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Overview

OnBase is a document management system. Document imaging in OnBase allows you to convert paper documents to electronic documents or to bring existing electronic documents into OnBase. These electronic files/documents can then be indexed, stored and retrieved later.

Documents can be imported into OnBase using the following methods:

 Scanning - This allows a user to scan paper documents and convert the captured images into electronic image documents. When scanning, you can use any TWAIN, Kofax™, or ISIS -compliant scanner.

 Sweeping - This allows a user to import, individually or in large quantities, existing electronic files into OnBase without using a scanner.

 Scanning from disk - This is similar to sweeping. Scanning from disk allows a user to import existing digital images into OnBase.

Documents can be scanned or swept, individually or in large batches into scan queues. The newest version of the OnBase client is the Unity client. With this client you can perform batch scanning of paper documents or sweeping of electronic documents.

Getting Help

The OnBase Online Help can be accessed through the Unity client. When in the Unity client, click the F1 key.

Training tutorials/videos from the Hyland Software vendor for OnBase can be accessed here:

https://training.onbase.com/endusertraining13.

To contact the OnBase Help Desk, email: [email protected].

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Preparing to Scan

Before scanning your documents, you will need to set up the scan format properties, the scanner properties and the document properties.

Starting OnBase

To begin, you will need to open the OnBase Unity Client.

1. Double Click on the Unity Client icon .

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2. The OnBase Log-in box appears and will prompt you for a User Name and Password.

3. Enter your User Name and Password. The OnBase User Name is the same as your ADS User Name. The Password is the same as your network passphrase.

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OnBase Retrieval Screen

When you log into OnBase, your Home Page will display. The Home Page is configurable and is always the default when logging in. In the example below, the Home page has been set to the Document Retrieval screen.

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Scan / Index Process

1. To access the scan / index process, click on the ribbon.

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In these Scan Queues, documents are indexed and can undergo additional processing before being added to OnBase. When you select a Scan Queue, you will see the Scan

Mode (or Indexing panel) on the right side. We will discuss this in more detail later.

2. Select one of the Scan Queues in the Scan Queue section (upper left hand box). In this example, we have selected the Test queue.

3. The Batches for that Scan Queue will display at the bottom of the window.

Under the Batches section, you will see a list of the batches that have been scanned. Each batch is automatically assigned a batch number. A batch consists of either multiple

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You can look at the settings and details assigned to the Scan Queue. The settings for the Scan Queue are called the Scan Format. Scan formats are user configurable and contain information about the type of scanner, document, file format and image processing. These formats retain specific settings for different types of source documents.

Scan Format Setup

Before scanning can take place a scan format must be chosen. Separate scan formats can be created depending on the type of pages to be scanned, page size (letter, legal, 11x17),

multiple page batch, single document with multiple pages batch, duplex, single sided, etc.

1. To access the Scan Format Setup, click .

You can also highlight the Scan Queue, right click and select Scan Format Setup.

2. Click .

The New Scan Format dialog box will display.

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5. Click .

6. Click . The following box will display a list of scanner types.

7. From the list, select the name of the type of scanner you are using. 8. Click . The Scanner Properties dialog box will display.

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Scanner Properties:

 Source: ADF (Automatic Document Feeder) this option will default to ADF

and be grayed out unless the scanner has a flatbed.

 Destination: This option will also be grayed out unless you have more than one tray to feed the paper through the scanner.

 Resolution (DPI): 240 or 300 is a recommended setting.

 Paper Size: Set to Letter Size if all documents are letter size.

Set to Legal Size if documents are legal size or a mixture of legal and letter size.

 Orientation: Either Portrait or Landscape (will be grayed out if the scanner will only feed one way).

 Scan Start (secs): Defaults to 10

 Color Mode: Always Black & White

 Other: May be grayed out and not have the option to change.

 Sides: Single should be marked if only scanning one side of a document. Duplex should be marked if scanning both sides of a document.

9. Once all of the Scanner Properties are selected, click . The Source

Properties dialog box will display.

The standard is to leave the source properties at the default settings. The one exception is with duplex scanning. The Back Delete Blank Page Threshold can be set to delete blank pages during the scanning process. The Threshold (bytes): field should be set to a

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10. After completing the Scanner Setup, click The Document Setup dialog box will display.

Document Setup:

The choices you select in the Document Setup box will affect indexing.

