Visioneer Patriot 430 User's Guide

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STEP 1: ASSEMBLE THE SCANNER 5STEP 1: ASSEMBLE THE SCANNER1. Remove the scanner from its protective foam and plastic bag.2. Check inside the document

6 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDESTEP 2: INSTALL THE SOFTWARETo install the software:1. Start Microsoft Windows and make sure no other appl

STEP 2: INSTALL THE SOFTWARE 73. On the Main Menu, select Install Products.4. Make sure the boxes for Nuance PaperPort® and Scanner Driver are checked

8 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDETHE PAPERPORT INSTALLATION BEGINS1. The Select Language window opens for the PaperPort software. Click the

STEP 2: INSTALL THE SOFTWARE 94. The next window lists the choices of the drivers that you can install for your scanner. 5. Select the option you want

10 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE6. During installation you will see this window asking you to select one of the images for the Color Spac

STEP 3: CONNECT THE POWER SUPPLY 11STEP 3: CONNECT THE POWER SUPPLYConnect the power supply and power cord, and plug the power supply into an electric

12 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDESTEP 4: CONNECT THE USB CABLE AND TURN ON THE POWERThe Visioneer Patriot 430 scanner connects to any avai

STEP 4: CONNECT THE USB CABLE AND TURN ON THE POWER 13If your computer is running Windows XP or Windows Vista, you will see a message similar to the f

14 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDEADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE WITH YOUR SCANNERYour scanner includes free, additional applications.To

Visioneer Patriot 430 Scanner User’s GuideFOR WINDOWSCOPYRIGHT INFORMATIONCopyright © 2009 Visioneer, Inc.Reproduction, adaptation, or translation wit

ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE WITH YOUR SCANNER 151. If you selected OmniPage Pro to install you will see a window telling you to insert Disc 2. 2

16 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDEVIEW AND SAVE THE USER GUIDES1. On the Main Menu of Disc 1, click User Guides.2. The Visioneer User Guide

VIEW AND SAVE THE USER GUIDES 174. Return to the Visioneer User Guides window and repeat the process to open, view, and save all the other User Guides

18 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDEREGISTER YOUR SCANNER AND CHECK FOR UPDATESRegistering your scanner is important as it provides you with

REGISTER YOUR SCANNER AND CHECK FOR UPDATES 19ScanningYou have several different scanning options with your Visioneer Patriot 430 scanner. Each method

20 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDELOAD DOCUMENTS TO SCAN1. Adjust the paper guide for the width of paper, and make sure the input and outpu

SCANNING FROM ONETOUCH 21SCANNING FROM ONETOUCHOneTouch is your main scanning interface for using the scanner. The OneTouch LED on the scanner shows w

22 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDESCAN FROM THE BUTTONS ON THE SCANNER1. Check the LED number to make sure you’re using the scan setting yo

SCANNING FROM ONETOUCH 23USING THE ONETOUCH BUTTON PANELThe OneTouch Button Panel is your on-screen control for the scanner. 1. To open the OneTouch B

24 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDETHE DEFAULT ONETOUCH SETTINGS ON YOUR SCANNERBased on the recommended installation of PaperPort and the s

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CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 25CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONSWhen you first connect your scanner to a computer, the scanner’s software configure

26 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDESELECTING NEW SETTINGS FOR A BUTTON1. Click the button selection arrows to select the button you want to

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 274. Select a Format option. The formats are based on the type of Destination Application you select. See “Selecting

28 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDECREATING A NEW SCAN CONFIGURATIONThe scan configurations are where you select the scanning resolution, br

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 29THE SCAN SETTINGS TAB1. On the Scan Configuration Properties dialog box, type a name.2. Select scan settings for th

30 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDETHE PAGE SETTINGS TABClick the Page Settings tab to select page settings. Size—Click Standard, click the

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 31 Straighten Image—Select this option to let the scanner automatically determine if a page is skewed, then straight

32 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDETHE ADVANCED SETTINGS TABThe options of the Advanced Settings tab are for the Color or GrayScale scanning

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 33THE DEVICE SETTINGS TABA Device Settings tab is on the Scan Configurations dialog box when your selected Destinatio

