Operating Instructions Software (Network TWAIN Driver) For Digital Imaging Systems General Description System Requirements TWAIN Driver Operating the Network
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General Description...... 4 System Requirements...... 6 Operating the Network TWAIN Driver...... 8 Acquiring Images from a Device...... 8 The Device Selection Screen...... 12 The Box Selection Screen...... 14 The File Selection Screen...... 16 The Search Settings Screen...... 18 Troubleshooting...... 20
3 General Description General Description
TWAIN is a standard for connecting software applications to imaging devices such as scanners, digital cameras, and MFPs.
Once this software is installed, scanned images that have been saved in boxes in a device can be acquired by a computer via a network connection.
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5 System Requirements
Personal Computer : IBM® PC/AT® and compatibles (CPU Intel® Pentium® 4 1.6 GHz or greater is recommended) Operating System : Microsoft® Windows® 2000 operating system (Service Pack 4 or later)*1, Microsoft® Windows® XP operating system (Service Pack 2 or later)*2, Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 operating system (Service Pack 1 or later)*3, Microsoft® Windows Vista® operating system*4, Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 operating system*5 .
* The following Operating System is not supported : Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 Enterprise Edition for Itanium®-based systems, Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Enterprise Edition for Itanium®-based systems. System Requirements Application Software: Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.0 Service Pack 1 or later, Microsoft® .NET Framework Version 2.0, .NET Framework Version 2.0 Language Pack .
System Memory : Recommended Memory for each OS: Microsoft® Windows® 2000 operating system : 256 MB or more Microsoft® Windows® XP operating system : 512 MB or more Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 operating system Microsoft® Windows Vista® operating system : 1 GB or more Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 operating system
Free Disk Space : 300 MB or more (For installation and work space, not including storage space)
CD-ROM Drive : Used for installing the software and utilities from the CD-ROM
Interface : 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T Ethernet Port (The interface that can be used is different depending on the model)
*1 Microsoft® Windows® 2000 operating system (hereafter Windows 2000) *2 Microsoft® Windows® XP operating system (hereafter Windows XP) *3 Microsoft® Windows Server® 2003 operating system (hereafter Windows Server 2003) *4 Microsoft® Windows Vista® operating system (hereafter Windows Vista) *5 Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 operating system (hereafter Windows Server 2008)
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7 Operating the Network TWAIN Driver
Acquiring Images from a Device
The following describes the procedure for acquiring, by using a computer, image data scanned and saved in a box in a device. You can acquire images using TWAIN compatible applications, or you can start the Network TWAIN Driver from the Windows start menu to acquire images.
Starting the Network TWAIN Driver from an application: Select To Import Folder… from Acquire Image in the File menu of the application that is to acquire images. Operating the Network
TWAIN Driver Note: If the Network TWAIN Driver is already running, the message dialog box
Starting the Network TWAIN Driver from the Windows Start Menu: Click start All Programs (Programs for Windows 2000) Panasonic Panasonic Document Management System Network TWAIN Driver.
Note: If the Network TWAIN Driver is already running, the message dialog box
Select a device, and then click OK.
Note: To skip this screen the next time the Network TWAIN Driver is started, select [Don't show device selection screen.]. To change search conditions for devices, display the search settings screen by clicking Setting.
The box list stored in the selected device is displayed.
Select the desired box number, and then click OK.
ATTENTION Multiple users can access the box. Be careful not to access other user's box and acquire/ delete files from the box. TWAIN Driver Operating the Network
Note: To skip this screen the next time the Network TWAIN Driver is started, select [Don’t show next time. (When device selection screen omitted)].
Continue on the next page... 9 A list of files in the selected box is displayed.
Select a file, and then click OK.
To select multiple files at one time, select files while holding down the [Ctrl] key or the [Shift] key, and then click OK. To select consecutive multiple files, use the [Shift] key. To select inconsecutive multiple files, use the [Ctrl] key.
