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  • Page 1 Professional Desktop Scanner User’s Manual (PC version) English...
  • Page 3 MiraScan main screen Combo Boxes Menu Bar Tool Bar (page 13) (page 9) (page 24) Job List and Command Buttons Preview Area Status Area (page 22) (page 24) (page 39)

  • Page 4: Important Safety Instructions

    Copyright Copyright © 1999 by this company. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of this company.
  • Page 5 Do not allow anything to rest on the power cord. Do not locate this product where persons will walk on the cord. If an extension cord is used with this product, make sure that the total ampere rating of the equipment plugged into the extension cord does not exceed the extension cord ampere rating.
  • Page 6 FCC INFORMATION The Federal Communication Commission Radio Frequency Interference Statement includes the following paragraph: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B Digital Device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.

  • Page 7: Table Of Contents

    English Table of Contents CHAPTER 1. MIRASCAN................1 .............. 1 REFACE NTRODUCTION TO ..........4 CANNING EFLECTIVE AND RANSPARENT RIGINALS Scanning reflective originals ..............4 Scanning transparent originals..............6 .............. 9 NDERSTANDING UNCTIONS Menu Bar ..................... 9 File submenu ..................9 Load Config…...
  • Page 8 English Job List and Command Buttons.............. 22 Job List ................... 22 Duplicate button................23 Info button..................23 Delete button................... 23 Preview button................. 23 Scan button..................23 Exit button ..................23 Preview Area ..................24 Tool Bar ..................... 24 Selection button ................24 New Frame button................
  • Page 9 English ..................44 ETTING MAGES Working with Album................44 .................. 46 ORKING ON MAGES Adjusting Images ................46 ..................48 HARING MAGES Printing Images................... 48 Saving Images ..................49 ................. 50 XPRESS MAGES Create Calendars ................. 50 Morphing Photos ................. 51 ................
  • Page 10 English <Memo>...

  • Page 11: Chapter 1. Mirascan

    English Chapter 1. MiraScan Preface: Introduction to MiraScan MiraScan is the driver program for your scanner. It is TWAIN compliant and designed to be user-friendly. With its iconlized user-interface and fully logical task- flow design, you can complete a satisfactory scanning job with only a few mouse clicks.
  • Page 12 English MiraScan Main Screen You can invoke the MiraScan driver using your image editing or OCR (optical character recognition) software. Depending on the software you use, you may need to select the scanner (image source) before you can use the scanner and MiraScan to scan and import image.
  • Page 13 English Main Screen Feature Used to… Menu Bar Adjust MiraScan settings display driver information. Combo Boxes Specify different scan settings and apply to the scanned image, according to the original you want to scan. Preview Area Preview the original image in order to obtain a general understanding of what the image will look like and adjust the scan area.

  • Page 14: Scanning Reflective And Transparent Originals

    English Scanning Reflective and Transparent Originals This chapter will guide you step by step toward a successful scan: Scanning reflective originals Step 1. Place the original face down on the scanner glass plate. Note the direction of the original so that you will not scan the image in the wrong direction.
  • Page 15 English Step 9. If you need to add another scan area (scan job) to the original, push the Duplicate button in the Job List to add a new job. Then repeat Step 6 and 7 to do the settings for that scan job. Click this button to add a new job.

  • Page 16: Scanning Transparent Originals

    English Scanning transparent originals Step 1. Place your film in an appropriate film frame, then place on the glass plate of scanner. When doing so, make sure that the calibration area is facing the right direction (Towards the front panel of the scanner). Do not block the calibration area, or the scanner will fail to function correctly.
  • Page 17 English Scan Filmstrip Filmstrip holder Insert the filmstrip into the holder Scan Positive Films positive film holder Place the positive film in the holder Step 2. Open your application software. Step 3. If this is your first time to scan, you may have to select the TWAIN source by choosing Select source in the File menu, then selecting MiraScan in your application software (you only need to do this once, unless you re-install your application software).
  • Page 18 English you use. For details, please refer to the documents that come with your application software. Step 4. Choose Acquire from your application software. This will bring up the MiraScan main screen. Step 5. From the MiraScan main screen, select Transparent (if you are scanning a positive film) or Negative Film (if you are scanning a negative film) in the Original combo box.