34 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDETHE STORAGE OPTIONS TAB (ARCHIVE)A Storage Options tab is on the Scan Configurations dialog box when the

TABLE OF CONTENTS iTABLE OF CONTENTSWelcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1What’s in th

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 35EDITING OR DELETING SCAN CONFIGURATIONSTo edit or delete a scan configuration:1. Open the OneTouch Properties windo

36 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDECONFIGURE BEFORE SCANChoosing Configure Before Scan simply opens either the TWAIN or WIA scanning interfa

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 37WIA—The Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) Interface opens for you to make changes prior to scanning. Please see “Scan

38 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDECANCELING A CONFIGURE BEFORE SCAN1. Click Cancel in the scanning progress window.2. The following window

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 39SELECTING PAGE FORMAT OPTIONSThe Page Format options that you select determines the file format of the scanned docu

40 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDEIMAGE FORMATSSelect an image file format for photos, artwork or other documents that you want to save as

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 41TEXT FORMATSSelecting the text format option also selects OCR processing as an automatic step for scanning. Therefo

42 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDESimple Text—The .txt file format. Text with no formatting; used by the standard Microsoft Notepad applica

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 43SETTING DESTINATION APPLICATION PROPERTIESIn the OneTouch Properties window, select a Destination Application then

44 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDEWhen PaperPort opens after you finish scanning, the thumbnails of your scanned documents are on the Paper

ii TABLE OF CONTENTSSelecting Options for a Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Scanning with Optical Character Recognition (

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 45The Add Text Based Link dialog box opens.3. Click Browse to find the application you want to add to the list.When y

46 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDEImage Documents PropertiesThese properties apply to image processing applications such as Microsoft Paint

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 47Storage PropertiesThese properties apply to the Destination Application named Transfer to Storage. If a CD burner i

48 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDEeMail PropertiesThese properties apply to email applications so you can specify the folder for documents

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 49documentation for more information about Internet options. If you are using AOL, please see the AOL user manual for

50 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDESELECTING OPTIONS FOR A BUTTONThe OneTouch Options determine the types of Destination Applications availa

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 51Destination Categories: Document Management includes PaperPort and other applications for processing and keeping t

52 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDEFor example, if you scan a picture to an email application, the scanned image is saved as a temporary fil

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 53SCANNING WITH OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR)Optical Character Recognition (OCR) converts text and numbers on a

54 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDETo scan with OCR from the Scanner Buttons:1. Press the Function button to select an LED number that has a

VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE 1WELCOMEYour new Visioneer Patriot 430 scanner can quickly scan single-sided or double-sided stacks of colo

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 55SCANNING WITH SPDF OR NPDF AND SEARCHING FOR TEXTSearchable PDF (sPDF) and Normal PDF (nPDF) are special forms of a

56 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE4. Choose the Searchable PDF or Normal PDF option for the page format.5. The settings for the button (But

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 57SCAN AND BURN TO A CDIf you have a CD burner attached to your computer, you can scan directly from your scanner ont

58 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDESCANNING WITH EVENT FORWARDINGIf you want to specify an application to use for scanning at the start of t

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 59CREATING AN HTML WEB PAGE FROM YOUR SCANNED DOCUMENTSYou can convert scanned pages to HTML format for posting direc

60 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDETRANSFERRING SCANNED DOCUMENTS TO STORAGEWith the Transfer to Storage scanning process, you can scan docu

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 61SCANNING TO MULTIPLE FOLDERSWhen archiving documents with the Transfer to Storage option, you can scan them to mult

62 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE7. Click the Storage Options tab.8. Click the Browse button.9. Select the folder you created for storing

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 6310. Click OK. The selected folder will now be set as the Storage Location, such as “Business Receipts.”11. Click OK

64 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDEScan to multiple storage folders:1. Load the documents you want to scan to multiple storage folders.2. Pr

2 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDETHE VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNERInput tray—Holds documents in place.ADF cover release—Opens the cover on

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 65TO TRANSFER DOCUMENTS TO A SERVER OR MAPPED DRIVEWhen selecting the storage location for scanned documents, you can

