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Chapter 3 — Using the scanner
This chapter tells you how to place transparent and reflective originals on your scanner.
Placing reflective originals
Placing reflective originals in your document feeder option
Placing transparent originals
Placing reflective originals
You can place a reflective original directly on the scanner's glass plate.
The following steps explain how to position your reflective original on your scanner.
1.
Raise the document cover of the scanner.
If you have acquired and installed a transparency option (Refer to
transparency
option") or a document feeder option
document feeder
option"), you do not have to remove it for scanning reflective originals: just
raise the transparency option or the document feeder option.
2.
Place the original on the glass plate with its image side down and with its top side against the
middle of the front ruler.
Optical performance of a CCD scanner is always best near the middle of the glass plate.
3.
Lower the document cover of the scanner.
The adjustable document cover makes it possible to scan from books and magazines: when
you put a thicker original on the reflective glass plate, the document cover adapts itself to its
thickness.
You are ready to scan now.
Placing reflective originals in your document feeder option
The purpose of the document feeder option is to scan up to 60 text pages fast and without
interruption. Software like OmniPage Limited Edition ® or other OCR (Optical Character
Recognition) software makes it possible to convert them into most of the commercially used text file
formats.
You use your document feeder option as follows: you put a little pile of text pages in your document
feeder option with the text side up.
Appendix A , "Using the
(Refer to Appendix B , "Using the
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