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Introduction Congratulations on the purchase of your new Trust Handy Scan Colour. Trust Computer Products is one of the leading companies in the world in the development of the high performance sheet-fed scanner. Before you install and operate the new scanner, please take a few minutes to read through the manual.
Chapter 2: Setup 2.1 Installing the Scan Driver At the beginning of installing Scantools (the image processing software that comes with the scanner), if you choose to install device drivers, the "Installing Device Drivers" dialog box will appear with a list of drivers for you to choose. Highlight the driver that corresponds to your scanner model and click the "Install"...
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I/O Address 150~151 170~171 350~351 370~371 Only one switch can be set to ON at one time. All other setting combinations are invalid. To install the interface card, proceed as follows: 1. Turn off your computer and all peripherals. 2. Remove the computer case as illustrated in Figure 3. Figure 3 Figure 4...
3. Position the computer so that you have a clear view of the mainboard and its expansion slots. If your computer is a tower model, first lay the computer on its side with the mainboard facing up. Choose any unused 16-bit expansion slot to insert your interface card.
TWAIN is such an image source, which is the most popular one and has become an industry standard. The Handy Scan Colour is TWAIN-compliant. Therefore, you can use the scanner with any application software that supports TWAIN.
Chapter 4: Scantools 4.1 Installing Scantools ® 1. Enter the Microsoft Windows environment, either Windows 3.x or Windows 95. 2. Call up the Run dialog box. The following is the Run dialog box under Windows 3.1. Type in and execute A:\ SETUP.EXE or B:\ SETUP.EXE. 3.
7. Click the "OK" button. The following dialog box will pop up to ask you to restart Windows. Click "Yes", your system will automatically restart the Windows. And you are now ready to run Scantools. 4.2 Getting ready to use your scanner Before using your scanner, you have to launch the image source: 1.
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3. In the box labelled "Gamma [0.01..7.99]", directly enter your desired gamma value or use the scroll bar to choose one. 4. Use the "Histogram Scale Factor" to change the scale factor for the pixel-value distribution curves in the histogram. 5.
Chapter 5: StitchScan The StitchScan option is a marvelous feature that compensates for the scanning width limitation of the handheld scanner. The compactness and portability that make the handheld scanner "handy" also limits the scan width of the scanner. Yet with this StitchScan feature, the scanner is allowed to scan big images of any size.
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Figure 6 StitchScan Toolbar 1. Do Stitch 5. Brightness & Contrast 2. Semi-Auto Stitch 6. Manual Stitch 3. Swap 7. Auto Stitch 4. Gamma Correction 8. Preferences After you have manually or semi-automatically matched the distinct features in the two images, click on the "Do Stitch" button or select the "Do Stitch"...
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If you have chosen "Auto Stitch" instead, the stitch window will appear. Rather the stitching will be automatically carried out after the two image portions have been scanned and the resulting "stitched" image will be displayed inside the Scan Window (not stitch window) of the TWAIN Source window.
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