Eastman Software

Imaging for Windows®

Standard Edition

Getting Started Guide

 Eastman Software
Imaging for Windows®
Standard Edition

Getting Started Guide

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 Contents

Contents

Getting Started Guide

About This Guide

Purpose viii
Prerequisites viii
Related Information viii
Notation Conventions ix

1 Introducing Imaging for Windows®

Standard Edition
Basic Imaging Concepts 2
What is Imaging? 2
Types of Images 2
Image File Formats 3
Image Documents 4
Imaging for Windows Standard Edition 6
Imaging Application 6
Display Images 7
Imaging Server Documents 9
Convert Image Files 9
Change Image Display 9
Scan Images 10
Annotate Images 10
Create a Contact Sheet 12
Image Processing 12
Flow 13
Capture 14
Process 15
Output 15

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2 Installing the Software

System Requirements 18
Hardware 18
Software 18
Installation Overview 19
Installing Imaging Standard 21
Installing Imaging 1.x Server Access 22
Uninstalling Imaging Components 23

3 Using the Imaging Application

Before You Begin 26
Finding an Image Document 26
Setting Properties 26
Finding Specified Properties 28
Displaying an Image Document 30
Opening the Document 30
Changing the Display 30
Displaying and Changing Thumbnails 32
Creating a Contact Sheet 33
Annotating a Document 34
Applying a Rubber Stamp 34
Adding a Highlight 36
Changing Highlight Properties 36
Enhancing a Document 37
Removing Speckles From a Document 37
Straightening the Page 38

4 Finding Imaging Server Documents

Finding Server Documents 40
Imaging 1.x Documents 41
Name and Location Tab 41

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Date Modified Tab 44

Keywords Tab 45
Enterprise Imaging Documents 46
Name and Location Tab 46
Field Tab 47

5 Creating a Flow
Before You Begin 50
Using the Flow Wizard 50
Using the Flow Editor 54

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About This Guide

This guide introduces Imaging for Windows® Standard Edition,

and shows you how to get started by performing some common
tasks.

In this Chapter
Purpose .............................................................................viii
Prerequisites ......................................................................viii
Related Information...........................................................viii
Notation Conventions......................................................... ix
About This Guide

Purpose
The Getting Started Guide provides general information about
imaging concepts, describes the features of Imaging for Windows
Standard Edition, explains how to install the software, and shows
you how to perform several imaging tasks.

Prerequisites
To use this product, you need to be familiar with the Microsoft®
Windows environment. If you are using a printer, a scanner, or a
TWAIN-compliant device, you should also know how to connect
and operate it.
If you plan to access documents on an Eastman Software Imaging
Server, you should be familiar with navigating document databases
in an Imaging (1.x) server or Enterprise Imaging server
environment.

Related Information
This guide helps you to get started with the application. For
information about the application and how to perform additional
tasks, refer to the online help.
The Release Notes (Readme.txt) provide important information
including last-minute changes to the documentation.
For updated product information and general information about
imaging, point your Web browser to:
www.eastmansoftware.com

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Notation Conventions
The following notation conventions are used throughout this
guide:

Notation Conventions

Notation Description Example

Acronyms All uppercase MAPI

ODMA

Bold Entries that you Type Setup

type exactly as
shown.
italic type Book titles For additional information,
refer to the Imaging
Professional Developer’s
Guide
Letter Directories, The following message
Gothic folders, file appears:
type names, and Enter a filename
system messages

SMALL CAPS Keys on the Press ALT and then press

keyboard ENTER
\ Separates path \Public Folders\new
components in
the Windows
environment

Provides an
alternate
procedure or For best results, save scanned
documents in TIFF format.
other helpful tip.

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Notation Conventions

Notation Description Example

Indicates a pro- Click the Start

cedure that button, and then
consists of one point to Programs,
step. Imaging Standard,
and Imaging
Standard.

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Introducing Imaging for Windows®
Standard Edition
This chapter discusses basic imaging concepts and describes the
functions available with Imaging for Windows® Standard Edition.

In this Chapter
Basic Imaging Concepts.......................................................2
Imaging for Windows Standard Edition................................6
Chapter 1

Basic Imaging Concepts

The following section discusses some basic concepts and
terminology to help you better understand Imaging for
Windows® Standard Edition.

