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Selecting EPSON Scan Office Mode Settings

After you start EPSON Scan in Office Mode, follow these steps to select your EPSON Scan settings:

Select whether the Image Type of your document pages is Color, Grayscale, or Black&White.

Select Auto Detect or Document Table as the Document Source setting.

Select the size of your original document as the Size setting.

Click the arrow next to the Resolution list and select the number of dots per inch at which you want to scan. See the table below for some guidelines:

    What you will do with the scanned image

    Suggested scan resolution

    Send via e-mail, upload to web, view only on the screen

    96 to 150 dpi

    Print, convert to editable text (OCR)

    300 dpi

    Fax

    200 dpi

Click the Preview button toward the bottom of the EPSON Scan window.

    EPSON Scan prescans your page and displays it in the Preview window.

In the Preview window, draw a marquee (a line marking the scan area) around the portion of your document page that you want to scan.

Change any necessary Image Adjustment settings as listed in the table below.

    Setting

    Available mode(s) and description

    Brightness

    Adjusts the overall image lightness and darkness.

    Contrast

    Adjusts the difference between the light and dark areas of the overall image.

    Unsharp Mask Filter

    Turn on to make the edges of image areas clearer for an overall sharper image. Turn off to leave softer edges.

    Descreening Filter

    Removes the rippled pattern that can appear in subtly-shaded image areas, such as in skin tones. Also improves results when scanning magazine or newspaper images which include screening in their original print processes.

    Text Enhancement

    Enhances text recognition when scanning text documents.

    Threshold

    Adjusts the level at which the black areas in text and line art are delineated, improving text recognition in OCR programs. This setting is available only when the Image Type is set to Black&White.

Click the Scan button to scan your document pages.

What happens next depends on how you started your scan.

  • If you started your scan by running EPSON Scan as a standalone program, you see the File Save Settings window. See Selecting File Save Settings for details.

  • If you started your scan from a scanning program such as Adobe Acrobat, your scanned pages open in the program window. Click Close to close the EPSON Scan window and view your scanned pages in the program.