CONTENTS Title Page Copyright Page About This Guide 1 Introduction 1.1 Image Concepts 1.2 Overview of DECimage EXpress 1.2.1 Local and Server Drawers 1.2.2 Additional Aspects 1.3 Features 1.4 Layout of the User Interface 1.4.1 Drawer Window 1.4.2 Pull-Down Menus on the Drawer Window 1.4.3 Buttons on the Drawer Window 1.4.4 Document Viewer 1.4.5 Pull-Down Menus on the Document Viewer 1.4.6 Buttons and Keys on the Document Viewer 2 Getting Started 2.1 Before Using DECimage EXpress 2.2 Starting a Session 2.3 Determining the Operations You Can Perform 2.4 Selecting a Drawer 2.5 Searching for Documents 2.6 Selecting and Viewing Documents 2.6.1 Working with Regions of Interest 2.6.2 Viewing a Specific Document or Page 2.6.3 Setting a Default Starting Page 2.6.4 Unselecting Documents 2.7 Ending a Session 3 Scanning and Acquiring Documents 3.1 Preparing Paper Documents for Scanning 3.2 Setting Up for Scanning (Manual Indexing) 3.3 Setting Up for Scanning (Autoindexing) 3.4 Scanning Documents 3.5 Setting Up Acquisition of Disk Files (Manual Indexing) 3.6 Setting Up Acquisition of Disk Files (Autoindexing) 3.7 Acquiring Disk Files 3.8 Rescanning a Document 3.9 Rescanning a Page of a Document 4 Performing Quality Assurance and Indexing 4.1 Checking a Document for Visual Quality 4.2 Adjusting Pages of a Document 4.2.1 Applying the Current Rotation Angle to a Page 4.2.2 Aligning a Page 4.2.3 Cropping a Page 4.2.4 Saving Changes to a Page 4.2.5 Restoring a Page 4.3 Rejecting an Unacceptable Document 4.4 Deleting a Document 4.5 Manually Indexing a Document 4.6 Verifying the Results of Autoindexing 4.7 Autoindexing Documents After Scanning 4.8 Appending Documents 4.9 Moving Documents 4.10 Copying Documents 5 Adjusting the Document Viewer 5.1 Rotating a Page 5.2 Scaling a Page 5.3 Zooming to a Region of Interest 5.4 Selecting a Scale Style 6 Distributing a Document 6.1 Saving a Page as a VMS Disk File 6.2 Printing a Paper Copy 6.3 Mailing a Copy 6.4 Sending and Receiving a Fax 7 Customizing Your Account 7.1 Customizing the Drawer Window 7.1.1 Saving Current Settings 7.1.2 Using Saved Settings 7.1.3 Using System Defaults 7.2 Customizing the Document Viewer 7.2.1 Using the Single-Page Layout 7.2.2 Using the Side-By-Side Layout 7.2.3 Using the Top and Bottom Layout A Acknowledging Error Messages A.1 Operational Error Messages A.1.1 Errors During Acquisition A.1.2 Errors Other Than During Acquisition A.2 Software Error Messages B Adding DECimage EXpress to DECwindows Glossary accelerators . . . drawer facsimile (fax) device . . . pixel portrait . . . zoom FIGURES 1-1 How Documents Move Through Drawers 1-2 Layout of Drawer Window for Server Drawer 1-3 Layout of Drawer Window for Local Drawer 1-4 Layout of Document Viewer 1-5 Buttons on the Document Viewer 2-1 Set Up Document Query Box: Selecting a Drawer 2-2 Set Up Document Query Box: Searching for Documents 2-3 Windows with Selected Document in Document Viewer 2-4 Using Tab and Shift/Tab Keys with Regions of Interest 2-5 Selecting a Specific Document or Page 3-1 Set Up Acquisition Options Dialog Box 3-2 Scanner Settings Dialog Box 3-3 Pop-up Menu of Autoindex Templates 3-4 Set Up File Selection Dialog Box 4-1 Performing QA on a Document 4-2 Before and After Aligning a Page 4-3 Before and After Cropping a Page 4-4 Delete Selected Documents Dialog Box 4-5 Index Document Dialog Box (Manual Indexing) 4-6 Index Document Dialog Box (Autoindexing) 4-7 Append Dialog Box 4-8 Move Documents Dialog Box (from Local Drawer) 4-9 Copy Documents Dialog Box 5-1 Before and After Rotating a Page 90 Degrees 5-2 Before and After Scaling to Fit the Window 5-3 Before and After Zooming In 6-1 Save Current Page Dialog Box 6-2 Print to... Dialog Box 6-3 DECimage EXpress Mailer 6-4 Send Fax Dialog Box 7-1 Document Viewer: Single-Page Layout 7-2 Document Viewer: Side-By-Side Layout 7-3 Document Viewer: Top and Bottom Layout A-1 Sample Error Message Box TABLES A-1 Software Error Messages