Plustek 820 User Manual

 

Your scanner accepts documents as small as business cards and as large as 

4”x6” photographs. However, some software programs have limitations as to the 

information they can handle. The capacity of the computer’s memory and free space on 

your hard drive can also limit the physical size of the document that you scan. 

There are two different ways to operate the scanner: 

1.  From within an image-editing program that can acquire images from the 

scanner. 

2.  By pressing either of the two action buttons on the scanner.  You may 

configure the button settings individually to your personal needs within the 

Smart Touch program that is automatically installed as your scanner software. 

Your scanner needs to be driven by some type of software program. Since all 

documents or images (whether text or pictures) that are acquired from the scanner are 

treated by your computer as images, most scanning will probably be done from an 

image-editing program where you can view, edit, save and output the scanned images.  

An image-editing program has been bundled with your scanner on the included 

Setup/Application CD-ROM.  It will allow you to alter and correct any scanned images 

by using a variety of filters, tools and effects.  

What about scanning business cards and managing them in a more convenient 

way? This is the role of BCR function which can scan various business cards to 

Cardiris software. Cardiris can index the scanned images into business cards album, 

recognize and convert respective personal information contained in the scanned 

images into an address database for your further management.  If you wish to use the 

scanner in this way you should install the Cardiris software that is included in the 

Setup/Application CD-ROM. 

Smart Touch is a program that allows you to conveniently scan images and text 

without the need to work directly within any image-editing application (i.e. Presto! 

ImageFolio).  Smart Touch also includes BCR function which allows you to set 

scanning attributes for the business cards you are to scan to Cardiris software. 

Please refer to the Smart Touch Setting on-line Help (accessible by clicking on the 

Smart Touch icon

, located near the clock icon on the Windows system tray, and 

choosing Help) for more information about these functions.  

 

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