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Exit
1 Right-click on the task tray.

2 Select [Exit].

AutoID Keyboard Wedge

for Windows * Clicking of the AutoID Keyboard Wedge will minimize the AutoID
Keyboard Wedge.

User's Manual To exit, be sure to perform exit operation from the task tray.

Read this user's manual carefully prior to operating this product.

3 Items
After reading, keep this manual in a safe place so that you can refer to it at any time.
This section describes the items that can be set on the AutoID Keyboard Wedge.

 Symbols
The following symbols alert you to important messages. Be sure to read these
messages carefully.
(1) Communication

Important Provides precautions about operations that must be performed.

(2) Append data

Point Provides precautions on operations that can be easily mistaken.
(3) Edit data

Reference Provides useful information or information that aids understanding of

text descriptions. (4) Special key conversion

Provides reference items and pages.

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(5) Received data

Overview
The AutoID Keyboard Wedge is software that converts data read by a code reader
to keyboard output.
(1) Communication

Code reader PC The AutoID Keyboard Wedge starts operation with the set contents. To launch
[Start] button the AutoID Keyboard Wedge at the start-up of PC, check "Run in background at
Serial communication start-up", and register the shortcut of AutoID Keyboard Wedge with the Startup.
AutoID
Keyboard output Check here when performing keyboard conversion of socket
Ethernet
communication data via Ethernet.
communication
Keyboard (Port No: 1024 to 65535)
TCP communication
Serial Check here when performing keyboard conversion of serial
Wedge communication communication data via RS-232C, etc.
Set the time interval when inputting characters one by one.
Data transmission (0 ms to 100 ms)
interval If keyboard conversion data is dropped, the problem may be solved by
increasing this value.
Hardware requirements
(2) Append data
Windows 8 Professional or later (32bit/64bit) (excluding Windows RT)
OS Windows 7 professional or later (32-bit/64-bit)
Date Append date and time information.
Windows Vista Business/Ultimate SP2 or later (32-bit)
Partition mark Append partition mark. (0 to 1 character)
* Log in as a user that has administrator privileges. Header Append characters at the beginning of data. (0 to 5 characters)
* Use Microsoft IME or Microsoft Office IME for input.
Terminator Append characters at the end of data. (0 to 5 characters)

Data format
Supported communication
Header Date Partition mark Read data Terminator
• Serial communication: Communication via RS-232C or virtual COM (USB-COM).
Communicates by specifying the number of COM (3) Edit data
connected to the code reader.
• TCP communication: Communication via Ethernet TCP.
Data can be output by dividing it into multiple blocks.
Communicates by specifying the wait port number with
This function can be used when the number of fields is set to 1 or more.
the code reader set to client and with PC set to server.

2 Start/Exit Number of fields

Partition mark
Specify how many pieces the data is divided to.
(0 to 16)
Specify the partition mark of the block to output.
(Default: "," (0x2D))

Start-up Edit data setting

1 Start up the AutoID Keyboard Wedge. No.

Specify the order of output for divided data.
(1 to 16)
Specify start digit for data extraction.
Output start digit
(1 to 999 digits)*1
The icon is registered on the task tray. Specify the number of digits by byte to output from the output start digit.
Output length
(1 to 999 digits)*1
2 Click the [Start] button after setup.
Kanji conversion
If data includes Japanese such as Hiragana or Kanji, set this to "ON" to
output data by Japanese conversion.
This converts characters included in the data to other character strings to
output.
Data replacement
Maximum number of characters that can be specified as conversion
target characters is 5.

*1 "Output start digit" + "Output length" = 1000 (upper limit).

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 (4) Special key conversion Setting example
This converts control characters to keys on the keyboard to output.
If control characters are included in read data, header or terminator, use this
Example 1) Setting arbitrary characters to header/terminator
function to output data by key conversion for control characters.
"Correspondence table for control character and special key conversion" (Page 2) Click "Append data" - "Header/Terminator".

(5) Received data

When data is input to the applicable port with the AutoID Keyboard Wedge
Double-click to select the character to append from the character table.
communication set to [Start], the received data is displayed here. Use this to check
if the data is correctly received.
Convert control
If control characters are included in the received data, the character
code to character
strings are converted and displayed here.
string.
[Clear] button This clears the data displayed here.

Specified characters are input as below.

Appendix
To append multiple characters, continue to select characters. (Up to 5 characters)
Correspondence table for control character and special key conversion
Select the type for "Special key conversion" and specify which key is each control Example 2) Setting the [TAB] key to terminator
character replaced with
• Terminator : HT(0x09)
Control
HEX HID standard Type1 Type2 • Special key conversion : Type1
character
00 NUL ctrl+@
01 SOH ctrl+A [Enter]
Example 3) Setting the [Right Ctrl] key as Terminator
02 STX ctrl+B [Caps Lock]
• Terminator : US(0x1F)
03 ETX ctrl+C [Alt] make
• Special key conversion : Type1
04 EOT ctrl+D [Alt] break
05 ENQ ctrl+E [Ctrl] make
06 ACK ctrl+F [Ctrl] break
07 BEL ctrl+G [Enter] * When the exit operation is performed for "2 Start/Exit", the AutoID Keyboard
08 BS ctrl+H [BS] Wedge.ini file is created. The contents set with this software are saved with this
09 HT ctrl+I [Tab] [Tab] file in the same folder.
0A LF ctrl+J
0B VT ctrl+K [Tab]
0C FF ctrl+L [Delete]
0D CR ctrl+M [Enter] [Enter]
0E SO ctrl+N [Insert]
0F SI ctrl+O [Esc]
10 DLE ctrl+P [F11]
11 DC1 ctrl+Q [UP] [Home]
12 DC2 ctrl+R [DOWN] [Print Screen]
13 DC3 ctrl+S [LEFT] [BS]
14 DC4 ctrl+T [RIGHT] [Back Tab]
15 NAK ctrl+U [F12]
16 SYN ctrl+V [Home] [F1]
17 ETB ctrl+W [F2]
18 CAN ctrl+X [F3]
19 EM ctrl+Y [F4]
1A SUB ctrl+X [F5]
1B ESC ctrl+[ [Escape] [F6]
1C FS ctrl+¥ [F7]
1D GS ctrl+] [F8]
1E RS ctrl+^ [F9]
1F US ctrl+= [Ctrl](right) [F10]
E1 [F1]
E2 [F2]
E3 [F3]
E4 [F4]
E5 [F5]
E6 [F6]
E7 [F7]
E8 [F8]
E9 [F9]
EA [F10]
EB [F11]
EC [F12]

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