3.1 Flow of Operations

Before scanning documents containing printed or handwritten text, select the

HINT

"Setting for text only document" checkbox under [Option] on the [Scanning] tab in the "Scan and Save Settings" dialog box. For details, refer to "3.4 Changing Scan Settings" (on page 53).

The application that is automatically started up after the scanning depends on the setting of the [Application] tab in the "Scan and Save Settings" dialog box. For details, refer to "3.4 Changing Scan Settings" (on page 53).

Scanned documents can also be saved in an image format (JPEG). In this case, change the document scan settings before scanning the document. For details about changing the document scan settings, refer to "3.4 Changing Scan Settings" (on page 53). The following document scan settings can be

changed:

Application linked to ScanSnap

Folder for saving scanned images

File name of scanned images

File format for scanned image (*.pdf/*.jpg)

Scan mode (draft, high quality, reduce noise of back side image, auto- matically remove blank pages, adjust skewness, change loading doc-

ument direction, continue scanning)

Size of file for scanned image

The compression ratio of scanned images The scanning scale may vary slightly.

With Adobe Acrobat 7.0, scanned images (saved as a PDF file) can be pro- cessed with the following functions:

-Convert a scanned page to searchable text

From the menu, select [Document] - [Recognize Text Using OCR] - [Start]

In case of using colored images, verify that the image has been scanned in "Better" or "Best" Image quality mode before performing this operation. (refer to page 62)

-Reduce PDF file size

From the menu, select [File] - [Reduce File Size]

For details on how to use the above functions, refer to [Acrobat 7.0 Help].

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