The Separation option on the Capture tab allows you to identify how you want to separate batches and documents for this job. There are several ways to add separators to your batches. The following list provides the options you can use to create separation settings in Kodak Capture Pro Software:
• with a bar code zone (see Chapter 6, Bar Code and OCR Setup)
• with an OCR zone (see Chapter 6, Bar Code and OCR Setup)
• with Patch codes 2, 3 or T (see Chapter 5, Patch Code Setup)
• by automatically counting pages in a document(s) in a batch (set this option up using the By Count option)
• with a blank page (set this option up using the By Blank Page option)
• by selecting Document>New or Batch>Next
• by pressing Enter during scanning
• by right-clicking on a page file in the Batch Explorer and clicking Split The sections that follow provide information and procedures for using Kodak Capture Pro Software to automatically separate documents or batches by counting pages and how to use blank page separation.
By Count The By Count separation setting on the Capture tab allows you to enter the number of documents that each batch will contain, and the number of pages each document will contain.
1. Choose Batch Level and/or Document Level.
2. Click Every at the Batch Level and enter the number of documents that the batch must contain before a new batch is created.
3. Click Every at the Document Level and enter the number of pages that a document must contain before a new document is created.
By Blank page When scanning images, you can insert blank pages to serve as separators.
Kodak Capture Pro Software can recognize blank pages and use them to start new batches, start new documents, or create attachments to documents.
To use this method enable the By blank page option and select the desired settings.
When you are simultaneously scanning black and white and color/grayscale images, Capture Pro Software can use either black and white or the color image to determine a blank page. When the software detects a blank page, all four images (Color front; Color back; Black and White front; and Black and White back) of the page are either deleted or attached to the new/current document, depending on the settings you created.
The size (in bytes) of both the front and rear images of a page must fall below the entered byte value for Capture Pro Software to recognize the page as blank. If the software does not recognize a blank page, it will ignore it as a separator.
NOTE: It is recommended that you test these values to ensure that the software will detect your blank pages as a separator. See the next section “Testing your settings” for procedures.
Blank Page Image Separator when — activates blank page separation.
• Image size (byte) is below — creates blank page separations based on the size (in bytes) of the blank page image. Specify the maximum amount of data (bytes) an image can contain and still be considered blank for each image type (Black & White, Color/Grayscale) that you will be scanning.
The image size is checked against the raw image coming from the scanner before operations are performed.
- Black and White: enter the maximum image size in bytes for black and white. By default, 3000 bytes is suggested for black and white images.
- Color/Grayscale: enter the maximum image size in bytes for color or
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• Image content (%) is below — creates blank page separations based on the percentage of image content in the blank page image.
NOTE: If the pages you will scan are different sizes, a small page may fall below your blank image byte count even though it contains data.
In this case, you may prefer to describe a blank image by specifying % content rather than byte size.
- Black & White: enter the percentage limit for black and white images.
- Color/Grayscale: enter the percentage limit for color and grayscale images.
Test — opens the Test Image dialog box, which allows you to scan and test the blank page that is being used as a separator that will be considered blank when compared against the Image content (%) settings. Use this option to verify that the software considers the page to be blank. See the next section
“Testing your settings” for more information.
What to do if a page is blank — select one of the options as the next step after the software recognizes a blank page separation.
• Create a new batch — creates a new batch when a blank page is detected.
• Create a new document — creates a new document when a blank page is detected.
• Next page stays in current document — deletes the blank page.
• Delete page — when checked, the blank page will not be included in the batch or document that you are separating on.
Testing your settings 1. Place a document in the scanner that is representative of the document you want to test for blank page separation.
2. Click Test to display the Test Image dialog box.
The results will be displayed in the Test result box.
• The image is: indicates if the image is Blank or Not Blank.
• Image size is - (bytes): the size of the test image in bytes.
• Content is - %: the percentage of content in the test image.
3. Evaluate the values displayed in the Image size is - (bytes) and/or Content is - % test result area and click Close.
4. Based on the results, readjust your entered values as needed and click OK.