Menu Options

This section outlines the options available through the SimpleIndex menus. Most of the menu options do the same thing as toolbar buttons and so their descriptions refer to those buttons. Options not available elsewhere are described in detail.

File Menu

New Job Configuration

Creates a new job configuration using the Job Settings Wizard.

Open

Displays the Open Job Configuration dialog box to open a new job configuration file.

Open URL

Allows you to enter the URL for a configuration file on a website and open it directly from there. This lets administrators centrally manage configuration files on a website and even provide a web page with links to a variety of scan jobs.

To host SIC files on a website, it is necessary to add the SIC file type to the list of MIME types on your server. See the server documentation for details. It is also possible to save configuration files as XML to avoid MIME type issues.

Open Recent

Displays the last 4 configuration files opened.

Save

Saves the current job configuration without displaying the Save As dialog.

Save As…

Displays the Save As job configuration dialog to save the current job settings to file.

Close

Close the current job file, ending any job in progress.

File Viewer

The File Viewer options let you view and edit single files with SimpleIndex without running a batch job.

Run Job

Creates a new batch and begins processing the current job file.

End Job

Aborts the job in progress. Images from the current batch are deleted or moved to the Backup folder if configured.

Resume Job

If SimpleIndex is restarted due to an error during processing, use this option to resume processing the last batch without rescanning. You will be shown an Open dialog displaying the temporary batch process folder or the Backup folder if no batches are in the temp folder. Select the folder that corresponds to the date and time of the aborted batch to re-process the images in that batch.

Schedule Job

Allows you to schedule a SimpleIndex job to run at a future date or a recurring period of time.

Job Options

Displays the Job Options screen to edit the current job configuration settings.

Job Settings Wizard

Displays the Job Settings Wizard to edit the job current configuration settings using the wizard.

Global Settings Wizard

Displays the Global Settings Wizard to set default folders and security settings.

SimpleCoversheet

Launches the SimpleCoversheet barcode coversheet designer application.

SimpleView

Launches the SimpleView application. If a batch is in progress, automatically opens SimpleView in the Processing folder, displaying thumbnails for the images in the current batch. If no batch is in progress, the Output folder is displayed by default.

SimpleSend

Launches the SimpleSend secure FTP and email transfer application.

Exit

This manual requires the user to figure this one out for his/her self.

Scan Menu

Use TWAIN Driver

Check this option to use the TWAIN scanner driver. TWAIN is compatible with more scanners, but is slower than ISIS for most sheetfed document scanners. It is recommended that you use ISIS if your scanner supports it.

Use ISIS Driver

Check this option to use the ISIS scanner driver instead of the default TWAIN. ISIS scanning is faster and more stable than TWAIN scanning, particularly for high-speed document scanners. An ISIS license is required to use this option.

ISIS scanning is recommended for use with any document scanner that supports it. With ISIS, all scanner settings are saved to your SimpleIndex job file. This lets you specify job-specific scanner settings that load automatically when you open a job file.

Select Scanner

Displays the Select TWAIN or ISIS Source dialog, allowing you to select the scanner you wish to use with your SimpleIndex job.

Display Scanner Settings

Displays the TWAIN or ISIS settings dialog, allowing you to modify the resolution, page size, thresholds, and other scanner settings available with your model scanner.

ISIS scanner settings are saved to your job configuration file. Save the job configuration to save the new settings and use them whenever the current job is opened.

Most TWAIN scanners will “remember” the last settings used each time a new scan is performed. You should only need to modify the settings when scanning different types of documents.

Scanners that use the Window Imaging (WIA) TWAIN driver do not remember settings. For these scanners you should check the Display Settings Before Scan option to show the scanner settings before each new scan.

Set Compression Options

The compression settings are applied anytime an image is saved. This happens automatically when:

• Scanning images
• Importing multi-page TIFF files when the Split multi-page input files option (5.5.1.3) is selected.
• PDF to TIFF conversion (5.7.1.1)
• Exporting image files to a different file type