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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/25
For my link archive some videos below.
Note that I dislike ScanSnap Cloud, as I do not want an intermediate party in between me and my cloud provider.
I much more prefer providers like Google Drive, OneDrive, etc to configure locally and have them upload to the cloud instead of ScanSnap Could also seeing my scanned content.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/09/10
The first stupid thing is that when pressing the “Install” button: it will not ask for UAC elevation, despite the UAC elevation badge:
The second is the release notes from the installer indicate there is more information to be found when clicking, but after clicking it shows exactly the same information:
Update ScanSnap Home to 1.4.0.
Modifications from 1.3.1 to 1.4.0.– A new feature has been added to perform OCR recognition on an image of a business card or receipt again by marking the necessary parts with a frame on the preview window.
– A new feature has been added to allow users to preview multiple images on the main window.
– A new feature has been added to apply [ScanSnap Manager – Profile] to ScanSnap Home.
– Help menus and contents have been improved, allowing users to find information that they want quickly on the Help.
– Operability for linking with cloud services has been improved.
– Operability for adding and editing profiles on the taskbar has been improved.
– A modification has been made so that you can delete a content data record that is managed in ScanSnap Home even after you delete a file for the content data record in Explorer.
– The waiting time it takes after a scan has been reduced.
– A modification has been made which enables users to use the scan window as soon as it is displayed.
– Operability for contacting your support representative has been improved.
– Fixed the problem that occurs on ScanSnap iX500, preventing the Wi-Fi settings from being configured successfully with an SSID that includes double-byte characters.
– Fixed the problem where the Scan buttons for other users may not be disabled on the touch panel when users are switched.
– Fixed the problem where the scanner turns off even if [Automatic power off] is set to [Never].
– Fixed the problem that occurs when the title of a content data record is changed during text recognition, causing the changed title to return back to the original title.
– Fixed the problem that occurs when scanned images are not managed in ScanSnap Home and when they are linked with a certain application, preventing the scanned images from being saved in a specified folder.
– Fixed the problem that occurs when a connection is established with ScanSnap SDK via Wi-Fi, preventing a serial number from being obtained with the GetScannerInfo command.
– Other miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements have been done.
For details, double-click [ScanSnap Home Update].
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/16
Steps to convert PDF to OCR on all pages in Acrobat XI Standard (STD) via [WayBack] PDF to text, how to convert a PDF to text | Adobe Acrobat DC:
- Open a PDF file containing a scanned image in Acrobat.
- Click on the Edit PDF tool in the right pane. Acrobat automatically applies optical character recognition (OCR) to your document and converts it to a fully editable copy of your PDF.
- …
- Choose File > Save As and type a new name for your editable document.
Screenshots:
You can select from many OCR languages:
On pages without bitmap content, you see this message:
Note that Acrobat XI was the last version where this was possible in the Standard edition.
More recent versions of Acrobat, need the Pro version for OCR:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/02/23
Both my Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 and ix100 scanners can be used from Windows to automatically scan to PDF.
PDF conversion is done through the included ABBYY FineReader 5.0 software.
However, on each scan, it keeps a dialog open with the scan results, even if scanning went fine.
When scanning lots of documents, lots of dialogs are open, causing two problems:
I wanted to close that dialog automatically, but none of the configuration settings allow it.
So I wrote a quick and dirty solution, that could have been in any tool supporting the Windows API and call backs. The solution below should easily translate to tools other than Delphi.
These are the only Windows API functions used:
these types:
and these constants:
The basic structure is an EumWindows call passing a callback that gets called for all top level Windows, then in the callback, for matching captions: call EnumChildWindows with another callback. In that callback, for matching captions and child captions, perform a click or close.
