Scan: storage location

Storage locations are folders or cloud services that scanned documents are filed into automatically. When scanning to a storage location you browse a drive or a share, much like Explorer in Microsoft Windows. After selecting the subfolder you want, you give a file name and choose various scan options (file format, resolution and so on).

Default storage locations are preconfigured during installation: every drive found is created as a storage location. For security reasons, however, the Windows drive (normally C:) and the drive Docuflair was installed on are not set up.

Starting the application

The example above shows the icon of the Scan: storage locations application. Tapping it starts the application and shows a list of the storage locations available.

Alternatively, storage locations can be shown directly on the Docuflair start page. To switch that on or off, check the settings of the user application start page.

Using the application

After the application starts at the multifunction printer, a list of all available storage locations appears.

Select the storage location you want to move into the folder structure and look for a particular folder. To return to the parent folder, tap the first icon in the folder list, named “..”. PDF and image documents are also shown in the folder view with corresponding icons.

Once you have opened the target folder you want, Scan in the top right corner takes you to entering the file name and to the scan settings. If scanned documents are shown already, you can alternatively tap one to move to the settings — the name of the document tapped is then adopted as the target file name.

Note

An existing file cannot be overwritten, even if you enter or select the same file name. If Docuflair detects that a file with that name already exists, a counter is appended to the end of the name (00001, for instance).

Besides entering the file name, the application shows options for configuring the scanner at the multifunction device. Once you have selected the scan settings you want, start reading with Scan. Alternatively, press the start button on the multifunction printer itself.

A Raspberry Pi as a scan destination

If a Raspberry Pi is connected to the multifunction printer, it can serve as a scan destination too. The medium attached to the Raspberry Pi (a USB stick or an external drive) is then shown as a storage location. It works just like scanning to a regular storage location: after selecting the folder you want, you give a file name and start the scan.