iBall ClickScan User manual

User Manual

CONTENTS
Chapter I Introduction.............................................................................1
1.1 Package Includes...........................................................................1
1.2 Appearance....................................................................................1
1.3 System Requirements...................................................................1
1.4 Main Functions and Features......................................................2
Chapter II System Installation ................................................................3
2.1 Configuration................................................................................3
2.2 Application Software Installation................................................4
Chapter III Interface Instruction of Application Software..................8
3.1 Main Window................................................................................8
3.2 Menu ..............................................................................................9
3.3Toolbar.........................................................................................19
Chapter IV Common Problems and Using Methods...........................19
iBall Service Centre Details ..................................................................22

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Chapter I Introduction
1.1 Package Includes
1. iBall ClickScan
2. Soft Pad
3. Software CD
4. USB cable
5. User Manual
If the above package accessories are incomplete, please contact your dealer.
1.2 Appearance
1.3 System Requirements
1. Hardware：Pentium 4 or higher CPU, 512MB or higher memory, CD-ROM.
2. USB 2.0 port.
3. Operating system ：Windows XP / Vista / 7
4. Pre-installed software ：Microsoft Word (Necessary for OCR only).
Suggestion for use
The effect is better under the environment of adequate lighting.

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1.4 Main Functions and Features.
iBall ClickScan is for multi-functional photography. Whatever paper files, color
images or three-dimensional objects can be scanned and memorized easily. It adopts
special folding design, with simple, noble, decent and stable appearance. When
scanning, documents and objects do not touch the Scanner, so the cardboard
phenomenon found in traditional scanner is avoided. With it, you can get access to
valuable video data at your own will. It gives us more functions than the usual
traditional scanner.
Key Features
Scanner –Captures any document or an object up to A4 size at high
resolution in about one second.
Copier - It can capture a document or an object up to A4 size in one second.
The captured document can be printed out via any printer.
Presenter - To project a paper document or a real object to the large screen
using PC or laptop and projector.
Video Recording - Its video recording function can record the progress of any
operation or demo.
OCR Function –Optical Character Recognition feature helps in conversion of
images of text into characters, which can be edited.

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Chapter II System Installation
2.1 Configuration
Please make sure that the iBall ClickScan is connected to the computer before installing the software.

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2.2 Application Software Installation
Insert the CD in CD-ROM to read automatically. Select „Software‟ to start the
installation of Application.

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Click “Next”.
Enter user information, or use default information, click “Next”.

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Click “Next”.
Click “Next”, to install.

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The software gets installed automatically.
Choose “Finish”, to complete the installation.

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Chapter III Interface Instruction of Application Software
3.1 Main Window
1. Double click the shortcut „iBall ClickScan‟ on desktop, or click “Start-All
Programs”- or click “Start” “All Programs” “iBall” iBall ClickScan
to open the application software.
2. Display software interface.
Software interface
It‟s mainly made by several parts, including: menu, toolbar, image list view,
video view and image view, shortcut view, status bar, and popup menu, as the
above diagram.
Menu
All the functions about the software can be found in the menu.
Toolbar
It is the shortcut of menu; user can enhance operational efficiency by using the
icons displayed on the toolbar.

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Image List
Display the thumbnails scanned by current user, and it can preview, open, or delete
these images conveniently.
Video View
Preview the video capture effects from the scanner.
Image View
Display the actual effect after editing the image.
Shortcut
It is to show the most commonly used functions, brings convenience to the user.
“Open Folder” function is to open the folder with current images.
Status Bar
Show some information about image editing.
Popup Menu
User can show the menu by clicking right-button on the image list view
conveniently. The popup item consists of “Delete” and “Refresh”
3.2 Menu
3.2.1 File
File menu is usually used for the operation of existing file operations, including:
Open, Save, Save As, Print, Print Preview, Print Setup, Print (1:1), Exit, etc.
Open
Open the image files stored in the computer to edit. Please make sure that the
format supports this software. Otherwise, it will not open. At the same time, you
can double-click the image view to do it.
Save
Save the edited image displayed on the image view after editing and keep the
filename, format, and the path being same as the original ones.
Save as
Save the edited image displayed on the image view after editing and the filename,
format, and the path all can be changed.
Print
Print the edited image displayed on the image view through the printer connected
to the computer.

