied into the error cache. The user will have to
locate and correct the bad files and manually reinsert the batch into the
watch folder.
Overview The Intelligent Job Select capability found in the Capture Pro File menu allows
you to set up advanced parameters to change Job Setups or Page Setups
automatically during scanning. When a patch code with predefined conditions
is scanned, either page or job setup will change without any operator action
needed.
Effective use of Intelligent Job Select requires document preparation to add
patch page(s) to the batch.
This feature is available for Kodak Scanners and Alaris Scanners only. If you
do not have a Kodak Scanner or Alaris Scanner, this option will be disabled.
This chapter provides information and procedures on how to select options on
Intelligent Job Select General and Setup tabs.
You will need to:
1. Set up one or more patch pages to signal setup changes.
2. Configure Capture Pro for the change meant by each patch page.
To access Intelligent Job Select, select Intelligent Job Select... from the
Capture Pro File menu.
Enable Intelligent Job Select on—choose the patch type for your feature
patch page. Valid feature patches are Patch 10, Patch 11, Patch 12, Patch 13,
Patch 14, or Patch 15.
Sample Image—choose an image already stored as a sample image, to
define the rule for this patch. The drop-down list contains all the images that
have been scanned for Intelligent Job Select setup. You must have at least
one image in this list before you can define a bar code or OCR zone.
Icons
Start/Scan—opens the Scan Image dialog box, which allows
you to enter an Image name and scan an image containing bar
codes, OCR text segments or mark areas.
NOTE: Capture Pro Software will use whatever Page Setup is
currently selected, to scan the sample image.
Draw region—allows you to draw a rectangle around a bar code
or OCR text segment on the scanned image and then displays
the Bar Code Zone Setup or OCR Zone Setup dialog box.
Magnify—enlarges a portion of the image. You can enlarge any
area on the image where you place the Magnify tool and click
and hold.
Pan—allows you to move the image around when the image is
larger than the Feature Patch Setup image window.
Create feature patch 1. Once you have prepared your patch sheet(s) you will configure the
setup Intelligent Job Select Setup. On the General tab, check Enable Intelligent
Job Select on. Select the feature patch type that you have customized for
this function, from the drop-down list.
2. Choose an image of your patch page from the Sample Image drop-down
list, or scan in the patch page you created in “Create a feature patch page”.
3. Create a bar code zone for the bar code or an OCR zone for the text that
you added to the patch page.
4. Test the zone to be sure your bar code or text will be recognized.
5. Use the image right-click menu as needed to adjust your image or zone.
6. Next, set up one or more rules to define the setup change that will happen,
when the scanner recognizes this patch page.
If detect—enter the bar code value or OCR text value from the patch page that
you set up on the General tab.
Change—choose Job Setup or Page Setup from the drop-down list.
To—choose a Job Setup or Page Setup name from the drop-down list. When
the patch page is detected, setup will change to the setup you enter in this
field.
Add—once you have defined a rule, the Add button will add it to the displayed
list.
Delete—choose a rule from the displayed list and choose Delete to remove
the selected rule.
When changing jobs—this option is not available for scanners that perform
feature patch code reading in the scanners (e.g. Kodak i5x50). On these
scanners, scanning will be performed at the scanner rated speed.
• Always change to page setup in job (slower): choose if you want to use
the Page Setup that was defined in the job or the last used Page Setup if
one is not defined.
• Use one page setup for all jobs (faster): choose if you want to scan at the
scanner rate of speed. You must define a Page Setup from the drop-down
list that will be used for all jobs.
Clearing errors The Capture Pro Batch Process Status window provides information on
batches that you are preparing for output from Capture Pro Software.
To view the Batch Status window:
• Select Batch > View Batch Output Status.
To clear errors:
• Click on the Job Name to Clear All Errors or Clear Selected Errors.
Command line login Capture Pro Software will support a login from the command in the form:
Capture.exe/username<username>/password<password>
For example, a user with the username “tester” and password “123465” could
launch Capture Pro Software with the command:
Capture.exe/username tester/password 123465
If the user is using the current Windows user name to log into Capture Pro
Software, then they may launch Capture Pro Software with the command:
Capture.exe/username
Technical Support Support for Capture Pro Software can be found on the Kodak Alaris website:
www.kodakalaris.com/go/CaptureProSupport. The support pages provide
product specific information such as access to product upgrade downloads,
drivers, accessories and access to the FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
and details of the support options available for Capture Pro Software available
in your country/region.
The License Manager is a utility that may be installed and run independently of
Capture Pro Software. The License Manager is installed with Capture Pro
Software and can be accessed and run by selecting License Manager from
the Help menu or by selecting the shortcut found at Kodak > Kodak Capture
Pro Software. If Capture Pro Software is not installed on the computer,
License Manager may be downloaded from www.alarisworld.com/go/
CaptureProDownload. The utility provides a set of functions that may be used
to acquire and manage a license for your Capture Pro Software.
The License Manager is the easiest way to get a license for a workstation
running Capture Pro Software that does not have internet access.
Requesting a license The License Request functions are used to request a license from the Kodak
Alaris license server.
Example 2
Scenario: I am installing Capture Pro Software on a workstation without
internet access. During installation the installer has created a license request
file. What do I do now?
