Preferences Dialog Box

General Tab

Display file name below thumbnails

Select this checkbox to display the file names below the thumbnails in the thumbnail view of Day View in the Calendar view, the expanded display of the Event view, or folder view.

Select Your Place of Residence

Region

You can select your region.

Country or Region

You can select your country or region. Items that can be selected vary by the Region setting.

Language

You can select the user interface language for My Image Garden.

Defaults

Restores Display file name below thumbnails and Language to the default state.

Image Analysis Settings Tab

Perform Image Analysis in the Following Folder(s)

Displays the folders to be subject to image analysis. Only the images in the folders registered here appear in the Calendar view, Unregistered People view, or People view, and are used in recommended items displayed in Image Display.

To add a folder as the target of image analysis, click Add... and specify the folder. To remove a folder from the targets of image analysis, select the folder and click Delete.

Important

• When a folder is removed from the targets of image analysis, the favorite levels set to or information of people/events registered to the images saved in the folder may be lost.

Note

• Image analysis is performed upon starting My Image Garden when the Save image analysis results and Enable face detection checkboxes are selected and there is an image with no information of person registered in the Perform Image Analysis in the Following Folder(s).
• Images for which image analysis has been completed can be automatically placed at suitable positions in your items. Refer to "Arranging Photos Automatically" for details on the setting procedure.

Save image analysis results

Select this checkbox to save the results of image analysis.

Enable face detection

Select this checkbox to detect face areas in images. Images that are automatically identified as those of the same person according to the Face Identification Rate in Face Detection setting will be grouped in the Unregistered People view.

Face Identification Rate in Face Detection

You can set the rate to identify as the same person by moving the slider.

When the slider is moved to the left, the range of images to be identified as the same person widens; the identification rate decreases to the contrary. When the slider is moved to the right, the range of images to be identified as the same person narrows; the identification rate increases to the contrary.

Optimize Image Analysis Results

Click Optimize to refresh the saved image analysis results.

Delete Saved Image Analysis Results

Click Delete to delete the image analysis results.

After the image analysis results are deleted, no image appears in the Unregistered People view until the next image analysis is performed.

Important

• When the image analysis results are deleted, all information of the people registered to the People view is also deleted.

Defaults

Restores all items to the default settings.

Advanced Settings Tab

Location of Temporary Files

You can set the folder in which to save temporary files that are created while My Image Garden is running. To change the folder, click Browse..., then specify the destination folder.

Location of Scanned Images

You can set the folder in which to save the scanned images. To change the folder, click Browse..., then specify the destination folder.

The default save folders are as follows.

• Windows 8/Windows 7/Windows XP: My Image Garden folder in My Pictures folder
• Windows Vista: My Image Garden folder in Pictures folder

Associated Application

OCR

Notepad (included with Windows) is displayed.

Click Settings... to display the Text Conversion Settings dialog box in which you can specify the settings for extracting text from images.

Document Language

Select the language for detecting text in images.

Combine multiple text conversion results

Select this checkbox to save the results of extraction in one file collectively upon extracting text from multiple images.

Important

• Be sure to select this checkbox when extracting text from 11 or more images collectively.

Defaults

Restores all items to the default settings.

Note

• Refer to "Extracting Text from Images (OCR Function)" for how to extract text from images.