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P3PC-1562-01ENZ0
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CardMinder
User’s Guide
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INTRODUCTION ■ About This Manual This document describes the use of CardMinder, a business card scanning application. 1) About CardMinder (A quick look at CardMinder) 2) Configuring Before Scanning (Setting options before scanning) 3) Scanning and Synchronizing Business Card Data (Basic procedures for common scanning tasks) 4) Business Card Data Handling (Maintaining and using your Business Card database) 5) Correcting Recognized Character data (Correcting the recognized data on a Business card)
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Screen Examples In This Manual The screen examples in this manual are subject to change without notice in the interest of product improvement. The screenshots used in the examples in this manual were taken with Windows XP. If the actual displayed screen differs from the screen examples in this manual, operate by following the actual displayed. ■ Note, Liability READ ALL OF THIS MANUAL AND RELATED MANUAL CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS PRODUCT. IF NOT USED CORRECTLY, UNEXPECTED INJURY MAY BE CAUSE
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■ Trademarks ScanSnap and CardMinder are trademarks of PFU LIMITED. Microsoft and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation of the United States and/or other countries. Adobe and the Adobe logo as well as Acrobat and the Acrobat Logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Other product names referred to in this manual are registered trademarks or trademarks of respective c
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Multilingual OCR by I.R.I.S.(Image Recognition Integrated Systems) 1997 Copyright by I.R.I.S., All rights reserved The Proximity / Merriam Webster Linguibase Copyright 1984 All rights reserved Proximity Technology Inc. Copyright 1984 All rights reserved Merriam Webster Inc. The Proximity / Merriam Webster Linguibase Copyright 1984 All rights reserved Proximity Technology Inc. Copyright 1984 All rights reserved Williams Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. CardMinder User’s Guide iv
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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................ i ■ About This Manual ................................................................. i ■ Note, Liability ......................................................................... ii ■ Trademarks ........................................................................... iii ■ Manufacturer ........................................................................ iii Chapter 1 About
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4.2 Deleting data from the [Inbox] / [Exported] tab ............. 31 4.3 Restoring data from the [Trash] tab................................ 32 4.4 Deleting data from the [Trash] tab .................................. 34 4.5 Deleting data from the [Mobile] tab................................. 36 4.6 Extracting the business card image data....................... 38 4.7 Data search by keyword input ........................................ 40 4.8 Attaching related files to the business card data...
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Chapter 7 Updating CardMinder Online................................ 69 Chapter 8 Troubleshooting .................................................... 72 INDEX .......................................................................................................... 75 CardMinder User’s Guide vii
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Chapter 1 About CardMinder 1 TM This chapter describes the features and basic operations of CardMinder . 1.1 About CardMinder................................................................................................... 2 1.2 Features of CardMinder.......................................................................................... 5 1.3 Operation Flow........................................................................................................ 6 1.4 Operation Windows ....
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About CardMinder 1.1 About CardMinder 1.1 About CardMinder CardMinder is a business card scanning application for image scanners. CardMinder provides quick scanning, image recognition and database storage solution for all your office scanning needs. Using an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine and sharing recognized data with a PIM 1 (Personal Information Manager), CardMinder is able to... • Scan business cards and save the business card data • Recognize the characters on the business ca
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About CardMinder 1.1 About CardMinder ■ System Requirements CardMinder runs on the system of the following environment: Computer: • Intel Pentium II 450MHz or higher (Intel Pentium III 1GHz or higher is recommended) • CD-ROM drive (required for the installation of CardMinder) 1 • ScanSnap* and scanners that comply to TWAIN Standard • Removable media (8MB or more free space is required for using Mobile linkage func- tion) • Keyboard • Mouse *"ScanSnap" is a FUJITSU compact color scanner. Although
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About CardMinder 1.1 About CardMinder To save the data of one business card (Duplex, Color, and Best image quality HINT scanning), 250K bytes of disk space is required. Estimate the total amount of necessary disk space according to the number of business cards you are to scan. 1 ATTENTION • When recognizing and viewing Japanese and Chinese business cards, use Windows 2000 or Windows XP. These functions are not supported in Win- dows 98, Windows 98SE, and Windows Me. • To recognize and view Ja
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About CardMinder 1.2 Features of CardMinder 1.2 Features of CardMinder The features of CardMinder are as follows: • Scan one or both sides of the business cards just at the touch of the button on the scanner. (ScanSnap). 1 • Capture memo written on business cards and create a database. • Recognize characters on business cards and automatically create keywords such as Full Name and Company. The following can be Keywords: Full Name Company Department Job title ZIP / Postal codes Address Location
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About CardMinder 1.3 Operation Flow 1.3 Operation Flow You can operate CardMinder by doing the following: Selecting (See Chapter 2) • An application to which the data is exported. 1 Scanning and recognizing a business card (See Section 3.1) 1. Set business card(s) onto the scanner. 2. Scan the business card(s). 3. After scanning is complete, the recognized data is displayed in the Main window. Common Daily Tasks Exporting the data (See Section 3.2) 1. Select the data you want to export on the
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About CardMinder 1.3 Operation Flow Recognizing the data anew (See Chapter 5) 1. Select [Tool] on the menu bar -> [Recognition Language], or click [ ] on the right side of the [Recognition] button and then select a lan- guage to use from the list. (See Section 5.1.) 2. Select the data on the [Inbox] tab or the [Exported] tab. 1 3. Recognize the data anew. • Recognize business cards anew. (See Section 5.2.) • Recognize data selected in the rect
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About CardMinder 1.3 Operation Flow Displaying the Web browser (SeeSection 4.11 ) 1. Select the data on the [Inbox] tab, the [Exported] tab, the [Trash] tab, or the [Mobile] tab. 2. Select [Tool] on the menu bar -> [Web page browse], or right-click on the data listed and select [Web page browse] from the menu. 1 Searching data (1) (See Section 4.1) 1. In another application (Microsoft Notepad etc.), select character strings you want to find (Full Name or Company). 2. Press the F3 and Alt k
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About CardMinder 1.4 Operation Windows 1.4 Operation Windows There are two types of operation windows in CardMinder. ■ Main window 1 Image Toolbar Shows the buttons used to adjust the business card image in Image View. Command Toolbar Shows icons (buttons) for the com- Business Card Image View monly-used commands. Displays the image of the business card selected Menu bar from Data List View. Displays commands to operate CardMinder. Attachment View Displays the files attached to the business
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About CardMinder 1.4 Operation Windows Icon / Display Function Starts scanning of business card(s). With the [ ] button, you can change scanning settings (Duplex/ Simplex) and: • For ScanSnap: You can set scanning quality (Normal/Better/ Best). • For TWAIN scanners: You can set resolution (150/200/300/ 1 400dpi) Recognizes the business card selected in the Data List View. Only the characters on the front side of the business card are recognized. The Command recognition result will automati
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About CardMinder 1.4 Operation Windows Icon / Display Function The height of the business card image is adjusted to Image Display View. The width of the business card image is adjusted to Image Display View. The height and width of the business card image is adjusted to the 1 image display view. The business card image size is enlarged. The business card image size is reduced. Rotates the business card image 90 degrees clockwise. Click the [ ] button to change the rotation angle and plane. D
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About CardMinder 1.4 Operation Windows Icon / Display Function Data list Clicking the heading sorts names in alphabetical view order. On the heading clicked for sorting, the mark or the mark appears. Note that if names are listed in the order scanned (the top of the list is the latest), no marks appears. Clicking the heading sorts company names in 1 alphabetical order. On the heading clicked for sorting, the mark or the mark appears. Note that if names are listed in the order scan