What is Imaging?
Imaging can be described as using computer software to create,
modify, and process electronic images. Typical imaging operations
include:
■ Scanning text, photographs, or drawings and saving the results
in an image file.
■ Displaying images using techniques such as thumbnail
representations, magnification, rotation, and size to fit.
■ Sending image documents by e-mail or fax.
■ Adding annotations to images.
■ Performing electronic “cleanup” of images to make them easier
to view.
■ Combining several imaging operations into a single, automated
procedure that runs while you perform other tasks.

Types of Images
An image is an electronic representation of a text document, a
photograph, a line drawing, or other graphical entity. You can
create an image by scanning a printed page, a photograph, or
drawing; by saving a fax; or by creating an image with a drawing
or graphic-design program.
After a page of text is scanned and saved, it takes on the properties
of an image file, and can no longer be opened with a word
processor or text editor.

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Image File Formats

Images are saved as image files, which use file name extensions
such as .tif , .bmp, .jpg, and .awd. The extension indicates the
format used to store the image.
Some formats, such as BMP and JPEG, contain just one image per
file.

Other formats, such as TIFF and AWD, are similar to a book; they
contain one or more pages, and each page holds a single image.

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Because image files are standard Windows files, you can use
Windows commands to perform operations such as:
■ Organizing files into folders
■ Attaching an image file to an e-mail message
■ Copying, renaming, or deleting files
■ Printing or faxing files

Image Documents
An image document is a collection of one or more images that are
logically related. A simple image document might be a blank
form, scanned and saved in an image file format.

Another image document could be a collection of faxes, memos,

and photographs that are scanned to a multi-page image file.

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Image documents can also be found in Eastman Software Imaging

server installations. In this environment, an image document can
be a collection of images stored in different multi-page image files,
and located on different servers. The links to different image
files/servers and the mechanism for retrieving the images are
invisible to the user, who sees only a single image document.

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Imaging for Windows Standard Edition

With Imaging for Windows® Standard Edition, you can perform a
variety of imaging operations by making selections from menus or
by clicking on tool buttons.
Many options present dialog boxes. If you are not sure about
which values or properties to set, accept the default values. These
values were chosen to give satisfactory results in a variety of
situations. As you experiment with the different options and
property settings, you can create results that suit your preferences.
Imaging for Windows® Standard Edition consists of the Imaging
Developers can use Imaging’s
ActiveX controls and COM
application, the Preview applet, Flow, ActiveX controls, and a
object to write custom COM object. The Imaging application and Flow are described in
applications. the following sections.

Imaging Application
This section briefly describes what you can do with the Imaging
application. For more detailed information, including how to
perform specific tasks, refer to the on-line Help while you are
using the application.

Note: When you access the on-line Help, keep in mind that it
was designed for use with Imaging for Windows
Professional Edition, which has more features than
Imaging for Windows Standard Edition.
To learn more about the features and benefits of Imaging
for Windows Professional Edition, visit the Eastman
Software Web site at:
http://www.eastmansoftware.com

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Display Images
The Imaging Application reads and displays the following types of
image files:

Image File Type Extension

TIFF Document .tif, .tiff, .jfx

Bitmap Image .bmp
Fax Document (Windows 98 .awd
installations only)
Image Bookmark File .ibk

JPEG File .jpg, .jpe, .jpeg

PCX/DCX Document .pcx, .dcx
WIFF Document .wif
XIF Document .xif

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You can display a single image in the window, display thumbnail

views of the images contained in a multi-page image document,
or display an image page and thumbnails together.

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Imaging Server Documents

You can view documents residing on Eastman Software Imaging
You can save server documents
to a local or redirected drive, in
(1.x and Enterprise Imaging) servers, and write 1.x server
TIFF format. documents. To do so, you must configure server access during
installation. Dialog boxes help you to navigate between servers and
databases, and provide various search options to find documents.

Convert Image Files

Using Imaging for Windows, you can save a displayed image in
one of the following formats:
■ TIFF
■ BMP
■ JFIF (JPG)
■ AWD (Windows 98 only)
In some cases, converting from one format to another causes the
source image to permanently lose certain attributes. For example,
if you save a color BMP file to AWD format (which is black and
white only), the saved image is converted to black and white. If
you convert the AWD image back to BMP, the color information
that was lost in the first conversion cannot be recovered.

Change Image Display

You can change the image display by zooming to increase or
decrease the size of the image, by sizing the image for best fit, or
sizing it to fit the height or width of a window. You can also rotate
an image left, right, or 180 degrees. Rotating an image is useful if
you scanned landscape images using a scanner’s sheet feeder, or if
you fed a stack of documents into the scanner’s document feeder
backwards (180 degrees from the desired orientation).

