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If possible, DEVONthink Pro Office will also do a preview scan and provide you with these options (you
can change them later at any time):
• Page orientation
• Resolution
• Shall optical character recognition (OCR) be applied?
• Page area to scan
Note: It is recommended that you use at least 300 dpi (though 600 dpi is best) and Color
Document for best results, especially when using OCR.
Adding pages: To scan a page and add it to the Capture window, click Add page from the Scanner
Options dialog sheet. DEVONthink Pro Office scans one page. Then, you can immediately put a new
sheet of paper onto the scanner and use the Add Page toolbar button to add the next page. The selected
page area will not change.
If Apply OCR was checked in the options, DEVONthink Pro Office will run OCR on every added page.
This happens in the background, so you can continue to add new pages in the Capture window while
OCR is running.
Reviewing the scanned pages: Click the Toggle Drawer button in the toolbar to open a drawer
showing all pages already added to the Capture window. Select any page to display it. Use the zoom
level pop-up menu in the lower right corner of the Capture window to zoom into, or out of, the scanned
page.
Reordering and deleting pages: You can reorder the pages added to the Capture window before you
actually import them by dragging the thumbnail pictures of the pages in the drawer. Click the Revert
Page Order button to revert the complete page order (for instance, because you scanned the pages in
reverse order, from last to first). Select any page in the drawer to display it and use the Delete Page
toolbar icon to remove it from the Capture window.
Storing the document: When you have scanned all pages and have arranged them in the proper
order, click the Store toolbar icon to assemble the final PDF document and import it into the database.
The document will be placed into the default destination.
Note: To save disk space, the generated searchable PDF is regenerated using the resolution
set in the preferences.
THE TOOLBAR
You can customize the Capture window's toolbar to fit your needs. Right-click the toolbar and choose
Customize from the contextual menu. You may alternatively choose View > Customize Toolbar. Besides
the standard toolbar items, the following tools are available:
• Store: Assembles a PDF from all the scanned pages that have been added to the Capture
window, and imports it into the database. Then, it closes the Capture window.
• Store & Capture New: Assembles a PDF from all the scanned pages that have been added
to the Capture window and imports it into the database. Next, it opens a new Capture
window so that you can immediately scan a new document.
• Scanner Options: Opens the Scanner Options dialog sheet. See above.
• Add Page: Scans one page and adds it to the Capture window.