66 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDECHECKING THE HARDWARE AND SETTING THE LAMP POWER SAVING1. Right-click on the OneTouch icon and choose Sho

CONFIGURING THE ONETOUCH BUTTONS 672. Click the Properties button. Your scanner has a built-in power saving feature that is set to power down after 15

68 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDEScanning from the TWAIN InterfaceYou can scan from any TWAIN scanning application instead of scanning fro

SCANNING WITH THE TWAIN INTERFACE 69SCANNING WITH THE TWAIN INTERFACEThe TWAIN Interface is available from many applications, such as Microsoft Word a

70 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDETHE OPTIONS ON THE TWAIN INTERFACE ARE:Mode—Select a scanning mode:Black&White to scan in black and w

SCANNING WITH THE TWAIN INTERFACE 71Filter—The Filter is the ability of your scanner to automatically remove a color from a scanned item. The Filter o

72 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDEAutoScan on document insertion—Your Visioneer Patriot 430 scanner includes AutoLaunch technology that sen

SCANNING WITH THE TWAIN INTERFACE 73Scanning from the WIA InterfaceMicrosoft Windows XP and Windows Vista include their own scanning interface—known a

74 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE3. The WIA scanning window opens. Use this window to select scanning options and start the scanner.4. Cli

WHAT YOU NEED 3WHAT YOU NEED IBM-compatible Pentium 4 PC, or AMD equivalent with: A CD-ROM drive An available Universal Serial Bus (USB) port Micro

FINE TUNING YOUR SCANS 75FINE TUNING YOUR SCANSYou can customize settings before you scan an item to fine tune exactly how you want to scan it. 1. On

76 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDEMaintenanceThis section contains information on maintenance, troubleshooting, uninstalling, scanner speci

REPLACE THE ADF PAD ASSEMBLY 774. Wipe the ADF pad from top to bottom. Be careful not to snag the cloth on the springs on either side of the pad.5. Cl

78 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDEREPLACING THE ROLLER ASSEMBLYAfter extended use, the roller may wear out and may need to be replaced. It

REPLACING THE ROLLER ASSEMBLY 795. Discard the worn roller. It cannot be repaired. 6. Before installing the new roller, clean any dust that may have g

80 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDE8. When you are certain that the gears are engaged, swing the roller into it scanner and align the left s

TROUBLESHOOTING 81TROUBLESHOOTINGIn addition to the troubleshooting information contained in this section, please see the Readme file on your installa

82 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDEProblem: The installation will not complete successfully. If installation finishes, the scanner’s OneTouc

TROUBLESHOOTING 83Patriot 430 Scanner Parts List” on page 88 for the ordering number. See “Replace the ADF Pad Assembly” on page 77 for the steps to r

84 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDEThe table below describes the error codes.Error CodeProblem Description Solution0 The scanner is not comm

4 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDEInstallationInstallation is a quick, four-step process:1. Assemble the scanner2. Install the software3. Co

UNINSTALL YOUR SCANNER 85UNINSTALL YOUR SCANNERTo uninstall the Visioneer Patriot 430 scanner, remove the OneTouch 4.0 software, PaperPort, and any ot

86 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDETO INSTALL ANOTHER DRIVERBefore you can install another driver for your scanner, you must remove the curr

VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER SPECIFICATIONS 87VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER SPECIFICATIONSOptical resolution 600 x 1200 dpiBit depth 48-bit color (in

88 VISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER USER’S GUIDEVISIONEER PATRIOT 430 SCANNER PARTS LISTPlease use the following part names and numbers when ordering rep

INDEX 89INDEXAADFcleaning 76ADF pad assemblyreplace 77Advanced Properties 75Advanced Settings Tab 32aspect ratio 33Autocrop to Original 30, 70AutoRota

INDEX 90LLamp timeout setting 67LED number 19Link Properties 43MMicrosoft Internet Explorer 59Microsoft Outlook 48Moire Patterns 30, 71monitor 3NNorma

INDEX 91TText Documents Properties 44Text Editors 51Text Formats 41TIFF 40Transfer to Storage 60troubleshooting 81TWAIN 36, 58TWAIN standard 68Uuninst

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