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Recommended Scanner Settings

Required scanner settings for invoices and statements.

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Written by Brian Carolan
Updated this week

There are recommended scanner settings you should be using when scanning invoices and statements to AutoEntry.

📎NOTE: These settings are not required for uploading via the Mobile App or uploading digital .pdf copies of statements or invoices.


Colour

  • The colour setting on your scanner should be Greyscale (grey, true grey or similar)

  • Don't use black and white - AutoEntry will reject scans in black and white as the extraction quality can be extremely poor

  • Error Diffusion off

  • Use colour if there is no greyscale option

  • For poor copies, for example, carbon copy invoices for example, it can be better to use full colour, although this isn't a guarantee that AutoEntry won't reject it for poor scan quality


File Type

Don't set the file type to a compressed format. For example, Compressed PDF. Use either PDF or TIFF.


Compression

Turn compression off or down to the lowest setting.


Quality

Turn the quality up to the highest setting.


Image Processing

Turn off any image processing, for example, binarisation, thresholding, background adjustment, or turn it down to the lowest setting possible on your scanner.

📎NOTE: Don't upload screenshots. AutoEntry will reject screenshots, so if you have a digital copy already, simply save the file and upload it.


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