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Processing profiles allow you to automatically apply necessary changes to a flow of images from the Scanning Station. To apply a processing profile to an image flow:
  • Assign to a batch type in the Scanning Station (the Image Processing tab in the Batch Type Properties dialog box).
  • Apply when loading input images (Tools > Options…, the Image Processing tab).
The program contains two profiles embedded by default:
  • Photo. This profile contains recommended editing settings of images obtained when taking photos of documents.
  • Scan. This profile contains recommended editing settings of images obtained when scanning documents.
To apply a profile to one page, follow these steps:
  1. Select a page in the batch window.
  2. Double-click the name of a profile in the Processing Profiles window or select the Apply Processing Profile command in the Page menu in the main window of the program or in the context menu of the page.

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Multiple selection mode

If you select multiple pages in the batch window with Shift or Ctrl buttons, you can also apply a processing profile to the selected images. This will leave not selected pages of the batch unchanged. You can also apply some one-time editing actions to several images (except Split, Crop, and Redact).

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Creating a Custom Processing Profile

Processing profiles are created in the Scanning Station. To create a processing profile, follow these steps:
  1. Click the Add button at the top of the Processing profile window. The processing profile creation window will open. The image window enables the mode that allows you to view editing results to test the processing profile being created.
  2. Select image editing tools with an on / off toggle to the right from each action on the Operations panel.

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Image editing tools

  • Split. Splits an image horizontally / vertically for the selected number of separate pages. With this action you need to make sure that documents on all images are placed evenly.
  • Resolution. Changes the resolution of an image.
  • Rotate. Rotates an image.
  • Flip. Flips an image horizontally / vertically.
  • Invert Colors. Inverts colors of an image that contains light text on the dark background.
  • Autocrop. Automatically searches for page boundaries on an image, crops the area that contains data for extraction, corrects skews and distortions. There are three available modes: Generic, Photo, and Scan.
  • Remove ISO Noise. Removes noise from an image.
  • Remove Motion Blur. Removes blur that occurs when moving a document or a camera/scanner.
  • Photo Correction:
    • Whiten Background. Whitens the background of an image.
    • Equalize Brightness. Equalizes brightness of an image.
  • Remove Color Marks. Removes all color marks from an image.
    • Remove marks of specified colors only. Removes marks only of the specified color.
Note: If this option is not marked, all color marks except gray scale marks will be deleted from an image. For example, if you need to delete blue stamps and leave green headings, mark this option and select a color.
  • Deskew:
    • Use black separators to correct skew. Allows you to correct image skew using black separators.
    • Use black squares to correct skew. Allows you to correct image skew using black squares.

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Configuring background color at the deskewing stage

You can change the color of the background that appears beyond the edges of the image when you start deskewing it. To do this, set the value of the DeskewColor registry subkey of the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ABBYY\ScanStationVantage\5.0\Shell\PageView] subkey to the following value: redComp + greenComp_256 + blueComp_256*256. If the value of the subkey is left unspecified or its value is set to 4294967295, the background color will be determined automatically.
  • Remove Geometrical Distortions. Removes geometrical distortions
Note: The image deskewing functionality is embedded into the Autocrop tool (see above). Therefore, if you have already selected the Autocrop tool, this option may be left disabled.
  • Remove Scanner Shadow. Removes scanner shadow from an imagex.
  • Brightness & Contrast. Allows you to configure brightness and contrast of an image.
  • Convert to B\W. Converts color and gray images into black and white.
  • Despeckle. Removes small extra elements from an image. This option is applicable only to black and white images.
Important! If source text in images is very light or it includes thin type and if the size of elements to be despeckled is set by a user, it is necessary to make sure that significant elements like punctuation marks and thin letter elements are not deleted when the Despeckle function is enabled.
Note: After any editing action you can always restore the original image.
  1. Set the name for a new profile in the Edit profile field and click OK.
The new profile will appear in the list of available processing profiles. To edit the profile, select it in the Processing profile window and click the Edit button.
Note: You can create and edit new processing profiles from the Processing Profiles dialog box (Tools menu > Processing Profiles…).

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Importing and exporting a processing profile

Custom processing profiles may be exported to be used in other Scanning Stations. The profile is exported to an XML file. To export a processing profile, follow these steps:
  1. Open the Processing Profiles dialog box (Tools > Processing Profiles…).
  2. Select the profile from the list and click Export….
  3. In the opened window select where the profile must be saved.
  4. Click OK.
This processing profile can be imported to other Scanning Stations. To Import a processing profile, click Tools > Processing Profiles… > Import….