Add a profile that you use when scanning a document with the ScanSnap.
The type of document to be scanned, the scan settings such as the color mode, the save destination for scanned images, and the applications that you want to run to manage scanned images can be specified in a profile.
In this section, create a profile in which the save destination for scanned images is set to a local folder or a network folder. One of the local folders is a folder that is synchronized with a cloud service.
Click the [Scan] button at the top of the Main Window of ScanSnap Home to display the Scan Window.
Select a template profile according to the type of documents to be scanned or the intended use for the content data records created from documents that you scanned.
By selecting a template profile, the profile settings are modified according to the intended use for the content data records.
From step 4, modify the profile settings if necessary.
In [Profile name], enter a name and a description for the profile to be added, and then select a profile icon.
If you select a template profile, the profile name, icon, and description are automatically displayed.
If you did not change the profile name, the profile name is automatically generated according to the changes to [Document type detection] and [Save to]. If an application is set for [Send to] in the selected template profile, a profile name is not created automatically.
Select a document type in [Document type detection].
HINT
Selecting [Automatically detects the document type as "Documents", "Business Cards", "Receipts", or "Photos" and scans the document with the appropriate scan settings] in [Document type detection] automatically detects the document type for the scanned documents. To detect a document type automatically, scan settings need to be configured for each document type.
In [Scan settings], configure the color, scanning side, image quality, rotation, file format, feeding method, and tags for documents.
To configure the settings in detail when saving images in a PDF format (*.pdf), click the [Option] button for [File format].
The new profile is added at the bottom of the profile list in the scan window.
The new profile is added to the profile list that is displayed when you click in the scan window.
HINT
If a profile icon which is added to the profile list in the scan window is not shown properly in the profile list on the touch panel of the ScanSnap, update the firmware.
Select a template profile according to the type of documents to be scanned or the intended use for the content data records created from documents that you scanned.
By selecting a template profile, the profile settings are modified according to the intended use for the content data records.
From step 4, modify the profile settings if necessary.
In [Profile name], enter a name and a description for the profile to be added, and then select a profile icon.
If you select a template profile, the profile name, icon, and description are automatically displayed.
If you did not change the profile name, the profile name is automatically generated according to the changes to [Document type detection] and [Save to]. If an application is set for [Send to] in the selected template profile, a profile name is not created automatically.
Select a document type in [Document type detection].
HINT
Selecting [Automatically detects the document type as "Documents", "Business Cards", "Receipts", or "Photos" and scans the document with the appropriate scan settings] in [Document type detection] automatically detects the document type for the scanned documents. To detect a document type automatically, scan settings need to be configured for each document type.
In [Scan settings], configure the color, scanning side, image quality, rotation, file format, feeding method, and tags for documents.
To configure the settings in detail when saving images in a PDF format (*.pdf), click the [Option] button for [File format].
The new profile is added at the bottom of the profile list in the scan window.
The new profile is added to the profile list that is displayed when you click in the scan window.
HINT
If a profile icon which is added to the profile list in the scan window is not shown properly in the profile list on the touch panel of the ScanSnap, update the firmware.
to display the [Add new profile] Window.
in the scan window.
in the application list that appears when you click Launchpad in the Dock.