Chapter 5 Various Ways to Scan

5.3 Advanced Scanning

Excluding Colors from Images (Dropout Color)

You can select a primary color (green, red, blue) to be removed (dropped out) from the scanned image.

For instance, when you scan a document containing black text with a green background, you can output the image with only the black text.

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Example: When [Green] is specified for Dropout Color

z Dropout colors can only be specified in black & white or grayscale mode.

z Dropout works best with light (low intensity) colors, and dark colors may not drop out.

1 Load a document on the hopper.

For information on how to load documents, refer to "Chapter 2 How to Load Documents" (page 33).

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

For information on how to display the [TWAIN Driver (32)] dialog box, refer to "How to Use ScandAll PRO".

3 Click the [Advance] button.

DThe [Advance] dialog box appears.

4 Select a color to drop out in the [Dropout Color] drop- down list under [More].

If you select [Hardware Setting], the setting of the Software Operational Panel is enabled.

No color is dropped out when you select [None].

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