User manual IRIS IRISPEN EXPRESS 6-MAC

[. . . ] Table of Contents Copyrights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 1 Introducing the IRISPen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 How does it work?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The steps to follow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Chapter 2 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Installing the IRISPen for Mac OS X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 How to get product support? [. . . ] The image will be automatically sent to your clipboard before it can be pasted in a chosen application. If you want to produce a black&white image of your small graphic and view it as such in the IRISPen Scan window, your must deselect the option Grayscale Image from the View menu (Grayscale Image is the default option). The black&white version of the scanned image will be automatically displayed in the Scan window. SELECTING THE LANGUAGE You must indicate the language in which the data is to be read. The character subset used by the IRISPen will be selected accordingly so as to optimize the reading. Advanced option Of course, you can further customize the character set which is normally used to read the chosen language in order to make it fit your particular needs. Mixed alphabets You can activate a mixed alphabet of Greek or Cyrillic and Western characters. This is useful if Western words pop up in Greek of Cyrillic texts (this is often the case with proper names, brand 18 CHAPTER 4 - BASIC PARAMETERS names, etc. ). To select the language: Lists of available languages in the IRISPen Palette · Click on or select Languages from the Settings menu, and select the language in which the data is to be read in the list of available languages. The top part of the list gathers the languages that were selected recently. Click on Other to access the whole list of available languages. Either browse through the list or simply press the first letter of the needed language. · If you want to activate a mixed alphabet, select the required language pair, e. g. : Greek-English, Byelorussian-English, etc. Click OK to confirm your choice. · If you choose an Asian language, also indicate the text flow by enabling the option Vertical Text under the Options menu in the toolbar. See: Additional options, Vertical text. 19 IRISPen Express 6 - User's guide CHOOSING THE OUTPUT TARGET You can choose the way the read data is being inserted in your active application: either via "keyboard emulation", which sends the data directly into the active application, or via the clipboard, which requires a manual Paste or CTRL+V command. You can also determine some other elements such as the font and the size of the inserted data. To choose the output target: Choose the output target in the IRISPen Palette or · Click on select Output Target from the Settings menu. · Select the required method: Keyboard Emulation If this option is selected, the read data is directly inserted at the cursor location in the target application. Clipboard (default value) If this option is selected, the read data is first copied to the clipboard before it is pasted (automatically or not, see below) in the active application. If the data is pasted automatically (default value, see below), this method is quicker than Keyboard Emulation. to change the cursor location in the active application before the data is inserted. 20 CHAPTER 4 - BASIC PARAMETERS · If you have selected Clipboard as output target, you have access to the following advanced options via the button Choose the output target in the IRISPen Palette or the command Options from the Settings menu. Select the required options and values, then click on OK to confirm. Include font and size You can determine the font and the size of the data to be inserted in the active application. Tick the button Include font and size and select the required font and size via the arrows on the right. Paste automatically (default value) If this option is selected, the software automatically pastes the data that has been sent to the clipboard in the active application. [. . . ] If you wish to, you can choose another symbol. You can select a different symbol than the default tilde. To define the symbol for unknown characters: · Select the option Unknown Symbol from the Settings menu. · Replace the symbol in the required field, then click OK to confirm. TABLE FRAME CONVERSION The IRISPen is able to detect and convert vertical lines separating data as e. g. By default, the software replaces vertical lines by the <Tab> command. This means that each time it 32 CHAPTER 5 - ADDITIONAL OPTIONS encounters a vertical line during scanning, it executes a tabulation in your target application. [. . . ]