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Thumbnail images can be made larger to display more detail, or

smaller to fit more of them in the window. You can also drag and
drop thumbnails to change the order of pages in the image
document.

Scan Images
You can create image documents by scanning forms, memos,
pictures, or other paper documents to an image file.
For best results, save scanned
Imaging for Windows Standard Edition supports TWAIN-
documents in TIFF format.
compatible devices such as scanners and digital cameras.

Annotate Images
You can add a variety of markups to an image by using Annotation
features, and save the annotations with the image. Some types of
annotations are:
■ Freehand or straight-line markings
■ Highlighter
■ Hollow and filled rectangles
■ Attach-a-note text
■ Text from a file
■ Customizable rubber stamps such as “Received” or an image
such as your company logo
■ Hyperlinks
■ Initials
Several of these annotations have properties that you can set, such
as color, line width, and font.
A hyperlink is a special type of annotation that you can link to a
file, a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) on the World Wide
Web, or to a page in an image document.

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The document Hq.tif is included in the Samples folder of this

product. This example of an annotated document page includes
hyperlinks to other pages within the document. Click on text
within the rectangles drawn on the map to jump to the
photographs on pages 2 and 3 of the document. Click on the
designated area of the street address on the map to jump to
Eastman Software’s home page on the World Wide Web.

When the annotation icon

appears next to a thumbnail’s
page number, it means the
page contains one or more
annotations.

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Create a Contact Sheet

You can create a contact sheet that contains a thumbnail rendition
of each page of an image document, similar to a photographic
contact sheet that displays images of each negative on a roll of film.
Before you create the contact sheet, you can globally set the
thumbnail size — larger to display more detail, or smaller, to fit
more thumbnails onto the contact sheet.

Image Processing
During scanning and faxing, documents can pick up small speckles
of dust that degrade the image. The Remove Speckles option
electronically processes the document to remove these.
Using the Straighten Page option, you can straighten an image
that is crooked in relation to the background page. After you draw
a reference line on the displayed document, the application rotates
the image to the correct orientation.
You can specify a portion of the image to crop or let the program
automatically crop the edges of a displayed image for you.

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Flow
Flow is a component of Imaging for Windows Standard Edition. It
is designed to automatically capture, process, and output
information while you perform other tasks.
This section briefly describes what you can do with Imaging Flow.
For more detailed information, including how to perform specific
tasks, refer to the on-line Help while you are using Flow.

Note: When you access the on-line Help, keep in mind that it
was designed for use with Imaging for Windows
Professional Edition, which has more features than
Imaging for Windows Standard Edition.
To learn more about the features and benefits of Imaging
for Windows Professional Edition, visit the Eastman
Software Web site at:
http://www.eastmansoftware.com

A flow is a set of directions for processing images. You create a

flow interactively, adding tools to the flow one at a time. When
you add a tool, you can define settings and choose options for it.
When you finish building a flow, you save it as a file with a .flo
extension.

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You can run the same .flo file repeatedly, for predictable results,
or modify it with the Flow Editor. You can also save a flow to run
on another PC with Imaging for Windows Standard Edition or
Imaging for Windows Professional Edition installed.

Capture
Flow’s tools can capture:
■ Images scanned to your system — you can select the type of
document to scan, or you can define scanner parameters such
as resolution, paper size, and color.
■ Fax messages received via a MAPI (Microsoft’s Message
Application Program Interface) inbox — you define which
faxes to process, and specify what to do with the fax after it is
read.

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■ Image files from Folders on local or redirected drives — Flow

captures new documents that appear in designated folders. This
is useful if you have a Fax application that places incoming
faxes into a particular folder, or if you are using Imaging Scan
Station to create documents in a designated folder.

Process
Flow tools can perform various processes on your captured
documents:
■ Convert images to TIFF, BMP, JFIF (*.jpg), or AWD file
formats
■ Apply compression to image files
■ Invoke a user-defined program
■ Perform image enhancement such as Despeckle, Straighten
Page, Crop, Rotate, and Invert
■ Delete pages from a document
■ Display the image, image thumbnails, or both
■ Prompt a user for input
You can define or modify settings and options for these processes
when you click on a tool in the Flow interface.

Output
You can define or modify settings and options for each output tool
when you click on the tool in the Flow interface. Flow’s output
tools let you send documents to several destinations:
■ A specified folder name and location
■ An outbound fax or e-mail, using a MAPI-compliant mailbox
■ Eastman Software Enterprise Imaging or Eastman Software
Imaging servers
■ Microsoft Exchange folders
■ A specified WorkFolder name and location

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■ A specified DMX document name and location

■ A printer
You can also open a predefined application, or invoke another
flow as an output task.

