Document Scanning User Interface

The scanning user interface appears when you click on the Scan attachments button from a worklist.

To access the scanner interface:

  1. Select the multi-selection checkbox on the worklist
  2. Select the Scan attachments icon  

To scan one or more documents:

  1.  Place the documents to scan in the scanner

  2. Click the Scan button

  3. The documents are scanned depending on Scanner setting section values

  4. Use the scanner user interface to make adjustments

  5. Click Upload to submit the scanned images to the server and close the user interface.

 Note: The maximum number of documents that can be scanned in one session is thirty (30).

The scanning user interface consists of:

User Interface Description
Tools Image manipulation, scanning and other functions
Demographics

Patient and study information describing the study the documents are being attached to. The contents of this section are server-configurable. See: Scanning
Settings Image and scan settings applied to the selected study or image

Preview Panel

 Readable-sized rendering of the selected scanned document

Action Buttons

Initiate new scans, upload documents to server or cancel scanning job

 

The properties of each section are described in the table below:

Tools

Tool Label Description

Grayscale

Convert color image to grayscale

Invert grayscale

Invert the grayscale of the selected image

Flip image horizontally

Flip the selected image horizontally

Flip image vertically

Flip the selected image vertically

Rotate image right

Rotate the selected image to the right 90°

Rotate image left

Rotate the selected image to the left 90°

Reset window level

Reset the selected images window level to default

Preview whole page

Initiate a scan preview with a flatbed scanner

Cropping

Left- click and drag the cursor to draw a region of interest on the selected image

Cut crop area

Crop area outside the defined region of interest

Rescan the crop area

Initiate a scan of cropped area with a flatbed scanner

Set fit to window

Fit cropped area in

Fit to page

Show entire scanned area

Delete selected image

Delete the displayed image

 

Demographics

Patient and study information describing the study the documents are being attached to. The contents of this section are server configurable. See Scanning

Profile Settings

Users can create and save custom profiles per workstation.  Profiles can store document type, upload image, scanner, scanning crop area, image modifiers, and auto start settings.

To create a new profile:

  1. Click the Add new profile icon
  2. Type a name for the profile in name field
  3. Click to enable/disable settings to store
  4. Click OK to save

NOTE: The scanning application will apply the last used profile on the workstation.  Use this method to designate which profile to use as default if multiple exist.

To update an existing profile

  1. Ensure the profile you wish to update is applied
  2. Make desired changes to scanning options
  3. Click Add new profile icon
  4. Click to enable/disable settings to store
  5. Click OK to save
  6. Click Yes at overwrite prompt

To delete a profile

  1. Ensure profile you wish to delete is selected
  2. Click delete icon

Upload Document Settings

Label Description
Document type List of configured document types available for assignment to the selected image.
Document modality

List of modalities if selected document type has edit modality enabled.  If selected document type does not have edit modality enabled but instead determines a default, default value will be displayed.

Document format

Jpg or PDF

Upload Jpeg quality

 JPEG compression quality factor applied when scanning documents.

 

Scanner

Recognized Windows scanners are listed here.  See Scanner Configuration for more information

Scanner Settings

Scanner settings are applied whenever a scan job is initiated.  Changing these values has no affect on already scanned images.

Label Description
Source Provided by the scanner.  Typically flatbed or feeder.
Color Mode Color, Grayscale, black and white
Resolution (dpi) List of DPI values.  If list is provided by the scanner, eRAD will display that list.  If the scanner provides a range, eRAD will provide preset values.
Brightness Scanner brightness setting
Contrast Scanner contrast setting
Auto crop mode Enabled by default If auto crop is supported by scanner
Scan both sides Setting to scan both sides for feeder type scanners

 

Preview Panel

Action

 Description

Left-click

NA

Left-click and drag

Pan image or set crop size area

Right-click

Display context menu tools

Right-click and drag

Adjust window and level of image

Right-click and Left -click drag

Apply dynamic zoom.  For display purposes only not applied when saving image to server

Mouse wheel

Click to reset crop.  Scroll to navigate through multiple images.

Up and Down Arrow Keys

Navigate to next and prior images

 

Action Buttons

Label Description
Upload Submit the scanned images to the server and close the user interface.
Scan Initiate a new scan
Cancel Cancel scan action and close user interface