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    ABBYY ScanTo Office Version 1.0 User’s Guide[...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e Contents What is ABBYY ScanTo Office 1.0? ..................................................................... 3 Installing ABBYY ScanTo Office 1.0 ................................................................... 4 System Requirements ......................................................................[...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e What is ABBYY ScanTo Office 1.0? ABBYY ScanTo Office is an easytouse scan conversion utility which integ rates with Wi ndows Explorer and the most popular Micro soft Office applications  Word, Exce l, and Outlook. One mouseclick will scan and conver t your document and save it as a DOC or XLS fil[...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e Installing ABBYY ScanTo Office 1.0 System Requirements 1. PC with Intel ® Pentium ® /Celeron ® /Xeon™, AMD K6/Athlon™/Duron™ or compatible processor. Proces sor must be 200 MHz or higher. 2. Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows® 2000, Windows NT® 4.0 (SP6 or greater), Windows Me/98 (To work with loca[...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e Silent Installation (Network Administrators Only) Silent installation does not display any InstallShield Wizard dialog boxes. The program is installed from the server in defa ult configuration. To run silent installation, launch the setup.exe file with the comma nd line options described below. Required comm[...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e Activating and Registering ABBYY ScanTo Office 1.0 About ABBYY ScanTo Office Activation Important! Activation is only required if you have purcha sed ABBYY ScanTo Office 1.0 via the Internet. A nonactivated copy of the product will run in trial mode. About activatio n ABBYY is concerned about software pir[...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e During activation, the ABBYY ScanTo Office Activation Wizard creates a unique Installati on ID that represents the configuration of your PC at the time of activation. The Installation ID does not in clude any personal information, any information about software or data that may reside on your PC, or any info[...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e Working with the Program ABBYY ScanTo Office 1.0 is fully integrated with the following Microsoft Office 2000 , XP , and 2003 applications: Microsoft Word , Microsoft Excel , and Microsoft Outlook . ABBYY ScanTo Office 1.0 offers severa l quick scanning/opening scenarios: 1. Scanning and opening docum ents i[...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e Important! If you choose to open the resultin g text in the current Word document, most of the original formatt ing will be lost, except for paragraphs and tables (any settings y ou made on the Retain Layout tab will be ignored). 3. Click Start . 4. In the Open Image dialog box that opens select the fi le(s)[...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e Sending Converted Files to Microsoft Outlook To scan and convert a docum ent from Microsoft Outlook: 1. Click the ScanTo Office button on the toolbar or select ScanTo Office... from the File menu. 2. In the ABBYY ScanTo Office dialog box that opens: • Select Scan . Note: To scan a multipage document, selec[...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e • Open in Microsoft Word Convert the file and open the resu lting text in Microsoft Word • Open in Microsoft Excel Convert the file and open the resu lting text in Microsoft Excel • Save to File... C onvert the file and save it to your hard disk • Send to Mail Recipient as Document Convert the file, [...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e • Select one of the available actions:  Open in Microsoft Word to convert the file and open the resulting text in Micros oft Word;  Open in Microsoft Excel to convert the file and open the resulting text in Micros oft Excel;  Save to file to convert the file and save it to your hard disk;  Send[...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e Program settings Scanning/Opening Images Conversion quality depends greatly on the quality o f the scanned imag e. In ABBYY ScanTo Office 1.0, you can either scan a paper document or open an image that is already saved on your computer.. Scanning ABBYY ScanTo Office "talks" with scanners via the TW[...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e Tips on Brightness Tuning The scanned image has to be leg ible.  an example of a good image If you see that the scanned image is far from perfect (character s are glued or torn), consult the tabl e below to find out how y ou can improve image quality. Your image looks like this: Possible remedy: character[...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e 2. NonADF Scanning In your scanner's TWAIN dialog box, click the Scan button (this button may be nam ed differently in different scanners). Scan your page, insert another page int o your scanner and click the Scan button in the TWA IN dialog box of your scanner to continue scanning. When you have fin[...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e Retaining Pictures Picture retention options a re set in the Options dialog box ( Retain Layout tab). The following options are available • Keep pictures in document • Reduce picture resolution to... • Picture quality Keep pictures in document If you chose this option, pictures will be retained. This o[...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e Appendix Supported Image Formats ABBYY ScanTo Office opens image files in the following formats: BMP: 2bit  black and white 4 and 8bit  Palette 16bit 24bit  Palette and TrueColor 32bit PCX, DCX: 2bot  black and white 4 and 8bit  Palette 24vit  TrueColor JPEG : [...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e • Estonian • Finnish • French • German • Greek • Hungarian • Italian • Kurdish • Latin • Lettish • Lithuanian • Macedonian • Maltese • Moldavian • Norwegian (Nynorsk and Bokmal) • Polish • Portuguese (Brazil) • Romanian • Russian • Serbian (Cyrillic and Latin) • Slov[...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e How to Buy ABBYY Products You can buy ABBYY products by visiting ABBYY online store at www.ABBYY.com. You can also contact ABBYY resellers wo rldwide. The list of rese llers is regularly updated at ABBYY web site. If you have any questions or comments, please cont act the ABBYY office responsibl e for you[...]

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    ABBYY ScanTo Off ice 1.0 User’s Guid e Technical Support Should you have any questions about installation or use of ABB YY ScanTo Office, please first c onsult the documentation provided with the program (User's Guide and Help) and visit the technical support pages on our website. If, however, your questions rema in unanswered, please contac[...]