How to use the Savin Copier to get Documents to the WEB

HVS 9/09/04

This writeup describes a method by which you can use the MCC Savin photocopier (outside the control room towards the kitchen) to scan paper documents into .pdf format which can then be moved to SLAC web server space and linked to a web page.

I have (unfortunately) only figured out how to do this for the black and white copier. The color copier has a different "Operating System" which doesn't seem to want to do this. So as long as you are okay with black and white...

With the document(s) of interest in hand walk up to the Savin copier. Note that there is a touchpad with functions and some other buttons in addition to the side of the touchpad. To the left of the touchpad push the button labelled "scanner". The green light associated should come on.

On the touchpad now select the "store file" button which will take you to another panel. On that second panel switch the toggle such that it selects "store only" rather than "send and store". Then press "OK".

The copier is now read to scan...there should be a green light on the "start" button to the right of the keypad.

I have found that for multiple page documents with more than one page orientation it is best to scan the items one page at a time. To have the .pdf file maintain consistent orientation I always place the "top" of the page (be that in portrait or landscape orientation) along the left edge of the glass.

Press the start button. The copier will scan the page you have placed on the glass. The photocopier now gives you 15 seconds (Bill Allen knows how to adjust this time) to place another document on the glass and press start again. After 15 seconds the copier assumes you are done and makes a "document" or "file" which includes all the pages you have scanned.

Once at this stage you can (thankfully) walk away from the photocopier.

To get at these files you will next want to go to a web browser and type in the URL: http://svmcc4035.slac.stanford.edu into your browser address field. This takes you to a web page "served" by the photocopier. To the left select "Document Server" and a list of scanned documents appears. Note memory is limited so the system deletes files after a few days. I don't know what happens if memory fills otherwise. Anyhow your document should be one of those listed. For your file, click the little icon which looks like a blue cuffed hand pointing at a piece of paper. This brings you to a page where you can sortof see the first page of your document. Next you want to push the "download" button.

At this point different browsers behave differently. Explorer launches a .pdf viewer (most likely achrobat but probably depends on your system) in which you can look at the document. Mozilla (on SLAC unix) prompts for a file name and location at which to dump the file.

If you want to place the .pdf file in SLAC web server space (unix) it is actually quite easy using mozilla (running on one of the SLAC unix machines). When download prompts for a location manipulate the gui to put it in the afs web space you would like (for example /afs/slac.stanford.edu/www/grp/ad/op/ for the MCC Operations Page Contents).

If you use an XP machine and Explorer, you can save the .pdf file to the local computer then figure out a way (ftp, WinSCP, etc.) to move it to the /afs/ land.

Once the file is in the web space directory you will simply need to put a link to it on the appropriate web page.