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Color Image Scanner User’s Manual Regulatory model: BF-1102S manual-en-250-0949-E -FB1200Plusv2 Avision Inc.
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Warranty The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. Avision makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this material, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose.
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User’s Manual FCC Radio Frequency Interference Statement This product has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: this device...
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Low Voltage Directive 2006/95/EC EMC Directive 2004/108/EC CE compliance of this product is valid if powered with the correct CE-marked AC adapter provide by Avision. This product satisfies the Class B limits of EN55022, EN55024 and safety requirements of EN 60950.
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User’s Manual Disposal of Waste Equipment by Users in Private Union This symbol on the product or on its packaging indicates that the product can not be disposed of with your other household waste. Instead it should be sent to appropriate facilities for recovery and recycling an effort to protect...
System Requirements IBM compatible PC 586, Pentium or higher Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista/Windows 7 USB port 2.0 (compatible with USB 1.1) At least 100 MB of free hard disk space (500 MB is ...
User’s Manual Table of Contents Installing the Scanner..........1-1 Preinstallation Information........1-1 Checking the Package Contents......1-2 Installation............1-3 1.3.1 Connecting to power .......1-3 1.3.2 Installing the scanner driver ....1-4 1.3.3 Connecting to computer ......1-4 Completing Your First Scan ........2-1 Placing Your Original..........2-1 Verifying Your Scanner Installation ......2-2 A Glance of the User Interface ......2-6 Using the Scanner Properties Dialog Box ....
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The Options Tab..........3-46 The Setting Tab ..........3-54 3.10 The Imprinter Tab ........3-57 3.11 The Information Tab........3-61 ISIS Interface Operation.......... 4-1 Maintaining Your Scanner ........5-1 Cleaning the Glass..........5-1 Frequently Asked Questions........5-2 Technical Service ..........5-3 Specifications............6-1 Index...................
User’s Manual Installing the Scanner Preinstallation Information Keep the scanner out of direct sunlight. Direct exposure to the sun or excessive heat may cause damage to the unit. Do not install the scanner in a humid or dusty place. ...
Checking the Package Contents Gently open your box and check the package contents. If there is anything missing or damaged, please call your dealer. Scanner main unit USB cable Power Adapter/Power Cable Software CD/Quick guide Note: Please keep all the packing material in case you may have to return the scanner for repair.
User’s Manual Installation NOTE: The Windows system CD may be required when installing on some PC’s. To ensure your computer can identify the USB scanner, please install scanner driver first before connecting the scanner to your computer. 1.3.1 Connecting to power Plug the small end of the power adaptor into the power jack of your scanner.
1.3.2 Installing the scanner driver Place the supplied CD-ROM onto your CD-ROM drive. The software installation graphic appears. If not, run “setup.exe”. Click Install Scanner Driver to install the scanner driver on your computer. 1.3.3 Connecting to computer Connect the square end of the USB cable to the USB port of your scanner.
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User’s Manual 2. The computer should detect a new USB device and prompt a “New Hardware Found” message. Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation. In Windows 2000, confirm that the “Search for a better driver.” is selected and click the “Next” button. In Windows XP, click the Next button to continue.
User’s Manual Completing Your First Scan Placing Your Original Open document cover. Place your document with your text FACE DOWN on the glass. Make sure the upper left corner of your original near the home position as marked in the scanner. 1.
Verifying Your Scanner Installation To verify if your scanner installation is correct, Avision provides you a useful test program called Avision Capture Tool. With this tool, you can perform simple scans and view the captured images. In addition, it helps you complete your scan at a rated speed.
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User’s Manual Actual Page Size Save File Path File Format Scan Setup Choose your desired file format from the File Format drop down list box. (Default is BMP, other choice includes TIFF, GIF, and JPEG.) Type your desired folder name and file name in the File Path box.
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Image Selection From the Image Selection Box, choose your desired image type for your scanned image. (Default is Front B&W) If you have a duplex scanner, choose Front and Rear to scan both sides of your document. Click OK to quit the Scanner Properties dialog box. learn more details about the Scanner Properties dialog box, please see the subsequent chapter, Using the Scanner Properties Dialog Box.)
