Dentrix G6 Document Center Compression is GONE!

Dentrix G6 Document Center Compression is GONE!

In case you haven't noticed, the Dentrix G6 Document Center Compression options were removed from Dentrix G6, WITHOUT ANY WARNING TO DENTRIX USERS.

One of my clients who scans many documents was using 500MB in Dentrix G5, but in Dentrix G6 they started to use 2GB per day. Each page in a pdf scan is coming out to around 20MB in the DocFiles folder instead of 5MB.

I have been waiting for Dentrix to fix the issue in Dentrix G6.2, but since it was not released in February I called Tech Support to find out what is going on, seeing how they left this in the Dentrix G6 Help file.


See the problem? We have no Document Center Compression settings in the actual program, but it seems they DID leave it in the help file.

So.. was it on purpose or accidental? As far as I can tell, this was on purpose. I called Dentrix yesterday and they told my client they had problems with Document Center compression with CORRUPT IMAGES (NEWS TO ME), and the developers decided to remove it. That is GREAT and all, but Dentrix never warned us users about it. For an 8 thousand dollar program, it sure seems like a pile of krap.

Lots of TWAIN scanners don't have a method to scan to a pdf from the push of a button so I thought I would come up with a solution. Lucky for you I thought fujitsu ripped out the SnapScan Manager for the newer FI Series models BUT.. you can actual request it if you give them your serial number and model:
https://www.pfu.fujitsu.com/registration/ssmanager/en/form.html
For the scanners with asterisk "*", only models bundled with "ScanSnap Manager for fi-Series" or "ScandAll PRO ScanSnap mode Add-in" are applicable.

Guess I will find out tomorrow if it was bundled...... Sigh.

Solution:

I found ScanToPDF ($40) from http://www.scantopdf.com/en/home.aspx and then created it's own Scanner Event in Windows by adding some registry keys. (Learned this from messing with cameras)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StillImage\Events\STIProxyEvent\{7F6EB40D-F370-40F4-A2A5-D748F3FA1919}]
"Icon"="sti.dll,0"
"Name"="ScanToPDF"
"Desc"="ScanToPDF"
"Cmdline"="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\O Imaging Corporation\\ScanToPDF\\ScanToPDF.exe /autoscan /autosave /pdfpath=\"C:\\Users\\DentrixScan\\scanned.pdf\" /terminateaftersave"

Restart the Windows Image Acquisition service or reboot!
Then I assigned the event to the scanner.

And then finally setup the new Dentrix Document Center automatic file acquisition mode (Because Dentrix just can't seem to use a decent scanner library that the developers actually know how to use, and TALK about a LACK of TESTING)


Note for developers:Try EZ-Twain Dentrix... Open Dental uses it... works great. I believe ScanToPDF is using the same library. I think they even include samples.....
http://opendentalsoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=561