What You Can Do with ScanSnap Home

What you can do with ScanSnap Home when ScanSnap Manager is used as the scanner driver to operate the scanner are as follows:

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  • If you want to use ScanSnap Home as both the scanner driver to operate the scanner and the application to manage content data records created from the documents that you scan, uninstall ScanSnap Manager.

    For details about how to use ScanSnap Home as the scanner driver to operate the scanner, refer to the ScanSnap Help.

  • Regardless of the document type ("Documents", "Business Cards", "Receipts", or "Photos"), you can manage images created from documents that you scanned with the ScanSnap and also manage content information, such as the date a document was scanned and the result of a text recognition on a document.

    A scanned image together with content information is referred to as content data record.

  • You can manage the content information, such as the date when you scanned the document and the result of the text recognition for the character string in the document, by document type.

    A scanned image together with content information is referred to as content data record.

  • After the documents are scanned with the ScanSnap, the scanned images can be corrected.

  • You can comprehensively manage the files in the local folders or the network folders as well as the content data records created from the documents that you scanned with the ScanSnap.

  • You can classify files based on document types, history of scanning documents, or tags, regardless of the file format (PDF or JPEG). In addition, full-text search is available for content data records.

  • You can output the contact information on a business card or the amount on a receipt in a format such as CSV to use it with outside applications.