6.From the File menu, click Acquire. The USB Scanner dialog box appears, let- ting you preview the scanned image.
7.Make any adjustments, then click Scan to scan the final image.
8.Adjust the desired scanner settings as follows.
Scan Page For — These options are optimized for the various uses of scanned images, such as scanning for editing text or scanning in color. Select- ing the proper scan setting before final scanning provides the best results. The scan setting determines the sharpness of the object and the number of possible shades of gray or color. Scan settings also affect the speed of the scan and the file size. You can select one of the fol- lowing preset scan settings:
•Editing Text (OCR) — This setting is best for scanning of letters, contracts, memos, and other documents you want to edit. It enhances the use of OCR software for converting object text to editable text, and provides higher quality and larger file size than the Faxing, Filing, or Copying scan setting. This setting defaults to black and white, 300 DPI.
•Faxing, Filing, or Copying — This set- ting is best for scanning of newspaper and magazine articles, receipts,
forms, and other text objects. It pro- vides the fastest scan time and small- est file size. This setting defaults to grayscale, 200 DPI.
•Black and White Photo — This setting is best for scanning of
•Color Document — Faster — This setting is best for scanning color pages with many graphics, mixed graphics and text, line art, and photo- graphs requiring a quick scan. It cre- ates a quality scanned color object in a file that is not too large. This setting defaults to color, 100 DPI.
•Color Document — Better Quality — This setting provides the ideal setting for color objects, object editing, desk- top publishing, and
•Custom — This setting lets you use the Scan Configuration dialog box (described below) to define how you want it to scan an object.
If you do not want to use one of these preset options, you can manually select the scan configuration options as shown below. Note that when you select a pre- set option, scan configuration settings are for that preset option.
Scan Configuration — Use this section of the USB Scanner dialog box to manu- ally select scan options for the image.
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