  • Page 19: Understanding Mirascan Functions

    English Understanding MiraScan Functions This section describes all the features provided by MiraScan. By fully utilizing these features, you can scan images more efficiently and quickly. Menu Bar There are three selectable menu items in the Menu Bar. Each menu item contains several options in its submenu: File submenu MiraScan can record the settings you make for each...

  • Page 20: Settings Submenu

    English Settings submenu You can adjust several general scan settings in this submenu. Scan Size… When you choose this item, the following dialog box will appear: In this dialog box, you can set the sizes of the areas to be scanned. First, choose the job number (the numbers of the scan areas listed in the Job List) from the job number list box, then set the size of the scan area.

  • Page 21: Monitor Gamma

    English Monitor Gamma Generally, a monitor cannot display the real colors of an image in the real world. In order to have the monitor approximate the colors as possible, usually, you need to adjust the monitor gamma. Adjustment of the monitor gamma can make the monitor approximate the colors of the original image more closely.

  • Page 22: Film Type

    English Film Type This item is applicable only if you are scanning negative films and your scanner is equipped with TPO. Choosing this item, the following dialog box will appear: When you want to scan a negative film, choose the type of your film here in advance. MiraScan will optimize the scanning result for the film type you selected.

  • Page 23: Combo Boxes

    English Combo Boxes Combo Boxes provide several options to adjust the scan settings before you scan an image. In order to achieve the best scan result, you may need to adjust the settings according to the purpose of the scanned image and the type of original you use to scan.

  • Page 24: Image Type Box

    English Image Type box The Image Type box is used to select a particular data type for your scanning. You will need to select a correct image type according to the original and the purpose of the scanned image. For example, if you are scanning a text document, choose Line Art instead of Color to fit the original type save the file size.

  • Page 25: Scan Mode Box

    English Scan Mode box The Scan Mode box provides two scan modes: 24 bits mode and 36 bits mode. The more bits used to reproduce the image color, the more accurate the scanner captures the colors of the original. 24 bits mode In 24 bits mode, MiraScan uses 8 bits for Red, 8 bits for Green and 8 bits for Blue to capture the colors of the original.

  • Page 26: Scenarios For Using A High Resolution Scan

    English The best way to select the scan resolution is to match the purpose of your scan job. This is because the higher resolution you use for scanning, the larger the scanned image file size will become. When resolution is elevated cross a certain value, it will only enlarge the file size of the scanned image without improving the image quality.

  • Page 27: Scaling Box

    English Scaling box The scaling combo box allows you to specify the horizontal and vertical scale of the image to be scanned. Note that the maximum and minimum scaling is determined by the resolution. The scaling unit is a percentage (%). You may select a scaling percentage from the list.
  • Page 28 English From this dialog box, you can adjust the sharpness accurately. Dragging the scroll bar to the left will blur the image, and dragging the scroll bar to right will sharpen the image. You can also directly enter the desired value into the Amount entry box to change the sharpness.

  • Page 29: Descreen Box

    English Descreen box If you are scanning images from magazines, newspapers or other printed materials, you will find that the scanned image appears to be covered by tiny screen patterns. To eliminate this screen pattern, you can use the options in the Descreen box. According to the original you scan, you can select from the Newspaper, Magazine or the Art Magazine form to match your need.

  • Page 30: Color Wizard Box

    English Color Wizard box The Color Wizard box offers two quick and convenient tools for you to adjust the overall quality of the scanned image: Auto Density Select Auto Density to optimize the density of the image automatically. Photo Magic If you select Photo Magic, the following dialog box will appear: There are three tabs in this dialog box.

  • Page 31: Color Matching

    English Color Matching The color matching function allows you to maintain the consistency of color reproduction between the scanner and other output devices. Note: 1. This function item only appears when you choose “Reflective” in the Original box. 2. This function does support...

  • Page 32: Job List And Command Buttons

    English Job List and Command Buttons The Job List and Command Buttons are used to control the scan job flow while you scan images. Job List The Job List provides information on all scan jobs in process. The file size is also displayed in the list.

  • Page 33: Duplicate Button

    English When you have created multiple scan jobs (see below for how to create a new scan job) in the list, you can check or uncheck the box in front of the job name to decide whether to proceed scanning that specific job(s). By selecting each scan job in the list, you can adjust different scanning settings for each scan job respectively.

