Tips and Tricks to being an Imaging Pro

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Tips and Tricks to being an Imaging Pro
Session XI
Tips and Tricks to being an Imaging Pro
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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

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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)

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What happened to Kofax?

• Still recommended for scanning
• Kofax and Adrenaline are still supported
• Used as an alternative viewer

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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

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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?

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Move Utility

• Manager Tools Move Images
• Change the order of pages on a document in a
  basket
• MOVE
• APPEND
• REPLACE
• DELETE
• REVERT
• SAVE

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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

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Adding Pages to an archived document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

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Tools Test Images

• Test and Process
• Cropping images
• Deleting blank pages

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halFILE Image Viewer

• Features
• Toolbar
• Menus
• Annotations
• OCR
• Other

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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

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halFILE Image Viewer

• File Menu
• Open (user-based feature)
• Save (user-based feature)
• Save As (user-based feature)
• Print

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halFILE Image Viewer

• Edit Menu
• Copy
• Cut
• Paste
• Copy Page
• Delete Page

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halFILE Image Viewer

• View Menu
• First Page/Last Page
• Go To Page
• Fit To Window
• Zoom
• Scale

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halFILE Image Viewer

• Tools Menu
• Zoom to Selection
• Show Thumbnails
• Show Image Toolbar
• Show Annotations
• Select Annotation
• Stamps
• Options
• Default Zoom level

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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

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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)

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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?

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halFILE Image Viewer

• OCR Menu (in Index)
• Page/Document
• Text/Word/HTML/WordPerfect
• To Field

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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

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• Questions?