Solution:
1. On a different computer with internet access, download the License
Manager tool from the Capture Pro Software download site
(www.alarisworld.com/go/CaptureProDownload).
2. Install and launch License Manager.
3. From the Request License tab select Upload Request.
4. Browse to the license request file that was created on the workstation
without internet access and upload the file.
Your license will be returned and stored at the same location where you
browsed to select the license request file.
5. Move the returned license file to the workstation where you are installing
Capture Pro Software and continue installation.
Example 3
Scenario: Capture Pro Software is installed on my workstation. I have
purchased an optional feature and need to update my license to enable the
optional feature. My workstation does not have internet access.
Solution:
1. Select Help > License Manager from the menu bar.
2. From the License Manager window, select the License Request tab and
then select Request License.
3. Enter the path to where you want the license request file to be saved.
Select Request. A license request file will be created.
4. Move the license request file to a computer with internet access.
5. On the computer with internet access, download the License Manager tool
from the Capture Pro Software download site
(www.alarisworld.com/go/CaptureProDownload).
6. Install and launch License Manager.
Release license The Release License functions are used to release the license from the
currently assigned workstation. You must release a license before uninstalling
Capture Pro Software or moving the license to a different workstation.
Release License—if the licensed workstation has internet access, this option
will remove the license from the workstation and make the license available for
a new workstation.
Request Release—if the licensed workstation does not have internet access,
use this option to create a release request file. This file may be moved to a
computer with internet access and sent to the Kodak Alaris license server
using Upload Request. You will be prompted to enter a location for the
release request file.
Upload Request—this option is used to release your license by sending the
release request file to the Kodak Alaris license server from a computer with
internet access. You will be prompted to enter the location of the release
request file.
Example 2
Scenario: Capture Pro Software is installed on my workstation and I need to
reconfigure the workstation (add/remove memory, update the BIOS, change
the Machine Name, replace the mother board, etc.). My workstation has
internet access.
Solution:
1. Select Help > License Manager from the menu bar.
2. From the License Manager window, select the Release License tab and
then select Release License.
3. Exit Capture Pro Software.
4. Reconfigure the workstation as needed.
5. Launch the License Manager tool typically found in the Capture Pro
application folder <drive>: \Program Files\Kodak\Capture
Pro\KCSPLM.exe.
6. From the License Manager window, select the License Request tab and
select Get License. Your new license will be retrieved and installed.
Example 3
Scenario: Capture Pro Software is installed on my workstation and I need to
reconfigure the workstation (add/remove memory, update the BIOS, change
the Machine Name, replace the mother board, etc.). My workstation does not
have internet access.
Solution:
1. Select Help > License Manager from the menu bar.
2. From the License Manager window, select the Release License tab and
then select Request Release. Enter the path to where you want the
release request file to be stored. Select Request.
3. Exit Capture Pro Software.
4. Move the release request file to a computer with internet access.
5. Download the License Manager tool from the Capture Pro Software
download site.
Example 4
Scenario: I have made changes to my workstation hardware configuration and
now when I launch Capture Pro Software I get the message, Invalid license
code. What do I do?
Solution 1:
1. Change the workstation hardware configuration back to the original
settings. If this is not possible, see Solution 2.
2. See Example 2 if you have internet access or Example 3 if your
workstation does not have internet access.
Solution 2:
• If your workstation has internet access:
1. From the Capture Pro installation folder (typically Program Files >
Kodak > Capture Pro), run the License Manager, KCSPLM.exe.
2. From the Replace License tab, select Replace Lost License. A new
license will be retrieved and installed.
• If your workstation does not have internet access:
1. From the Capture Pro installation folder (typically Program Files >
Kodak > Capture Pro), run the License Manager, KCSPLM.exe.
2. From the Replace License tab, select Request Replacement. Enter the
path to where you want the replacement request file to be saved. Select
Request. A license replacement request file will be created.
3. Exit Capture Pro Software.
4. Move the replacement request file to a computer with internet access.
Replacing a license The Replace License functions are used to replace an original license that has
been lost due to equipment failure or loss. Replacing a license that is not lost is
a violation of the license agreement and may result in the forfeit of the license.
Example 2
Scenario: The hard drive on my Capture Pro Software workstation failed and I
am not able to recover the contents. My workstation does not have internet
access. What do I do?
Solution:
1. Before installing your Capture Pro Software, download the License
Manager tool from the Capture Pro Software download site.
2. Install the License Manager on the workstation that does not have internet
access and launch the License Manager.
3. From the Replace License tab select Request Replacement. Enter the
path to where you want the replacement file to be saved. Select Request.
A license replacement request file will be created.
4. Move the license replacement request file to a computer with internet
access.
5. On the computer with internet access, download the License Manager tool
from the Capture Pro Software download site.
6. Install and launch the License Manager.
7. From the Replace License tab select Upload Request.
8. Browse to the license replacement request file you moved to this computer
and select Upload. Your license will be returned and stored at the same
location where you browsed to select the license replacement request file.
9. Return to the workstation where you want to install Capture Pro Software
and run the Capture Pro Software installer. During installation the installer
will create a license request file.
NOTE: The license request file is not needed as you have already
created a replacement license in Step 8.
10. Move the replacement license file to the workstation where you are
installing Capture Pro Software and continue with the installation.