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BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 11305 WIDTH="558"><div> <IMG SRC="94012280.png" border=0 width="274" height="40" ALT="JRA FirstPage 1.0" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B> JRA</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000066" FACE="Verdana" ><B> Software, Publisher</B></FONT></div> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="23bf4070.png" border=0 width="500" height="7" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#993300" FACE="Arial" ><B>JRA</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B><B>FirstPage</B></FONT> is a <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#993300" FACE="Verdana" ><B>powerful</B></FONT> but <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#993300" FACE="Verdana" ><B>simple-to-use</B></FONT> <I><B>visual image </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>enhancement editor</B></I> for <B>bitonal TIFF files</B> that offers the unique </div> <div> features of <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Verdana" ><B>Rapid Manual Cleanup</B></FONT> and <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Verdana" ><B>Virtual Document Separation</B></FONT>.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="23bf4070.png" border=0 width="500" height="7" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.searchpdf.com/download/FirstPage.exe" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.searchpdf.com/download/FirstP"><U><B>Download FirstPage 1.0 Evaluation Version</B></U></A></div> <div> 3.8 Mb</div> <div> To run the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#993300" FACE="Arial" ><B>JRA</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><B> FirstPage</B></FONT> evaluation, you will need an evaluation code. Send an e-mail request for an evaluation code and one will be promptly sent to you.  Include name and contact information with your request.  If you decide to purchase, you will receive an unlock code and your evaluation version will become your registered version.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Note: If on Windows 2000 or Windows XP, you do not need to reboot after the install.</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>E-mail or call in a FirstPage Evaluation Code Request</B></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:sales@searchpdf.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:sales@searchpdf.com"><U><IMG SRC="24a3c150.png" border=0 width="60" height="21" ALT="E-Mail SearchPDF" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> (610) 983-3682</div> <bR> <div> Would you like some test TIFF files to work with?  You can download this set of memo and report images that need both cleaning and virtual separation!  The 293 images are contained in a single self-extracting.exe file.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="http://www.searchpdf.com/download/firstpage_test.exe" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.searchpdf.com/download/firstp"><U><B>Download FirstPage Test TIFF Files</B></U></A></div> <div> 11.5 Mb</div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="23bf4070.png" border=0 width="500" height="7" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <B>System Requirements</B><B>:</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="498" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="HSIDES" RULES="ROWS" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#FFFBF0 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#EEEEEE HEIGHT= 32 WIDTH="187"><div> <B>Operating System</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#EEEEEE><NOBR><div> Windows 95, 98, NT, 200, XP, ME</div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 80 WIDTH="187"><div> <B>Graphics Adapter</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#FFFBF0><NOBR><div> High Color (16 bit)</div> <div> True Color (24 bit)</div> <div> True Color (32 bit)</div> <div> 600 x 800 or greater resolution</div> <div> (use full 1200 x 1600 for best results)</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#EEEEEE HEIGHT= 33 WIDTH="187"><div> <B>Monitor</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#EEEEEE WIDTH="300"><div> 17" or greater (21" or flat screen recommended)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="187"><div> <B>Viewing Help File</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="300"><div> Acrobat Reader Required</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="23bf4070.png" border=0 width="500" height="7" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <B>Introduction</B></div> <div> <B>JRA</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><B> FirstPage</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > is used to enhance folders of bitonal TIFF files produced by a document scanner, in preparation for submitting these images to an OCR (optical character recognition) engine. The biggest factor in OCR accuracy is the quality of the page images submitted to the OCR engine.  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>JRA</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><B> FirstPage</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > satisfies the image enhancement step of the paper-to-web conversion process. It is well suited for processing collections of business documents.  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Rapid Manual Cleanup</B></div> <div> The exclusive focus of other image enhancement applications like ScanFix has been to provide functions for the batch enhancement of images. But there is a limitation to what batch enhancement can do. For example, specks can be automatically removed, but only those specks that are smaller than the dot of an "i".  Often there are marks in the margin areas of a scan that need removal.  Automatic margin cleaning functions are available but are dangerous to use, because they will sometimes also remove text.</div> <bR> <div> <B>JRA</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><B> FirstPage</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > solves this problem by providing you with the ability to manually clean up the images with blasing speed!  Draw a bounding box around an area to be cleaned with using your left-mouse button, and when you release the button, your area will be cleaned.  When you are ready to move to the next image, simply click using the right-mouse button.  The current image in the folder will be saved and the next one will pop up.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> When you have finished the cleaning, you can run the deskew function again on just those images that have been cleaned.  