Related posts:
Send a BM_CLICK message to the HWND of the button:SendMessage(hButton, BM_CLICK, 0, 0);That causes the button to receive WM_LBUTTONDOWN and WM_LBUTTONUP messages
Log of Windows related to both programs:
ParentHWnd=$00000000;HWnd=$00030602;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=-1;WindowTextLength=33;WindowText="ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap 5.0" > Recursive child windows for ABBYY ParentHWnd=$00030602;HWnd=$000205E2;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=0;WindowText="" ParentHWnd=$00030602;HWnd=$000205E0;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=0;WindowText="" ParentHWnd=$00030602;HWnd=$000205EC;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=0;WindowText="" ParentHWnd=$00030602;HWnd=$000205EA;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=74;WindowText="Register your copy of ABBYY FineReader and receive the following benefits:" ParentHWnd=$00030602;HWnd=$000205E8;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=25;WindowText="- Free technical support;" ParentHWnd=$00030602;HWnd=$000205E6;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=51;WindowText="- Information about new versions of ABBYY products." ParentHWnd=$00030602;HWnd=$000205E4;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=12;WindowText="Registration" ParentHWnd=$00030602;HWnd=$000205FC;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=0;WindowText="" ParentHWnd=$00030602;HWnd=$000205FA;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=6;WindowText="&Close" > Child is Close button: clicking. < ParentHWnd=$00000000;HWnd=$00030602;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=-1;WindowTextLength=33;WindowText="ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap 5.0" ParentHWnd=$00030602;HWnd=$000205F6;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=34;WindowText="Processing finished (warnings: 1)." ParentHWnd=$00030602;HWnd=$000205F4;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=31;WindowText="Converting to searchable PDF..." ParentHWnd=$00030602;HWnd=$000205F0;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=0;WindowText="" ParentHWnd=$00030602;HWnd=$000205EE;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=0;WindowText="" ParentHWnd=$00030602;HWnd=$000205D2;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=63;WindowText="Page 1. Make sure the correct recognition language is selected." ParentHWnd=$00000000;HWnd=$00010248;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=-1;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=14;WindowText="Creative Cloud" > Recursive child windows for Creative Cloud ParentHWnd=$00010248;HWnd=$0001024A;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=28;WindowText="Main Container Client Dialog" ParentHWnd=$00010248;HWnd=$0002034A;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=3;WindowText="IMS" ParentHWnd=$00010248;HWnd=$0001035A;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=0;WindowText="" ParentHWnd=$00010248;HWnd=$00020350;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=18;WindowText="Sign in - Adobe ID" > Child is Signin button: closing parent. < ParentHWnd=$0003011A;HWnd=$00010248;IsVisible=-1;IsOwned=-1;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=14;WindowText="Creative Cloud" < ParentHWnd=$00000000;HWnd=$0003011A;IsVisible=0;IsOwned=0;IsAppWindow=0;WindowTextLength=4;WindowText="Core"
It appears that ABBYY has a different set of booleans than Creative Cloud.
This is kind of odd, as delphi – How to get captions of actual windows currently running? – Stack Overflow points to Window Features – Windows applications | Microsoft Docs: Owned Windows stating:
The Shell creates a button on the taskbar whenever an application creates a window that isn’t owned. To ensure that the window button is placed on the taskbar, create an unowned window with the WS_EX_APPWINDOW extended style. To prevent the window button from being placed on the taskbar, create the unowned window with the WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW extended style. As an alternative, you can create a hidden window and make this hidden window the owner of your visible window.
Apparently, ABBYY fully plays by the rules, but Creatheive Cloud cheats a bit: none of the Windows are WS_EX_APPWINDOW, but the hidden unowned “Core” owner of the “Creative Cloud” still makes it appear on the taskbar.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/06
Every time my scan VM logs on I get the dialog on the right.
Every time I finish an OCR scan, I get the dialog below.
There are two reasons I want to close the ABBY dialog:
I do not want to fully get rid of these dialogs, as often being aware of the progress is important, and I always forget how to re-enable things. If you can do without the dialogs, then try these:
I did use one nice feature of AutoHotKey: their Windows Spy utility, which is implemented as a AHK script: [WayBack] AutoHotKey-scripts/WindowSpy.ahk at master · elig0n/AutoHotKey-scripts · GitHub. In the past this was a separate executable, so do not start looking for that any more. You can get it either after a full install of the [WayBack] Releases · Lexikos/AutoHotkey_L · GitHub, or by extracting from the most current AutoHotKey.zip from [Archive.is] AutoHotkey Downloads.
Related:
- [WayBack] Changes & New Features | AutoHotkey
1.1.27.00 – December 25, 2017
Changes:
Replaced AU3_Spy.exe with WindowSpy.ahk.
…
- [WayBack] autohotkey – What is AU3_Spy.exe? Where can I find it? – Stack Overflow
- Search for
Spyin
This gets these for the Create Cloud and ABBY windows:
I contemplated about using AutoIt (freeware, but closed source) or AutoHotKey_L (the current active fork of AutoHotKey).
AutoIt is now closed source, forked in the past as AutoHotKey, which has a lot of half backed – usually poorly documented – scripts needing you to learn a new API wrapper around existing Windows API functionality.
So I reverted back to using the Windows API using Delphi: a simple repeat loop, to check for the existence of the underlying processes, windows and controls, plus some logic to terminate then the user stops the application (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-Break), logs off, or Windows shuts down.
Releated Windows API keywords and posts:
SetConsoleCtrlHandler and HandlerRoutine parameter dwCtrlType values CTRL_C_EVENT, CTRL_BREAK_EVENT, CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT, CTRL_LOGOFF_EVENT and CTRL_SHUTDOWN_EVENT.
HandlerRoutine is called in a separate thread, implying you should be very careful with what you do. Best is to only set some flags. Worst is to go GUI handling (DO NOT CALL ShowMessage HERE!)SetConsoleCtrlHandler for console applications, the service related RegisterServiceCtrlHandler and RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx calls and the Windows messages to watch for GUI applications: WM_QUERYENDSESSION and WM_POWERBROADCAST.
I could have used AutoHotKey with these hints to get it working:
Note that when you run on MacOS, you need an alternative like for instance the video below shows via [WayBack] Stop ScanSnap From Prompting You When You Scan.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 