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Installing the Software

This chapter specifies system requirements and describes how to

install and remove Imaging for Windows® Standard Edition.

In this Chapter
System Requirements.........................................................18
Installation Overview .........................................................19
Installing Imaging Standard................................................21
Installing Imaging 1.x Server Access ...................................22
Uninstalling Imaging Components .....................................23
Chapter 2

System Requirements
Before you install Imaging for Windows Standard Edition, check
to see if your system configuration and software meet the
following requirements.

Hardware
■ Personal Computer based on an Intel Pentium® or equivalent
processor, 166 Mhz or faster
■ 32 MB of RAM or more for Windows 98
64 MB or more for Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0
■ 30 MB of hard disk space on the drive where you intend to
install the software
■ VGA or SVGA monitor
■ VGA controller with 1 MB or more of memory
■ CD ROM drive (to install the software)
■ TWAIN-compliant device (optional)
■ Fax/modem card (optional)

Software
■ Microsoft Windows 98
Or:
■ Microsoft Windows 2000
Or:
■ Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 6a or greater)

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Installation Overview
When you insert the Installation CD into your computer’s
CD-ROM drive, the installation program starts automatically and
displays the Imaging Standard Installation window.

Note: If the installation program does not start automatically,

click the Start button and then click Run. On the Run
dialog box, enter the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive, a
colon and backslash, and then install.exe.
For example, if your CD-ROM drive letter is E, enter
E:\install.exe.

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You can select from the following options:

Install Imaging Standard — Installs Imaging for Windows
Standard Edition. Refer to the section “Installing Imaging
Standard” for instructions.
Install Imaging 1.x Server Access— Installs the components
required to access documents residing on Eastman Software
Imaging 1.x servers. Refer to the section “Installing Imaging 1.x
Server Access” for instructions.
View Release Notes — Opens the Readme.txt file, which
contains the latest information about Imaging for Windows
Standard Edition. It is important that you read this file before you
install the software.
After you select an installation option, and the software has been
copied to your system, the Imaging Standard Installation screen
reappears. You can select another option or exit the installation
program.

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Installing Imaging Standard

This section describes how to install Imaging for Windows
Standard Edition. If you are installing this application under
Windows 2000 or Windows NT, you must be logged on as an
administrator.

Note: If you install a later version of your operating system, you

must reinstall Imaging for Windows Standard Edition.

1 Click Install Imaging Standard. After a brief initialization, the

Welcome screen appears.
2 Click Next. The Software License Agreement screen appears.
3 Read the license agreement. If you agree to the terms, click
Yes to continue. The Choose Destination Location dialog box
appears.
4 In the Choose Destination Location dialog box, accept the
default location displayed under Destination Folder and click
Next.
Or:
Click Browse to display the Choose Folder dialog box. Select a
folder from the list or type in a new name and then click OK.
Or:
Click Network in the Choose Folder dialog box to display a
list of shared network folders. Select a folder and then click
OK.
If you typed the name of a folder that does not exist, a
confirmation dialog box appears. Click Yes to create the folder.
The Select Program Folder dialog box appears.
5 Designate a folder where the program icons will be installed.
Accept the default name (Imaging Standard) or select a
different folder.
6 Click Next. The setup program begins copying files to your
system while a message box displays the progress.

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If you have Microsoft Word or Excel installed, the Update

Application Toolbars dialog box appears.
7 Click Yes if you want to add a Scan button to the Word and/or
Excel toolbars.
The Setup Complete dialog box appears.
8 Click Finish to complete the installation and return to the
Imaging Standard Installation screen.

Installing Imaging 1.x Server Access

This section describes how to configure access to an Imaging 1.x
server. Before you continue, obtain the IP address and port
number of your image domain name server.
1 From the Imaging Standard Installation screen, click Install
Imaging 1.x Server Access. After a brief initialization, the
Welcome screen appears.
2 Click Next. The Imaging 1.x Server Configuration dialog box
appears.
3 Type the IP address and port number of the image domain
name server. Use the format:
nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn/pppp
where nnn represents numbers in the IP address of the server
and pppp is the port number.
4 Click Next. After the software is copied to your system, the
Setup Complete Dialog Box appears.

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5 Click Finish. The Imaging Standard Installation screen

reappears.