The cleaned images will deskew more accurately now that the marks are removed.</div> <bR> <div> With <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#993300" FACE="Arial" ><B>JRA</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><B> FirstPage</B></FONT>, it is possible to clean hundreds and even thousands of images at one sitting!</div> <bR> <div> <B>Virtual Document Separation</B></div> <div> Virtual Document Separation offers an alternative to the use of physical document separator sheets.</div> <bR> <div> Let's take a look at when and why document separation is needed.  If you have a large volume of multipage documents to scan and convert, you need a way to tell the conversion software what pages go into a multipage conversion (PDF) document.  The scanner can only make single-page images.</div> <bR> <div> The traditional way to identify which page images are part of a given document is through the application of file naming conventions. A simple way to do this is to have the scanner operator enter a new base name for each new document, then the scanning software adds an incremental number to the base name for each page of the document. This is not a desirable method, however, since the scanner is sitting idle while the operator performs the name entries. It is important to use a method that allows for the continuous scanning of document pages, with minimum interruption.</div> <bR> <div> A more advanced method of applying file naming conventions, and one that avoids scanner interruption,  is to use patch or barcode separator sheets. Special separator sheets are printed with a patch code or barcode that can be recognized by the scanning software during the scanning process. These separator sheets "trigger" the scanning software to create a new base name when a separator sheet is recognized, for the pages that follow.</div> <bR> <div> Pre-printed separator sheets allow the scanner to run continuously, but this approach has drawbacks. To begin with, it increases the volume of paper to be scanned.  If the average document size is 4 pages, the separator sheets increase the volume of paper to be scanned by 20%. If the project involves scanning 100,000 pages, then 25,000 separator sheets are required.  The separator sheets can be reused, but this then requires the labor of removing them from the scanned document set for reuse.</div> <bR> <div> Then there is the cost of printing the separator sheets, and the labor cost of inserting them between documents. As you can see, this method is not without substantial costs in both material and labor.</div> <bR> <div> Virtual Document Separation is a method that does not using file naming conventions. Instead, it is a method that inserts separator files between multipage document images AFTER the documents have been scanned. The separator files are simple (and small) text files with a special file extension.</div> <bR> <div> <B>JRA</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><B> FirstPage</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > is an application which permits an operator to "tag" the first page of each document, which then causes a separator file to be created before the first page of each document. Document images are displayed in FirstPage with a high degree of clarity and speed, and the labor to manually tag the first page of each document is a fraction of the labor involved with the use of physical separator sheets.  And there is no material cost!</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Applications such as PDFPublish 2.0 are able to interpret the separator files created by FirstPage and build appropriate multipage documents using this intelligence. The multipage documents can be created in PDF or multipage TIFF format.</div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="23bf4070.png" border=0 width="500" height="7" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#993300" FACE="Arial" ><B>JRA</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><B> FirstPage</B></FONT> <B>Guided Tour</B></div> <div>    <IMG SRC="7962a2a0.png" border=0 width="42" height="42" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I><B>FirstPage Application Icon</B></I></div> <div> <B>JRA</B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><B> FirstPage</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" >, from James Rile Associates,  is a virtual document separation and  image-enhancement program for bitonal page images in the TIFF format. It allows you to process folders of TIFF files generated by a high-speed document scanner, and to enhance and prepare these images for digital publication using PageGenie Enterprise Edition.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> FirstPage is both a visual processing application, and a batch processing application.  FirstPage features a unique method of virtual document separation.</div> <bR> <div> The operations which can be performed on the TIFF files are:</div> <bR> <div>      Remove unwanted artifacts from the images (visual).</div> <div>      Rotate images so the text is in horizontal orientation (visual)</div> <div>      Tag (identify) the first page of each multi-page document (visual)</div> <bR> <div>      <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Despeckle and deskew the document images (batch).</FONT></div> <div>      Clean-up the borders of the images (batch). </div> <bR> <div> The tagging of first pages generates document separator files which are interpreted by the PageGenie application to construct multipage digital documents in PDF or other formats, following OCR (optical character recognition).</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>JRA</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Arial" ><B> FirstPage</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > Button Bar</FONT></div> <div> <IMG SRC="7c0cb160.png" border=0 width="459" height="22" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> The button bar provides quick access to all of the most common functions of FirstPage. From left to right, these buttons have the following functions:</div> <bR> <div> <B>     <IMG SRC="7c50d0d0.png" border=0 width="13" height="13" ALT="Microsoft Word Picture" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">  </B><B> Rotate 90º Right</B></div> <div> <B>     <IMG SRC="7630d0d0.png" border=0 width="13" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   Rotate 180º</B></div> <div> <B>     <IMG SRC="7650d0d0.png" border=0 width="13" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   Rotate 90º Left</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     <IMG SRC="7670d0d0.png" border=0 width="13" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   Save and