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®
Visioneer
®
OneTouch 5300 Series
for USB and Parallel
Installation Guide
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COPYRIGHT INFORMATION PaperPort 5.3 Software for Windows. Copyright ©1998 Visioneer, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction, adaptation, or translation without prior written permission is prohibited, except as allowed under the copyright laws. AnyPort, AutoFix, AutoLaunch, Visioneer® FormTyper, MicroChrome, PaperEnable, PaperLaunch, PaperPort, PaperPort Deluxe, PaperPort ix, PaperPort Links, PaperPort mx, PaperPort OneTouch, PaperPort OneTouch 7600 USB, PaperPort OneTouch 7600 Parallel
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TABLE OF CONTENTS iii TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Please Use the Proper Section of this Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 What’s in the Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Part 1: Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Installing the 5300 USB Scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Changing the Button Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Selecting Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Getting Help with the Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Adjusting Scan Settings and Page Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Scanning from the PaperPort Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Scanning an Item with the Twain Button
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ELCOME W Congratulations on purchasing your Visioneer OneTouch 5300 flatbed scanner. With your scanner, you can quickly scan paper documents and color photos to place their electronic images on your computer. PLEASE USE THE PROPER SECTION OF THIS MANUAL This manual contains installation instructions for both models of the OneTouch 5300 scanner—the 5300 USB scanner and the 5300 Parallel scanner. Please make sure that you refer to the proper set of i
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2 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 5300 SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE Part 1: Installation NSTALLING THE CANNER I 5300 USB S This section of the manual contains instructions for the OneTouch 5300 USB. Please see “Installing the 5300 Parallel Scanner” on page 8 if you’re using a OneTouch 5300 Parallel. WHAT YOU NEED To use the 5300 USB scanner and software, you need the following: • IBM PC (or 100-percent compatible) Pentium or equivalent • Micro
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THE ONETOUCH 5300 USB SCANNER 3 HE NE OUCH CANNER T O T 5300 USB S Document cover 1 Document pad 2 Glass 3 Reference frame 4 Five-Button panel 5 USB port 6 Power jack 7 Document cover. Close the document cover after placing items on the scanner glass. 1 2 Document pad. Helps to secure the document in place on the scanner glass. Glass. Place items face down on top of the glass, in the upper left corner. 3 4 Reference frame. Place items face down within this frame. Both inches an
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4 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 5300 SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE GETTING HELP The PaperPort software includes a complete set of help topics that answer questions about the scanner and its software. To get help while using the PaperPort software: • Press the F1 key, or from the Help menu, choose PaperPort Help Topics to display the Help Topics window. Tip: If you don’t find the answers in the help or User’s Guide, see the technical support card that you received with your scanner. STEP 1: INSTALLING THE
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STEP 1: INSTALLING THE PAPERPORT SOFTWARE 5 Note: If the PaperPort CD does not automatically start, make sure the CD drive’s door is completely shut. If the CD still doesn’t start, the autorun option on your computer is turned off. Click the Windows 98 icon that shows the drives on your computer. (Usually, the icon is named My Computer.) The window shows the drives available on your computer. Double-click the icon for your CD-ROM drive to see the list of files on the CD. Double-click the
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6 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 5300 SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE STEP 2: CONNECTING THE SCANNER TO THE COMPUTER The Visioneer OneTouch 5300 USB scanner connects to any available USB port. Check your computer’s manual for its USB port locations. Note: You do not have to shut off the power to your computer when connecting the Visioneer 5300 USB scanner. To connect the Visioneer 5300 USB scanner: 1. Plug one end of the USB cable into an available USB port. Some newer computers also have keyboards with USB
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STEP 2: CONNECTING THE SCANNER TO THE COMPUTER 7 When you plug the scanner’s power adapter into a wall outlet an amber light on the front of the scanner comes on indicating that the scanner is receiving power. The light remains amber until the scanner and computer are communicating properly. Then the light turns green. That completes the steps to connect your scanner to the computer. 5. When the software installation is finished, remove the CD from the computer and store it in a safe place.
