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Scanning / Various Scanning Options

Making Suitable Settings

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

Place your materials on the document table.
Placing Photos and Documents on the Document Table

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

The following window appears.

Specify the Original settings to match your document.

Document Type

Reflective

Document Source

Document Table

Auto Exposure Type

Select "Photo" or "Document" from the Auto Exposure Type list.

Specify the Destination settings to match the resulting image file you desire.

Image Type

Select a suitable image type from the Image Type list.

Resolution

Select a suitable resolution from the Resolution list.

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.

Purpose

Resolution

Sending E-mail

96 to 150 dpi

OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

300 dpi

Printing

300 dpi

Filing

300 dpi

Sending Fax

200 dpi

Click Preview to preview the images.

Specify the output size of the scanned image as Target Size and make adjustments using the image quality adjustment tools, if necessary.

Click Scan. EPSON Scan starts scanning.

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


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