1. To scan a document:
a. Load the first page into the scanner
b. Double-click the GssScan.bat icon on the desktop to scan the page
c. The page will be scanned to "c:\scanned_doc.jpg".
d. You should rename and/or move this to somewhere else so that it doesn't get overwritten by subsequent scans.
e. For subsequent pages or new documents, repeat steps a through d.
2. You can always check the website. If you are having trouble installing the program you could wait for the WindowsInstaller version. Or you could hurry it along by sending an email to the address given on the contact page. If you have any other problems, send me an email.
3. No. Not yet. I have some that record incoming correspondence or important documents and receipts. These need a bit of a tidy up before they get included in the download. If there is something else that you need, please email me and I'll see what I can do.
4. You can specify the size of the document to be scanned by using "/PAPER=p". In the above batch file I used /PAPER=A4 but you can also use LETTER, LEGAL, A3, A5, A6, B3, B4, B5, B6, C3, C4, C5, or C6. I use A4 even for smaller documents because all of my scans end up the same size when flicking through them and because I use JPG compression which means the files aren't much bigger with extra empty space.
5. The possible modes are: /RGB for color, /GREY for a greyscale or /BW for black and white.
6. The resolution depends on your scanner but most will support lower resolutions (e.g. using a 1200 dots per inch scanner to do 200 DPI scans). Use /DPI=n to specify the scan resolution in dots per inch. The default is 200DPI.
7. The format is for the output file. This can be a bitmap file (*.BMP) or a JPG file with varying degrees of compression. Possible options for this are: /BMP, /JPG25, /JPG50, /JPG75 or /JPG.
8. So, the command looks like: CmdTwain [paper] [mode] [resolution] [format] [path\]file.
9. Options MUST currently be specified in uppercase. I'll lighten this up in a later release.
10. If you use the JPG format for the output file, it doesn't include the DPI values used in the header. What this means is: if you scan at greater than the windows default of 96DPI (almost always for me), the image will appear to be larger than it really was.