CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS
When you installed the scanner, the software configured each OneTouch button with appropriate settings consisting of: a Destination Application, a Scan Configuration, and a Document Format.
To open the OneTouch Properties window:
1. Click the OneTouch icon.
2. Right-click a button on the OneTouch Button Panel.
The OneTouch Properties window opens for that button.
The OneTouch Properties window also opens when you press, hold down for 3 seconds, and release the Simplex or Duplex button on the scanner.
Note: Some of the options on the OneTouch Properties window (and other OneTouch windows and dialog boxes) are “grayed out” and are not available. Grayed out options are not appropriate for your Visioneer Strobe 500 scanner.
CHANGING A BUTTON SETTING
1. Click on an application name in the Select Destination list.
2. Select a file format in the Select Format panel.
3. Select a scanning configuration in the Select Configuration list.
4. Click on OK to save the changes and close the OneTouch Properties window.
5. Place an item in the scanner.
6. Click on the button that you made the changes for.
7. The scanner starts scanning and sends the image to the application, with the file format and scan settings you specified.
Note: The next section contains detailed information on making changes to the OneTouch Properties window.
SELECTING NEW SETTINGS FOR A BUTTON
The settings on the OneTouch Properties window are:
LED Number—Click the up or down arrow to cycle through the 6 OneTouch options.
Select Destination—The list of Destination Applications that OneTouch can send a scanned image to so that this application opens immediately after scanning is complete.
Note: If you select a word processing program, such as Microsoft WordPad or Microsoft Word, that can be used for editing text, the text in the scanned image is automatically converted to word processing text.
Select Configuration—The list of available scan configurations for the selected button. The configuration’s basic settings include: scanning mode, resolution (dpi), page size, brightness, and contrast. To see a selected Scan Configuration’s settings, click its icon. Click the icon again to close the detailed information.
Click the icon of a selected configuration to view its settings. 
These icons next to each Scan Configuration indicate the scanning mode.
Use Configure Before Scan to set the scanning mode manually before scanning. See “Configure Before Scan” on page 54.
Select Format—A set of file formats for the scanned image for the selected button. The formats are based on the type of Destination Application you select. This example shows the formats that apply to Microsoft Outlook.
OTHER OPTIONS IN THE ONETOUCH PROPERTIES WINDOW
Options tab—Displays a window for selecting options related to the selected Destination Application for the scanned image. See “Selecting Options for a Button” on page 68 for instructions on configuring the list of available destinations.
Properties button—Displays a window for selecting properties for each type of Destination Application. See “Selecting Page Format Options” on page 57.
Refresh button—If you install new applications on your computer, and they do not appear in the Select Destination list, click the Refresh button.
New/Copy/Edit/Delete buttons—Click New or Copy to add new scan configurations to the list. Click Edit or Delete to change or remove them. See the sections “Creating a New Scan Configuration” on page 45 and “Editing or Deleting Scan Configurations” on page 53.
RENAMING A ONETOUCH BUTTON
The OneTouch buttons have names that identify their pre-set functions, such as OCR and eMail, but you can edit the names.
1. Choose the button that you want to rename.
2. Select the name’s text and type a new name.
3. Click OK or Apply. The button is now renamed.
CREATING A NEW SCAN CONFIGURATION
The scan configurations are where you select the scanning resolution, brightness, mode (color, black&white, or grayscale), and a number of other settings.
To create a new configuration:
1. Open the OneTouch Properties window.
2. Scroll through the applications in the Select Destination list and click the type of application for which you want to create a new scan configuration.
3. Click the New button.
If you want to start from the settings of another configuration, select the configuration, then click the Copy button.
Note: There are 3 settings tabs in each configuration for setting the Scanning Mode, Page Size and Color intensity. Depending on the selected Destination Application, additional settings tabs will activate for you to make changes specific to the current destination. For example, scanning to a printer will activate a Device Settings tab for you to set your printer properties.
THE SCAN SETTINGS TAB
1. On the Scan Configuration Properties dialog box, type a name.
2. Select scan settings for the new scan configuration.
Mode—Select a scanning mode:
■ Black&White to scan in black and white. For example, letters and memos are usually scanned in black and white.
■ Grayscale to scan items such as documents containing drawings or black and white photographs.
■ Color to scan color photographs and other color items.
Resolution—Drag the slider to the right or left to adjust the dots per inch (dpi) of the resolution. The higher the dpi setting, the sharper and clearer the scanned image. However, higher dpi settings take longer to scan and produce larger files for the scanned images.
Brightness—Sometimes an image is scanned with the brightness and contrast set too light or too dark. For example, a note written with a light pencil may need to be scanned darker to improve legibility. Increasing or decreasing the brightness makes the scanned image lighter or darker.
Contrast—The difference between the lighter and darker portions of the image. Increasing the contrast emphasizes the difference between the lighter and darker portions, decreasing the contrast de-emphasizes that difference.