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User’s Manual Fit Page View Status Bar Thumbnail View You can view the scanned image in Fit Page ( ) or Actual Size (100%) button ( ) from the Viewing toolbars at the right side. Click the Close box or Quit from the File menu to exit the Scan Validation Tool.
A Glance of the User Interface 1. Tab Options Choice: Image, Compression, Color Dropout, Paper, Options, Settings, Information. 2. Image Choose your image type and the side of Selection document you wish to scan. Options vary based on type of scanner. 3.
User’s Manual Using the Scanner Properties Dialog Box The Scanner Properties dialog box allows you to configure the scanner’s settings. It consists of several tabbed windows each of which will be described in this chapter. The Scanner Properties dialog box...
Buttons on the Scanner Properties Dialog Box The buttons on the Scanner Properties dialog box Buttons Description Defaults Click the Defaults button, the factory default settings will be shown on each tab. Scan After all the scan settings are satisfactory, click Scan button start...
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User’s Manual The following table shows the default settings: Tab name Default settings Image Image:Front B&W Binarization:Dynamic Threshold Resolution:200 dpi Invert:Blank on White Scan Source:Flatbed Threshold:None Brightness:None Contrast:None Compression None Color Dropout None Paper Cropping:Automatic Deskew:Yes Orientation:Portrait OverScan:0.00 Multifeed Detection:None Unit:Inch Options Rotation Degrees:None...
The Image Tab The Image tab allows you to choose the front side and (or) the rear side of your document, the type of image, and to set several basic scan settings. Note that except for the resolution, you can set individual scan settings for the front side and the rear side.
User’s Manual 3.2.1 The Image Selection Box The Image Selection box includes the image type and document side option. If you wish to scan both the front side and the rear side of your color document, you can check both Front Color and Rear Color at the same time.
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Example 2 Scanning a two-sided color document, one : in B&W(Drop Blue Color Threshold 10, Background : : : 79), the other in color Side/Image Selection Rear Front Image Type Description Color Choose Color if you wish to scan a color image for your original in color.
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User’s Manual Front/Rear Auto Color Detection: Click to automatically detect and scan the front or the rear page of your color document in color image mode. If your document is in colors, the scanner will automatically scan the document into a color image. If your document is non-color, you can choose the output to be either B&W or Gray from the Non-Color Selection option.
3.2.2 Other Image Options Binarization This is the process of converting a grayscale or color image to a bi-tonal image. There several different methods of performing this conversion. Options: Dynamic Threshold, Fixed Processing, Halftone 1~5, Error Diffusion. Dynamic Threshold: Selecting Dynamic Threshold allows the scanner to dynamically evaluate each document to determine the optimal threshold value...
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User’s Manual Fixed Processing: Used black-and-white and other high contrast documents. single level determine the black-and-white transition. The threshold is programmable over the entire density range. Fixed Processing sets Contrast to 0. If Fixed Processing is selected, Contrast is not available. Halftone: In addition to the black and white...
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User’s Manual Threshold Used to convert a grayscale image to a bi-tonal image. The value ranges from 0 to 255. A low threshold value produces a lighter image, used subdue backgrounds subtle, unneeded information. A high threshold value produces a darker image, and can be used to help pick up faint images.
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Gray Document Type: Choice: Normal, Photo, Document Three options of document type are provided when you choose Gray as the image type for your scanned document. Choice: Normal, Photo, Document. Document: Choose Document if your original contains pure text or a mixture of text and graphic since it is an optimal setting for regular business document.
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User’s Manual Normal Photo Document (Threshold: 230) Normal Photo Document (Threshold: 230) 3-13...
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Brightness Adjusts the lightness or darkness of an image. The higher the value, the brighter the image. Drag the slider to the right or left to increase or decrease the brightness. The range is from –100 to +100. Contrast Adjusts the range between the darkest and the lightest shades in the image.
