Installation

Insert the CD and double click on the icon to open the install menu. There are three installers with the ACDSee Express being optional. It is similar to iPhoto. Note the IRIScan Anywhere User Guide which you can drag to the applications alias to make it available on the hard drive.

Look inside the DVD case for a sheet of paper   called   Serial   Number   List   for IRIScan with the  serial  numbers  for  the Mac versions at the bottom

When you turn on the scanner the light will flash as it powers up. Wait for it to turn a steady green before attempting to scan. If you press the button again it will turn yellow indicating that it is now scanning at 600 DPI rather than 300 DPI. When it is inactive it powers down and shows a pale yellow light. See the attached Quick Start for more detail. This file is also on the CD.

Think of this scanner as a USB storage device, like a flash drive pictured below. When you scan it stores the images as jpg’s in memory until you connect it to the computer where is shows up on the desktop as a mounted drive. There is no twain driver so it cannot be accessed to scan from another application.

The scanner is designed to be used disconnected from the computer until it is time to upload the images stored in memory. That could be the 512 MB internal memory, a USB flash drive or a SD card. With these last two when you leave all of those plugged into the scanner and connect the scanner to the computer you will see three drives on the desktop. There will be one for the scanner and the other two for the USB Flash/SD card.

If you scan while the scanner is plugged into the computer it will dismount the drives until the scanning is completed and then remount them. You can also transfer the USB flash or SD card rather than connecting the scanner.

Readiris                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Open the Readiris software and click on the Open button on the left toolbar and navigate to the drive on the desktop which contains the images scanned with the IRIScan Anywhere. To select all the images, single click on the first then hold down the shift key and select the last. To select specific images single click on the first and hold the CTRL key while selecting the ones you want and then click on open

The Readiris software is a conversion tool to take an image of a document or PDF and convert it to a format where it can be edited or stored as a PDF. The first thing it does is analyze the page and puts numbered and labeled boxes called zones over various sections of the document to tell you what it intends to do with the various sections if converting to a text based format such as Microsoft Word or Pages.

These can be changed and manipulated by either CTRL clicking on them to choose a different treatment type or using the Zones tool on the right tool bar. Note that when you draw a zone of the same type that overlaps an existing zone they will merge which is handy for including irregular shapes or treating as a single block.

These are the steps in brief. For more information see the Readiris Getting Started Guide available on our website. http://www.irislink.com/Support/gettingstarted

Open the document into Readiris.

Select the output format and options going to Settings > Text Format. Choose the desired format and the ask file name and location box then click on the choose button to navigate to the program in the Applications folder that you want to open the output in.

Click on Recognize + Save to process the documents.

These are the available text based formats and their uses. DOCX                    Used with Word 2008 & 2011

HTML                    Used for Excel or Web pages

ODT                       Open Document Format used with Open Office Word Processor

PDF                        Adobe Acrobat most often you will use the Image-text options

RTF                        Rich text format used for Word, Pages or Open Office, cross platform

Unicode               Straight text with no format retention

XLXS                      Used with Excel 2008 & 2011