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Chapter 8: Special Scanning Modes
• Lighting conditions are less important because On-Site Compensation is
done with the laser, video images are not used.
8.3.2 Connect Laser Scanner to Computer through Wireless LAN
To be able to transfer the scanned data directly to your computer, you must
connect the computer with the laser scanner
and through WLAN to remotely
access and control the scanner.
Using the scanner
as a WLAN access
point
On your scanner 1. Enable WLAN on your scanner (see
WLAN on page 91).
2. Look up your scanner‘s network name by tapping Manage > General
Settings > WLAN > Network Name on the scanner‘s user interface.
On your Computer Establish a WLAN connection between the computer or tablet and the scanner
by using the network name as the SSID.
8.3.3 On-Site Compensation steps
On your computer Select Output folder
1. Click Start On-Site Compensation button in the Scanning toolbar by
selecting the “Scanning” toolbar.
2. All data captured during On-Site Compensation, including the Compensation
Report
will be stored in the output folder.
3. Click the Browse button to open the file system browser.
4. Browse to the folder. Click OK.
Disable the proxy server to make the connection work. If this is
not possible for some reason, enter the addresses of both
devices in the Exceptions field.
We recommend to use a WLAN card that supports IEEE
802.11n.