  • Page 34: Preview Area

    English Preview Area The Preview Area is where you can see your image in rough quality and point to a pixel to read its value. You can also set the scanning area and view an instant preview of the effects caused by parameter changes from the Image functions.

  • Page 35: New Frame Button

    English transferred into the image editing software. In order to minimize the size of the scanned image file, it is better to select and scan only the necessary part of the image with selection area. To adjust the selection area: Move the selection area by pointing the mouse cursor to the selection area.

  • Page 36: Level Button

    English Level button By clicking on the Level button, the Level dialog box will appear. The Level dialog box includes several useful tools for you to check the color level information of the image and adjust image quality. description of each component in the dialog box and how they work to affect the image follows.
  • Page 37 English Darker images have darker Brighter images have brighter pixels, therefore the bars in the pixels, therefore the bars in the left are higher than that in the right are higher than that in the right. left. In addition, if we take a look at the two images below: Image 1 Image 2 We can see that in Image 1, there is a higher contrast between the brighter and...
  • Page 38 English Now that we can understand the information in the histogram, the next step will be to adjust the image with histogram tools. Below the Histogram, there are three tiny triangles: Shadow Midtone Highlight Threshold Threshold By dragging these triangles, you can adjust the brightness and contrast of an image precisely.

  • Page 39: Input Level Box

    English Input Level box The Input Level box displays the value of Shadow Threshold, Midtone and Highlight Threshold respectively. You can also input each value here directly. Output Level box The Output Level box is used to expand the output level of the image color.

  • Page 40: Curve Button

    English Curve button The Curve tool is used to adjust the brightness properties of midtone pixels in an image. Once you click on the Curve button, the following dialog box will appear: An introduction to each component in the dialog box and a description of how to use the Curve tool to adjust an image follows.

  • Page 41: Input/Output Status Area

    English The original image and its Drag the curve to the left, Drag the curve to the Tonal Map. The curve is and the mid-tone area of right, and the mid-tone straight and diagonal. image becomes area image brighter. becomes darker. You can also click the curve to add new points and further change the shape of the curve: Click to add a new point.

  • Page 42: Color Balance Button

    English Color Balance button Click the Color Balance button to evoke the Color Balance dialog box: In this dialog box, you can change the mixture of colors of an image and emphasize or diminish certain colors. A description of Color Balance components follows.

  • Page 43: Color Adjustment Button

    English Color Adjustment button Click the Color Adjustment button, and the Color Adjustment dialog box will appear: Color Adjustment another convenient tool that you can use to adjust and calibrate the colors in an image. This function works much like the Color Balance tool, but it provides another way to control the property of image colors.

  • Page 44: Brightness/Contrast Button

    English When you have finished with adjustments, click the OK button to confirm your settings and close the dialog box. If you are not satisfied with the adjustments, you can click the Reset button and the settings will return to the default. Alternatively, you can click the Cancel button to cancel and close the dialog box.

  • Page 45: Threshold Button

    English Threshold button Threshold function is very useful when you scan line art images or scan documents for OCR (optical character recognition) use. You may use this function to adjust the quality of line art images or eliminate unwanted dots in the document to improve the accuracy of recognition.

  • Page 46: Invert Button

    English Image 1 is the original scanned image, while in Image 2 the threshold value is changed into 56. This means that pixels in the image with brightness level below 56 will all be cut into black, and those with brightness level above 56 are all turned into white.

  • Page 47: Rotate Button

    English Rotate button You can rotate the selection area easily with this button. Besides, if the original in not aligned well, you can use this function to correct the tilt. For example, if you are scanning a photo that is not aligned well: After you preview the photo, adjust the selection area to approximately encompass the photo.

  • Page 48: Auto Button

    English Auto button After you preview an image, you can press this button to open the Auto dialogue box: Auto Crop Click this button and MiraScan will crop the scan area automatically and leave only the necessary size for scanning. Auto Descreen Click this button and MiraScan will detect and apply an appropriate descreen value...

  • Page 49: Status Area

    English Status Area Status Area provides information of the image you are working Pixel Display Box This box displays the color of the pixel to which the mouse cursor is pointing. Pixel Information Area The location of the pixel expressed in X, Y coordinates and the RGB values of the pixel is displayed here.
  • Page 50 English <Memo>...

