Xerox Documate 4790 User Guide

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User’s Guide6-73 •Delete application—select an application in the list then click this button to remove the application from 
the OneTouch destination list. You can only delete an application that you have added, the destinations that 
are linked when OneTouch is installed cannot be deleted.
General OCR settings—click in the OCR settings boxes for the options you want. The options will apply to all the 
applications in the group. 
•Always send a...

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User’s Guide 6-74–Standard ASCII text file—select this option if you want to have plain text, without formatting, sent to 
your text editing application. Most text editing applications will accept plain text (*.txt) files.
–Adobe PDF format—select this option if you are adding a PDF viewing or editing application to the list. 
This PDF format is an image format only, it will not recognize the document using OCR, and you will not 
be able to search...

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Still Image Client
If you want to specify an application to use for scanning at the start of the process, you can use event forwarding. 
Supported file formats—you cannot select a file format when scanning to the Still Image Client as the 
destination application is not selected until after you start scanning.
Destination type—the Still Image Client destination is classified as an “Event Forward Link”. To make it available 
in the...

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User’s Guide 6-76 4. A dialog box opens for you to select the application to use for scanning. Select the application you want in 
the box and click OK.
Now the application you selected opens and you can continue scanning using that application’s interface. 
Te c h n i c a l  N o t e
If the scanner scans and sends an image to an application without prompting you to choose an application to 
run, the control panel options for your scanner’s events...

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Image Editors
Image editors include Microsoft Paint and other drawing and graphics applications. 
Supported file formats—the available file formats are based on the selected destination application. For 
example, you can scan to Microsoft’s Paint application as a BMP, GIF, PNG, or JPG, but not as TIFF. Please refer to 
Image Formats on page 44 for more information on which image formats OneTouch supports.
Destination type—this...

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Image Documents Properties
These properties apply to Microsoft Paint and other image processing applications.
•Add application—click this button to open the Add Simple Image Link dialogue so you can add other image 
editing applications to OneTouch. 
•Delete application—select an application in the list then click this button to remove the application from 
the OneTouch destination list. You can only delete an application that you...

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Adding Image Editor Applications to OneTouch
1. To add another application to the list, click the Add application button. The Add Simple Image Link dialog 
box opens.
2. Click Browse to find the application you want to add to the list.
When you select the application using the Browse button, Steps 1 and 2 on the dialog box are automatically 
filled in, and the application icon appears in Step 3.
3. Select the icon in Step 3 of the...

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PDF Applications
PDF destinations are applications that can open and/or edit the Adobe PDF file format. 
Supported file types—applications in the PDF destination group support the *.pdf file format. When the 
OmniPage module or software is installed, OneTouch includes an option to scan as sPDF or nPDF. Selecting either 
of these two formats still creates a *.pdf file, but the “s” and “n” letters indicate that OCR will process the...

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User’s Guide6-81 3. Click on one of the default text editors such as WordPad.
4. Click on the Properties button.
5. To add another application to the list, click the Add application button. The Add Text Based Link dialog box 
opens.
6. Click Browse to find the application you want to add to the list.
When you select the application using the Browse button, Steps 1 and 2 on the dialog box are automatically 
filled in, and the application icon...

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User’s Guide 6-82 8. In Step 4 of the dialog box, select Adobe PDF format and Adobe searchable PDF. 
Adobe PDF format—select this option if you are adding a PDF viewing or editing application to the list. This 
PDF format is an image format only, it will not recognize the document using OCR, and you will not be able 
to search or edit the text in the final file. The application you are adding must be able to open *.pdf files.
Adobe searchable...