Note: If you cannot see any image databases when you

search for 1.x documents, check to see if your
configuration information is correct. Then, verify that
a server volume configuration file resides on your
Imaging server, and that it contains the correct
entries. The name of this file is typically oix.vols for
UNIX installations, and vols.dat for NT installations.

Uninstalling Imaging Components

You can remove most components of Imaging Standard in the
same manner as you remove other applications. In Windows 2000
and Windows NT 4.0 environments, you must log on as an
administrator to uninstall the software.
1 Open the Windows Control panel by clicking on the Start
button, and then pointing to Settings, Control panel.
2 Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon. The Add/
Remove Programs Properties dialog box appears.
3 Click on the Install/Uninstall tab in Windows NT 4.0 or
Windows 98 to display a list of currently installed software.
4 Select the Imaging Standard component you want to remove.
■ Imaging for Windows Standard Edition — removes
Imaging Standard. If you remove this component, Imaging
1.x Server Access will not work.
■ Imaging for Windows Server Access — removes Imaging
1.x Server Access.
5 Click Add/Remove in Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 98, or
Remove in Windows 2000. The Confirm File Deletion dialog
box appears.

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6 Click Yes to confirm that you want to remove the program.

Note: On Windows 2000 systems, the uninstall program will re-

install the version of Imaging for Windows that came with
the operating system. You may see the prompt asking for
the location of the software. Mount your Windows 2000
CD to continue the installation, or press Cancel to
terminate the process. If you terminate the installation,
you may be left without an image viewer.

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Using the Imaging Application

This chapter guides you through some basic operations with the
Imaging Application. For additional information, refer to the
on-line Help.

In this Chapter
Before You Begin...............................................................26
Finding an Image Document..............................................26
Displaying an Image Document .........................................30
Annotating a Document ....................................................34
Enhancing a Document .....................................................37
Chapter 3

Before You Begin

Before you perform the following exercises, start Imaging for
Windows Standard Edition:
Click the Start button, and then point to Programs, Imaging
Standard, and Imaging Standard.

Although some operations can modify the sample image files

installed with this program, the original versions of these files are
available on your installation CD.

Finding an Image Document

You can assign properties — such as Author, Keywords,
Comments, Title, and Subject — to image documents in TIFF
format. When you want to find documents on local or redirected
drives, specify one or more of these properties as search criteria.
For information about finding documents on Eastman Software
Imaging servers, refer to Chapter 4.

Setting Properties
Perform the following steps to assign a property to an image
document.
1 On the File menu, click Open.
2 Navigate to the folder where you installed Imaging for
Windows Standard Edition. (The default location is
C:\Program Files\Imaging Standard.)
3 Open the Samples folder.
4 Select the document hq.tif and then click Open.
5 On the File menu, click Properties. A tabbed dialog box
appears.
6 Click the Summary tab. The Property fields are displayed (they
should be blank).

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This is where you type property values for your image docu-
ments. You may wish to standardize the values you enter so
that your documents are organized in a more useful way. For
example, descriptive Keyword entries could be “Invoices”,
“Deposits”, “Inventory”, and so on. For this exercise, you will
type an arbitrary value just to see how the procedure works.
7 In the Subject field, type Sample image and then click OK.
(These fields are not case sensitive; be sure to include the space
between the two words, however.)
8 On the File menu, click Save to add the property value to the
document.

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Finding Specified Properties

The following steps describe how to find image documents that
have the property value you specified.
1 On the File menu, click Open. The Open dialog box appears.

2 Click the Find button. The Find: Image Files dialog box
appears.

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3 In the Subject field, type Sample image.

4 Type the path to your Imaging Standard folder, and select the
Include Subfolders box.
5 Click Find Now. The lower pane of the dialog box displays the
names of documents with the Subject property value “Sample
image.”

Notice that two documents met the search criteria — the

document whose Subject property you set, and another sample
document.

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Displaying an Image Document

This section describes how to open an image document, change
the display attributes, display and resize thumbnails, and create a
contact sheet.

Opening the Document

1 On the File menu, click Open. The Open dialog box appears.
2 Navigate to the folder where you installed Imaging for
Windows Standard Edition. (The default location is
C:\Program Files\Imaging Standard.)
3 Open the Samples folder.
4 Select Chapter1.tif and then click Open. The image of a
text document appears.

