Chapter Ii. Usage And Maintenance; Operating The Scanner - Plustek Scanner User Manual

Chapter II. Usage and

Operating the Scanner

Your scanner accepts documents as small as business cards and as large as A4-
sized 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 an image-editing program that can acquire images from the scanner.
2. By using the Action Express 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.
Action Express 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! Image Folio).
For further information about using Action Express, please refer to the Action
Express on-line help.
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