Hand Held Products 4800dr, Imaging Manual

Page 1: ...Document Reader Imaging Guide ...

Page 2: ...with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual may cause harmful interference...

Page 3: ...lectrical and Electronic Equipment Information Note Hand Held Products complies with Directive 2002 96 EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 January 2003 on waste electrical and electronic equipment WEEE This product has required the extraction and use of natural resources for its production It may contain hazardous substances that could impact health and the environment if not pr...

Page 4: ...NOT STARE INTO BEAM CLASS 2 LASER PRODUCT 1 0 mW MAX OUTPUT 650nM IEC60825 1 1993 A1 A2 Complies with 21 CFR 1040 10 and 1040 11 except for deviations pursuant to Laser Notice No 50 dated July 26 2001 Compliance Label location Laser Light Emissions ...

Page 5: ...mage Ship IMGSHP 1 5 Image Auto Crop IMGACP 1 5 IMGSHP IMGACP Modifiers 1 6 A Infinity Filter 1 6 C Compensation 1 6 D Pixel Depth 1 6 E Edge Sharpen 1 7 F File Format 1 7 H Histogram Stretch 1 7 I Invert Image 1 8 IF Noise Reduction 1 8 IU Image Adaptive Text Filter 1 9 IS Unsharp Brighten Filter 1 10 J JPEG Image Quality 1 10 K Gamma Correction 1 10 L R T B M Image Cropping 1 11 P Protocol 1 11 ...

Page 6: ...code Offset 1 16 Y Vertical Barcode Offset 1 16 Chapter 2 Serial Default Commands Conventions 2 1 Menu Command Syntax 2 1 Query Commands 2 1 Concatenation of Multiple Commands 2 2 Responses 2 2 Examples of Query Commands 2 2 Menu Commands 2 3 Chapter 3 Customer Support Technical Assistance 3 1 Online Technical Assistance 3 1 For Further Information 3 1 Product Service and Repair 3 1 Online Product...

Page 7: ...semicolon For example to add the Image Ship command to the above sequence you would enter IMGSNP1P1T IMGSHP The imaging commands are Image Snap IMGSNP page 1 1 Image Ship IMGSHP page 1 5 Intelligent Signature Capture IMGBOX page 1 14 The modifiers for each of these commands follow the command description Step 1 Take a Picture Using IMGSNP Image Snap IMGSNP An image is taken whenever the hardware b...

Page 8: ... be captured with the image or not In order to capture the aimer lines the LEDs must also be off If the LEDs are on the aimer lines will not be captured 0A Aimer Lines off default 1A Aimer Lines on E Exposure Exposure is used in Manual Style only 2P and allows you to set the exposure time This is similar to setting a shutter speed on a camera The exposure time determines how long the imager takes ...

Page 9: ...sure times and brighter images but if the setting is too high the image may be overexposed Target White Value is only available when using Photo Style 1P Default 125 nW Range 0 255 D Delta for Acceptance This sets the allowable range for the white value setting see W Target White Value Delta is only available when using Photo Style 1P Default 25 nD Range 0 255 U Update Tries This sets the maximum ...

Page 10: ...elow the target white value and 25 of the pixels are above the target white value Altering this setting from the default is not recommended under normal circumstances To alter grayscale values W Target White Value should be used Default 97 n Range 1 99 Example of Target Set Point Percentage at 97 Example of Target Set Point Percentage at 40 Example of Target Set Point Percentage at 50 ...

Page 11: ...MGSHP8F75K26U Image Auto Crop IMGACP Image Auto Crop removes unwanted portions of an image such as blank space surrounding an image Image Auto Crop uses artificial intelligence to search for the area of the image that contains text It then crops the image to just that area and adjusts it to a horizontal display Depending on the size and position of the document this may possibly result in an upsid...

Page 12: ...image to account for variations in illumination across the image 0C Compensation disabled default 1C Compensation enabled D Pixel Depth Indicates the number of bits per pixel in the transmitted image KIM or BMP format only 8D 8 bits per pixel grayscale image default 1D 1 bit per pixel black and white image Example of Infinity Filter off 0A from approximately 12 feet 3 66m away Example of Infinity ...

Page 13: ... edge sharpen using strength n n 1 24 F File Format Indicates the desired format for the image 0F KIM format 1F TIFF binary 2F TIFF binary group 4 compressed 3F TIFF grayscale 4F Uncompressed binary upper left to lower right 1 pixel bit 0 padded end of line 5F Uncompressed grayscale upper left to lower right bitmap format 6F JPEG image default 8F BMP format lower right to upper left uncompressed H...

Page 14: ... to rotate an image to a horizontal display 1ix Invert around the X axis flips picture upside down 1iy Invert around the Y axis flips picture left to right IF Noise Reduction Used to reduce the salt and pepper noise in an image 0if No salt and pepper noise reduction default 1if Salt and pepper noise reduction Example of image with Invert Image set to 1ix Example of image not inverted Example of im...

Page 15: ...lter automatically sharpens the edges and smooths the area between the edges of text in an image The Adaptive Text Filter enhances images of documents such as ID cards and prescriptions resulting in crisper text See U Document Image Filter page 1 12 for information about setting the Document Image Filter manually Note The Adaptive Text Filter should not be used concurrently with the IS Unsharp Bri...

Page 16: ... numbers result in greater amounts of lossy compression faster transmission times lower quality but smaller files Default 50 nJ Image is compressed as much as possible while preserving quality factor of n n 0 100 0J worst quality smallest file 100J best quality largest file K Gamma Correction Gamma measures the brightness of midtone values produced by the image You can brighten or darken an image ...