 Adjust for Duplex - With this setting, OnBase acts as a two sided scanner. If the scanner is capable of duplex scanning this setting should not be used.

 One Document - This setting is used when scanning multiple pages as one document. When this setting is used the pages cannot be separated during indexing because they are considered one document with multiple pages.

 Multiple Documents - This is the most common setting. This setting allows the batch consisting of multiple pages to be indexed separately.

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Scanning Setup

The VRS (VirtualReScan) software (Kofax) installed on the scan station automatically adjusts an image according to preset settings so that manual adjustments do not have to be made every time you scan a document. However, if manual image adjustments are necessary, it is possible to make them. Manual image adjustments are only available during the scanning phase. Once an image is scanned in and ready to be indexed, it cannot be altered. If the image is not satisfactory and needs to be altered, it must be scanned in again and manually altered.

Adjust Quality

In order to manually adjust an image, you must use the Adjust Quality menu prior to scanning. To see the Adjust Quality options, do the following:

1. Follow the directions to bring up the Scan Format Setup dialog box (pg. 7).

2. Once the Scan Format Setup dialog box is present the VRS icon shows on the Windows taskbar in the bottom right hand corner.

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4. Click Adjust Quality to access the submenu of available modes. Select one of the modes. These modes or Kofax/VRS Interface (dialogs) are the windows used to manually alter the image.

 On First Page - * VRS dialogs open on the first page only of the batch being scanned.

 On Every Page - * VRS dialogs open on every page of the batch being scanned.  On Warnings - * VRS dialogs only open when exception conditions occur.

 Never - * VRS dialogs never open and images cannot be manually altered even if exception conditions occur.

When an Adjust Quality mode is chosen to stop scanning, either On Warnings, On First

Page, or On Every Page, the following VRS User Interface opens during the scanning

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The viewer displays the image being scanned, and to the right, displays the Image Quality

Controls blue pane used to access touch up options for the image.

You can drag options from the toolbar and drop them onto the Image Quality Controls blue pane on the right side of the window.

If adjustments are needed, the Clarity group is the one used most often. The Black & White and Skew already default to best quality. The Blank Page deletion threshold is already determined in the scanner source properties.

The Options consists of:

 Page Adjustments group: Used to straighten an image that is skewed or crooked, does not apply to the text just the image.

 Blank Page group: Used to set blank page deletion sensitivity, includes front and back.  Clarity group: Used to adjust the settings for brightness, contrast, and auto contrast.

o Brightness - relates to the intensity (of density) of the gray shades in an image o Contrast - relates to the range of the lightest and darkest shades in an image o Auto Contrast - relates to the contrast between the light and dark of an image  Black & White Group: Used to adjust line weights or to remove unwanted speckling

from an image.

Other options on the Kofax VRS menu include:

 Preview - Opens the image to test image property settings.

 Profiles - Different profiles can be created if preset default profiles do not give the best image quality for the documents being scanned. Use the menu above to choose

available profiles. See the Profiles section in this document for more information on how to create a Profile.

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5. When you are finished making adjustments, click .

Profiles

It might be possible that the default Kofax VRS profile is not the best set up for the majority of the images you scan. If the images need constant altering, then it is beneficial to create a new profile.

In order to create a profile, the image which needs adjustments must be scanned in and stopped in an Adjust Quality Mode to bring up the VRS Interactive Viewer. When the viewer is active, use the options in the Image Quality Controls pane (pg. 13) to touch up the image. When a satisfactory image is present, create a profile with the new settings.

1. Click in the Profile box (top right of screen).

2. Click .

3. Enter a name for the Profile and click . The new profile will now be saved with the new name and the specified settings. Later you can choose the profile from the drop down list when scanning similar documents/images.

If a different setting is needed for an existing profile, it is possible to edit the profile. First the new setting must be determined by going to the VRS Interactive Viewer and choosing the new settings (refer to page 13). Once the settings are determined, edit the profile.

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2. Select the profile to be updated to the new settings and click .

To load existing profiles from here, select a profile and click .

The Save As and Delete functions can also be performed from the Kofax VRS

Administration Console dialog box.

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Once scan formats are set up and profiles are created (if needed), documents can then be scanned.

Scanning

You will need to prepare the documents before scanning in the batch.