ATTENTION Other users can access the box. To avoid other users from acquiring/deleting files from your box, it is recommended that you acquire and delete the files from the box immediately after you scanned/saved important data. The following two methods can be used to delete files from the box. Deleted files cannot be retrieved. - By selecting [Delete the extracted file.]: If this option is selected, files are deleted from the box after they are acquired. If Cancel is clicked in the message dialog box before the files are acquired, the file acquisition is canceled and the files are not deleted from the box. - By clicking Delete: You can delete unnecessary files by clicking this button after a file is selected. Operating the Network If acquiring/deleting files from the box, carefully confirm
Note: If the Network TWAIN Driver is started from an application, note that the file format may be changed, when storing images, depending on the settings of the application you are using.
If the Network TWAIN Driver is started from an application in step 1 go to step 5a If the Network TWAIN Driver is started from the Windows start menu in step 1 go to step 5b
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If [Show message when two or more files selected.] is selected with multiple files selected, click OK when the message dialog box
After the message dialog box
Note: The Network TWAIN Driver automatically exits depending on the image application you are using. If the Network TWAIN Driver does not automatically exit, click Cancel to exit the Network TWAIN Driver.
The selection screen for the folder to save the file is displayed.
Select a folder to save the file, and then click OK.
After the message dialog box
Note: You cannot change the file format when saving to a folder. The file is saved to the folder in the same format as when it was in the box of the selected device. The file formats that this software can save in are listed below. However, for files in the PDF format or TIFF format, only the files generated by the machine are supported. - PDF - TIFF - JPEG TWAIN Driver Operating the Network
11 The Device Selection Screen
If either of the following conditions is met, this screen is displayed first when the Network TWAIN Driver is started: If [Don’t show device selection screen.] has never been selected (this option is not selected by default) If it is the first time the logged in user has started the driver
You can skip this screen if the following conditions are met: If you exited the Network TWAIN Driver with [Don’t show device selection screen.] selected If the device selected with the above option selected is successfully accessed
If you exit the Network TWAIN Driver with [Don’t show device selection screen.] deselected, this screen is displayed the next time the driver is started. You can also stop skipping this screen in the following cases: When you click Select device on the box selection screen to return to the device selection screen When you fail to access the device selected with [Don’t show device selection screen.] selected, and click Select device in the displayed message dialog box
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12 Note: If you fail to access the device selected with [Don't show device selection screen.] selected, the following message dialog box is displayed. - Retry: Click to try accessing the selected device again. - Select device: Click to display the device selection screen. - Cancel: Click to close the message dialog box.
1. Device Search Results Screen 3. Setting Displays the devices found. The model name, Displays the search settings screen to specify location, and IP address of the device are search conditions. displayed. 4. Reload You can sort the files that are displayed by each Searches for devices again, and updates the item. Device Search Results Screen. You can select only one device from the devices The message dialog box
time the Network TWAIN Driver is started. Once TWAIN Driver you start the driver, it accesses the device
selected with this option selected and displays Operating the Network the box selection screen or the file selection screen.
13 The Box Selection Screen
If the following conditions are met, this screen is displayed first when the Network TWAIN Driver is started: If you exited the driver with [Don’t show device selection screen.] selected If the device selected with the above option selected is successfully accessed
You can skip this screen if the following conditions are met: If you exited the Network TWAIN Driver with [Don’t show next time. (When device selection screen omitted)] selected If the box selected with the above option selected is successfully accessed
If you exit the Network TWAIN Driver with [Don’t show next time. (When device selection screen omitted)] deselected, this screen is displayed the next time the driver is started. You can also stop skipping this screen in the following cases: When you click Select device on this screen to return to the device selection screen When you fail to access the device selected with [Don’t show device selection screen.] selected, and click Select device in the displayed message dialog box
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14 1. Box Search Results Screen 6. OK Displays the boxes found in the selected device. Click OK after selecting a box. The box name and the number of files saved in If [Show empty boxes.] is deselected, this button the device are displayed. is grayed out when the number of boxes with You can sort the files that are displayed by each files is 0. item. 7. Cancel You can select only one box from the boxes Exits the Network TWAIN Driver. displayed. If all of the boxes cannot be displayed, you can scroll to display the rest of the boxes. To select a box, select the desired box, and then click OK. If a connection cannot be established with the selected device, the message dialog box
The message dialog box
Cancel cancels the search for boxes. Operating the Network If a connection cannot be established with the selected device, the message dialog box
15 The File Selection Screen
This screen is displayed after selecting the box on the box selection screen.
