Special Settings for Functions

In the application property window, you can make some special settings for the different functions provided by ScanButton. These functions are Scan to File, Scan to Printer/FAX and Scan to Mail.

Special Settings for "Scan to File"

Click the item "Scan to File" in the application property window, you will see a button on the right. Click on the button and a "File Save Setting" dialogue box will pop up:

Here you can:

1. Choose a default folder to save the scanned image file. Click on the radio button and then the button to select a location, or click on the radio button to always save the scanned image to the last folder you saved to before you exit ScanButton.

2. Choose a default scanned image file format. To use a fixed file type, click on the radio button, and then click to choose a file type to use in the drop-down listbox. Or, you can always use the file type you last used by clicking on the radio button.

3. Choose a default position for the "Save as" dialogue box that will appear on the screen when "Scan to File" function is selected. Click the radio button to let the dialogue box appear where the last time it poped up. To let the dialogue box appear right to the center of the screen, click on the radio button.

Special Settings for "Scan to Printer/FAX"

Click the item "Scan to Printer" or "Scan to FAX" in the application property window, you will see a button on the right. Click the button, you can make some settings for the printer or FAX used in ScanButton.

Special Settings for "Scan to Mail"

Click the item "Scan to Mail" in the application property window, you will get a dialog on the right which is shown as below:

If you select the image type, ScanButton will send the scanned image to the mail application as attached files in BMP or JPG format according to your settings for Image Type. (JPG format doesn't support Line Art)

If you select the text type, ScanButton will send the scanned image to the OCR Application -- FineReader. Then FineReader will recognize the text from the scanned image and sent the text to the mail application. The available formats are TXT, RTF .