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Print Preview
Preview the effect before printing as the edited image effect. Different printers
print differently. So you‟d better select the print preview before operating.
Print Setup
Choose the printer that has been installed in the computer.
Print (1:1)
It‟s for option-ticking menu item. Tick this option and then print; the size that is
printed on the paper will be the same as the original one. Note: Make sure that the
image you printed was scanned by the photocopy machine.
Exit
Close and exit the software.
3.2.2 Edit
The main function of this menu is to control various operating processes, including:
Undo & Redo.
3.2.3 View
This menu is mainly used for changing the current display properties of view. It
includes: Zoom In, Zoom Out, Normal Viewing, Move, Select, Text, Tracker, Set
Tracker, Full Screen & Change View.
Zoom In
Display the image with a smaller scale.
Zoom Out
Display the image with a bigger scale.
Normal viewing
Display the image as actual scale.
Move
If the dimension of the current image is over the range of partial selecting, you can
move the image through it to display different part of image. After finishing that,
you can press left-button to any position that you want.
Select
It's to select a portion of image. You can press down the left-button to drag after
selecting this tool; it will display a closed tracker when released. The selection is
the part in the tracker.

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Text
You can take advantage of the tool to place some words on the current image. Type
the words what you want in the text edit box (if you want to change the character,
font and color, please click “Setting” button to do it), then click the position where
you want to place the image in, then after click “OK”, so you can place the text to
the image.
Tracker
You can draw a tracker line on the current image. After choosing the menu, press
the left-button to drag, track the area what users want. Then release it so that the
tracker can fix down.
Set Tracker
Set the image size, which the scanner scans. When user only needs a part of video
to scan, he can set it.
Steps:
1.Scan an image,
2.Open the image on the image view,
3.Use the tracker to select the proportion where you need ,
4.Click “Set Tracker” button,
5.Check the “Presets” option in “Scans” “Image size”,
6.Scan an image again.
Full Screen
Display the image editing view or video preview view in the form of full-screen,
and retain operation menu to enhance efficiency.
Change View
In order to convert between video preview view and image editing view, you can
press key “C”shortcut to make it. Note: You cannot use shortcut when the focus is
in shortcut board.
3.2.4 Images
The main function of this menu is to make some processing with current image.
Please refer to specific function items for more details.
Mirror
An image of something in which the right side appears on the left and the left side
appears on the right.
Flip
An image of something that the head side appears on the bottom and the bottom
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Rotate Left (tiny)
Rotate the image for counter-clockwise with 0.5 degrees.
Rotate Right (tiny)
Rotate the image for clockwise with 0.5 degrees.
Rotate Left
Rotate the image for counter-clockwise with 90 degrees.
Rotate Right
Rotate the image for clockwise with 90 degrees.
Rotate
Rotate the image for in clockwise or counter-clockwise with any degree.
Resample
Change the actual size of the image. Click the menu item, the resample dialog will
be shown.
User can choose “Factor” or indicate the width and height of image directly to
alter. Under the item of latter, you only need to adjust the alternative of width and
height. Varied resolution give birth to great influence of images. You can choose
different resolution according to what you need.
Remove selection
Remove the content you have tracked, that indicates you cannot operate it at the
selected range.
Crop
You can remove the part outside the tracker and retain the inside one when you
have selected the image.
Linear Filter
It‟s mainly aimed at doing some processing of linear filter with image.
Blur
Further blur the image.
Soften
Soften the hard sides in the image, to makes it gentler.
Gaussian 3x3
Make weighted average mount on image with matrix 3*3 of Gaussian matrix so as
to soften the image.