If the following conditions are met, this screen is displayed first when the Network TWAIN Driver is started: If you exited the driver with [Don’t show device selection screen.] selected on the device selection screen and [Don’t show next time. (When device selection screen omitted)] selected on the box selection screen If the device and box selected with the above options selected are successfully accessed
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16 1. File List 5. Delete Displays the files stored in the selected box. The Displays a message dialog box for confirming file name, the date and time the file was updated, file deletion. If deletion is approved, deletes the the file size, and the file type are displayed. selected files in the box. During file deletion, a You can sort the files that are displayed by each message dialog box indicating that deletion is item. being executed is displayed. If all of the files in the box cannot be displayed in 6. Box selection the screen, you can scroll to display the rest of Returns to the box selection screen. the files. 7. OK You can select multiple files at the same time. Click OK after selecting a file. To select files, select the desired files, and then If a file is not selected, this button is grayed out. click OK. 8. Cancel 2. Delete the extracted file. Exits the Network TWAIN Driver. Select this option to delete the selected files after they are acquired. During file deletion, a message dialog box indicating that deletion is being executed is displayed. 3. Show message when two or more files selected. Select this option to display the message dialog box
17 The Search Settings Screen
The following screen is displayed when Setting on the device selection screen is clicked.
The driver is compatible with both IPv4 and IPv6. You can select a range of IP addresses (IPv4) or directly specify an IP address (IPv4/IPv6).
Note: A range of IPv6 addresses cannot be set.
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18 1. Add IP Address to search Select this option to search for devices from the list of specified IP addresses. Deselect this option to search all equipment connected to the same network as your computer for devices.
Note: If OK is clicked without changing any settings after Add IP Address to search is selected, no changes are applied to the IP address settings.
2. Range – IPv4 Enter the first IPv4 address/last IPv4 address. Only IPv4 addresses can be entered. 3. IP Address – IPv4 Enter an IPv4 address. Only IPv4 addresses can be entered. 4. IP Address – IPv6 Enter an IPv6 address. You can also enter a scope ID. IPv6 addresses can only be used if you are using Windows Vista or later. 5. Add Adds IP addresses to the IP address list.
Note: If the total number of IP addresses specified in [Range-IPv4], [IP Address-IPv4], and [IP Address- IPv6] exceeds 255, an error message is displayed.
6. Delete Deletes an IP address from the IP address list. 7. IP address list Displays the IP addresses added by clicking Add.
8. Timeout TWAIN Driver Sets the amount of time before a connection is
timed out when searching. Operating the Network 9. OK Applies the settings. If you have not performed any operations after opening this screen, this button is grayed out. 10. Cancel Closes this screen without applying any of the settings.
19 Troubleshooting
This section describes potential problems, and corrective actions as well as the system requirements.
Problem Corrective action Devices cannot be searched for. Confirm that the connection cable (Ethernet LAN cable) is connected correctly. Confirm the Community Name that is specified. Confirm that the Community Name is the same as the Community Name specified on the device. For details, refer to the Operating Instructions (For Device Explorer and Embedded Web Server).
There are no boxes displayed in Boxes with files stored do not exist. If [Show empty boxes] is the box selection screen. deselected, empty boxes are not displayed. Scan images with the machine, and store files in the box. Troubleshooting
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