3. If you want to lock the configuration, click the key icon to change it from a Key to a Lock.
4. Click on OK, if you are done making changes to the configuration, to save and close the configuration window.
THE PAGE SETTINGS TAB
Click the Page Settings tab to select page settings.
Size—Click Standard, click the menu arrow and choose a page size from the list, or click Custom and enter the horizontal and vertical page dimensions in the boxes. You can only input page sizes within the scanner’s supported minimum and maximum item size. Please refer to “Visioneer Strobe 500 Scanner Specifications” on page 108. The units of measurement can be inches or millimeters.
Improvements and Settings—Only the options that apply to the selected scanning mode are available.
■ AutoCrop to Original—Select this option to let the scanner automatically determine the size of the item being scanned.
When using the AutoCrop to Original option, always use the paper guides on the scanner so the page is not skewed. Skewed pages may not crop properly.
For single-sided scans, the scan area is the size of the image. For double- sided scans, the scan area is the size of the larger of the two areas on the front and back of the page.
■ Reduce Moiré Patterns—Moiré patterns are wavy, rippled lines that sometimes appear on the scanned images of photographs or illustrations, particularly newspaper and magazine illustrations. Selecting Reduce Moiré Patterns will limit or eliminate moiré patterns in the scanned image. This option is only available in Color or Grayscale scanning at lower resolutions.
■ Straighten Image —Select this option to let the scanner automatically determine if a page is skewed, then straighten its image. The input tray paper guides should be flush to the edges of the paper to prevent paper feeding in at too great of an angle.
■ Invert Image—Only available for Black&White scanning, this option reverses the black and whites of an image.
■ Duplex—Scan both sides of the page. If this option is not selected, the scanner will scan the face-down side of the page only.
Note: The Simplex and Duplex buttons on the scanner take precedence over this Page Settings option. In other words, if the selected function on the scanner is set to scan as Duplex, but you press the Simplex button, the scanner scans in Simplex, and vice versa.
■ Skip Blank Originals—Skips pages that are completely blank. This option is only available for Duplex scanning.
■ Color Filter—Color filter is the ability of your scanner to automatically remove a color from a scanned item. Color filter applies to Black&White or GrayScale Mode.
Click on OK, if you are done making changes to the configuration, to save and close the configuration window.
THE ADVANCED SETTINGS TAB
The options on the Advanced Settings tab are for the Color or GrayScale scanning mode.
1. Drag the sliders to the left and right to change the color settings. As you do, the image changes to show the effects of the new settings.
Color Saturation—the strength or purity of a color. Hue—the color your eyes see as reflected from the image. Gamma—is the tone curve and the starting point for image enhancement. As you raise or lower the Gamma value, the values at which Color Saturation, Color Hue, Brightness and Contrast affect the image are changed. It is recommended that you keep the default Gamma value or adjust this setting before adjusting the other options. This option is available for both Color and Grayscale scanning.
2. Click OK to save the new configuration.
THE DEVICE SETTINGS TAB
A Device Settings tab is on the Scan Configurations dialog box when your selected Destination Application is a printer or fax application.
Fit to page, reduce image if necessary—If the scanned image is too big to be printed or faxed on a single page, the image will automatically be reduced to fit the page.
Actual size, crop image if necessary—If the scanned image is too big to be printed or faxed on a single page, the image will automatically be cropped around its edges to fit on the page.
Center image on page—The image will be printed in the center of the page instead of at the top left corner.
Maintain aspect ratio—The aspect ratio is the length-to-width relationship of the image’s dimensions. Select this option so the image’s relative proportions remain constant.
AutoRotate image for best fit—If the image is a Landscape format and the device is printing in the Portrait mode, or vice versa, rotate the image to fit on the page.
Collate copies—If you are printing more than one page, collate the copies. Enter the number of copies in the Copies box.
Advanced—Click to see additional settings for the device. The dialog box that opens is specific to the device.
THE STORAGE OPTIONS TAB (ARCHIVE)
A Storage Options tab is on the Scan Configurations dialog box when the selected Destination Application is set as Transfer to Storage. See “Transferring Scanned Documents to Storage” on page 76 for instructions on using the Transfer to Storage destination.
1. Click the Storage Options tab.
2. Click the Storage Layout options you want.
All documents are in the root—The scanned documents are saved in the root of the folder specified in the Storage Location.
Documents are put into folders by month, week, or type—Folders are created based on your selection (month, week, or type) and the scanned documents are saved in those folders.
By default, the location of the archived documents is in your Windows user directory My Documents folder under My OneTouch Archive. The files are saved a folder based on your selection for the Storage Layout. For example, if the file type is TIFF, and you select Documents are put into folders by type, the default location of scanned archive documents is at My Documents\My One Touch Archive\TIFF Documents.
3. If you want to store your archive documents in some other location, click the Browse button to specify the new location.
4. Click OK or Apply.
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