Image Type advanced options (continued)

Category

Option

Function

 

 

 

Dropout

None

Includes all color values in a

 

 

monochrome scan

 

 

 

 

Red

Drops out reds so red areas are white in a

 

 

monochrome scan

 

 

 

 

Green

Drops out greens so green areas are

 

 

white in a monochrome scan

 

 

 

 

Blue

Drops out blues so blue areas are white in

 

 

a monochrome scan

 

 

 

Quality &

Draft & fast

Provides faster scanning at a lower

descreening

 

resolution

 

 

 

 

Best &

Produces the best quality scan and, on

 

de-screening

some scanners**, removes unwanted

 

 

moiré (interference) patterns from

 

 

scanned images

 

 

 

Scanning

1 pass

Scans the image with a single pass (line

Sequence

 

sequence)

 

 

 

 

3 pass

Scans the image with three passes (page

 

 

sequence); available only in 16 million

 

 

colors

 

 

 

B/W Options

Text

Eliminates the document background

 

Enhancement

and raises the recognition accuracy

 

Technology

during OCR (Optical Character

 

 

Recognition) scanning. See page 3-21for

 

 

more information.

 

 

 

 

Auto Area

Separates text from graphics so that

 

Segmentation

grayscale images are clearer and text

 

 

recognition is more accurate

 

 

 

 

None

Selects no special black and white

 

 

options

 

 

 

*When possible, let your image editing software perform halftoning.

**ActionScanner II, ES-1000C, ES-1200C, and Expression 636.

The Text Enhancement Technology and Auto Area Segmentation options are not available if your scanner does not support these features. The ActionScanner II, ES-1000C, ES-1200C, and Expression 636 scanners support Text Enhancement Technology. The Expression 636 scanner supports Auto Area Segmentation.

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