Manage pages
Select, rotate, delete, insert, reorder, and move pages between documents.
Everything you do to the pages of a job happens from the page strip down the left edge of the Viewer: pick pages, rotate or delete them, insert new ones, drag to reorder, and move a page from one document into another. This page is the hands-on guide to each of those actions.
Select pages
Most actions work on whatever is selected, so selecting comes first. A page is selected when its tile shows a filled checkbox and an accent highlight.
Pick the pages you want
- One page — click its thumbnail. This selects only that page and narrows any earlier selection down to it.
- Add or remove one — Ctrl-click (⌘-click on macOS) a thumbnail to toggle it in or out of the selection without disturbing the rest.
- A run of pages — click the first, then Shift-click the last; everything between them joins the selection.
- A whole document — click the checkbox on a document card to select (or deselect) all of that document's pages at once.
- Everything — click the master checkbox in the strip header (Select all); click it again to Deselect all. The context menu on any page also has Select all.
Each checkbox tells you what it does on hover: Select page / Deselect page on a thumbnail, and Select document / Deselect document on a card.
Act on the selection
Selecting two or more pages reveals a selection bar across the top of the strip showing the count (for example 3 selected) with quick actions: Rotate left, Rotate right, Delete 3 pages, and Clear selection to drop the selection without touching the pages.
Screenshot
The page strip with three pages selected: filled checkboxes and the selection bar across the top reading "3 selected" with rotate, delete, and clear actions. — shot viewer-page-management-01
Everything starts selected after an import
After a scan or import — whether a template is attached or not — every page begins selected, so you can act on the whole batch straight away without hand-picking it first. As more pages stream in, they join the selection too.
The moment you change the selection yourself — a click, a clear, or a delete, move, or insert — Scanix stops auto-selecting and your selection is yours to keep. A plain click narrows to a single page, which is exactly what you want when you only mean to work on one.
Which actions honour the selection
Selection drives OCR: run it with two or more pages selected and only those pages are read; with one page selected (or none) it reads the current page. Process and Export, by contrast, always act on the whole document or batch — they intentionally ignore the page selection, so a narrowed selection never quietly exports a partial document. See Export.
Rotate a page
Rotation is a 90° turn, and you can rotate one page or many at once.
One page
Hover a thumbnail and use the action pill that appears along its bottom edge: Rotate left or Rotate right. The same options sit on a document card's pill, where they rotate every page in that document.
Several pages
Select the pages, then use Rotate left or Rotate right in the selection bar to turn them all together. The right-click menu on a page also offers Rotate 90° CW.
Rotating clears that page's OCR
A rotation changes the pixels, so Scanix drops the page's cached OCR — its text and extracted fields disappear until you run OCR again on that page. Rotate first, then OCR, to avoid reading the same page twice. See Run OCR.
Delete a page (with Undo)
Deleting is reversible, so a mistaken removal is easy to walk back.
Remove the page
Hover a thumbnail and click Delete page on its action pill, or select several pages and use the delete action in the selection bar. On a document card the pill reads Delete document and removes all of its pages. Scanix first asks you to confirm.
Undo if needed
After a delete, a toast confirms it (Page deleted, or N pages deleted) and offers an Undo button. Click it to restore the pages exactly as they were — the delete is a soft delete, so the pages move to a recoverable trash rather than vanishing.
The Undo toast stays up noticeably longer than a normal notification, because it is your recovery path. If you miss it, the deleted pages remain recoverable for a while before the trash is purged.
Insert a page
A small + affordance appears in the gap between tiles (and below each document card) on hover. Click it — its tooltip reads Insert page here — to open the Insert page menu, then choose where the new page comes from.
Open the insert menu
Hover between two thumbnails until the + appears and click it. Opening it from inside an expanded document adds the new page into that document; opening it from a document card adds a new standalone document after that one.
Choose a source
Pick from the Insert page menu:
- Blank Page — drops in an empty page.
- File… — inserts the pages of one file you pick (PDF or image).
- Clipboard — pastes an image from your clipboard.
- Scanner — scans a page from a connected scanner.
Screenshot
The Insert page menu opened from a "+" between two thumbnails, listing Scanner, File…, Clipboard, and Blank Page. — shot viewer-page-management-02
Blank Page and File… are the established options
Blank Page and File… are the dependable choices today. Clipboard and Scanner are newer; the scanner path in particular still needs validation against real hardware. A source that isn't available yet appears greyed out with the note Available in a later update.
Reorder and move pages
Pages and documents are arranged by dragging — the strip uses drag handles throughout, with a short press-and-move so a plain click still selects rather than starting a drag.
Reorder pages within a document
Expand the document, then drag a page tile up or down to its new spot. The pages renumber automatically. The right-click menu also offers Move to top and Move to bottom for the two common jumps.
Reorder document cards
Drag a document card up or down to change the order of documents in the batch. The new order sticks for the rest of the job.
Move a page into another document
Drag a page tile onto a different document — drop it on that document's card to add it at the end, or onto one of its pages to drop it at that spot. The page leaves its old document and joins the new one, and both renumber.
Screenshot
A page tile mid-drag, lifted from one document and hovering over another document's card to move it across. — shot viewer-page-management-03
Troubleshooting
Next steps
The Viewer
Tour the page strip, document grouping, and field-status dots.
Export
Send your finished documents onward — Process and Export act on the whole batch.
Related
- The Viewer — how the page strip is laid out and why.
- Export — why Process and Export ignore the page selection.