•     Save to File: The “Save to File” function enables you to conveniently scan  documents or images, save them automatically to the destination file path with specified file name prefix and file format.

•     E-mail: The E-mail function lets you scan documents and images directly to your  MAPI-based E-mail programs (which currently include Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, etc.) that have already been installed on your computer.

Note: If you like to change to the MAPI-based E-mail system, please go to   IE>Tools>Internet   Options…>Programs  tab>E-mail  drop-down menu to choose destination E-mail program.

•     Copy: The Copy function allows you to scan images directly to the printer without saving them to your hard disk, making it ideal for getting a quick copy of a document or image.

Note: The scanner and printer must be installed correctly in Windows for the Copy button to work properly.

•     Imaging Processing: The Imaging Processing Function allows you to scan the image directly to the image editing application you have defined.

Note: You are recommended to add image editing software to achieve scanning  efficiency and assure the DigiScan program work properly. How the post-processing works will depend on the application you have assigned  for  the  new  function, you  may  refer  to  the  guide  of  more instructions.

Save Setting

Save - This setting is for saving the scanned image(s) to a specified folder for further management. Clicking the Browse button to choose a destination folder, you may view, edit, or manage the scanned images later in a more efficient way.

File Name Prefix - The file name of the scanned images will be a combination of your own defined file name prefix and the four digits number issued by the system.

File Format - Choose which file format you want the scanned image to be. The following file formats are available from the drop-down menu:

•     JPG (JPEG) - (Joint Photographic Experts Group) JPEG (pronounced "jay-peg) is a format that is commonly used for color images displayed on the Internet. JPEG reduces the file size of an image by discarding some of  the  non-critical  data  of  the  image.  JPEG  retains  all  of  the  color information of an image and offers varying degrees of compression.

•     TIF  (Aldus  Tiff)  -  (Tagged  Image  File  Format)  is  a  widely-used bitmapped graphics file format developed by Aldus and Microsoft that handles monochrome, gray scale, and 8/24-bit color.

•     PCX (Paintbrush) - PCX is a popular bitmapped graphics file format that handles  monochrome, and 2-, 4-, 8-, and 24-bit color. PCX uses Run

Length Encoding (RLE) to achieve compression ratios of approximately 1.1:1 to 1.5:1. RLE is best used with images that have large blocks of solid colors.

•     BMP (Windows Bitmap) - (Bitmap file - also known as a "bump" file) is a Windows and OS/2 bitmapped graphics file format. BMP is the Windows native  bitmap format. BMP files provide formats for 2, 16, 256 or 16 million colors (1-, 4-, 8-, and 24-bit color).

Auto Processings

Auto Crop  - Alternatively you may check the Auto Crop option to have the scanner program automatically identify the dimensions of the image you scanned and crop around the edges. The crop shape will be a square or rectangle and it will not trace the edges  of oddly-shaped images. This command can be useful when scanning smaller images such as photographs.

Auto Deskew - You'll find this option useful when you find the scanned image slanted. Tick the box of this option and rescan the image; the DigiScan program will automatically straighten the skewed image(s).

Descreen  -   applies   filtering   to   images   that   contain   moiré   patterns   (or herringbone). A moiré pattern is created from scanning pictures in magazines, or printed material that use color dithering. The descreen filter is not needed when scanning  original  photographs  or  black  and  white  images  and  text,  but  is recommended when scanning any printed color graphics, such as a page from a magazine, in order to remove the unsightly interference patterns which may occur.

Scanning Attributes

Size - enables you to alter the scan area. It is preferable to scan the exact area of the document or image so the file size is the smallest possible and there are no large blank areas on the page.

Mode – tells the scanner the type of document you are scanning. There are three settings to choose from:

•     Color – scans the document in 24-bit, RGB color. This mode takes the longest time and uses the most memory but results in the highest quality images.

•     Grayscale – scans images in black and white and can simulate 256 different shades of gray using dithering. This mode is best used when color isn’t necessary for the scanned image since color images take so much time to scan and process, or when no color printer is available.

Using this mode, even to scan color images, will result in high-quality black, white, and gray output (the color will automatically be converted to gray).

•     Text – is preferable when scanning text documents. It results in clear black and white documents suitable for printing and faxing.

Resolution – is measures in dots per inch (dpi). The higher the resolution, the more detailed the image, and the more memory and drive space the image will use.

Brightness – This is amount of light that is concentrated onto a document while it is  being  scanned. Raising the brightness increases the amount of white in an image, making it appear more washed out. Lowering the brightness may help you read light or faint text.