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User’s Manual Resolution A good control of the resolution results a good detail of an image that scans. resolution is measured by dots per inch (dpi). Normally, greater number, the higher the resolution and the image file size. Be aware that greater resolution takes more time to scan, and more disk space for the scanning image.
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Invert Reverses the brightness and the colors in the image. The default setting is Black on a White background. Reverse mode is White on a Black background. For color images, each pixel will be changed into its complementary color at the command of Invert.
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User’s Manual Scan Choice: Source Auto Document Feeder: Used to scan multiple pages. Flatbed: Used to scan a single page. For example, pages from newspaper clipping, paper with wrinkles or curls. Flatbed (book): Used to scan several inside pages from book.
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Color The purpose of Color Matching is getting the Matching accurate color. This option uses the default parameters (ICC profile) to adjust the colors of the image. Choice: None, Document, Photo None: Choose “None” to disable this option. Document: Choose “Document” if your original contains pure text or a mixture of text and graphic since it is an optimal setting for regular business document.
User’s Manual 3.2.3 Scanning color images The following options are available for scanning color images. Brightness Contrast Resolution Invert 3.2.4 Scanning grayscale images The following options are available for scanning gray images. Brightness Contrast Resolution ...
3.2.6 Editing Profiles The Scanner Properties dialog box allows you to change and save your frequently used scan settings into a profile. You can edit these profiles by renaming or deleting them. To add a new profile, Customize your settings. (For example, change your resolution, image type, cropping method, scan size, or other scan settings.) Click the Image tab and then choose “Profiles”...
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User’s Manual To load a profile, From the Image tab dialog box, choose your favorable profile from the “Profiles” dropdown list box. Your favorable profile will be immediately loaded and displayed on Scanner Properties dialog box. To delete a profile, From the Image tab dialog box, click “Profiles”...
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To rename a profile, From the Image tab dialog box, click “Profiles” to prompt the Edit Your Profile dialog box. Choose the profile you want to rename from the dropdown list box and then click the Rename button. Enter new name for the profile. Choose “Save”...
User’s Manual The Compression Tab The Compression tab allows you to compress your scanned image and choose the level of compression. Bi-tonal images are normally compressed using CCITT standard called Group 4 (G4). Color and grayscale images are often compressed using JPEG technology.
User’s Manual The Color Dropout Tab 3.4.1 Color Dropout Selection Color Dropout tab allows you to drop either of the red, blue, or green color in your scanned image. If your image contains red color watermark or background, choose the R (Red) channel then any red watermark or background will be removed.
User’s Manual 3.4.2 Other Color Dropout Options Advanced Processing provides two options that can adjust your scanned image in the best optimal result. Filter This value is used to determine the color Threshold which will be dropped out. A lower value will drop more of the selected color out, while a higher value will leave more of the selected color in.
User’s Manual The Paper Tab The Paper tab allows you to define values relating to image output (i.e., Auto Crop or not, Scan Area, OverScan, Multi-Feed Detection). The Paper tab dialog box 3-29...
3.5.1 Cropping Cropping allows you to capture a portion of the document being scanned. Choice: Automatic, Fixed to Transport, EOP (End of Page) Detection, Automatic Multiple, Relative to Documents. Options Description Automatic Automatic adjusts the cropping window according to different document sizes. Use this option for batches of mixed-sized documents.
User’s Manual Automatic This option allows you to place various Multiple sized documents such as photos, ID Cards, business cards flatbed available) and lets you create multiple individually cropped images in one scan. Note: To correctly create multiple images, please make sure there is at least 12mm (0.5”) of space between each document.
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Relative to Document: (used for batches of same-sized documents) This option allows you to crop different areas on your documents and deliver these images in B&W, Gray, or Color separately. For example, there are applications which require you to store the entire document in B&W and a part of the document in color to save storage space.
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User’s Manual Click the Preview tab to display the Preview window. A black rectangular box appears to indicate the max. scan size your have just selected. The Image The selected Selection image A black rectangular Click the Preview button to view the entire image in low resolution to correctly crop your relative scan area.
