I’m using a Canon MP530 AIO’s scanner which works with Image Capture and a TWAIN interface. In addition to its separate Canon application. So with this setup, I experimented with finding the most-workable procedure for me to scan documents.
ExactScan using the scanner’s own user interface produced the quickest and best results. ExactScan by itself was close, but its scans were slower. The main advantages using the Canon software were its additional image correction and saved profiling options.
Image Capture was clunky in how it worked and had a bare minimum of manual image correction features.
OCR was seamless and consistently worked well. Of course, the best quality scans produced the best OCR results.
Here is some UI feedback and suggestions from this limited experience using DT 2.0pb3r2.
ExactScan Capture
After the Scan button is depressed the window closes and there is no indication of what’s happening. The title, author, etc., dialog finally appears after a short delay. It would be a good idea to provide a dialog or progress bar feedback while waiting. Or, at least leave the scan window open with its buttons grayed-out.
It seems only the default 300dpi Color OCR profile will produce a file in the DT Inbox. Change from Color to Gray, or the Image (print) profile, etc., and nothing happens or you get an “exceeded demo allowance” dialog.
Image Capture
Will sometimes hang with the spinning beachball at Scanned Document window. Cannot recover even after a Force Quit and must restart to regain control of the scanner.
No action from the Overview button in the Scanned Document window when Use Document Feeder is checked. It seems to put the scanner into a preview operation, but nothing is displayed. What does “Overview” mean? Typical scanner parlance is “Preview” even though “Overview” happens to also be used in Image Capture for a preview.
The Add Page button is not intuitive in scanning a first page. Why not “Scan”? But the Add Page button (the one in the toolbar) does do what is expected.
The Store button (in the toolbar) is not particularly intuitive. How about “Save”? You are expecting it to be saved (stored) in DT as you would saving an edited RTF, PDF, etc.
After clicking the Store button, the Set button in the title, author, etc., dialog is also not intuitive. Why not “Save”?
After the Set button, the scanned entry appears at the top level of the selected database. Why not into the Inbox? Or, into the same Group from which the Import command was initiated? Or, a dialog for a save location that will retain it last entry – select the location once and subsequent entries will default to that same location?