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User Guide
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Incardexex: User Guide A.V. Povarkova, info@akond.net
Akond company
197342, Russia, St.-Petersburg,
Serdobolskaya, 65a
Phone/fax: +7(812)600-6918
Cell: +7(921)757-8319
e-mail: info@akond.net
http://www.akond.net
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Content
Introduction 4
Software installation 5
Incardex operation 5
Incardex options 27
About company 39
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1. INTRODUCTION
Incardex can be used together with inPhoto Capture designed for full
control of the Canon cameras from PC. inPhoto Capture provides
automatic image capture and transfer to the Incardex database. For full
information on inPhoto Capture refer to the corresponding User Guide.
PC requirements:
3. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION
Run Incardexsetup.exe and follow the instructions you will get. Activate
your license using on-line or off-line activation and enjoy working with
Incardex.
Run Incardexsetupgk.exe and follow the instructions you will get. If the
installation went all right you will get the corresponding notification. After
inPhoto Capture is installed plug the USB dongle (USB Guadrant Stealth)
nto the USB port of your computer. The New Hardware Installation Wizard
will start up. Select “Automatic installation” and press Next.
The Wizard will search for New Hardware installed (USB Guadrant Stealth
dongle). The box notifying that the drivers are not signed by Microsoft will
be invoked next. Select “Continue anyway” to continue the dongle driver
installation, and the USD Guadrant Stealth driver will be installed.
Now you can run Incardex software in Designer (Incardex Designer) and
Producer (Incardex Producer) mode.
4. INCARDEX OPERATION
The menu in the upper part of the software window provides access to
Incardex Designer commands and settings.
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Use Toolbar buttons for the quick access to the software commands and
settings.
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Text form DB. Click this button to insert the text from
the database field (e.g. First Name, Second Name,
Date of Issue, etc.) on the ID card layout.
The menu in the upper part of the software window provides access to
Incardex Producer commands and settings.
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Use Toolbar buttons for the quick access to the software commands and
settings.
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The exercise below will allow you to learn major functions of Incardex
software.
Incardex Producer is used for entering the data and photos and for card
printing.
Incardex Designer
2. Create a New Card layout. For this press New button on the Toolbar or
click New on the File menu. See Figure 3.
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6. Add the data objects on the card layout and set their properties. To draw
objects select the object type on the Objects toolbar in the left part of the
software window and draw the selected object on the card. To set the
object properties click the right mouse button on the object and select
Properties in the context menu or double click the left mouse button.
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You may also insert the Barcode, 2D Barcode, and Fingerprint on the ID
card layout. For this use the corresponding buttons on the Toolbar.
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7. Save the card template. For this press Save button on the Toolbar
or click Save on the File menu. Enter the file name, e.g. [Shared
Documents]\Incardex Samples\sample_card.icp and press Save button.
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Incardex Producer
2. Open the card template (see Figure 8). Click Open button on the
Toolbar or click Open on the File menu and select [Shared
Documents]\Incardex Samples\sample_card.icp file in the file open
window.
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3. Add a new record to the database. For this click Add Record
button on the Toolbar or click Add Record on the Record menu.
4. Enter data to the First Name, Last Name, Department, ID number, Expiry
date fields (see Figure 9).
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5. Insert the photo. For this double click on the Photo field and select
image file in the window which will appear, e.g. [Shared
Documents]\Incardex Samples\Kate.jpg. The image file opens in the
image enhancement window (see Figure 10). The human face is detected
automatically, the face area is cropped, and the cropped image is
enhanced if necessary (brightness, contrast, gamma, sharpness).
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Press OK, and the cropped and enhanced image will be inserted into the
Photo field (see Figure 11).
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Рисунок 11.
Install Incardex together with inPhoto Capture software, and you will be
able to capture ID photos directly to Incardex with Canon Powershot
cameras.
S-cameras - S30, S40, S45, S50, S60, S70, S80, S1 IS, S2 IS, S3 IS, S5
IS, SX100 IS, SX110 IS
A-cameras - A10, A20, A30, A60, A70, A75, A80, A85, A95, A100, A200,
A300, A310, A400, A510, A520, A620, A640
Digital IXUS - SD100 (Digital IXUS II), SD110 (Digital IXUS IIs), S230
(Digital IXUS 330), S400 (Digital IXUS 400), S410 (Digital IXUS 430),
S500 (Digital IXUS 500).
Install Incardex together with inPhoto Capture SLR software, and you will
be able to capture ID photos directly to Incardex with Canon SLR (reflex)
cameras.
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In the image source window select inPhoto Capture TWAIN (if you use
inPhoto Capture software), inPhoto Capture SLR (if you use inPhoto
Capture SLR software), or USB-device (if you use web camera to capture
photos).
Double click on the Photo field. inPhoto Capture / inPhoto Capture SLR
software starts up. Please refer to inPhoto Capture / inPhoto Capture
SLR User Guide for more details on how to use it.
6. Save Record. For this press Save button on the Toolbar or click
Save on the File menu.
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8. Print the ready card out. For this click Quick Print button on the
Toolbar or click Print / Quick Print on the File menu. The Print Properties
window appears. Perform all necessary adjustments and press OK. The
card will be printed out.
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1. First step.
2. Second step
• Select a table. All tables are available are listed in the left part of the
Wizard window. To renew the list click Renew. If you need to select the
system table check System, and the system tables will be displayed in
the tables list.
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MS Access database
MS SQL database
Excel file
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You can import Excel file with the photo links to Incardex. For this please do the
following:
1. In your Excel file add a column where the photo links will be stored, e.g.
Photo.
