User manual IRIS IRISPEN EXECUTIVE 6-MAC

[. . . ] Table of Contents Copyrights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 1 Introducing the IRISPen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 How does it work?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The steps to follow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Chapter 2 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] To enter your key sequence, tick Key Sequence, click on Set, then introduce the commands and/or characters in the proposed field and click OK to confirm. 27 IRISPen Executive 6 - User's guide Switch reading mode This allows you to program the switch to the next reading mode in the list of reading modes available. See: Basic parameters, Selecting the reading mode. If the current reading mode is Text, this will make you switch to the Bar Codes reading mode. If the current reading mode is Bar Codes, this will make you switch to the Image reading mode. Remember that the reading mode is always specified in the Status window. User String This allows you to program the addition of a character string. To enter your key sequence, tick User String, then introduce the character string in the proposed field and click OK to confirm. SETTING THE TEXT ALIGNMENT With the Text Alignment feature, you can indicate how the scanned lines must be delimited. Where should the reading actually start if a word has been cropped during scanning?How should hyphens be interpreted when occurring at the end of a line?Should prefixes or suffixes be added before and/or after the read data?To set the text alignment: Set the text Alignment in the IRISPen Palette or · Click on select Alignment from the Settings menu. 28 CHAPTER 4 - BASIC PARAMETERS · Indicate how the scanned area must be isolated and what the output should be: - keep all scanned characters - keep all characters before the last space - keep all characters after the first space - keep all characters between the first and the last space Ignore rejected characters in first and last position If characters are not properly scanned or read at the beginning or at the end of a line (these are by default represented by a tilde, i. e. the "~" symbol), you can ignore them for the output. This option is particularly useful when the word spacing is reduced or when you scan text from columns (like in magazines, etc. ): if you start scanning slightly on the previous word/column and end scanning on the next one, the unwanted parts can be deleted. Select this option if you want to ignore the rejected characters at the beginning and at the end of the scan. If characters are rejected within the lines, these will be kept for the output. Also see: Additional options, Unknown Symbol. Restore paragraph You must indicate how to interpret hyphens occurring at the end of a line. If you scan the lines "The new presi-" and "dent waved from the balcony", the hyphen must obviously be dropped so as 29 IRISPen Executive 6 - User's guide to recompose the word "president" in the output: "The new president waved from the balcony". Select this option if you want to delete end hyphens. Note: If hyphens are deleted, the suffixes (see below) will automatically be deleted so that the words can be properly recomposed. Prefix You can have the IRISPen execute operations automatically in the target application, either before or after the output result. To insert a prefix, select it from the drop-down list or select User String to introduce a character string in the proposed field, then click OK to confirm. [. . . ] 15 K keyboard emulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 L language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 51 IRISPen Executive 6 - User's guide left-handed users. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 N negative image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 P Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 pen buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 pen scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 pen scanner calibration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 product registration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 product support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 programming pen buttons . . . . . . . . . . . 26 R reading options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 rejected characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 replacing characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 replacing vertical lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 restore settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 restore to factory settings. . . . . . . . . . . . 49 S save settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 52 scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 scan from right to left . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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