Next</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     <IMG SRC="7690d0d0.png" border=0 width="13" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   Beginning of Document</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     <IMG SRC="76b0d0d0.png" border=0 width="13" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   Scale-to-Gray Display Method</B></div> <div> <B>     <IMG SRC="76d0d0d0.png" border=0 width="13" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   Favor-Black Display Method</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     <IMG SRC="76f0d0d0.png" border=0 width="13" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   First Image</B></div> <div> <B>     <IMG SRC="7710d0d0.png" border=0 width="13" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   Previous Image</B></div> <div> <B>     <IMG SRC="7730d0d0.png" border=0 width="13" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   Next Image</B></div> <div> <B>     <IMG SRC="7750d0d0.png" border=0 width="13" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   Last Image</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>     <IMG SRC="7770d0d0.png" border=0 width="13" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   Folder/File Open</B></div> <div> <B>     <IMG SRC="7790d0d0.png" border=0 width="13" height="13" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">   Run a Batch Process</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Running the Pre-Process and Post-Process Batch Jobs</div> <div> <IMG SRC="77a2a2a0.png" border=0 width="42" height="42" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I><B>The Batch Process Button</B></I></div> <bR> <div> Click the icon illustrated above to enter the dialog box for<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#006699" FACE="Verdana" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Pre-Process</FONT> and <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Post-Process.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="79bea310.png" border=0 width="490" height="305" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Both the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Pre-Process </FONT>and the <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Post-Process</FONT> Jobs are run from the same dialog box.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> During Batch Processing</div> <div> <IMG SRC="799ea310.png" border=0 width="490" height="305" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> During the processing, a status meter bar will display at the bottom of the window.  </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="79aea310.png" border=0 width="490" height="305" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> When all TIFF files in the folder have been processed, a <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Completed</FONT> message will display in the status bar. While processing, the application can be minimized and other tasks can be performed on the PC.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Running the Pre-Process</div> <div> To run the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Pre-Process</FONT>, first select the enhancements to be performed. By default, <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Despeckle</FONT> and<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" > Deskew</FONT> are checked. If margin cleaning is needed, check this box as well. Enter the fraction of an inch that will be cleaned from each edge of the document image.</div> <bR> <div> Next, select the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >SOURCE</FONT> folder containing the images to be processed. Then, select the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >OUTPUT</FONT> folder where the enhanced images will be written to. If the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >OUTPUT</FONT> folder is the same as the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >SOURCE</FONT> folder, the source images will be overwritten with the enhanced images. If different, the source images will remain unmodified in the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Source</FONT> folder.</div> <bR> <div> When this has been done, click on the<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" > Run</FONT> button for <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Pre-Process.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Pre-Process<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > is normally run before any of the images in the folder are edited. The deskewed and despeckled images are easier to view and edit.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> FirstPage can deskew even severely (up to 45 degrees) skewed images. But quality is slightly reduced in a severely deskewed image.</div> <bR> <div> To minimize skew in the images, be sure that the paper input to the scanner is accurately aligned.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Running the Post-Process</div> <div> To run the<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" > Post-Process</FONT>, first select the enhancements to be performed.<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" > Deskew Changes</FONT> is checked, and cannot be modified. This function will deskew any document images that were edited during the visual editing process. The deskew will be more accurate than the first time these images were deskewed. Only the images that were "pixel-modified" will be deskewed again.  </div> <bR> <div> Next, select the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >SOURCE</FONT> folder containing the images to be processed. Then, select the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >OUTPUT</FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Verdana" > </FONT>folder where the enhanced images will be written to. If the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >OUTPUT</FONT> folder is the same as the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >SOURCE</FONT> folder, the source images will be overwritten with the enhanced images. If different, the source images will remain unmodified in the source folder.  </div> <bR> <div> Since the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >SOURCE</FONT> folder will contain document separator files for PageGenie, these will be copied to the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >OUTPUT</FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Verdana" > </FONT>folder along with the document images that are processed.