You can select these additional scanning settings on the Epson
Scan 2 Advanced Settings tab. Not all adjustment settings may be
available, depending on other settings you have chosen.
- Unsharp Mask
- Makes the edges of certain image areas clearer. Turn off this
option to leave softer edges.
- Descreening
- Removes the ripple pattern that might appear in subtly shaded
image areas, such as skin tones. This option improves results when
scanning magazines or newspapers. (The results of descreening do
not appear in the preview image, only in your scanned image.)
- Text Enhancement
- Sharpens the appearance of letters in text documents.
- Auto Area Segmentation
- Makes black and white images clearer and text recognition more
accurate by separating the text from the graphics.
- Dropout
- The scan will not pick up the color you select. This setting is
available only if you select Grayscale or Black &
White as the Image Type setting.
- Color Enhance
- Enhances the shades of the color you select in the scanned
image. This setting is available only if you select Grayscale or Black &
White as the Image Type setting.
- Brightness
- Adjusts the overall lightness and darkness of the scanned
image.
- Contrast
- Adjusts the difference between the light and dark areas of the
overall scanned image.
- Gamma
- Adjusts the midtone density of the scanned image.
- Threshold
- Adjusts the level at which black areas in text and line art are
delineated, improving text recognition in OCR (Optical Character
Recognition) programs.
- Skip Blank Pages
- If the scanner detects marks from the other side of a blank
page and adds the marks to the scanned image, adjust this setting
to prevent this.
- Edge Fill
- Corrects shadowing around the edges of the image by filling the
shadows with black or white.
- Correct Document Skew
- Corrects skewed originals, image contents, or both.
- Remove Punch Holes
- Removes the shadows caused by holes on the edges of the
original.