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About scan profiles

A scan profile contains predefined settings for scanning, image processing, OCR, output file formats and file naming. Scanning in PaperPort must be done through a profile. The following default profiles are offered: B&W Document, Grayscale Document, Color Document, Color Photograph and Color Searchable PDF Document.    

These profiles are optimized for typical scanning tasks.

 

If you want to start scanning from inside PaperPort, select a profile in the Scan or Get Photo pane.

 

To send images directly to PaperPort from your scanner (even without opening PaperPort), you have to assign a PaperPort scan profile to a push button of your scanner.

 

Use ScanDirect to send scans to other destinations.

 

To modify profile settings

  1. On the Scan or Get Photo pane, select the profile to be modified.

  2. Click Settings. The Settings - Scanning Profile dialog box appears.direct

  3. On the Profile panel, change the profile name if desired.

  4. Open the SET panel, select the required image enhancement options and decide how blank pages should be handled by PaperPort. You can also select whether to create single or multi-page items.

  5. Open the Output panel, specify an item name, a name separator character and a file type. Enable or disable Automatically apply Folder Notes, Add to All-in-One Search, and View Result. Click the Options button in this panel to set OCR language for the profile and set image quality.

  6. Open the Scan panel, select the scan parameters (e.g. scanning mode, resolution, brightness).

  7. Click OK.

 

In PaperPort Professional a sixth profile is delivered: Color PDF-MRC High Compression.  This provides smaller file sizes while maintaining presentation quality, particularly for images with colored backgrounds.

 

In PaperPort Professional, you can create new profiles either from scratch, or by copying an existing profile and modifying it. Deleting profiles is also allowed.

 

To start from a scratch

  1. Click Scan Settings on the Desktop ribbon.

  2. On the Scan or Get Photo pane, check the state of the Display scanner dialog box checkbox. To set the scan parameters from PaperPort, turn this off. To set the scan parameters on the scanner's user interface, turn this on.

  3. Click New.

  4. In the Create New Profile dialog box, enter a profile name.

  5. Click Continue.

  6. Make your settings in the SET, Output and Scan panels, then click OK.

To copy an existing profile and modify it

Follow the instructions described above but, in the Create New Profile dialog box, select the Copy settings from profile checkbox and choose a profile. This profile will be the starting point for creating a new profile. Modify the settings in the SET, Output and Scan panels according to your needs, then click OK.



To delete a scan profile

  1. In the Scan or Get Photo panel, select a scan profile.

  2. Click the Delete button.

  3. Click Yes to confirm deletion in the message box that appears.

 

 



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