</div> <bR> <div> When this has been done, click on the<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" > Run</FONT> button for <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Post-Process</FONT>. </div> <bR> <div> The <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Post-Process</FONT> is run after all of the images in the folder have been edited. The output of the<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" > Post-Process</FONT> is files that are ready for optical character recognition and conversion to digital documents using PageGenie.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Opening a Folder of TIFF Files for Visual Editing</div> <div> <IMG SRC="77b20200.png" border=0 width="32" height="32" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I><B>File Open Button</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="77da51b0.png" border=0 width="421" height="283" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I><B>File Open Dialog Box</B></I></div> <div> Navigate to the folder you wish to process. Select the first file in the folder if you are processing this folder for the first time. Select a subsequent file if you are resuming where you previously left off.</div> <bR> <div> You can use the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >File Open</FONT> box as a "Go To" function if you need to go to a file in the middle of the folder.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Stepping Through the Document Images</div> <div> <IMG SRC="7848b270.png" border=0 width="395" height="295" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> The first file you selected will be displayed in the application. The default resolution for this image is <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Fit Page</FONT>.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Tagging the Document Image as a First Page</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="78030300.png" border=0 width="48" height="48" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Clicking on the<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" > Beginning of Document</FONT> icon above will tag the page image as a document first page.  The appearance of the icon will then change to look as follows:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="78130300.png" border=0 width="48" height="48" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The changed icon will display whenever you return to display this page image.</div> <bR> <div> Integration feature for PDFPublish</div> <div> Upon tagging an image as a First Page, a document separator file for PDFPublish 2.0 is written to disk. Upon un-tagging an image, the document separator file is deleted. The end-of-document separator file has a .EOD extension.</div> <bR> <div>      Example:</div> <div>                00000001.tif</div> <div>                00000002.tif</div> <div>                0000002zzz.eod</div> <div>                0000003.tif</div> <bR> <div> In the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >OUTPUT</FONT> folder of the Post-Process, the EOD files are written <I>in sequence</I> with the TIFF files.  </div> <bR> <div> You can set up PDFPublish to "watch" the output folder, and then PDFPublish will begin processing the output folder even while the FirstPage <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Post-Process</FONT> is still running.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Rotating Page Images</div> <div> Frequently, pages which are printed in landscape orientation are rotated to portrait orientation before being placed into a multipage document. The text lines in such page images are in vertical orientation. These pages, referred to as turn-pages, need to be rotated so that the text lines are in horizontal orientation.  </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="7826c240.png" border=0 width="108" height="36" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I><B>The Page Rotation Buttons</B></I></div> <div> A single click on one of the rotation buttons will rotate the page image. The right button, <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Rotate 90º Left</FONT>, is most commonly used.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="79549f70.jpg" border=0 width="329" height="247" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <I><B>Turn-page before rotation</B></I></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="79449f70.jpg" border=0 width="329" height="247" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <I><B>Turn-page after rotation</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Changing the Magnification of the Page Image</div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="7855f2f0.png" border=0 width="95" height="47" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <I><B>Fit Visible & Fit Width Buttons</B></I></div> <div> The button bar provides an easy way to change between the default magnification of <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Fit Visible</FONT> and the alternate magnification of <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Fit Width</FONT>. <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Fit Width</FONT> streches the page image horizontally to fit the window, but only the top portion of the page is displayed.</div> <bR> <div> A scrolling bar on the right will allow you to view the entire page in <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Fit Width</FONT> magnification.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="786e49f0.jpg" border=0 width="228" height="159" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I><B>Example of Fit Width Magnification</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Changing the Display Method</div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="787602f0.png" border=0 width="96" height="47" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <I><B>Scale-to-Gray and Favor-Black Display Buttons</B></I></div> <div> The default display method is <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Scale-to-Gray</FONT>.</div> <bR> <div> Scale-to-Gray<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > is the easiest way to view the page image in general. If you are not performing fine clean-up work on the image, this is the preferred display method.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> If you are performing detailed cleanup to remove specks and marks on the image, then use the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Favor-Black </FONT>display method. When rendering the reduced image that you see on your screen, this method does not "hide" any black marks during the reduction. All black marks are visible, giving the image an accentuated-black appearance.