Document Preparation

Make sure all paper clips and staples are removed from pages before loading the documents into the scanner. This will prevent and avoid damaging the scanner.

After pages are prepared, load them into the scanner document feeder in the direction indicated on the scanner.

Scanning a Batch

1. Once the documents are loaded into the document feeder, make sure the appropriate

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2. Select an option in the Scan Mode panel. The options are:

 No Index - Select to perform manual indexing after documents have been scanned. A Document Type will not be automatically assigned.

o No Index is the preferred Scan Mode because the documents are sent to

the Awaiting Index queue. From the Awaiting Index queue someone other

than the person who scanned the batch can index the batch and check the quality of the image scanned. If the image quality is not satisfactory the document can be rescanned at a different setting until the image is acceptable. No Index should always be used when scanning multiple

documents that will be separated into different document types.

 Pre-Index- Select to activate the Document Type drop down list and the keyword fields which allows the indexing of documents before they are scanned into the system. When scanning is complete the batch is sent to the Awaiting Index queue where information can be reviewed and updated or accepted.

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4. A box will pop up with a default name (the default name is the current date and the Username of the person logged in).

5. Change the Batch Name. The Batch Name typically defaults to a username. Naming standards can be set. For example, a naming standard may include: Date – Institution

Code – Type of Document, as show below. Naming standards can be set per

department business procedures.

6. Verify that the Scan Format is correct and click .

7. The documents will automatically feed through the Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) and the documents scanned will be automatically assigned a batch number. When all the documents have been fed through, a message will appear indicating that the feeder is out of paper.

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9. Choose one of the options:

 Scan More Pages - When there are more pages to scan into the batch  New Document - When additional pages are to be scanned into a new

document or batch

 Change Format - When a new Scan Format is needed to scan additional pages  Discard Pages - When the pages just scanned are not needed and should

be discarded

 Done - When scanning of the batch is complete – ends the scanning session

 Delete Last Page - Deletes the last page of the batch

 Delete Last Document - Deletes the last document of the batch

10. Once the batch is completely scanned, click . The batch is now ready for indexing.

11. If after you have clicked , you find that you need to add pages, double click the document in the Batches section to open the document. This will open the

Document Review tab with this toolbar.

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13. Select one of the options and click .

Indexing

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acceptable as a record to replace the paper copy. If the image is not acceptable or unreadable it must be scanned in again.

After the batch is scanned in, the batch must be indexed. Indexing places values in the keyword fields so documents can be easily retrieved.

1. Click the Home tab.

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This will display Status Queues (left side of screen). The different scanning/indexing status queues include:

 Awaiting Ad Hoc Advanced Capture – This queue will not be applicable to most users and may not appear in the Scan Queues section.

 Awaiting Index – Batches that have been scanned in and are waiting to be indexed  Index in Progress – Batches where indexing was started but not finished

 Awaiting Ad Hoc OCR – This queue will not be applicable to most users and may not appear in the Scan Queues section.

 Awaiting Commit – Batches that have been completely indexed and are waiting to be committed

 Committed – Batches that have gone completely through the Scan/Index process and are committed to the system as permanent records.

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The Batch Indexing pane displays on the left. You can preview each document that needs to be indexed in the Preview pane on the right.

6. In the Document Type field, select the document type of the document/image in the viewer.

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This button indexes the image after document type and keywords are filled in. Indexing attaches the Document Type and Keywords to the image.

Adds the image to the most recently indexed document

Will undo the last Indexing option.

Activates the scanning process (only available if workstation has a registered document imaging license with a scanner).

When indexing, a keyword field can be locked. If you type in a keyword and click the lock key , that keyword will stay constant when indexing the next document. This is helpful because the indexer will not have to type in the same keyword if there is a batch with

multiple pages and the same keyword applies to a keyword field. If you lock a keyword field, the value remains until you unlock that field.

Other Icon options are:

First Page: Allows indexer to view the first page of the document.

Previous Page: Allows indexer to view the previous page of the document.

Next Page: Allows indexer to view the next page of the document.

Last Page: Allows indexer to view the last page of the document.

Delete Page: Deletes page currently in the viewer.

Move to First Document: Allows indexer to move to the first document.

Move to Previous Document: Allows indexer to move to the previous

document.

Move to Next Document: Allows indexer to move to the next document.

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Delete Document: Deletes the entire document.

