User manual AVISION 1200U MAC

[. . . ] 1. 0 iVina, Inc. Trademarks All brands and product names in this manual are trademarks of their respective holders. Copyright All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of iVina Inc. Material scanned by this product may be protected by governmental laws and other regulations, such as copyright laws, the customer is solely responsible for complying with all such laws and regulations. Warranty The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. iVina makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this material, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose. [. . . ] Exit Figure 5-1 iVina Copier window iVina 1200U 5-1 3. Press the Preference button to display the Preference dialog box as shown below. The Preference dialog box allows you to preset the resolution value, paper size, image mode, and Descreen function. Figure 5-2 Copier preferences dialog box Paper Size: Included are Max. , Letter, A4, B5, A5, and Auto , among which the Auto is a great function to automatically crop a scanned image to fit a paper supply even if your original is not aligned near the alignment mark. This is particularly useful if your printer comes with fit-to-page feature. Mode: Included are Auto , Lineart, Halftone , among which the Auto here is an optimized mode to reach the most harmonious mixture of text and picture, no matter whether the original is a text , photo , or photo/text mixture content. Referring to the detailed information of Lineart and Halftone , see Section 6. 1. 3 in the manual. Resolution & Descreen: See section 6. 1. 2 and section 6. 1. 3 for the detailed descriptions of Resolution and Descreen. 5-2 iVina 1200U 5. 2 MAKING AN ORIGINAL TEXT EDITABLE 1. Press the OCR button. The scanning message is displayed and then you can send scanned document into TextBridge OCR to convert your original text to an editable one . After saving this editable text file, you could open and edit it in a word processor. Regarding the detailed operation of this installed OCR application, see the relevant on-line help on it. The figure below is a converted sample result shown on a word processor for your reference. Send scanned image into bundled TextBridge OCR application The original text converted Figure 5-3 Scanning text in OCR button iVina 1200U 5-3 5. 3 SCANNING AN ORIGINAL TO AN IMAGE-EDITING APPLICATION 1. The scanning message is displayed and within a few seconds, your original image is scanned and sent into your selected image-edining application previously set up in the scan button setting dialog box. Note: You can select your existed image-editing application software (such as SOAP, Photoshop etc. ) as your Scan button function destination application. If you do not have any image-editing application in your computer, you can install and select the PageManager (bundled in provided CD) as your default image-editing application. 5-4 iVina 1200U 5. 4 SCANNING AN ORIGINAL TO THE E-MAIL APPLICATION , OUTLOOK EXPRESS 1. Press the E-mail button. The scanning message is displayed and within a few seconds, your original image is scanned to the Outlook Express application for you to easily send the E-mail. File attached by E-mail Button Figure 5-5 Outlook Express window iVina 1200U 5-5 6. SCANNING WITHOUT THE BUTTONS iVina 1200U allows you to operate the scanner from within a plug-in software application like Photoshop. As the scanner driver is not a stand-alone software, it is started from within a Photoshop plug-in compliant software application and then the scanner driver is able to scan and load the image to your computer. The command to start the scanner driver may vary due to different software applications. To check the correct command , please refer to the user manual of the relevant software application. 6. 1 STARTING THE FIRST SCAN FROM AN APPLICATION 1. You could always switch these two user interfaces simply by pressing their respective icon in their interfaces. ) Place the document upside down on the document glass. Click the Preview or Scan button to preview or scan your document or image. 4. 5. Figure 6-2 Mac Plug-in user interface iVina 1200U 6-1 6. 1. 1 DETERMINING OPTICAL RESOLUTION A good control of the resolution results in a satisfactory detail of an image scanned. Normally, the greater the dpi value, the higher the resolution and the bigger the image file size. Be aware that the greater resolution takes more time, memory and disk space; therefore, up to a certain degree of dpi, the resolution will not be visually improved. [. . . ] Release the left mouse button when the area has been successfully selected. ) Zoom: Click and place your cursor on the preview area. The cursor will turn a zoom sign to enlarge or reduce(press the Alt key) your preview image. Click and place your cursor anywhere on the preview area. The cursor now turns a hand sign to allow you to move the preview image to view a specific portion clearly. (This function is only available after the preview image has been enlarged. ) Move Image: iVina 1200U 6-11 6. 1. 6 OTHER TOOLS Rescale Image Lock Image Width & Height Quick Choice Scan Size Unit Figure 6-23 Scale: Width: Height: Unit: Enlarge or reduce your image in a pre-set proportion (from 50% to 800%). [. . . ]