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Scanning

Making Changes to Scanner Settings

Make suitable settings
Create beautiful reproductions
Scan multiple images simultaneously

Make suitable settings

For photographs

Follow the steps below to make settings suitable for scanning photographs (reflective documents) in the Professional Mode.

Place photographs on the document table. For details, see Setting Your Originals.

Start EPSON Scan and then select the Professional Mode. For details on how to select a scanning mode, see Changing the scanning mode.

The setting window appears. Specify the settings to match your document, referring to the illustration and the table below.

Click the Preview button to preview the images. See Preview images.

Use Target Size to specify the output size of the scanned images and then specify the Adjustments settings, if necessary. See Create beautiful reproductions for details.

Click Scan to start scanning.

The scanned images are sent to the application or saved in the specified folder.

Select the suitable resolution

When you specify a high resolution, the number of pixels of the data increases and the scanned image becomes fine in texture. However, increasing the resolution causes the data size to increase. Specify a suitable resolution according to the scanning purpose.

The following table indicates the suitable resolution to use according to the scanning purpose.

For texts and line arts

Follow the steps below to make settings suitable for scanning texts and line arts in the Professional Mode. With this feature, outlines of texts and line arts are scanned and clearly defined. Clearly defined texts can be reliably converted into text data using OCR software.

Place your original either on the document table or in the Auto Document Feeder (fax model only). For details, see Setting Your Originals.

Start EPSON Scan and then select the Professional Mode. For details on how to select a scanning mode, see Changing the scanning mode.

The setting window appears. Specify the settings to match your document, referring to the illustration and the table below.

Click the Preview button to preview the images. See Preview images.

Use Target Size to specify the output size of the scanned images and then specify the Adjustments settings, if necessary. See Create beautiful reproductions for details.

Click Scan to start scanning.

The scanned images are sent to the application or saved in the specified folder.

For color documents

Follow the steps below to make settings suitable for scanning color documents in the Professional Mode. With this feature, the use of colors on an original document is simplified to prevent the scanned image from being mottled. It is also suitable for modifying colors of an image with a color re-touching application.

Place your original either on the document table or in the Auto Document Feeder (fax model only). For details, see Setting Your Originals.

Start EPSON Scan and then select the Professional Mode. For details on how to select a scanning mode, see Changing the scanning mode.

The setting window appears. Specify the settings to match your document, referring to the illustration and the table below.

Click the Preview button to preview the images.

Use Target Size to specify the output size of the scanned images and then specify the Adjustments settings, if necessary. See Create beautiful reproductions for details.

Click Scan to start scanning.

The scanned images are sent to the application or saved in the specified folder.

For newspapers and magazines

Follow the steps below to make settings suitable for scanning newspapers and magazines in the Professional Mode. Using this feature, you can avoid a blank area being scanned as a yellowish image or images on the back side of paper being scanned through.

Place a document on the document table. For details, see Setting Your Originals.

Start EPSON Scan and then select the Professional Mode. For details on how to select a scanning mode, see Changing the scanning mode.

The setting window appears. Specify the settings to match your document, referring to the illustration and the table below.

Click the Preview button to preview the images. See Preview images.

Use Target Size to specify the output size of the scanned images and then specify the Adjustments settings, if necessary. See Create beautiful reproductions for details.

Click Scan to start scanning.

The scanned images are sent to the application or saved in the specified folder.

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Create beautiful reproductions

EPSON Scan provides you with a variety of settings to improve the quality of a scanned image to satisfy your needs. You can easily adjust the quality of the image by selecting the box in the setting window. In this section, you will get the information on what you can do and how you do it.

Remove the moiré patterns from a scanned image

You can remove a wavy or ripped pattern called "moiré," which tends to happen in areas of halftone color such as skin color. Follow the steps below to remove these patterns.

Note:

This feature is not available when the resolution is set to greater than 600 dpi.

In the Home Mode or Professional Mode, you cannot use this feature when Positive Film, Color Negative Film, or B&W Negative Film is selected for Document Type.

You cannot use this feature when Black&White is selected for Image Type.

The result of removing moiré patterns does not apply to the previewed image.

Select the Descreening Filter check box in the Adjustments section. In the Home Mode, open the Image Adjustments dialog box first to get to the Descreening Filter check box.

Select Screen Ruling appropriate for the image being scanned and your purpose. (In the Home Mode, this function is not available.)

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Improve image sharpness

If the outline of the original edge of the image is not sharp enough, you can improve the sharpness of the scanned image by using this feature in the Professional Mode. (This feature is automatically enabled in the Home Mode.) Follow the steps below.

Note:

This feature is not available when Color Smoothing, Halftone, or Black&White is selected for Image Type.

Select the Unsharp Mask Filter check box in the Adjustments section.

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Select the level of adjustments.

Liven up a color on a scanned image

You can liven up the color of a scanned image by adjusting the brightness of color, contrast, or color balance. Follow the steps below.

Note:

This feature is only available when you are scanning a color image.

Click the Image Adjustment button.

Adjust the items you want to change by sliding the tabs.

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Close the Image Adjustment window by clicking the Close button.

Restore faded color images

Color Restoration is a scanner software feature that restores faded color on films and photographs. Select the Color Restoration check box to restore color in the Home Mode or Professional Mode.

Note:

When scanning films, do not select B&W Negative Film for Document Type.

Do not specify 16-bit Grayscale or 8-bit Grayscale for Image Type.

Do not specify Document for Auto Exposure Type.

Depending on the condition of films or photographs, the color may not be restored as you desire.

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Scan multiple images simultaneously

You can simultaneously scan multiple photographs and documents placed together on the document table as separate images.

Note:

Depending on the application, you may not be able to scan multiple images.

Follow the steps below to scan multiple originals using the Professional Mode.

Place documents on the document table. See Setting Your Originals for details.

Note:

If you plan to preview images using the Thumbnail method, while scanning multiple photographs, position each photograph at least 20 mm apart from its adjacent photographs.

Start EPSON Scan and then select the Professional Mode. For details on how to select a scanning mode, see Changing the scanning mode.

The following window appears.

Specify the Original and Destination settings to match your images.

Click the Preview button to preview the images.

Note:

You can select a preview method: Thumbnail Preview or Normal Preview. Click the small arrow to the right of the Preview button and then select Thumbnail or Normal.

In the Thumbnail Preview window: EPSON Scan automatically locates the multiple photographs, and then preview them as thumbnail images. Select the number check box of an image you want to scan.

Note:

Depending on the originals you want to scan, EPSON scan may not be able to automatically locate the target images, or preview the images as thumbnails. In this case, preview the images in the Normal Preview window.

You can create only one marquee for one thumbnail image. For more details, see the online help.

In the Normal Preview window:
Create marquees on the previewed image to select an area you want to scan. You can create up to 50 marquees. For more details, see Using marquees.

Note:

When the output size of the scanned image is already decided, select an appropriate setting from the Target Size list. A marquee proportional to the measurements of the Target Size setting appears in the Preview window. You can move this marquee to the area of the image you want to scan. For more details, see the online help.

Specify the Adjustments settings, if necessary. (You may need to scroll to the bottom of the screen.)

Note:

For some settings, you can apply the same modifications to all of the images at once by clicking All in the Preview window. (In Normal Preview, you need to make marquees.) For detail, see Using marquees.

Click Scan. EPSON Scan starts scanning.

Note:

When the File Save Settings dialog box appears, make your settings then click OK. For details, see the online help.

The scanned images are sent to the application or saved in the specified folder.

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