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10  Live Update: Updates your software with the most recent version, using the Internet.  Category: Toggles between the available document

11  Rotate Image: Rotates the image 90 degrees clockwise. This allows you to control the image orientation prior to saving.  Zoom Image: Click

12  Background Save Progress: Shows the background saving progress (used in automatic save mode only).  FTP Progress (Status bar): Shows the

13 Configuring the Program Before you start scanning, it would be a good idea to configure the program’s scanning and file saving parameters. Click

14 Data Source The Data Source section determines the data input source: Scanners, magnetic strip or image file. Checking the ‘Scanner’ option does

15 Scanner button assignment If you use the ScanShell 1000 scanner, clicking the 'Scanner button assignment' will open the following windo

16 Saving options Once an image is imported, it can be saved to a file or to the clipboard. Images can be saved in two ways: Manual save: The image

17 File Naming Clicking on the ‘File naming and type’ button will take you to the following configuration screen: Figure 5: File naming configurat

18 NAME field from the ID card. Accordingly, if the ID card belongs to JOHN SMITH, the saved file name will be JOHN SMITH.BMP.  File name: Type in

19 Data extraction tab (*ScanShellOCR Only) Figure 7: Scanner configuration panel - License data processing tab  Extract full image: extracts t

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20 about file naming methods, see the Image manual save and Image auto-save sections on page 16. Extract face image to file The face image rectangle

21 Document type export strings The document type is specified in the exported text file with the following (exact) strings:  When scanning driver

22 OCR text export tab (*ScanShell OCR Only) Figure 8: Scanner configuration panel – Image tab By checking the checkbox, text extracted from the

23 Image tab The following scanned image parameters can be controlled from the Image tab:  Document size: The scanned area size in the document, Pa

24 WidthHeight Figure 10: Document Measurements The document Passport size drop-down list offers the following options:  Full size (3"x5"

25 Accordingly, if a certain document scanned in black and white format produces a file of 50KB, the same document produces an image file of 400KB wh

26 Printing – Print tab Image Print Size Surprisingly, the printed image size depends very much on the graphic program used. In some low-end graphi

27 Print data from driver’s license card: Places the data from the card under the card image. The printed image and data fields can be selected usin

28 Live Update Live Update checks for updates whenever you are connected to the Internet, and updates your program automatically with the most recen

29 Figure 14: Live Update user details 4. Fill in your details. Note: License, Email and Company are obligatory and must be filled in. 5. Click

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30 Program Operation Overview ScanShell operation can be divided into six main operation categories: 1. Scanning and Image import 2. Saving and

31 Scanning a new document To scan a new document, just feed the driver’s license into the scanner. If the scanner is set to automatic scan mode, th

32 ID Data (*ScanShellOCR Only) After scanning and processing the ID card, you can review the acquired text information by opening the ID Data wind

33 Custom fields - User defined fields Custom fields can be useful for creating badges and other purposes.  Click on the 'OCR' button a

34 ID Card authentication (*ScanShellOCR Only) Use this option to check if the card you scan is genuine. ScanShell will scan the data on the card

35 7. ScanShell will scan the card, and than prompt you to scan the card a second time. Insert the card again in the scanner/reader and repeat the

36 Reading Passports (*ScanShellOCR Only) Passports scanning can only be done with the ScanShell 1000 scanner. This scanner was designed specifical

37 Appendix A – Supported States for Detection The following table shows the countries and states supported by ScanShell. This list will be updated

38 Region Name Region ID Country Name Country ID Document Name Document ID South Carolina 39 South Dakota 40 Tennessee 41 Texas 42

39 Region Name Region ID Country Name Country ID Document Name Document ID Swiss 20 Swiss 240 Sweden 22 Sweden driver license 260 Italy 23 Ita

4 ID Card authentication (*ScanShellOCR Only) ... 34 To authenticate a card: ...

40 Appendix B – Supported Scanners Before using ScanShell, the scanner driver must be installed. ScanShell can work with the following scanner types

41 Appendix C - Maintaining the scanner Calibrating the scanner With time, the scanner colors detection tends to change to incorrect values. This p

42 Appendix D - Minimized Interface Mode & Command-Line Switches The ScanShell application behavior can be modified to best suit your needs. Th

43 This alters the program main screen as follows: Figure 19: Main screen in minimized mode Main screen function controls:  Help: Opens this he

44 Note: All the settings described in previous sections of this documents apply when running in Minimized Interface mode.

45 Appendix E – Full Export Fields List The following table shows the full list of exported fields from idScan (in this order). Field name and ind

46 31. Issuing Country passport field 32. Nationality passport field 33. County. 34. mAddress2; 35. mAddress3; 36. mAddress4; 37. mA

47 65. Phone0 Business card field 66. PhoneLabel1 Business card field 67. Phone1 Business card field 68. PhoneLabel2 Business card field 69. Phone2

48 99. Text line3 100. Country name (for driver license document only) 101. Ammount 102. Date Bank Cheque field 103. Issuer Bank Cheque fie

5 Getting Started Before using the scanner The application has been carefully packaged to avoid damage during transportation. Before operating the

6  <CD ROM drive>:\Scanner Driver\MagShell900 (for magnetic reader model MagShel900) After you specify the driver, click Next until the ins

7 Installation To install the software on the computer, do the following: 1. Close all programs. 2. Insert the CD into the CD ROM drive. 3. Wait

8 Introduction Important! This manual refers to two versions of ScanShell: ScanShell and ScanShellOCR. Please note that if you purchased

9 The Program Interface The following figure shows the application main screen: Note: Some features are only available in ScanShellOCR – see detail