Presto! PageManager 9 Professional PC – Document Scanning, Management and PDF Solution

Monday, October 18, 2010
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Presto! PageManage 9 Pro is an easy to use, front-end page client that provides for all your needs to organize your documents. Capabilities include Capture, Preview, Convert and Deliver all your paper and electronic documents to a designated location. You simply drag-&-drop to stack or merge files, or use the embedded OCR (Optical Character Recognition) feature to convert them to a searchable PDF. The Document Pallet provides a workspace that you can easily manage, convert and deliver multiple files from multiple folders in one screen. PageManager is your perfect paperless solution.

The following steps show you how to configure your ScanSnap to scan documents and images into Presto! PageManager 9. Once you have installed the ScanSnap software you will need to do the following steps to add application to the profile of the ScanSnap.

(1) Connect your ScanSnap scanner and right click on the ScanSnap icon from the Windows Taskbar that sits on the lower right corner of your Windows. This will bring up ScanSnap setting menu.

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(2) Select SCAN Button Settings option from that menu and this will bring up the ScanSnap Manager panel. The default in this panel is for the use of the Quick Menu.

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(3) Uncheck the Use Quick Menu option. [This will allow you to add applications that are not part of the ScanSnap scanner software package to the profile. When the Use Quick Menu option is checked (enabled), the Application tab will be grayed out. Once the Use Quick Menu option is unchecked (disabled), the additional applications can be added to the profile.]

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(4) Once the Use Quick Menu is unchecked, click on the Add or Remove button on the Application tab.  The Add or remove application dialog window will come up. Click on the Add button to add PageManager 9 Pro.

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(5) Browse to the location where your PageManager 9  Pro is located in your Windows Program Files. In the same dialog window you will also type in PageManager 9 Pro to the Application Name field. Click the OK button to continue.

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(6) Now you have successfully add PageManager 9 Pro. Click the Close button from the Add or remove application dialog window to continue.

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(7) Click on the Application tab and select the PageManager 9  Pro application that you’ve just added from the list (a). Also, remember to add PageManager 9 Pro to the Profile (b), and then select PageManager 9 Pro from it (c).

a. Select PageManager 9 Pro from the Application Tab

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b. Add PageManager 9 Pro to the Profile.

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c. Select PageManager 9 Pro from the Profile.

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(8) Go to Save tab and select your scan designation folder where you want the scanned documents to store. Here as an example, you may set up the folder as My PageManager folder, and so this is the folder the PageManager will open up next time you scan.

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(9) Complete the other settings, such as Scanning (color or black and white), File Option (document type as JPEG or PDF), Paper and Compression settings. Remember to click Apply button to confirm all the setting you made.

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(10) Go to Windows Taskbar and select PageManager 9 Pro from the Profile. Now you are ready to work with Presto! PageManager. Next time when you press ScanSnap scan button with Presto! PageManager selected, all the documents will be scanned to your designated folder with PageManager launched.

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Special Reminders:

  • All images or documents that are scanned into PageManager will sent to the directory that is set in the ScanSnap Manager software. This directory can be changed by clicking on the browse button and selecting an alternative directory on the Save tab.

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  • In order to scan into an application that is not part of the standard ScanSnap options, you will need to uncheck the “Use Quick Menu” and add the application to the Profile. Once an application has been added to the Profile, left click on the ScanSnap icon from the Windows Taskbar and select the application you want to scan to.

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  • Pressing the green button on the ScanSnap scanner will automatically send the scanned image or document to the active profile that is selected. (Example above is PageManager 9). Left clicking on the SnapScap icon from the Windows Taskbar and selecting another application will allow you to change the active profile.
  • PageManager scan and its Scan Button control settings are designed for TWAIN compliant scanners, which ScanSnap is not. Therefore, the ScanSnap scan action cannot be initiated by TWAIN oriented applications.

To learn how to use ScanSnap with Presto! PageManager 9 for Mac click here.

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