  • Page 51: Chapter 2. Photo Express

    English Chapter 2. Photo Express In this chapter you will be introduced to the fantastic world of Photo Express. Learn more about this bundled software and make your everyday life more interesting and colorful! Note: refer to Photo Express electronic User’s Manual in the software disc for more details on how to use its different features and functions.

  • Page 52: Getting Started

    English Getting Started To run Photo Express, double click the Photo Express icon on your Windows desktop or open from Windows Start Menu. When you run Photo Express, make sure that the monitor display is at a resolution of 800×600 or 1024×768 and Hi Color (15/16 bit) or True Color (24 bit) mode.
  • Page 53 English Mode Tab: The Mode tabs switch Photo Express between Photo mode and Project mode. Photo mode is where the majority of your work is done, while the Project mode lets you make greeting cards, name cards, and other fun things based on templates. Command Panel: The Command panel lists all of the available categories in Photo Express necessary for getting the most out of your creativity when working on photos.

  • Page 54: Getting Images

    English Getting Images The first thing you want to do when you start Photo Express is to get the photos you want to work with into the actual program. The place you start is with Album. From here, you can do almost anything in Photo Express. All other ways of getting photos can work independently of Album, but they are also set up to let you capture or open images directly to it.
  • Page 55 English To add new images to an album: Select an album. Click the File icon and browse for the folder where the images are stored. When they appear in the Options panel, click the Select All button (or select images individually by holding down the Ctrl key as you click them). Next, select the Save to album option and click the Insert button.

  • Page 56: Working On Images

    English Working on Images Adjusting Images After you have acquired an image from a scanner or digital camera, it may need some adjustments. Photo Express provides you with the perfect tool for adjusting your photos: the Transform tool. To re-align a photo: After scanning the photo, open it from either Album or from File directly into the workspace if you haven’t already scanned it directly there.
  • Page 57 English To trim your photo: Click the Trim button in the Edit: Adjust category. The Trim options will open in the Options panel. Select a Trim shape and then set the amount of Soft edge you want to soften the edges of the trimmed photo with.

  • Page 58: Sharing Images

    English Sharing Images Printing Images Once you have put the finishing touches onto your photos, it is time to print them out. Photo Express contains numerous printing options, letting you output posters and name cards in addition to its regular printing duties. To print an image: Select the image you wish to print from the Thumbnail scroll, or select an image or...

  • Page 59: Saving Images

    English Saving Images After work on your photo is complete, you may want to save it. In Photo Express, you can save a photo in a variety of different image file formats. Each file format has its own unique properties and characteristics. Some formats, however, are better than others for specific situations, such as saving for the Web are.

  • Page 60: Express Your Images

    English Express Your Images Create Calendars One of the easiest tasks to accomplish in Photo Express is making calendars, either for your Windows desktop or for your real desktop. They are great for keeping your loved ones close, in addition to being a convenient way to keep track of important dates in style.

  • Page 61: Morphing Photos

    English Morphing Photos One of Photo Express’ more novel effects extras is that of image morphing. Morphing transforms an image over time to create interesting and unique “warps” of the original photo. Image morphs are output as either image sequences or animated GIF files.

  • Page 62: Working In Project Mode

    English Working in Project Mode The Project mode gives you a focused environment in which to create custom greeting cards, calendars, invitations, birthday and anniversary cards, name cards, and planners. The Project mode is useful for getting through a “project” as quickly and efficiently as possible.

  • Page 63: Working With Templates

    English Working with Templates Photo Express’ unique templates can be edited and customized to suit your own needs. Templates consist of multiple components, usually a combination of text and photos with a decoration or two perhaps thrown in. To change any one of these components, simply select it and choose the appropriate tools from the Toolbar.

  • Page 64: Adding Decoration

    English Adding Decoration One category of tools on the Edit menu in Project mode is unique to that tab: Decoration. These are special, object-based effects such as Frames, Edges and Props you can use to enhance photo objects in a project. To add special edge effects to a photo object: Select a photo object.

  • Page 65: Printing Templates

    English Printing Templates As with Photo mode, Project mode lets you print your work when you’re finished with it. The same options available in Photo mode apply in Project mode as well. For more on printing, see 4-8 Printing Images and the online help. To print a template as name cards: Click the Print button on the Command panel.