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A Cross Sign Relative Area Check the B&W image from the Image Selection box to scan the entire document. Click the Scan button to start scanning the document in two image types and sizes. (See the result in below.) The entire document in B&W The relative area in color 3-34...
User’s Manual 3.5.2 Other Paper Selection Deskew Use this option to automatically deskew a document. Note: If the skew angle is too great, some of the image may be cut off. Scan Area Choose your desired paper size with the drop-down list box. Or you may select a custom paper size by clicking the Scan Area box and then click Add to include in the choice.
OverScan Overscan allows you to add a specific margin at top and bottom or right and left (Options vary based on the type of scanner) of the edge of the image. This is used to reduce possible corner clipping on the skewed images and often applied to a batch of skewed document to be scanned in the auto document feeder.
User’s Manual The Multi-Feed Detection Tab Multi-Feed Detection Multi-Feed Detection allows you to detect overlapped document that go through the auto document feeder. Multi-Feed usually occurs due to stapled documents, adhesives on documents, or electro-statically charged document. Note: The availability of the function varies based on type of scanner.
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Additional Length Detection Additional Length Detection allows you to define the length of document being multi-fed. This value indicates the additional length exceeding your scan area. The Display window will show the size of the document as you change the value. A value of 0 indicates no additional length detection.
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User’s Manual By Length (Paper/Object)+Position: When a multi-feed is detected for the first time, the scanner memorizes the length of the document, the length and position of the object (photo or label) attached to the document. When you perform next scanning, this pattern of multi-feed will be bypassed.
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Detection Area This option allows you to specify a multi-feed detection area. To specify a multi-feed detection area, Choose Disable from the Intelligent Mode. The Detection Area will be enabled. Choose Inside the Range or Outside the Range. The detection area will be highlighted. Drag your mouse pointer on the top or the bottom of the detection area to specify your area in the display window.
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Ultrasonic Detection Ultrasonic Detection allows you to set overlapped document by detecting paper thickness between documents. Note: The availability of the function varies based on type of scanner. There are two options available if Multi-Feed is detected. Stop Scanning after Multi-Feed If this is selected, the scanner will stop the feeder and display the following Warning dialog box if multi-feed is detected.
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User’s Manual Clear the Multi-Fed Paper: Auto If this is checked, once multi-feed is detected and scanning operation is stopped, the scanner will automatically clear the transport of the multi-fed paper. If this is not checked, once multi-feed is detected and scanning operation is stopped, you need to manually clear the transport of the multi-fed paper.
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How to add the sound alarm: 1. Click the Browse button on the right side of the speaker icon. The Open dialog box appears. 2. Choose your wave file. 3. Click the Open button. The wave file is added. Units Defines the primary measurement system.
User’s Manual The Preview Tab The Preview tab allows you to preview (a low-resolution scan) your image before final scan. This preview image lets you allocate your scan area. You can choose your scan area by the “Scan Area” drop down list box or placing your cursor on the Display window and dragging it diagonally on the Display window.
The Options Tab The Options tab allows you to set following additional image processing settings. The Option tab dialog box 3-46...
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User’s Manual Flip Side Select “fanfold” to rotate the image Rotation of the reverse side to 180 degrees. This applied double-sided document which viewed portrait are sometime fed into the scanner in landscape or vice versa. Choice: Book, Fanfold. If “Book” is selected, the image of the reverse side will not be rotated.
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Rotate Image Choose the rotation angle from the drop down list if you wish to rotate your scanned image. Choice: None, 90°CW(clockwise), 90°CCW(counter clockwise), 180°, Auto based on contents. Auto rotate every even page. Original Rotate 90°CW Rotate 180° Rotate 90°CCW Auto based on contents: When Auto based on contents is selected,...
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User’s Manual Blank Page Check if you wish to remove the blank page Removal and move the slider to the left or right to your desired threshold. Edge Check White or Black if you wish to add white or Fill black edge on the border of your scanned image.
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Image Check the Mirror box if you wish to reverse the right Control and left side of your image. Option Original The Mirror Effect 3-50...
