The Exporter for ReadSoft INVOICES dialog

SCAN CLIENT context identifier for this instance of the component

Status messages and error messages generated by the component include this context number. Specify an ID that is not used by other custom components or in other scan profiles. This makes it easier to see which process the messages originated from.

Maximum parallel export processes for this scan profile

The exporter can process multiple batches asynchronously. Specify the maximum number of parallel processes for this scan profile. Recommended: Specify a number that is smaller than the number of available processing cores at the scan station.

Example: When using an Intel i7 processer with 4 cores, the recommended setting is 3.

If all available processes are being used for export, any additional waiting batches will be automatically taken on after completion of previous batches, in the order in which they were closed in SCAN CLIENT.

Delete batches after successful export

If no errors occur when the images are converted to MTIFF and saved, the original batches are deleted from SCAN CLIENT.

Save an error code to batches where no exportable files are found

If the SCAN CLIENT batch is found to contain no media to convert, the batch is assigned Export error status and is displayed with the corresponding icon ().

Check for previous export (prevents repeated exporting)

This option is selected by default and should only be deselected during testing or troubleshooting, so that batches can be exported repeatedly. Remember to delete the previously exported MTIFF file(s) from the target directory before reexporting a batch; otherwise an error will occur.

Create an MTIFF file for each...

• Batch: One MTIFF file per batch is created. Any existing subdivision into documents is disregarded. The file name is the name of the batch plus the extension .TIF.

  Example: Batch name RS_0001 > RS_0001.TIF

• Document: MTIFF files are created for each document in the batch. The file name is the name of the batch, an underscore, and the name of the document, plus the extension .TIF.

  Example: First document in the batch named RS_0001 > RS_0001_FirstDocument.TIF

Color type

The images in the TIFF media can have different compression ratios and different color depths. Select which of the TIFF media in the batch are to be converted and exported:

• All types

• Grayscale

• Color

• Black & white

Ignore blank images

Media that are identified as blank pages are not exported.

Note: Media can only be identified as blank if blank page detection is configured in the scan profile. Any media misidentified as blank/not blank can be adjusted after scanning using the custom function Mark/unmark blank pages (see below).

ReadSoft INVOICES imports the MTIFF media from a directory configured for this purpose. Specify that directory where the exporter is to save the MTIFF media.

Note

• Ensure that the logged-in users have the needed permissions (at least write permission) to this directory.

• If the exporter finds that fiiles with the same name already exist in the directory, the ones in the target directory are not overwritten. Export fails and is aborted. A corresponding error message is written to the batch, and the batch is given Export error status in SCAN CLIENT and is displayed with the corresponding icon ().

Mark/unmark blank pages

This simply shows you that the exporter contains additional functionality, namely the ability to set a "blank page flag" on empty pages.

To activate Mark/unmark blank pages, use Mapped to (below).

Mapped to

There are ten API events available for custom functionality per scan profile: CustomButton1Click through CustomButton10Click.

To activate Mark/unmark blank pages in SCAN CLIENT, you must map it to one of the ten events—namely one that is not already in use.

Check the Event filter list in the Custom components dialog to see if any of the CustomButton events are included in the list—and map Mark/unmark blank pages to a different event. For example, if you see CustomButton3Click in the list, then you could specify 2 (for CustomButton2Click) in the Mapped to box.

This makes Mark/unmark blank pages available in SCAN CLIENT:

• In the menu bar under Profile-specific functions.

• As a button in the SCAN CLIENT tool bar.

• In the context menu (right-click menu) in the Batch viewer and Thumbnail viewer.

How to mark a page as blank

1. Select an empty page in the Thumbnail viewer.

2. Select Profile-specific functions > Mark/unmark blank pages or click the button ().

The flag is displayed as a black "X" () in the upper left corner of the medium.

Tip: You can assign a keyboard shortcut to the custom function.