52VISIONEER 9750 SCANNER USERS GUIDE

SELECTING FORMAT OPTIONS

The Format options that you select determines the file format of the scanned document. Appropriate format options and file types are available for the type of Destination Application selected for the button.

The available options are for images and text.

Image Formats.

Text Formats.

The Text Formats are for text file types. The names of the formats indicate their file types. See “Text Formats” on page 54 for details.

IMAGE FORMATS

Select an image file format for photos, artwork or other documents that you want to save as images. BMP and TIFF are standard image file formats generally used if you want to do additional image processing, such as photo touch-up or color correction. Both of those file formats tend to be larger than the JPEG format.

Because JPEG image files can be reduced in size, the JPEG format is often used for images on web pages, or if file size might be a problem when electronically sending the files. JPEG files are reduced in size by lowering their image quality, and you can select the degree of quality for your scanned images from the JPEG file format icon.

The PDF format is often used to create images of text pages. You may want to select PDF as the format when scanning text pages that do not require OCR processing or other processing. The PDF format is also

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Visioneer 9750 manual Selecting Format Options