User manual NUANCE PAGIS PRO 2.0

[. . . ] User's Guide Contents Index About This Guide Contents Index COPYRIGHT INFORMATION Copyright © 1997­1998 by ScanSoft, Inc. , a Xerox Company. No part of this publication may be transmitted, transcribed, reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or translated into any language or computer language in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of ScanSoft, Inc. , 9 Centennial Drive, Peabody, Massachusetts 01960. The software described in this book is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license. IMPORTANT NOTICE ScanSoft, Inc. provides this publication "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. [. . . ] In the Scanner Progress dialog box (refer to Figure 4­23), click the Save button. Depending on the Auto Save properties: · the photograph(s) are automatically saved to the specified file name and location, or a Save As dialog appears for you to name and locate the file. the photograph is automatically located and selected for you in Windows, or is automatically opened in the Pagis Editor ready for editing. · Using Prescan to scan part of a document If you want to capture only part of a page, use the Scan Tool's Prescan feature, as follows. Note Prescan is grayed out when you have set up Pagis Pro to use a TWAIN scanner's own dialog box, or if you are using a scanner with an ADF. Click the Scan icon on the Pagis ToolBar to display the Scanner tab (refer to Figure 4­15). Select the page type of the document to be scanned. Using Pagis Pro 4­51 Contents Index Select the page type that most closely approximates the document you intend to scan. If you are not sure, the Any Document page type is the default and works well for most documents. Click the Properties button to fine-tune settings for the document you are about to scan. For example, you might want to adjust scanner brightness, color depth, or resolution, or turn on or off some of the page refinement settings. Additionally, you might want to specify a file name and location for the scanned document. Finally, you might want to add keyword search properties for the document. Refer to a previous section, "Changing default properties for scanned documents, " for complete information. Click the Auto Save checkbox off to display a standard Save As dialog box when scanning is complete. Otherwise the document is saved automatically to the default file name and location in Auto Save properties. Click the Close when done option off if you want the Scan Tool to remain open after you finish scanning a document. As the page is being scanned, a Scanner Progress dialog box tracks scanning status. After the page is completely scanned, it appears in the Scanner Progress dialog box with a resizable scan rectangle around it (Figure 4­25, next page). Resize the scan rectangle so that it outlines the area that you want to capture. · · Click and hold on a corner handle to resize the rectangle diagonally. Click and hold on a side handle to resize the rectangle either horizontally or vertically. 4­52 Pagis Pro User's Guide Contents Index Click to scan the specified scan area Use the corner handles to resize and position the scan area Figure 4­25. After scanning is complete, additional buttons appear on the Scanner Progress dialog box (refer to Figure 4­23). Depending on the Auto Save properties: · the scanned document is automatically saved to the specified file name and location, or a Save As dialog appears for you to name and locate the file. the scanned document is automatically located and selected for you in Windows, or is automatically opened in the Pagis Editor ready for editing. · Using Pagis Pro 4­53 Contents Index Copying documents With Pagis Pro, you can use your scanner and printer as a copy machine. [. . . ] When scanning in Pagis Pro, specify the highest resolution that you will need for your intended purpose. Specify 100­200 dpi for color images. Glossary of Terms G­7 Contents Index S scale to gray--An image enhancement process that converts a binary (black and white) image into 4-bit or 8-bit grayscale to give it a smoother appearance. scanner driver--A software module that serves as an interface between a software application and a scanner. The scanner driver sends requests from the application to the scanner in a language the scanner can understand. [. . . ]