Skip Document: Skips the document without deleting it from the batch.

Create New Document: Will start a new document using the page in the viewer

as the first page of the new document.

Undo: Will undo the last indexing operation.

Stop Indexing Batch: Allows indexer to stop in the middle of indexing. Any

un-indexed images can be found in the Index in Progress queue.

When indexing from the Awaiting Index queue it is possible to stop indexing. Once you stop indexing before completely indexing the whole batch the batch moves to the Indexing in Progress queue. You can resume indexing the batch from the Indexing in Progress queue.

9. Once the batch is completely indexed, it will automatically be “committed” and will skip the Awaiting Commit queue.

Error Correction

Once a document has been committed, it may be necessary to correct inadvertent mistakes made such as combined documents that need to be separated or updating keywords.

Re-Indexing

Once a document is indexed, it is possible to Re-Index a document to modify information associated with document. You can update, add, or delete keywords.

1. In order to re-index, first search for the document to open it in the viewer. Click the

Home tab, then click .

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3. Enter some search criteria in the Keywords and Date Range section.

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5. Select the document in the Search Results, then right click and select Re-Index.

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Actions group on the tool bar.

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6. From here you can change the Document Type and update the Keywords. When you are finished, click to accept the updated entries.

Creating New Documents from Existing Documents

If two documents were inadvertently combined, they can be separated. 1. Open the document that was combined.

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3. A box will pop up allowing you to select the appropriate Document Type Group and

Document Type. You can then enter the pages for which you want to create the new

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If you have multiple pages and you leave the Delete copied pages from original

document checkbox selected, the system will delete the pages you are specifying for the

new document from the old document.

4. To give the new document new keyword values, change the keyword values in the

Keywords boxes and then click .

 If the keyword values are not changed before clicking , the keyword values from the original document will be automatically applied to the new document. If the keyword information still needs to be changed, you will need to Re-Index the new document.

Deleting or Reordering Pages in a Document

You can reorder pages within a document in the Page Editor tab. or delete pages from a document.

1. From the Batches section or the Search Results, double click to open the document. 2. Click the Image tab.

3. Click .

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5. Click . You can also float over the thumbnail of the page until you see the red X and click on it to delete that page.

6. From the thumbnails, you can also reorder pages. Click the thumbnail and drag the page before or after the desired page. The page numbers will automatically update based on the new order.

Importing and Indexing a Document

You can import an electronic document into OnBase.

1. From the Home tab, click .

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3. Select the correct file and click . You will see a preview of the file in the Upload layout. You can see the relevant information that you will need to enter as Keyword values.

4. Select a Document Type Group from the drop down list.

5. Select a Document Type from the drop down list. The Keyword fields will display. 6. Enter the appropriate keywords.

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7. Click . You will receive a message that the file has been uploaded.

Sweeping a Batch

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1. To access the sweeping process, click on the ribbon.

The main screen for the scanning and indexing process will display. You will notice the scan queues on the left side of the screen. This is a list of the scan queues to which you have user rights.

2. Select one of the Scan Queues in the Scan Queue section (upper left hand box). In this example, we have selected the Test queue.

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4. Select Sweep all files from a particular directory. The Sweep Directory window will display.

5. Click to browse to a directory/folder.

6. Locate the folder and click . This will return you to the Sweep Directory window.

 Select the Delete Files After Sweep check box if you would like to delete the original files from the folder after they are swept into OnBase.

 Select the Sweep Images Only check box if you would like to sweep only image files from the specified location into OnBase. All non-image files are ignored.  Use the Image Orientation options if you would like to automatically change the

orientation of image files being swept into OnBase when they are viewed.

7. Click . You may be prompted with the Batch Name box.

8. Enter a Batch Name using the naming standards that your department has established.

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The file(s) is swept into OnBase. The status of the process is displayed in the Scan

Progress window on the right of the screen.

10. Click to return to the primary screen.

11. You will now see this document in the Batches section.

12. You can now index the file, if necessary. See the section on Indexing.

Exiting OnBase

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2. Right click on the Unity Client icon on the task bar.

. 3. This will open a menu.

4. From the menu, select Exit OnBase.

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Contributions to These Materials

Project Developers: Lisa Leedy

Kathy Wade

Editor: Todd Neal

This training manual is based on documentation from OnBase.

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