Kodak i1800 Series Image Processing Manual page 25

Zone processing
A-61580 November 2007
Some applications have a requirement to store part of an image in color
or grayscale and the rest of the image in black and white format (this
saves storage space by not storing the entire image in color or
grayscale). Zone processing is a fixed crop window (the zone) located
relative to the upper left corner of a document. It allows the operator to
select via the host application an area on the document to be delivered
in color, grayscale or black and white format (a separate window for
both black and white and color/grayscale may be defined). Different
zones may be selected for both the front and back of the image.
This feature may be used in conjunction with auto cropping.
Following is an example of producing a color zone.
Original
Black and white image
1. Prepare documents.
2. Start the scanner to do dual stream simplex scanning (front black
and white and front color).
3. Setup the scanner to retrieve black and white images first.
4. Setup front black and white to be auto cropping.
5. Setup front color to be relative cropping.
6. Enable the scanner and start polling.
Loop
Read front black and white image header
Read back black and white image (will return full image)
Read front color image header
Read back color image (will return only the color zone)
End loop
Relative
Cropping
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