8.Change any necessary Image Adjustment settings as listed in the table below.

Setting

Available mode(s) and description

 

 

Brightness

Adjusts the overall image lightness and darkness.

 

 

Contrast

Adjusts the difference between the light and

 

dark areas of the overall image.

 

 

Unsharp Mask Filter

Turn on to make the edges of image areas

 

clearer for an overall sharper image. Turn off to

 

leave softer edges.

 

 

Descreening Filter

Removes the rippled pattern that can appear in

 

subtly-shaded image areas, such as in skin tones.

 

Also improves results when scanning magazine

 

or newspaper images which include screening in

 

their original print processes.

 

 

Text Enhancement

Enhances text recognition when scanning text

 

documents.

 

 

Threshold

Adjusts the level at which the black areas in text

 

and line art are delineated, improving text

 

recognition in OCR programs. This setting is

 

available only when the Image Type is set to

 

Black&White.

 

 

9.Click the Scan button to scan your document pages.

10.What happens next depends on how you started your scan.

❏If you started your scan by running EPSON Scan as a standalone program, you see the File Save Settings window. See "Selecting File Save Settings" on page 45 for details.

❏If you started your scan from a scanning program such as Adobe Acrobat, your scanned pages open in the program window. Click Close to close the EPSON Scan window and view your scanned pages in the program.

44Scanning Using the Automatic Document Feeder