Chapter 5 Various Ways to Scan

Removing Punch Holes

3 Click the [Option] button.

You can remove punch holes from the output scanned image.

OriginalOutput image

Punch holes cannot be removed when:

z The holes are not aligned along the edge of the document z The size and gap between the holes vary

z The hole is near the edge of the document z The document is not rectangular

z The document has a dark background color

z There are characters/pictures over the edge or the holes z [Automatic Page Size Detection] is specified and the

scanned document is larger than the selected paper size

z [Black Background] is specified and the scanned document does not match with the selected paper size.

1 Load the documents.

For details, refer to "Chapter 2 How to Load Documents" (page 37).

2 Start up ScandAll PRO and select the [Scan] menu J [Scanner Setting].

DThe [TWAIN Driver (32)] dialog box appears.

If the [TWAIN Driver (32)] dialog box does not appear, check the setting in ScandAll PRO by selecting the [Tool] menu J [Preferences] to open the [Setup] dialog box, then confirm that [TWAIN] is selected for [Device Driver] in the [Scan] tab.

DThe [Option] dialog box appears.

4 Click the [Rotation] tab and select [Automatic Page Size Detection] or [Black Background] in the [Automatic Size and Skew detection] drop-down list.

The [Hole punch removal] function is disabled when a setting other than [Automatic Page Size Detection] or [Black Background] is specified.

5 Select [Fill with white] or [Background color] under [Hole punch removal].

Select [Background color] when scanning a color document. If [Fill with white] is selected, the punch holes will appear as if they are filled with white squares.

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