What is a Profile?
Preferable scan settings, a save destination for scanned images, and the applications that you want to run are saved in a profile. You can scan documents simply by loading them in the ScanSnap, selecting a profile in the profile list on the touch panel or in the scan window of ScanSnap Home, and by pressing the [Scan] button. Preferable scan settings, a save destination for scanned images, and the applications that you want to run are saved in a profile. You can scan documents simply by loading them in the ScanSnap, selecting a profile in the profile list in the scan window of ScanSnap Home, and by pressing the [Scan] button.
Adding new profiles and modifying the settings of profiles are possible in the Scan Window.
Default Profiles
Some of the commonly used settings in profiles are provided in ScanSnap Home by default.
ScanSnap Home-
It is displayed when you click
in the scan window.This is a profile that is set to automatically detect a document type out of "Documents", "Business Cards", "Receipts", and "Photos" and scan documents with the appropriate scan settings depending on each document type.
Content data records created from the documents that you scanned are displayed in the Main Window of ScanSnap Home.
Quick Menu-
It is displayed when you click
in the scan window.This is a profile that is configured so that you can select an application according to your intended use for the scanned image, in the Quick Menu which is displayed after documents are scanned.
For details about the Quick Menu, refer to Quick Menu for Selecting an Application to Perform a Particular Action.
Magazine in PDF-
This is a profile best suited for scanning books such as magazines.
Scan a book using the page turning detection, which automatically starts a scan when a page in a book is turned.
Content data records created from the magazine that you scanned are displayed in the Main Window of ScanSnap Home.
- Quick Menu
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This is a profile that is configured so that you can select an application according to your intended use for the scanned image, in the Quick Menu which is displayed after documents are scanned.
For details about the Quick Menu, refer to Quick Menu for Selecting an Application to Perform a Particular Action.
Scan to Folder-
It is displayed when you click
in the scan window.This is a profile that is set to select a folder to save scanned images of documents and to specify a title for scanned images when you scan documents.
Even a folder, which is not managed in ScanSnap Home, can be specified as a save destination for scanned images.
When a folder that is managed in ScanSnap Home is specified as the save destination for scanned images, content data records created from documents that you scanned are displayed in the main window of ScanSnap Home.
Scan to Email-
It is displayed when you click
in the scan window.This is a profile that is used to attach the images, created from the document that you scan, to an e-mail and send it.
When you scan a document, an e-mail program starts up and the scanned image is attached to an e-mail.
Photo Album (*1)-
It is displayed when you click
in the scan window.This is a profile best fitted to scan photos.
The images created from the photos that you scanned are saved as JPEG files in the Picture folder.
When you scan a photo of a person, ScanSnap Home will detect the face of the person, and correct the orientation of a scanned image automatically.
Business Cards (*1)-
It is displayed when you click
in the scan window.This is a profile best fitted to scan business cards.
The text information printed on business cards is recognized and extracted as meta information. Meta information extracted from the business cards that you scanned can be shared with PIM (Personal Information Manager) applications such as Outlook.
Content data records created from the business cards that you scanned are displayed in the main window of ScanSnap Home.
Receipts-
It is displayed when you click
in the scan window.This is a profile best fitted to scan receipts.
The text information printed on receipts is recognized and extracted as meta information. If you add tags used to categorize expenses in the meta information extracted from the receipts that you scanned, expenses can be managed by category.
Content data records created from the receipts that you scanned are displayed in the main window of ScanSnap Home.
Scan to Cloud-
It is displayed when you click
in the scan window.This is a profile that is configured to save a scanned image in a cloud service by using ScanSnap Cloud, by simply scanning a document.
This can be used to automatically detect a type of image ("Documents", "Business Cards", "Receipts" or "Photos") created from a document that you scan, and sort and save the scanned images to a cloud service that you specified for each document type.
Content data records created from the documents that you scanned are stored for two weeks on the ScanSnap Cloud server and displayed in the main window of ScanSnap Home.
For regions where ScanSnap Cloud can be used, refer to here.
HINT[Scan to Cloud] may not be displayed in the profile list on the touch panel depending on the setting that has been selected for the method for displaying profiles.
For details, refer to Changing Users in order to Display the User's Own Profiles.
| *1: | This profile may not be displayed depending on the region where the ScanSnap is used. |