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User’s Manual Despeckle Occasionally small dots or specks appear in the background of a scanned image. Remove unwanted speckles provides a cleaner image (Optical Character Recognition) processing, and also helps to reduce compressed file size. Define the speckles (also known as image noise) you wish to remove by specifying its number (size) and radius (range).
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Note: The function is currently available for Black and White image only. To scan at rated speed, it is recommended to set the noise radius up to 10 pixels. 3-52...
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User’s Manual Background This option allows you to set your scan Setting background. Choice: White Background, Black Background. Note: For a sheet-fed scanner with an auto document feeder, this option is currently available only in the “Auto crop” mode. For a scanner with a flatbed platen, this option is available either in the “Auto crop”...
The Setting Tab The Setting tab allows you to set the following settings: The Setting tab dialog box Energy Saving Check the Enable Energy Saver box Control and move the slider to the right to set the amount of time to start the energy saver after your last action.
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User’s Manual Cache Mode: None, Page Number, Memory Size. This option allows you to assign a specified memory size from the available RAM to process the image data. By specifying a smaller memory size, you can free more memory for other applications you are running.
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Show Warning Check to show the warning messages Message such “ADF count exceeds 50,000 scans (the number varies based on type of scanner). Please replace the ADF pad and reset the pad count.” Save Settings Check to save your scanner properties after Closing settings after leaving the dialog box.
User’s Manual 3.10 The Imprinter Tab The Imprinter tab allows you to print alphanumeric characters, date, time, document count and custom message on your scanned image if digital imprinter is selected or at the back of your document if external imprinter is selected. Choice: External Imprinter, Digital Imprinter.
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Contents Print All Check Print All to automatically print the text at all pages of your documents. Uncheck Print All to print the text for the first page of your documents only. Custom Enter your custom text to be included in your print string.
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User’s Manual String Choose your string orientation. Orientation Choice: Normal, Rotated, Vertical, Vertical Inversion, 90 degrees CW, 90 degrees CCW Normal Rotated Vertical Vertical Inversion 90 degrees CW 90 degrees CCW If you check the digital imprinter to stamp text on your scanned image, the illustration of normal and rotated string is shown below: Rotated Normal...
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Print Choose the position you wish to print your Position string. Move the slider to the right to increase the value or to the left to decrease the value. Range: 0~355mm, default:0 mm The value indicates the height from the bottom of your paper to the last letter of your string.
User’s Manual 3.11 The Information Tab The Information tab displays the following system and scanner information. The Information tab dialog box The “Report” button: If you encounter any error message while using the scanner, click the Report button. A report.txt file (C:\AVxxx) will be generated.
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The “Reset Pad Count” button: After scanning approximately 50,000 pages (the number varies based on type of scanner) through the Auto Document Feeder (ADF), the ADF pad may be worn out and you may experience problems with document feeding. In this case, it is highly recommended to replace the ADF pad with a new one.
User’s Manual ISIS Interface Operation * Please refer to the preceding chapter, Scanner Installation, to install ISIS scanner driver. You may start the supplied QuickScan software application to scan via the ISIS user interface. The ISIS driver operation method is similar to the TWAIN’s. Every function on the ISIS interface screen is briefly described as below: Mode: Select one of scan modes, including B&W, gray, color...
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Default: Click to reset all settings. Area: Select your desired scan area or position. Note: The availability of the function varies based on type of scanner.
User’s Manual Maintaining Your Scanner Cleaning the Glass The Cleaning Procedures Moisture a piece of soft cloth with some isopropyl alcohol. (95%) Open the document cover as shown below. Gently wipe the document glass. Close the document cover. Your scanner is now ready for use.
Frequently Asked Questions Question: The scanned image always comes out to be too dark. Answer: 1) Use your application to modify the Gamma setting to 2.2 and 1.8 for your printer and monitor respectively. 2) Adjust Brightness setting from the TWAIN interface to get a brighter image.
User’s Manual Technical Service Before contact Avision, please prepare the following information: Scanner serial & revision number (located on the bottom of the scanner); Hardware configuration (e.g., your host CPU type, RAM size, free disk space, display card, interface card);...
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