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Understanding EPSON TWAIN Pro Features / Using the Preview Window

Using Marquees

Making and modifying marquees
Using the Marquee tools
Delete button
Duplicate button
Auto Locate button
Marquee number indicator
All button

A marquee is a frame that you draw around a portion of a previewed image to select it. You can use marquees to specify the portions of an image to be scanned, and to select an area of the image that you want to enlarge using the Preview buttons. You can make multiple marquees.

Making and modifying marquees

To create a marquee, move the pointer over the image in the Preview window. The pointer becomes a set of cross-hairs. Hold down the mouse button and drag the cross-hairs over an area of the image, then release the mouse button to create the marquee. Follow the instructions in this section to resize and move marquees, and to create multiple marquees.

Making multiple marquees

You can make multiple marquees on one image, which allows you to scan specific portions of the image and crop out the rest. This feature is also useful when you want to scan several photographs or other small documents at one time. Extra marquees can be made anywhere except inside the frame of another marquee. Marquees can be different sizes, and they can overlap.

To resize or move one of several marquees, first click the edge of the marquee to make it active. The frame around the active marquee changes to a moving dotted line.

To move more than one marquee at once, first select the marquees that you want to move in addition to the active marquee. To select a marquee, click the marquee while holding down the Ctrl key (for Windows) or the Shift key (for Macintosh) on your keyboard. The frame around selected marquees changes to a static dotted line. You can unselect a selected marquee by clicking it while holding down the Ctrl key (Windows) or the Shift key (Macintosh).

Note:

To create a new marquee inside the active marquee, make the new marquee outside the active marquee first, then move it inside.

You cannot make multiple marquees when Auto Document Feeder is selected as the Document Source.

Resizing marquees

When you move the cross-hairs over the edge of an active marquee, the cross-hairs will change to a double-headed arrow as shown below. Drag the arrow to resize the marquee. To resize the marquee proportionally, press the Shift key while dragging the arrow.

Note:

You cannot resize an active marquee if any other marquees are selected. To unselect a marquee, click the marquee while holding down the Ctrl button (for Windows) or the Shift button (for Macintosh) on your keyboard.

Moving marquees

To move an active marquee, move the cross-hairs inside the marquee until the cross-hairs change into a hand, then drag the marquee to move it. To move more than one marquee at a time, first select the marquees by clicking them while holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard. To move the marquee or group of marquees in a straight line vertically or horizontally, press the Shift key while dragging an active or selected marquee.

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Using the Marquee tools

The Marquee tools described below help you to work with marquees and to automatically place marquees around images in the Preview window.

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Delete button

Clicking the Delete button removes the active and selected marquees. To delete all marquees at once, first click the All button, then click the Delete button.

Note:

When the Preview window is active, you can also delete the active and selected marquees by pressing the Delete key on your keyboard.

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Duplicate button

Clicking the Duplicate button creates another marquee the same size as the active marquee. Clicking the duplicate marquee button while holding down the keys noted in the table below causes the duplicate marquee to appear in the specified orientation relative to the original marquee.

	Horizontal	Vertical
Windows	Ctrl key	Alt key
Macintosh	Command key	option key

Note:

This button is unavailable when one or more marquees are selected in addition to the active marquee.

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Auto Locate button

Click the Auto Locate button to automatically frame a previewed image with a marquee, thus eliminating unnecessary borders.

Note:

The Auto Locate feature is automatically activated when scanning without previewing.

The Auto Locate feature is unavailable when the Document Source setting in EPSON TWAIN Pro main dialog box is set to TPU for Neg. Film or TPU for Pos. Film.

If a document contains more than one image, or if you are scanning more than one document at a time, select a target image by placing the mouse pointer over the image and clicking the Auto Locate button.

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Marquee number indicator

This indicates the number of marquees in the Preview window.

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All button

Click this button to select all marquees in the Preview window. This feature is useful when you want to delete all marquees.

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