Using Scanner to upload documents

Hi Openemr community. I want to ask how can I use scanner to upload documents. I had enabled the scanner in globals. but how can i scan documents to upload directly for specific patient. I can’t see any option to do it. @brady.miller @

hi @syedyawar, you’d have to be able to scan into the OpenEMR server’s directory as specified in globals

@stephenwaite thanks for your answer. So if i scan documents to that directry how can i use them to be uploaded for the patients . as we can see there is dcuments directory for patients where we upload files to save them. so how can i do this for every patient.

is there an entry under Miscellaneous->Fax/Scan?

Scanner function lets you upload in bulk and then you manually assign patient to each document.

If you are going to do this selectively (e.g. insurance card), then -

  1. Scan file to your workstation
  2. In EMR, select patient -> documents -> Category
  3. Click on Choose Files and select scanned file
  4. Add/change details
  5. Click ‘Upload’

Thanks @mdsupport and @stephenwaite for your answers. I know all this process. System don’t have that thing which I was trying. Maybe I will have to do it manually.