Chapter 5 Various Documents

5.3 Advanced Scanning

Excluding Color(s) from Images (Dropout Color)

You can select a color from primary colors (red, green, and blue) to remove (drop out) from a scanned document image. For example, when you scan a document containing black text with green background, you can output an image of only black text.

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3 Click the [Advance] button.

The [Advance] dialog box appears.

4 Select a color you want to remove, from the [Dropout Color] drop-down list under [More].

Example: When "green" is selected to be dropped out

Note the dropout color can be specified only in binary (black & white) or grayscale mode.

1 Load a target document on the scanner.

For how to load documents on the scanner, refer to "Chapter 2 Loading Documents" (on page 38).

2 Start up ScandAll PRO, and then open the [TWAIN Driver (32)] dialog box.

For how to open the [TWAIN Driver (32)] dialog box, refer to "Chapter 3 How to Use ScandAll PRO" (on page 51).

If you want no color to be dropped out, select [None].

To drop out a desired color, select [Custom], [Custom 2], or [Custom 3].

If you select one of them, the [Select Dropout Color] dialog box will appear. Here, you can specify up to three colors to be dropped out.

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