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Use the Scanning Station to scan large volumes of documents. The Scanning Station works in a local or a remote network (via the Internet). You can authenticate using a login and password, Windows authentication, or SSO authentication (for details on setting up SSO, see Single Sign-On authentication). For more information about the station, see About ABBYY Scanning Station. The Scanning Station may be the first station a document reaches. A Scanning Operator operates it and can add images in one of the following ways:
  • Create and use scanning profiles and/or add images manually.
  • Add the images of already scanned documents from a folder.
Profiles automate image acquisition, letting the Operator add images with saved settings in a single click. Besides adding images, the Scanning Operator may edit them.

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Scanning workflow

1

Launch the station and load batch types

Launch the Scanning Station and receive batch types from the server if the corresponding option is specified in the project settings or Scanning Station settings. If batch types are not loaded automatically, load them manually after the Scanning Station is launched.
2

Open or create a batch

If there is an unfinished batch left on the station, continue processing it. Otherwise, create a new batch.
3

Scan the documents

If import profiles have already been created, select the appropriate profile and start scanning. If there are no ready-made profiles, create the necessary profiles and use them to scan the documents.
4

Check and edit the images

When adding the images, the Operator may visually check them and edit them if required. If this does not solve the problem, the Operator may change the scanning options and rescan the faulty pages.
5

Check document assembly

Control the quality of document assembly and correct any assembly errors.
6

Send the batch

After the batch is ready, specify its registration parameters and send it to the server.
7

Repeat or finish

Repeat these steps for the next batch of images, or shut down the Scanning Station.