QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE
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SCANNING AN ORIGINAL FROM YOUR APPLICATION
1 Place the document or photo you want to scan face down on the scanner glass and aligned with the upper
left corner of the glass.
2 Acquire the image from your application.
The scanner driver user interface screen is displayed with a low resolution preview of the document or image
on the left-hand side of the screen.
You can:
• Use selection handles to delimit the area of the preview image that you want to scan.
• Rotate, flip, enlarge or reduce the preview image.
• Scan a new preview in case you accidentally removed the original from the scanner glass.
• Launch the final scan according to the settings that you have made.
On the right-hand side of the scanner driver interface screen, customise your scan settings as indicated in
the following table:
Scanner driver You can:
Standard • Define whether the document to be scanned consists of: black text or
graphics only, a combination of black text, colour graphics and photos, or
just photos.
• Select whether to scan in full colour, in grey or in B/W.
Custom • Select the scanner resolution.
• Select the number of distinct colours that can be represented in number of
bits (colour depth).
• Lighten or darken the image you want to scan, and increase or decrease its
contrast.
• Activate a filter that smooths the image background, for example when
scanning newspaper pages.