Chapter Ii. Usage And Maintenance; Operating The Scanner - AgfaPhoto AS 1300 User Manual

Usage and Maintenance

Operating the Scanner

Your scanner accepts documents as small as business cards and as large as
Legal size documents. However, some software programs have limitations as to the
information they can handle. The capacity of the computer's memory and free space
on your hard drive can also limit the physical size of the document that you scan.
There are two different ways to operate the scanner:
1. From within an image-editing program that can acquire images from the
scanner.
2. By pressing either of the two action buttons on the scanner. You may
configure the button settings individually to your personal needs within the
DigiScan program that is automatically installed as your scanner software.
Your scanner needs to be driven by some type of software program. Since all
documents or images (whether text or pictures) that are acquired from the scanner are
treated by your computer as images, most scanning will probably be done from an
image-editing program where you can view, edit, save and output the scanned images.
An image-editing program has been bundled with your scanner on the included
Setup/Application CD-ROM. It will allow you to alter and correct any scanned images
by using a variety of filters, tools and effects.
What about scanning text documents and editing them in a word processor? This
is the role of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. OCR software converts
the image files that are created from scanning text documents into text files that can be
viewed, edited and saved by word processors. An OCR program has also been
bundled on the included Setup/Application CD-ROM, and if you wish to use the
scanner in this way you should install the OCR software that is included.
What about scanning business cards and managing them in a more convenient
way? This is the role of BCR (Business Card Recognition) function that can scan
various business cards to BCR Database. BCR software can index the scanned
images into business cards album, recognize and convert respective personal
information contained in the scanned images into an address database for your further
management. This function may or may not be available depending on the scanner
model you purchase.
DigiScan is a program that allows you to conveniently scan images and text
without the need to work directly within any image-editing application (i.e. Presto!
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