Scanning Manuals or Catalogs to Do Away with Them
Scan documents such as manuals or catalogs and save them as PDF files. You can digitize manuals and catalogs piled up at home to search for them for viewing anytime. Therefore, you can discard the originals without any worries.
This section explains how to remove staples from the saddle stitched manual, take the manual apart into pages, and scan the pages.
This section explains how to scan a manual bound like a book without having to pull each page out.
Scanning copyrighted works, such as newspapers, magazines, and books, without permission from the right holder is banned by law, except when its intended use is within the individual or domestic range or equivalent ranges.
An image created from the document that you scanned can be used only for private use.
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When the installation environment of the ScanSnap or the specification of the book encounters any of the following, use timed mode to scan a book.
For details, refer to Scanning Documents Using Timed Mode.
Installation environment of the ScanSnap
The ScanSnap is installed under direct sunlight
The ScanSnap is installed under lighting that emits a lot of infrared rays such as incandescent lamps
The ScanSnap is under uneven lighting caused by some environmental factors such as the use of a spotlight
An object other than the book to be scanned is placed on the Background Pad
A device that emits infrared light such as a heater is placed near the ScanSnap
Movement of shadow such as a person appears on the Background Pad
Book specifications
Books such as comics and paperback books, which are smaller than A4 (210 × 297 mm)/Letter (8.5 × 11 in. (216 × 279.4 mm)) when opened in a double-page spread
When the folder that you specified for the save destination is selected in the folder list view in the main window of ScanSnap Home, the content data records created from the manual that you scanned are displayed in the content data record list view.
If you dispose of the original manual, make sure that all pages that make up the original are scanned.