Changing the Display

1 Change the size of the display window in the vertical and
horizontal directions to suit your preference.
2 On the Zoom menu, choose different options to resize the
document to fit in the display window. When you change the
size of the document, its height to width ratio is maintained.
a Click Fit to Height to view the full height of the document
On the Tools menu, click
Magnifier if you want to
page.
enlarge only a portion of the
b Click Fit to Width to display the full width of the page.
document page.
c Click Pixel to Pixel. If the entire page does not fit into the
display window, scroll bars appear along the right side and/
or bottom.
d Click Best Fit. This is often the optimum setting because it
displays the entire image in the window.
3 On the View menu, click Page and Thumbnails. Thumbnails
of pages in the document are displayed in a window next to the
page view. The selected thumbnail has a border around it.

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4 Position the pointer over the vertical bar separating the

Thumbnail and Page windows and picture. When the pointer
changes shape, hold down the left mouse button and then drag
the bar left or right to resize each window.

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Displaying and Changing Thumbnails

1 On the View menu, click Thumbnails. Only the thumbnails
are displayed.
2 On the Tools menu, click Options, Thumbnail Size. The
Thumbnail Size dialog box appears.

3 Place the pointer over the handle in the lower right corner of
the thumbnail, hold down the left mouse button, and then drag
the handle diagonally to increase or decrease the size of the
thumbnail.
4 Click OK to apply the new size to the displayed thumbnails.

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Creating a Contact Sheet

1 On the File menu, click Open. The Open dialog box appears.
2 Navigate to the folder where you installed Imaging for
Windows Standard Edition. (The default location is
C:\Program Files\Imaging Standard.)
3 Open the Samples folder.
4 Select Chapter1.tif and then click Open. The image of a
text document appears.
5 On the Tools menu, click Create Contact Sheet. The Create
Contact Sheet dialog box appears.
6 Type a filename (contact) and location (Samples folder) to
create the file, and then click Save.
7 On the File menu, click Open, and then double-click on
contact.tif to view the file you created. Click on a page to
view the original page.

8 Click the Back button to return to the contact sheet.

You can choose to have your

contact sheet automatically
open after you create it.
On the Tools menu, click
Options, and then Contact
Sheet. On the dialog box, select
the Open contact sheet after
saving box.

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Annotating a Document
This section describes how to add annotations to a document,
change annotation properties, and save the annotated document.

Applying a Rubber Stamp

1 On the File menu, click Open.
2 Navigate to the folder where you installed Imaging for
Windows Standard Edition. (The default location is
C:\Program Files\Imaging Standard.)
3 Click the Samples folder.
4 Select the image document Announce.tif and then click
Open. The image document appears.
5 On the Annotation menu, click Rubber Stamps. The Rubber
Instead of selecting from the
menu, you can click on a tool in
Stamp Properties dialog box appears.
the Annotation toolbar.

Rubber Stamp

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6 In the Stamps list, click Received, and then click the Edit
button. The Edit Text Rubber Stamp Properties dialog box
appears.

7 Click the Font button. The Rubber Stamp Font Properties

dialog box appears.

8 In the Color list, click Red and then click OK three times to
close each dialog box. The pointer changes to a rubber stamp
icon.

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9 Position the rubber stamp at the top of the document, and then
press the left mouse button once. The stamp annotation is
applied to the document. You can move the stamp by placing
the pointer inside the dotted outline, holding down the left
mouse button, and dragging the stamp to a different location.
10 Click outside of the dotted outline to anchor the stamp.

Adding a Highlight
Keep the document Announce.tif open to apply a highlight
annotation.
1 On the Annotation menu, click Highlighter. The pointer
Highlighter
changes to a marker and crosshair.
2 Position the crosshairs slightly above and to the left of a
paragraph you want to highlight. Hold the left mouse button
down and drag the pointer across and down to the end of the
paragraph. Release the button to apply the highlight.

Changing Highlight Properties

1 Place the pointer on the highlight and press the right mouse
button. The shortcut menu appears.
To change the default prop-
2 Click Properties. The Highlighter Properties dialog box
erties for an annotation, right
click on the tool in the appears.
Annotation toolbar or check
the Set As Default pick in the
Annotation Properties dialog
box.

3 Choose a color, such as light blue, that allows the text to show
through. Click OK to apply the new color.

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Enhancing a Document
This section shows how to enhance a document page by
despeckling and straightening it.

Removing Speckles From a Document

1 On the File menu, click Open.
2 Navigate to the folder where you installed Imaging for
Windows Standard Edition (the default location is C:\Program
Files\Imaging Standard), and then click the Samples
folder.
3 Select the image document Announce.tif and then click
Open. The image document appears.

4 On the Zoom menu, click Best Fit.

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5 On the Tools menu, click Remove Speckles. The application

removes small speckles introduced during the scanning or
faxing process.
Keep this document open to perform the next task.