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8 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 5300 SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE INSTALLING THE 5300 PARALLEL SCANNER This section of the manual contains instructions for the Visioneer OneTouch 5300 Parallel scanner. WHAT YOU NEED To use the 5300 Parallel scanner and software, you need the following: • IBM PC (or 100-percent compatible) Pentium or higher • Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, or Microsoft NT 4.0 • One available parallel (LPT) port on your computer • 16 megabytes (MB) or more of available internal memory
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THE ONETOUCH 5300 PARALLEL SCANNER 9 THE ONETOUCH 5300 PARALLEL SCANNER Document cover 1 2 Document pad Glass 3 Reference frame 4 5 Five-Button panel 6 To Printer 7 To Host PC parallel Power jack 8 1 Document cover. Close the document cover after placing items on the scanner glass. 2 Document pad. Helps to secure the document in place on the scanner glass. 3 Glass. Place items face down on top of the glass, in the upper corner next to the buttons. 4 Reference frame. Place items face down within
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10 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 5300 SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE GETTING HELP The PaperPort software includes a complete set of help topics that answer questions about the scanner and its software. To get help while using the PaperPort software: • Press the F1 key, or from the Help menu, choose PaperPort Help Topics to display the Help Topics window. The help topics cover the PaperPort software and the scanner. Tip: If you don’t find the answers in the help or User’s Guide, see the technical support c
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STEP 1: CONNECTING THE SCANNER TO THE COMPUTER 11 4. Plug one end of the scanner cable into the port on the back of the scanner marked “Host.” 5. Plug the other end of the scanner cable into the parallel port on the back of your computer. On some older computers the serial port and parallel port both have 25-pin connectors that fit the scanner cable. Please make sure you plug the scanner cable into a parallel port. 6. If you unplugged a printer from the parallel port earlier, plug it into th
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12 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 5300 SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE 7. Plug the power adapter cable into the jack on the scanner. 8. Plug the power adapter into an AC (wall) outlet. The following diagram shows the completed cable connections. When you plug the scanner’s power adapter into a wall outlet an amber light on the front of the scanner comes on indicating that the scanner is receiving power. The light remains amber until the scanner and computer are communicating properly. Then the light turns g
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STEP 2: INSTALLING THE PAPERPORT SOFTWARE 13 STEP 2: INSTALLING THE PAPERPORT SOFTWARE The PaperPort CD includes all the PaperPort software files. The CD also includes the PaperPort User’s Guide, the manual for your PaperPort software. You can read the guide while the CD is running, or print a copy directly from the CD. To install the PaperPort software: 1. Start Microsoft Windows and make sure that no other applications are running. 2. Insert the PaperPort CD into your computer’s CD-ROM drive
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14 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 5300 SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE CHECKING IT OUT This section of the manual applies to both models of the Visioneer OneTouch scanner—the 5300 USB scanner and the 5300 Parallel scanner. The OneTouch scanner software adds the scanner icon to the Windows taskbar (at the bottom right corner of the computer screen). If the scanner icon looks like the one shown in the figure, the scanner is properly connected. Scanner Icon If the icon has a red X through it, the scanner is no
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CHECKING IT OUT 15 3. Choose About from the shortcut menu. A dialog box confirms that the scanner is connected properly. The About dialog box shown below is for the 5300 USB scanner. The dialog box for the 5300 Parallel scanner is similar. 4. Click OK to close the dialog box. That’s it. Your scanner is ready to scan. See “Scanning By Pressing the OneTouch Buttons” on page 18. IF THE SCANNER IS NOT PROPERLY CONNECTED If the scanner icon on the Windows taskbar has a red “X” through it as shown i
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16 VISIONEER ONETOUCH 5300 SCANNER INSTALLATION GUIDE computer and the scanner then connected to the drive). Plug the scanner into the computer’s parallel port first, then plug the next device into the scanner. • Did you restart the computer after installing the software? If you didn’t restart the computer, it may not have loaded all of the software files. Try restarting your computer. Please see the Readme file in the PaperPort directory on your computer’s hard drive. The Readme file contains