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Gaussian 5x5
Make weighted average mount on image with matrix 5*5 of Gaussian matrix so as
to soften the image.
Sharpen
Enhance the edge effect to the image so that it will get more obvious edges.
Edge
Extract the edge information from the image so as to look over it easily.
Emboss
Display embosses effect of the image.
Custom
Set the matrix operators for the image to satisfy the demands what professionals
need.
Non Linear Filter
It‟s mainly aimed at doing some processing of non linear filter with image.
Add Noise
Add some dots to the image.
Median
Non linear technology mounts the gray-scale value in each point as the adjoining
median value for all the pixels with gray-scale value.
Methods:
a) Take out odd data point to array from the sample window.
b) Replace the data that needs to deal with by arrayed median.
Median filter method is very effective to pepper and salt noise elimination, it
attaches importance to phase analysis processing about optical stripe
measurement. However, it has nothing to do with the central analysis method.
In image processing, it always uses for protecting the edge information, it‟s a
classical way to smooth the noise.
Selective Blur
Slightly blur partial image.
Unsharp Mask
Blur the mask so as to sharpen it.
Dilate
Make dilation processing of the edge so that the thin line becomes more obvious.

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Erode
Make erosion processing of the edge so that the thick line becomes tinier.
Contour
Draw the outline of image.
Edge
Retain the edge on the image.
Jitter
To diffuse the pixel of image, and get a sandblasting effect.
Text Blur
Make text be blurred.
Blur Selection Border
Make blur selection at the border. It is useful under the prerequisite condition that
the selection areas exist.
Remove Red Eye
Remove the red eye phenomenon in the image. Freely select the part of red eyes.
Skew Correction
Correct with the document image automatically. When the angle of skew is larger,
Please utilize arbitrary angle of rotating. When it is smaller, you can use clockwise
and counter-clockwise micro-switch function. This will get better result.
OCR
Optical character recognition, recognize and extract the words from the image
with words so that the user receives them easily and get rid of annoyance of typing
words. Note: you should adjust the direction as soon as possible, do not tilt, so to
get better results.
3.2.5 Colors
It‟s mainly aimed at doing some processing with the color of image. Please refer to
the functions for more details.
Negative
Take anti-techniques from color components R, G, B in current image as anti-color
processing. The effect is the same as that in the film.
Gray Scale
It adopts 256 grades of gray-scale value to display current color image, the effect
is just as that in black-and-white TV.

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Dither
Use different density of black pixel to express the gray image.
Histogram
Adjust the quality according to the colors of red, green, and blue which takes up in the
image pixel.
Stretch (luminance)
Stretch the histogram of the image with more luminance parameter. It is aimed at
enlarging the intervals of gray scale in order to observe clearly.
Stretching (linked)
Stretch the histogram of the image with linked method. It is aimed at enlarging the
intervals of gray scale in order to observe clearly
Stretching (independent),
Stretch the histogram of the image with independent method. It is aimed at
enlarging the intervals of gray scale in order to observe clearly.
Stretch 1 [Tresh. = 0.5%]
Stretch the histogram of the image with a value 0.5% method. It is aimed at
enlarging the intervals of gray scale in order to observe clearly.
Stretch 2 [Tresh. = 0.5%]
Stretch the histogram of the image with a value 0.5% method. It is aimed at
enlarging the intervals of gray scale in order to observe clearly.
Stretch 3 [Tresh. = 0.5%]
Stretch the histogram of the image with a value 0.5% method. It is aimed at
enlarging the intervals of gray scale in order to observe clearly.
Equalize
The equalize effect alters an image‟s pixel values to create a more consistent
brightness or color component distribution.
Normalize
The normalize effect alters an image‟s pixel value to create a less consistent
brightness or color component distribution.
Full Saturation
Stretch the histogram of the image with a full saturation method.
Half Saturation
Stretch the histogram of the image with a half- saturation method.