Straightening the Page

1 On the Tools menu, click Straighten Page. The Straighten
Page dialog box appears.
2 Move the dialog box to the side or bottom of the page, so you
can draw a reference line in the top portion of the page.
3 Create a reference line that is slanted in exactly the same way as
the text. To do so, position the pointer between two lines of
text and press the left mouse button. While holding the button
down, drag the pointer to the right, parallel to the text above
and below the line. Release the mouse button when the
reference line you have drawn is positioned correctly. Refer to
the following screen shot.

4 Click OK in the Straighten Page dialog box. The page rotates

until the reference line you drew is parallel with the top and
bottom edges of the window.

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Finding Imaging Server Documents

This chapter describes how to find Eastman Software Imaging 1.x

server documents and Eastman Software Enterprise Imaging
documents using several search methods.

In this Chapter
Finding Server Documents .................................................40
Imaging 1.x Documents.....................................................41
Enterprise Imaging Documents ..........................................46
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Finding Server Documents

Before you begin your document search, start Imaging for
Windows Standard Edition:
Click the Start button, and then point to Programs, Imaging
Standard, and Imaging Standard.

Perform the following steps to access a 1.x or Enterprise Imaging

document.
1 On the File menu, click Find Imaging Server Documents. The
Find dialog box appears.

Note: Depending on your configuration, you may already

be logged on to a server, or will be prompted to do so
before proceeding with a search.

2 From the Show list box, select either 1.x Documents or

Enterprise Imaging Documents.

Note: The tabs displayed in the Find Image Document

dialog box are different for 1.x and Enterprise
Imaging documents.

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3 Refer to the sections Imaging 1.x Documents or Enterprise Imaging

Documents, depending on the type of document you chose.

Imaging 1.x Documents

You can search for 1.x server documents by using the options
provided on the Name & Location, Date Modified, and Keywords
You can browse for Imaging tabs. The following procedures describe how to use these options.
Server 1.x documents.
On the File menu, click Open. In
the Look for list, click 1.x Files
Name and Location Tab
and Documents.

This tab contains server and database information.

Use wildcard characters to

identify a range of documents,
or when you cannot remember
the exact document name.
– An asterisk (*) represents a
group of characters.
– A question mark (?)
1 In the Named text box, type a full or partial document name.
represents one character in a Use wildcard characters if you wish.
specified position. Or:
Leave the text box blank to retrieve all documents.

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2 From the Look in list, select a database.

Or:
Type a database name string. The string must include the name
of the server and the database (refer to sample entry in the
Find: Image dialog box).
Or:
Click Browse to open the Browse dialog box, and then
navigate to a database.

3 Click Find Now to initiate the search. A list of documents

If the search is taking too long,
matching your search criteria is displayed in the lower portion
click Stop to end the operation. of the Find Image Document dialog box.
The documents found up to
this point are displayed.

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To sort a column of data in

ascending or descending order,
Note: Although your search returns a list of all documents
alternately click on the column
heading. that meet the specified criteria, you cannot open
them unless you have access rights.

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Date Modified Tab

This tab enables you to specify date modified criteria for your
document search.

1 Click All Documents and then click Find Now.

Or:
Click Find All Documents Modified and then follow the
remaining steps.
2 Click Between, and then specify a range of dates in which a
document was modified.
Or:
Click During the Previous, and specify the number of days or
months to search back.
3 Click Find Now to initiate the search. A list of documents
matching your search criteria is returned.

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Keywords Tab
This tab enables you search for documents using keywords that
were previously associated with the document.

1 Type a single keyword into either text box. You can use
wildcard characters if you wish.
Or:
Type a single keyword into each text box and then choose
AND or OR.
■ AND returns documents with both specified keywords.
■ OR returns documents with either specified keyword.
2 Click Find Now to initiate the search. A list of documents
matching your search criteria is returned.

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Enterprise Imaging Documents

You can search for Enterprise Imaging documents using options
provided on the Name & Location and Field tabs. The following
procedures describe how to use these options.

Name and Location Tab

This tab contains a text box for document name and options to
specify where to search.

1 In the Named text box, type a full or partial document name.

Use the percent (%) wild card
character to represent an
Use wildcard characters if you wish.
unspecified group of Or:
characters, and the underscore Leave the text box blank to retrieve all documents.
( _ ) to replace
one character in a specified 2 Select either option:
position.
■ Search Domain Only
■ Search Domain and Archive
3 Click Find Now to initiate the search. A list of documents
matching your search criteria is returned.