  • Page 66: Sharing Templates

    English Sharing Templates Sharing templates works exactly the same way as sharing photos in Photo mode. You can print, e-mail, fax, or output them to web pages. For more on these tools, see the online help and related documents. To e-mail a template: Click the Share: E-mail button Command panel.

  • Page 67: Chapter 3. Textbridge Classic

    English Chapter 3. TextBridge Classic TextBridge is a powerful OCR software that can turn text images into editable electronic text files. In this chapter you will be shown the way to use its basic function and some tips to OCR. Note: refer to TextBridge Classic electronic User’s Manual for more details on how to use its features and functions.

  • Page 68: Select Scanner

    English Select Scanner Before you start OCR with your scanner, please follow the steps below to select scanner for TextBridge Classics: Click File in the Menu Bar. Choose Select Scanner in the drop-down submenu that appears. Select Scanner dialogue box will pop up. Choose MiraScan Vx.xx.xx and then click OK.

  • Page 69: Begin Ocr In Automatic Mode

    English Begin OCR in Automatic Mode Automatic Mode allows you to complete OCR through a few mouse clicks. Here is how to use the OCR function in Automatic Mode. Place the document original facing down on the glass plate of the scanner and then close the scanner lid.
  • Page 70 English Preview the document image in the MiraScan Preview Area, and select the scanning area. When done, click Scan. MiraScan window will disappear and TextBridge Classic will start to recognize the scanned image. The following dialogue box will pop up when TextBridge has finished recognizing the image.

  • Page 71: Chapter 4. Copier

    English Chapter 4. Copier Copier is an application software that can combine your existing scanner and printer into a copy machine and make it easier to copy images and documents. In this chapter you will be shown the way to use this convenient tool. You can use Copier to: l Scale up and down The scanned image can be diminished or enlarged within the size of the paper.

  • Page 72: Copier Parameters

    English Copier Parameters The table below is a list of Copier parameters. Before you start to copy, adjust parameters properly to fit your purpose. Icons Icon Parameter Description Scanner Selects the scanner driver. To select scanner driver, driver click this icon until your scanner driver appears in the Information Window.

  • Page 73: Brightness And Contrast

    English Information Window The Information Window shows the current settings for the Scanner Driver, Printer, Image Type, Copy Quality and number of copies. Brightness and Contrast The sliders are used to adjust the image Brightness Sliders contrast and brightness. Drag the slider with your mouse or press the right and left arrow keys to adjust the contrast or brightness.
  • Page 74 English Buttons Start Copying button. Press this button to start copying the image to printer or file. The button changes to while the scanner is copying and you can press it to stop copying. Minimize button. Press this button to minimize the Copier panel. Exit button.

  • Page 75: How To Use Copier

    English How to Use Copier Follow these steps to copy a document: Open Copier. Place the document you want to copy facing down on the scanner glass plate. Set the Copier parameters properly. Click on the button to start copying. Note that when copying in under progress, this button changes to and you can click on this button to cancel copying anytime.
  • Page 76 English <Memo>...

  • Page 77: Chapter 5. Troubleshooting And Faq

    English Chapter 5. Troubleshooting and FAQ 5.1.1 Why does MiraScan display the message “Scanner is warming up” whenever I scan or preview after I change the Original type or Scan Mode setting? Answer: when you change the Original type or Scan Mode, the scanner needs to switch the lamp used for scanning and warming up is needed.
  • Page 78 English 5.2.4 Calibration fail occurs when I scan transparent originals. Check to see if: The slide/film frame is positioned correctly. The TPO unit is working properly. The TPO unit cable is firmly connected to the scanner. 5.2.5 TextBridge can’t work. First of all, please make sure you have chosen the right data source for TextBridge Calssic.

  • Page 79: Chapter 6. Service Information

    Taiwan: FAEIMG@acerperipherals.com.tw USA: APAWeb@apa.acer.com Europe: SCANNER.FAE@acerperipherals.nl For free driver updates, product information and news release, please visit the following web addresses: http://www.acerperipherals.com.tw (Taiwan) http://www.acerperipherals.com (USA)
  • Page 80 English <Memo>...

  • Page 81: Appendix. Mirascan Main Screen Guide Map

    English Appendix. MiraScan main screen guide map...
  • Page 82 English MiraScan main screen guide map (continued)

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