Page 17: ...image in memory Range 000 959 Default all rows Alternately specify the number of pixels to cut from the outside margin of the image thus only the center pixels are transmitted nM Margin cut n columns from the left n 1 columns from the right n rows from the top and n 1 rows from the bottom of the image Ship the remaining center pixels Range 0 478 Default 0 or full image P Protocol Used for shipping...

Page 18: ... stand and the image captured using the command IMGSNP1P0L168W90 32D This filter typically provides better JPEG compression than the standard E Edge Sharpen command see page 1 13 This filter also works well when shipping pure black and white images 1 bit per pixel The optimal setting is 26U Note If you want to use an automatic image filter rather than changing these settings manually refer to IU I...

Page 19: ...picture of the tonal range of an image or key type A low key image has detail concentrated in the shadows a high key image has detail concentrated in the highlights and an average key image has detail concentrated in the midtones This modifier ships the histogram for an image 0W Don t ship histogram default 1W Ship histogram Example of Blur Image Off 0V Example of Blur Image On 1V Image used for h...

Page 20: ... the trigger is pressed A single beep is emitted indicating that the imager has read a Code 128 barcode and the data has been transferred to the host An IMGBOX command may now be sent from the host to specify the coordinates of the signature capture area below that code and indicating that only that area containing the signature should be transferred as an image to the host To see this example ali...

Page 21: ...eight of Signature Capture Area The height of the signature capture area must be measured in inches divided by 01 In the example the height of the area to be captured is 3 8 inch resulting in a value of H 375 0 01 37 5 K Gamma Correction Gamma measures the brightness of midtone values produced by the image You can brighten or darken an image using gamma correction A higher gamma correction yields ...

Page 22: ... width of the signature capture area must be measured in inches divided by 01 In the example the width of the area to be captured is 2 4 inches resulting in a value of W 2 4 0 01 240 A value of 245 was used in the example to accommodate a slightly wider image area X Horizontal Barcode Offset The horizontal barcode offset allows you to offset the horizontal center of the signature capture area Posi...

Page 23: ...r a menu setting identified by the Tag and SubTag Storage A single character that specifies the storage table to which the command is applied An exclamation point per forms the command s operation on the device s volatile menu configuration table A period performs the com mand s operation on the device s non volatile menu configuration table Use the non volatile table only for semi permanent chang...

Page 24: ...range for this Tag and SubTag combination e g an entry for a minimum message length of 100 when the field will only accept 2 characters When responding the device echoes back the command sequence with the status character inserted directly before each of the punctuation marks the period exclamation point comma or semicolon in the command Examples of Query Commands In the following examples a brack...

Page 25: ...eptance 0 255 25 SNPDEL 1 3 LED State Off SNPLED0 1 2 LED State On SNPLED1 1 2 Wait for Trigger Off SNPTRG0 1 2 Wait for Trigger On SNPTRG1 1 2 Update Tries 0 10 6 SNPTRY 1 3 Target White Value 0 255 125 SNPWHT 1 3 Target Set Point Percentage 1 99 97 SNPPCT 1 4 Image Ship IMGSHP Infinity Filter Off IMGINF0 1 6 Infinity Filter On IMGINF1 1 6 Compensation Off IMGCOR0 1 6 Compensation On IMGCOR1 1 6 ...

Page 26: ...one raw IMGXFR0 1 11 Protocol None default USB IMGXFR2 1 11 Protocol Hmodem IMGXFR3 1 11 Protocol Hmodem Compressed IMGXFR4 1 11 Ship Every Pixel IMGSUB1 1 12 Ship Every 2nd Pixel IMGSUB2 1 12 Ship Every 3rd Pixel IMGSUB3 1 12 Document Image Filter Off IMGUSH0 1 12 Document Image Filter On 0 255 IMGUSH 1 12 Blur Image Off no serial command 1 13 Blur Image On no serial command 1 13 Don t Ship Histo...

Page 27: ...GXFR0 1 11 Protocol None default USB IMGXFR2 1 11 Protocol Hmodem Compressed IMGXFR3 1 11 Protocol Hmodem IMGXFR4 1 11 Ship Every Pixel IMGSUB1 1 12 Ship Every 2nd Pixel IMGSUB2 1 12 Ship Every 3rd Pixel IMGSUB3 1 12 Document Image Filter Off IMGUSH0 1 12 Document Image Filter On 0 255 IMGUSH 1 12 Blur Image Off no serial command 1 13 Blur Image On no serial command 1 13 Don t Ship Histogram IMGHS...

Page 28: ...Correction On 1 255 IMGGAM 1 15 Resolution of Signature Capture Area 0 2500 no serial command 1 16 Barcode Aspect Ratio no serial command 1 16 Width of Signature Capture Area no serial command 1 16 Horizontal Barcode Offset no serial command 1 16 Vertical Barcode Offset no serial command 1 16 Selection Setting Indicates default Serial Command Indicates a numeric entry For full description see page...

Page 29: ...188 3485 or 2511 3050 Telephone China 86 21 6361 3818 E mail aptechsupport handheld com Japan Telephone 813 5770 6312 E mail aptechsupport handheld com Malaysia Telephone 603 6201 7020 E mail aptechsupport handheld com Online Technical Assistance You can also access technical assistance online at www handheld com For Further Information To download the full User s Guide for these products visit ou...

Page 30: ...100 Fax 52 55 5531 3672 E mail mxservice handheld com Europe Middle East and Africa Telephone 31 0 40 2901 633 Fax 31 0 40 2901 631 E mail euservice handheld com Asia Pacific Telephone 852 2511 3050 Fax 852 2511 3557 E mail apservice handheld com Japan Telephone 813 5770 6312 Fax 813 5770 6313 E mail apservice handheld com Online Product Service and Repair Assistance You can also access product se...

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