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Field Tab
This tab enables you to search by specifying Class and Index field
values.

1 In the Class list box, select the class of documents you wish to
search.
Or:
Select All Classes.
2 In the Field Value field, adjacent to an entry in the Index Field,
type a value. You can specify a complete value or a partial value
combined with wildcard values (% or _ ).
3 Click Find Now to initiate the search. A list of documents
To sort a column of data in
ascending or descending order,
matching your search criteria is returned.
alternately click on the column
heading.

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Creating a Flow

You can create a flow by using the Flow Wizard or the Flow
Editor. This chapter walks you through each method. For more
information about running a flow, performing Flow tasks,
choosing options, and setting properties, refer to the online Help.

In this Chapter
Before You Begin...............................................................50
Using the Flow Wizard.......................................................50
Using the Flow Editor ........................................................54
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Before You Begin

Before you perform the following exercises, start Flow:
Click the Start button, and then point to Programs, Imaging
Standard, and Flow. The Flow Editor dialog box appears.

Using the Flow Wizard

The easiest way to create a flow is by using the Flow Wizard. After
you provide some basic information in a few dialog boxes, the
Wizard adds one or more process options, provides default values,
and creates a flow.
The following procedure describes how to create a flow that scans
and processes a document, and then saves it to a folder.
1 In the Flow Editor dialog box, click Flow Wizard and then
click OK. The Create New Flow dialog box appears and
describes what you can do with the Flow Wizard.
2 Click Next to continue. The Create New Flow dialog box
displays Capture From and Output To options.

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3 Under Capture From, click Scanner; under Output To, click

Folder. Click Next to proceed. The Create New Flow dialog
box now displays Scan Settings and Options.

If you have a flatbed scanner,

and are scanning more than
one page, select the Prompt for
more pages box.

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4 Under Scan Settings, click Text only from the Original

Document box, and then select the check box if your scanner
has an automatic document feeder (ADF).
5 Click Next. The Create New Flow dialog box is updated and
displays document name and location options.

6 Under Name document, click Name and then type newdoc.

7 Under Save document in, accept the default location for the
new file. Click Finish to create the flow.
The Flow Editor main window appears, and displays a
graphical representation of the flow you just created. Notice
that the Wizard added the processes — Convert File and
Enhance — that are appropriate to your input and output
selections.

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8 From the File menu, click Save. The Save As dialog box
appears. Type a name and location for the flow file and click
Save.
9 To test your flow, place a page of text in your scanner and on
the File menu, click Run Now.
You can change the behavior of your flow by opening it with
the Flow Editor and then making changes to settings or adding
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Using the Flow Editor

The Flow Editor gives you more flexibility than the Flow Wizard.
You create a flow interactively by choosing tools from the
Capture, Process, and Output menus. As you select each tool, the
Flow Editor creates a diagram in the upper pane (called the Chart
pane) of the Flow Editor main window. The lower pane (called
the Options pane) displays settings for options.
The following example creates a flow that captures an unread fax
Use the sample flows, included
from your mailbox, converts and enhances the image, and then
in the Flows folder of this prints it.
application, as a starting point
for creating your own flows. 1 In the Flow Editor dialog box, click Empty Flow and then
click OK. A blank Flow Editor screen appears.
2 On the Capture menu, click Inbox. The Inbox tool appears in
the Chart pane of the window, while Inbox choices and
options are displayed in the Options pane.

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3 Accept the default option to delete the image after processing.

4 From the Process menu, click Convert File. The Convert File
tool appears in the Chart pane of the window, and image
conversion and compression options are displayed in the
Options pane.

5 Under Convert Image To, click TIFF Document; under

Compress Images For, click Good Quality and Small File Size.
6 On the Process menu, click Enhance. The Enhance tool is
added to the Flow diagram. The Options pane of the window
contains Enhancement options, a list box of selections
associated with the highlighted option, and thumbnails that
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7 Under Enhancement, click the Straighten and Remove Dirt

Specks check boxes. Set Sensitivity to Medium.
To see how these enhancements affect the Before image, click
Refresh to display the After image.
8 On the Output menu, click Printer. The Printer tool is added
to the Flow. Print options are displayed in the Options pane.
Set the options appropriate for your configuration, or accept
the default values.

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9 On the File menu, click Save. The Save As dialog box appears.
Type a name and location for the Flow file and click Save.
10 To test your Flow, click Run Now on the File menu.
You can change the behavior of your flow by using the Flow
Editor to change settings.

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