Chapter Ii. Usage And Maintenance; Operating The Scanner - Genius ColorPage HR3200 User Manual

Operating the Scanner

Your scanner accepts documents as small as business cards and as large as
letter-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 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
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.
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 program 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! ImageFolio). Action Express also includes BCR function which allows you to
set scanning attributes for the business cards you are to scan to Cardiris software.
For further information about using Action Express, please refer to the Action
Express on-line help.
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An OCR program has also been
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