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EPSON Scan
TWAIN-compliant applications

EPSON Scan

Your scanner is controlled by your computer via a TWAIN-compliant driver called EPSON Scan.

EPSON Scan directly controls all of the features of your Epson scanner. With this software you can scan images in color, grayscale, or black and white and obtain professional quality results. This program is the standard cross-platform interface between your scanner and most applications. You can access it from any application that supports the TWAIN standard.

Note for Mac OS X users:

Depending on your application, you may not be able to access EPSON Scan from the application.

TWAIN

TWAIN is a standard application program interface (API) between image input devices (such as scanners) and applications controlling the image input devices.

Using a TWAIN-compliant application and a TWAIN-compliant scanner with a TWAIN-compliant driver enables users to operate any scanner in the same manner.

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TWAIN-compliant applications

This scanner is a TWAIN-compliant device. You can scan images using a TWAIN-compliant image processing application.

The following TWAIN-compliant image processing application is included in your scanner package. We recommend that you use this application.

• Adobe^® Photoshop^® Elements

You can also scan images using common TWAIN-compliant applications such as Adobe Photoshop.

While in a TWAIN-compliant application, when you select a scan command to scan an image, EPSON Scan starts and scans the image with the specified settings.

While the TWAIN-compliant application may appear to be controlling your scanner in the scanning process, it is EPSON Scan that is actually doing the job.

You can use the EPSON Scan screen to specify various settings for scanning.

Note:

You can operate EPSON Scan in the same way on both Windows and Macintosh. This guide explains the operation procedure using Windows examples.

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