Scanning double-sided questionnaires
This section provides details about the settings required when you want to scan double-sided questionnaires. These instructions assume that you have the recognition field text set to “Upward” on the Recognition Fields tab in the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper Options dialog and apply only when you are loading paper into the scanner along the short edge. If your scanner supports loading paper along the long edge (and, for example, you scan portrait-oriented pages in landscape mode), the settings will be different. If you have problems determining the correct settings, contact UNICOM Intelligence Support.
You cannot mix landscape and portrait pages in double-sided questionnaires.
Recommended steps
1 Load the questionnaire definition.
2 Format the document.
3 Select Mirror Margins in the Page Setup dialog. This specifies that the questionnaire will be scanned double-sided.
4 Change the rotation settings on the Options tab in the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper/Scan Add‑on Options dialog. See:
5 Insert the scanning control fields.
6 Set the printer properties in Word, and then print the questionnaire.
7 Change the scanner settings in ReadSoft FORMS Manager, and then transfer the questionnaire to ReadSoft FORMS.
8 If necessary, adjust the form definitions in ReadSoft FORMS Manager.
Double-sided portrait pages, flipped on long edge
1 On the Options tab in the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper/Scan Add‑on Options dialog ensure that Rotate is set to 0 for All Forms.
2 Change the printer properties to print double-sided and flip on the long edge.
3 In the scanner settings in ReadSoft FORMS Manager:
▪Select Two-sided.
▪Set Rotate Front to 0 degrees.
▪Set Rotate Back to 0 degrees.
You do not need to make any changes to the form definitions in ReadSoft FORMS Manager.
Double-sided portrait pages, flipped on short edge
1 On the Options tab in the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper/Scan Add‑on Options dialog select By Form and ensure that Rotate is set to 0 for Odd Pages and to 180 for Even Pages.
2 Change the printer properties to print double-sided and flip on the short edge.
3 In the scanner settings in ReadSoft FORMS Manager:
▪Select Two-sided.
▪Set Rotate Front to 0 degrees.
▪Set Rotate Back to 180 degrees.
4 In ReadSoft FORMS Manager, go into the form definition of all even pages and change the rotation of the recognition field.
Double-sided landscape pages, flipped on short edge
1 On the Options tab in the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper/Scan Add‑on Options dialog ensure that Rotate is set to 0 for All Forms.
2 Change the printer properties to print double-sided and flip on the short edge.
3 In the scanner settings in ReadSoft FORMS Manager:
▪Select Two-sided.
▪Set Rotate Front to 0 degrees.
▪Set Rotate Back to 180 degrees.
You do not need to make any changes to the form definitions in ReadSoft FORMS Manager.
Double-sided landscape pages, flipped on long edge
1 On the Options tab in the UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper/Scan Add‑on Options dialog select By Form and ensure that Rotate is set to 0 for Odd Pages and to 180 for Even Pages.
2 Change the printer properties to print double-sided and flip on the long edge.
3 In the scanner settings in ReadSoft FORMS Manager:
▪Select Two-sided.
▪Set Rotate Front to 0 degrees.
▪Set Rotate Back to 0 degrees.
4 In ReadSoft FORMS Manager, go into the form definition of all even pages and change the rotation of the recognition field.
Setting up mirror margins for double-sided scanning
Make sure that you select this option before you insert the scanning control fields.
1 From the Page Layout tab click the open icon in the Page Setup group.
2 Click the Margins tab, and then select Mirror margins from the Multiple Pages list.
When you run the Transfer to Scanning Software command, UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Paper/Scan Add‑on sets up the job for double-sided scanning.
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