</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="499" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> Favor-Black<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > Display Method:</FONT></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Scale-to-Gray<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > Display Method</FONT></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 320 WIDTH="237"><div> <IMG SRC="78a553a0.png" border=0 width="85" height="314" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="243"><div> <IMG SRC="78c5d390.png" border=0 width="93" height="313" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div> File Navigation</div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="78dbe2f0.png" border=0 width="190" height="47" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <I><B>File Navigation Buttons</B></I></div> <div> With the four navigation buttons, you can move forwards and backwards through the folder of page images. The functions of the four buttons are:<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" > First</FONT>, <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Previous</FONT>, <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Next</FONT> and <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Last</FONT>.</div> <bR> <div> If you have made changes to the page you are viewing and you press one of the navigation buttons, you will be prompted to save your changes first. The <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Save & Next</FONT> button, by contrast, has no confirmation message and automatically saves the changes each time.</div> <bR> <div> Use the navigation buttons to browse and proofread the documents. Use the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Save & Next </FONT>button which processing a folder of images.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Save and Next</div> <div> <IMG SRC="76629290.png" border=0 width="41" height="41" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I><B>Save & Next Button</B></I></div> <div> Left-clicking on the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Save & Next</FONT> button has the dual function of automatically saving the displayed page image and navigating to the next page image in the folder.</div> <bR> <div> The <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Save & Next</FONT> button is optimally located between the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Rotate 90º</FONT> and <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >First Page</FONT> buttons, which are the most frequently-used buttons.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="788df170.png" border=0 width="479" height="23" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> The<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" > Save & Next</FONT> function is also executed when you right-click on the page image</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> The White-Fill Function</div> <div> The default action of the cursor in the page image region is to draw a bounding rectangle for a white-fill operation.</div> <bR> <div> Position the cursor to one corner of a rectangular area you what to fill with white.  While holding the button down, move the cursor to the opposite corner. Upon releasing the left mouse, the area will be filled with white.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="7c7f5f30.png" border=0 width="501" height="243" ALT="Microsoft Word Picture" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <I>A photocopy edge mark exists, and a speck on the lower-right. The bounding area will be white-filled, disappearing into the white background.</I></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="7c8eee70.png" border=0 width="494" height="231" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <I>When this image is deskewed again in the</I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" ><I> Post-Process</I></FONT><I>, it will become completely straight.</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> The Menu Bar</div> <div> All of the functions of the Button Bar, plus a few more, can be found in the menus. Also, <I>Alt</I> Function Keys are available for each menu item and function.</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="798de1c0.png" border=0 width="222" height="28" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <I><B>The Menu Bar</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> The File Menu</div> <div> <IMG SRC="79176d00.png" border=0 width="118" height="208" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Using the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Save As</FONT> menu item allows you to save a selected image out to another folder.  </div> <bR> <div> Using the<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" > Revert Image</FONT> menu item is very useful if you make a mistake with the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >White-Fill</FONT> function. This will reload the image file from disk, undoing any changes that you made.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> The Edit Menu</div> <div> <IMG SRC="792f64b0.png" border=0 width="246" height="75" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Use the<B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Invert</FONT><B> </B>function if you have a page image with a black background and white text. <B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Invert</FONT> will reverse the black and white in the image.</div> <bR> <div> By default the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >White-Fill</FONT> function is active, and this status is indicated by a check mark next to the<B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >White-Fill</FONT><B> </B>menu. Select the menu item again and <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >White-Fill</FONT> will toggle off.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> The View Menu</div> <div> <IMG SRC="79336c60.png" border=0 width="310" height="198" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> On the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >View </FONT>Menu, you can magnify the page image to be the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Actual Size</FONT>, or a custom <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Magnification</FONT> factor that you specify.</div> <bR> <div> In addition to to <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Scale-to-Gray</FONT> and <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Favor Black</FONT> display options, you can display in the <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Verdana" >Normal</FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > option, which is a more traditional method of screen rendering.</FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>