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Remove Shadow 1
Remove the shadow of image.
Remove Shadow 2
Remove the shadow of image.
Threshold
The threshold effect converts grayscale or color images to high-contrast,
black-and-white images. Specify a certain level as a threshold, all pixels lighter
than the threshold convert to white and all pixels darker convert to black.
After clicking it, the system will count current distribution and draw out a referred
threshold, user can enter this value or any you want.
Adaptive Threshold
It refers to the gray scale threshold of a certain point in the image which is 0 or 255,
that is to say, the whole image shows black-white state.256 levels of gray scale can
still attain threshold image which reflect the overall and partial characteristics
through appropriate threshold options.
After clicking the item, the system will calculate current histogram distribution
state, and then implement threshold processing of current image.
Colorize
Colorize the image. For three ways: hue, saturation, mixed degrees adjustment,
RGB color quantum adjustment, brightness adjustment. Add color to a grayscale
image which converted to RGB, or add color to an RGB image, for example, to
make it look like a duotone image by reducing its color values to one hue.
Gamma
It's a way that edits for gamma curve and non-linear hue. Detect the light and dark
part, and increase the proportion of them so that contrast degrees enhance.
Pseudo Colors
You can add colors to gray scale diagram. Human beings are not sensitive to minor
changes, but extremely sensitive to colorized ones. Pseudo colors take advantage
of the characteristic to enhance the resolution of that.
Lighten
Increase the value of a pixel in the image.
Darken
Reduce the value of a pixel in the image.
More Contrast
Increase the contrast of the image.

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Less Contrast
Reduce the contrast of the image.
More Saturation (hsl)
Increase the saturation of the image through the hsl.
More Saturation (yuv)
Increase the saturation of the image through the yuv.
Less Saturation
Reduce the saturation of the image.
3.2.6 Scans
This menu is about the operation of video view and scan. Please refer to the menu
for more details.
Scan
Scan an image by current video preview as a piece of image file, it will display
automatically on image list view in the form of thumbnail to bring convenience for
user.
Photocopy
Scan an image by video preview and print it with the printer which user select.
Start Scan
Scan automatically according to the interval.
Stop Scan
Stop the scan made by the “Start Scan”.
Property
Set the effect of video, including: brightness, contrast, exposure, and so on. That
will get better effect.
Setting
It is mainly in setting and revising the information about item, name, path; interval,
e-mail, etc. as follows:
Image Format
Check this menu item to select the image format of scan, please refer to the
introduction for more details.
Image Size
Check this menu item to choose the image size of scan. Including: Default, A4,

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A5, A6, A7, Business Card, ID Card, Presets.
Default
The size will be the video size.
A4
Scale of the final image is right for anA4 paper size.
A5
Scale of the final image is right for anA5 paper size.
A6
Scale of the final image is right for anA6 paper size.
A7
Scale of the final image is right for anA7 paper size.
Business
Card
The final size is for the standard business card.
ID Card
The final size is for the second generation of ID card.
Presets
User can insert the image dimension which you want. Generally
speaking, the option takes on gray image, you do not use this
function until you have preset the size, please refer to “Set Tracker”.
Rotate
This menu is for option-ticking. The location of video view window is fixed. If
you want to rotate the scanned image, you can tick what you want, including:
Normal, Rotate Left and Rotate Right.
1. No Rotate: after scanning, the image will not be rotated.
2. Rotate Left: after scanning, the image will rotate by 90 degrees in clockwise
with current direction.
3. Rotate Right: after scanning, the image will rotate by 90 degrees in
counter-clockwise with current direction.
Video Size
You can select appropriate video preview dimension to satisfy different operation.
The options are:
Window: video preview dimension displays in terms of the size of interface;
Normal: video preview dimension displays in terms of the actual output factor.
3.2.7 Tools
It provides some relevant tools to satisfy some users' demands.
Pic2PDF
Provide a tool to convert image to PDF file.
Recorder
Provide a tool for video recorder.