Contrast – adjusts the tonal range of an image by lowering mid-tone values and increasing values for high and low tones. The higher the contrast, the sharper the image will be. The lower the contrast, the blurrier an image will be.

Gamma – Use the slider to adjust the image gamma for the scanned image. Gamma  values are primarily a measure for the color brightness. The larger the gamma value,  the  brighter the color becomes. Changing the image’s gamma value allows you to change the brightness of the colors IN THE IMAGE ITSELF.

Printer

This pull-down menu contains all the printers the have been installed in Windows. Simply click on the down-arrow at the right of the box and choose the printer you wish to use. (Only if you select the Copy from the Purpose drop-down menu, will the option be enabled.)

If the printer you wish to use does not appear in the pull-down list pf printers, then it is not  installed in Windows. To install a printer, click on the Windows START button; choose Settings and then Printers. In the window that opens, double-click on the Add New Printer icon and follow the instructions carefully.

Scaling and Position

The slider bar is used to reduce or enlarge the scanned image on the printed page. The reduce/enlarge value is displayed in a box to the right of the slider bar and denotes the percentage which the image will be resized. Thus, a value of 200 (%) will cause the scanned image to the printed twice as large as its size when scanned. A value of 50 will reduce the  size of the printed image by half, and so on. The slider bar can be moved by using the mouse or by using the arrow keys on your keyboard.

Fit-in – This option is used to reduce or enlarge the scanned document or image to fit on the printer paper. Smaller images will be enlarged to fill the entire printed page and larger documents will be reduced to fit on the printed page. This option is most often used when scanning an A4-sized document and printing it on letter- sized paper (or vice-versa).

Center on Page – This function centers the scanned image on the printed page.

Default

Clicking this button resets the values of all settings of this function to their default values. The values of settings for the other scanning functions are not influenced.

Custom tab

Output Setting

Purpose – list the OCR(s) and BCR that the scanner supports.

File Format – stands for the file style you prefer the scanned image(s) to be after transfer processing, and is supported by the software you have installed in your system. For  example, you have to install Microsoft Word in your system before selecting *.doc file format.

•     Acrobat Searchable PDF: enables the page analysis (defining zones of graphics, tables, texts, artwork, space, etc. in the scanned document), OCR  process and PDF conversion, and then outputs the transferred result in  texts  searchable PDF document. Different from Acrobat PDF Image Function, this function can also produce a PDF converted image on the top of the searchable texts.

When you document contains images and texts, you are recommended to choose this file format to get better transferred result.

Note: PDF stands for Portable Document Format.

•     Acrobat PDF-image: Text is not searchable in this searchable in this PDF file type. The entire page is saved as a picture, and OCR (Optical character recognition) has not been executed.

•     Rich Text Format: When this file format is chosen, the scan result may be output into *.rtf file after OCR process. You may review and edit the result in the word processor Microsoft Word.

•     Note: Rich Text Format (RTF) is a file format that lets you exchange text files between different word processors in different operating systems.

•     Microsoft Word: When this file is chosen, the scan result may be output into *.doc file after OCR process. You may review and edit the result in the word processor Microsoft Word.

•     Note: Word document (.doc) is a common word processing application, for creating and editing texts document.

•     HTML: Choosing this file format may output the transfer result as *.htm file for your browsing in the Web browser, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or Netscape’s Navigator.

Save - Clicking the Browse button to locate a destination folder for the scan or transfer results, and the file path will be shown in the Save section.

Open after  saving - Save the result to the pointed file path and open with relevant software.

Save to File - Save the result to the pointed file path.

Send by e-mail - Send the result to a MAPI-based e-mail program (i.e. Outlook, Eudora...etc) as attachment.

Data Export - Export the BCR results as a record in the address book of MS Outlook Express, a piece of data in a user defined database in HotCard BizCard Finder, or a CSV file. (This option will be functioned under BCR by HotCard.)

Language -  This  option  allows  you  to  set  an  appropriate  language  for  the business  card  recognition.  The  language  options  include  English/Chinese, European, Japanese and English. (This option will be functioned under BCR by HotCard.)

OCR setting

This option will not be functioned unless the OCR by Readiris.

Create Bookmarks: This feature may create bookmarks for the text windows, graphics and tables in Adobe Acrobat PDF files.

Include Graphics: This feature may include the graphics in "auto formatted" text files.

Retain colors of text: This feature may maintain the original colors of the text across the recognition.

Deskew page: If this checkbox is ticked, the DigiScan program will automatically straighten the skewed page(s) after scan.

Merge lines into paragraphs: This feature enables the automatic paragraph detection. (This option is unavailable for Adobe Acrobat files: PDF files always store text line by line.)

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