Welcome to Capturix ScanShare, With this software you can share a scanner over the network, this solution

is ideal to offices and professional users. The copier feature able you to use the scanner in combination with a printer to take direct document copies. You dont need to have special hardware just a compatible TWAIN scanner and a standard printer. Other users can have PDA, Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux , Mac and any operating system with a HTML browser.

Remote users can retrieve BMP/JPEG/PDF/PNG/TIFF formats of the scanned documents.

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After you install and run the software ScanShare, this will install a System Service it means you will be able to use the shared scanner anytime even when the windows is logged off. If you start the configuration application on the start menu you will see this window:

Listening Port: This is the port used by the internal Web server of the program; you can choose a different port from (80 by default). This will show the URL that other users need to type on the browser to access the scanner. Security / Addresses that can access your scanner: This list will show the ip addresses that can access the scanner, you can fill the list and save, if you leave blank you will allow any computer.

Firewall: If you have firewall on the computer you want to access you must enter security permission to CapturixScanShare.exe and open TCP port (Listening Port).

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Scanner: This feature will select the default TWAIN scanner that will be used. You can click on item to edit the friendly name to give to scanner. Allow users to choose scanner: You can lock the scanner device selection or allow users to choose the scanner remotely. Test: If you press the Test button, scanner will perform a test and show the picture. Default resolution: This is the resolution will appear on the web page to client users JPEG quality: Compression quality for the JPEG files generated by the software.

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Copier: This feature will able user to create a virtual copy machine to simple copy documents and photos using a printer. You should choose the printer you want to use. Maximum copies: This is the number of the maximum copies a user can take of the document. Allow color copies: This will prevent other users to take color copies. (if user try to take a color copy will result in a gray scale copy).

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Protect configuration: If you select this option, every time a user go to this configuration window will be prompt to enter a password.

Registration: If you register this application this will show your license data, attention: every time you contact technical support send this S/N code.

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Activity Log: This features will record all software activity, everything users do on this application will be stored on application log. Export: This can export to a text file the activity log data Add events to Windows Event Log: This feature will record the activity log on Microsoft Windows Event Log.

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Allow lock/unlock scanner for a period of time: With this feature user can lock the scanner during a period of time, for example if you have a confidential document you need to be sure no user will use the scanner during the scan operation. Unlock: This button able you to unlock scanner at anytime.

Keep a copy of all scanned images : This feature provides you a copy of all scanned images into a selected folder on the configuration (Browse) , this will be valid for all users and all scans. You can select BMP/JPEG/PDF/PNG/TIF file formats

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Users: If you want to give permission to a restricted number of users you can protect the access to ScanShare using Username/Password accounts. You can also select user permissions to each account:

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This are the user permission window You can give independent permissions to each user.

Scan2Email: This will give users the possibility to send the scanned documents to a e-mail address. You must setup the sender account on the ScanShare window (see the picture).

If you have a e-mail account that requires authentication you must select This account requires authentication and fill the Username and Password. If you want to choose the file format that will be sent as attachment you can choose PDF or JPEG (other format will not be available because of the file size). You can choose the smtp port (by default is 25), use this option is your mail server is in another port.

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MyPDF feature is used to create custom PDF files by remote users, you can scan more than one document and add them to the MyPDF buffer that will stays on the server. When you want to make a PDF with all the documents on the buffer just click on download (MyPDF box).

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You can enable and disable this feature on the Service Configuration window. Is very important that you choose the path for the storage buffer, this is the location where the files will be stored. You can also remote the files by selecting then and pressing clear selected files.

Capturix ScanShare Professional License can send faxes directly from remote browser, to do that you should configure the Fax service that will send/receive faxes, actually only this software work with Capturix ScanShare: Microsoft FAX service (built-in Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows 2003)

Once you have the service running on the machine you just have to enable fax feature on Capturix Scanshare and select the cover page name (default is generic).

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ScanShare OCR
This feature is only available on Enterprise License. With this feature users can scan a text image and convert it to text file directly. Just go to Scan page.

Its recommended that you use Black and White option and 300 DPI or higher resolution. Then select Text Recognition option.

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ScanShare Save to Server

This option allows users to save scanned documents directly to a server location; with this option users can centralize all documents in one place.

On Save to Server tab you can choose if user can select the File format or even decide the default file format. Also you can choose the initial filename to scanned documents.

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ScanShare Defaults

Here you can preset all scan parameters shown on the scan page. These default settings will be presented to all users when scanning a document.

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ScanShare Extra Features

Transparency This feature allows you to save files with no background, providing the transparency support (PNG Format)

Discard White pages This feature will remove any blank page in you multiple page document reducing space when saving the files.

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ScanShare API
This feature is only available on Professional licenses. Only to be used by developers. This API will only work with Capturix Scanshare Version 2.05 or higher.

If you want to integrate Capturix ScanShare with your own applications you can use Capturix Scanshare API. Just create a HTML that redirects to Scanshare server the following commands:

http://<server>[:<port>]/api.x?result=<result page>&exe=<application to be run>&param=<parameters>&format=<image file format>

server Address of the ScanShare server (eg: 192.168.1.1) port Listening Port of the Scanshare server (if the default port is used, the port is not required) result URL that will be opened when scanshare finishes the scan process. (http:// is not required) exe Custom application that will handle the image file generated by Capturix ScanShare param - Parameter the be used by the exe:

-file- will be replaced by the scan image filename format Image file format: jpeg,bmp,png,pdf One of this words should be placed

Example:

http://192.168.1.1/api.x?result=www.capturix.com&exe=copy&param=-fileC:\sample.jpeg&format=jpeg

Using a different port: http://192.168.1.1:1001/api.x?result=www.capturix.com&exe=copy&param=-fileC:\sample.jpeg&format=jpeg

This URL will scan a image and then execute: Copy.exe file- C:\ -file- will be a jpeg file

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