2. In Incardex Designer module create ID card layout. Create Database
connection. Go to menu Database / Database Source / select External
Database. Click Select Database / Microsoft Office Excel. Browse your
Excel file.
3. Select Sample_Table. Check Use First Row as Column Titles (The first
row of Excel file will be used as the title of the columns).
4. Select Photo and click Image Link. Select the folder where the photos will
be stored and choose file naming method from the drop down list.
5. Save created ID card layout. Then open it in Incardex Producer and
work.
Text file
1. Create the file describing the text file format. For this do the
following:
• Create new text document schema.ini in the text file folder (the
example folder [Shared Documents]\Incardex Samples\
contains example schema.ini text document).
• Type the text file name in the square brackets (e.g.
[txt_sample.txt] ) in the first line of schema.ini file.
• Type the following text in the second line:
Format=Delimited(<separator ??? symbol>), e.g.:
Format=Delimited(;)
• Type ColNameHeader=<true or false> in the third line. True:
if the first line of the data text file contains the column titles.
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False: if the first line of the data text file does not contain the
column titles. E.g. ColNameHeader=true.
• Save and close schema.ini file.
• For more details in schema.ini file, please refer to MSDN
documentation or read
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
us/odbc/htm/odbcjetschema_ini_file.asp
6. INCARDEX OPTIONS
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Click Next and the second window of Excel Import wizard will be
displayed. It is used to connect the existing database fields with the Excel
file columns. On the left you can see the Database fields. On the right, in
the Excel column select the Excel file data which will be filled in the
corresponding fields of the database.
After the database fields – Excel file data connection is performed press
Next, and Excel file import starts. The information on import results will be
displayed in the third window of Excel Import wizard.
In order to perform encoding create the ID card layout or open the ready
layout from disk. Select Magnetic Stripe Encoding… in File menu.
Magnetic Stripe Options window will open. (Figure 13). Select encoding
method and data to be encoded.
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In this window select Field – Date of issue (Date of issue is the date when
the ID card was issued for a new employer). The Date of issue field will be
available in the drop-down list if this field exists in the database record.
Select Condition Greater than. In Value field type 01.01.2008. Then select
Condition Lower than. In Value field type 31.12.2008.
Press OK, and all database records will be filtered. In the table will be
displayed all records matching the condition specified (employers enrolled
in 2008).
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(a)
(b)
Figure 17. (a) All database records. (b) Filtered database records.
To switch off the database filtration click Filter OFF button on the toolbar.
To edit filter conditions click Edit Filter… button on the toolbar.
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The Search and Replace commands are used for data search and replace
in the database..
Figure 18.
To search enter the required data in the Find What field and selct search settings in
the corresponding fields..
To replace enter the required data in the Find What field, enter
replacement data in the Replace with field and press Replace button.
In order to arrange CR-80 cards on the A4 sheet for printing perform the
following steps:
1. Open Page Setup window. For this click Page Setup on the File
menu.
• Rows: 3
• Columns: 3
• Left offset: 10 мм
• Top offset: 10 мм
• Horizontal offset: 9 мм
• Vertical offset: 12 мм
5. In the Preview field you will see the cards location on a sheet.
7. To view the sheet before printing click Preview button on the Toolbar
or select Preview on the File menu.
Printing by condition
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3. Double click on the permanent text field. The Object Properties window
will be displayed. In the bottom part of this window you will see the Print
Condition section. By default it says: "This object is printed always. Press
"Set..." button to set a condition for printing this object. You can modify or
clear the condition later."
5. Run Incardex Producer module and open the created ID card template.
Add New Record to the Database and enter the card holder data.
6. Depending on the employee status the permitted access zone fields will
be printed out or not.
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6. The table of the layouts by default contains the DEFAULT layout. The
DEFAULT layout can be renamed if necessary.
7. Other layouts shall be added to the layouts table (click Add button).
Assign name to the layout and select the layout file from a drop down list.
Check that the database field created in Incardex Designer to store ID card
layouts list contains the drop-down list of layouts.
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When you select layout from the list you will see selected ID card layout in
the right. When you create a new record in the database the DEFAULT
layout will be selected automatically.
Below you will find the general description on how to work with Incardex
installed together with inPhoto Capture.
3. Add all necessary fields on the ID card layout (see Figure 6). Use
graphic elements (line, rectangle), permanent text fields (company name),
permanent images (company logo), and the fields from the database.
1. Open Database.
2. Add new record to the database. For this click button. Fill the
fields (text, numeric, date) in with the personal information. Click on the
Photo field with the right mouse button and select Select Source… in the
context menu. The Image Source window will open. Select inPhoto
Capture TWAIN / inPhoto Capture SLR – depending on camera used -
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and click OK. Double click on the Photo field. inPhoto Capture / inPhoto
Capture SLR will starts up.
3. Control the live image preview in the Preview area on the PC display
(see Figure 21).
Control camera settings (zoom the image in and out, change image
brightness, select image format, etc). Press Capture to TWAIN to capture
the image and transfer it to the Image Processing window.
5. Image transfer to the active record of the database. See Figure 22.
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8. ABOUT COMPANY
We hope that you install Incardex software and learn how to use it with no
problems, and that your work will be more effective and comfortable than
before.
Contact details:
Akond company
197342, Russia, St.-Petersburg
Phone/fax: +7(812)600-6918
Cell: +7(921)757-8319
e-mail: info@akond.net
http://www.akond.net
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