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Tips and Tricks to being an Imaging Pro. Session XI. Tips and Tricks to being an Imaging Pro. What is the halFILE Image Viewer?. Modular Program (halViewer.dll) Designed to be the primary image display for all halFILE programs Designed around Imaging for Windows controls. The Imaging what?.
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Tips and Tricks to being an Imaging Pro Session XI Tips and Tricks to being an Imaging Pro
What is the halFILE Image Viewer? • Modular Program (halViewer.dll) • Designed to be the primary image display for all halFILE programs • Designed around Imaging for Windows controls
The Imaging what? • Imaging for Windows was a Built-in component to Win9x/Me/NT/2000 • XP and later, it is an additional software purchase • Versions: • Imaging 2.6 Standard/Professional • Imaging 2.7 (standard – no OCR included) • Imaging 2.8 (professional – OCR included)
What happened to Kofax? • Still recommended for scanning • Kofax and Adrenaline are still supported • Used as an alternative viewer
Working with halFILE Image Files How are images stored in halFILE? • Cartridges vs. Baskets • Single-page TIFF • File name is DDDDDDDD.PPP • 8-character halFILE Document Number (DDDDDDDD) • 3-digit page, zero-filled (PPP) • A0345612.001, A0345612.002, … A0345612.999
How do I… • Reorder/Modify pages on documents? • Add pages from the scanner to a document? • Test existing images to make sure they can be viewed?
Move Utility Manager – Tools – Move Images • Change the order of pages on a document in a basket • MOVE • APPEND • REPLACE • DELETE • REVERT • SAVE
Image Utility • Manager – Tools – Image Utility • Edit – Append – Pages from Scanner • Much the same as Move Images • Has additional feature of adding pages directly from the scanner to Insert or Append • Use this utility to scan documents, otherwise, use the Move Utility
Adding Pages to an archived document Try to avoid (changes permanent archive) • If it is unavoidable, use Edit - Append - Pages from Scanner • Be sure to Re-Import! • Document – entire document (if you select Keep Doc Number, data will stay) • Document and Data – create new document, may copy existing data
Tools – Test Images • Test and Process • Cropping images • Deleting blank pages
halFILE Image Viewer Features • Toolbar • Menus • Annotations • OCR • Other
halFILE Image Viewer Toolbar • Save • Print • Rotate Left/Right • Page Up/Down • Annotations (LATER IN DEPTH) • Deskew/Despeckle (Imaging Pro ONLY) • Email • Zoom Pick List
halFILE Image Viewer File Menu • Open (user-based feature) • Save (user-based feature) • Save As (user-based feature) • Print
halFILE Image Viewer Edit Menu • Copy • Cut • Paste • Copy Page • Delete Page
halFILE Image Viewer View Menu • First Page/Last Page • Go To Page • Fit To Window • Zoom • Scale
halFILE Image Viewer Tools Menu • Zoom to Selection • Show Thumbnails • Show Image Toolbar • Show Annotations • Select Annotation • Stamps • Options • Default Zoom level
halFILE Image Viewer Annotations • What is an annotation? • Can I annotate on any of my workstations? • Is it permanent? • Can I remove it? • Look how cool Annotation Sticky Notes are! • Look how cool Stamps are! • Issues with printing/emailing annotated documents
halFILE Image Viewer Keyboard Hot Keys • ALT-~ (tilde) – Jump to top/bottom • ALT-1 – Upper left • ALT-2 – Upper right • ALT-3 – Lower left • ALT-4 – Lower right • ALT-Z – Zoom (uses zoom drop-down box)
halFILE Image Viewer OCR (Optical Character Recognition) • What is it? • Can I use OCR on any of my workstations? • Can it replace typing and let me sleep more at work? • Can I use OCR with Index-Verify?
halFILE Image Viewer OCR Menu (in Index) • Page/Document • Text/Word/HTML/WordPerfect • To Field
Other ways you can be an Imaging Professional • Improved window location/size • Email Marked as Multi-Page TIFF • Single Doc File or Multi Doc Files • Print Marked as Multi-Page TIFF • Print to halFILE • Send to halFILE integrated menu