Features and Benefits
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September 4, 2008
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The white point setting is a fast way of cleaning up
newspaper scanning.
The Color menu, which only shows up for color scanning,
allows you to set the RGB level for each channel and
enhanced gray level options.
Sharpen/Smoothen will either sharpen or blur the image.
Map scanning usually improves when sharpening
increases, making contour lines easy to see.
Rotate/Mirror are rarely used options, but they can allow
you scan an ANSI E size (34”x44”) in landscape mode
and then rotate it automatically after the scan process.
The Resize option is a nice new feature where you can
scale or resize the image after scanning to a fixed
standard drawing size like ANSI E (34”x44”). This
automates the process of scanning older drawings in
different sizes and then standardizing the output of all
drawings to the same size.
Output File
selects the destination for your scan and the
file format. The number of possible file formats has been
limited considerably, and now Nextimage only offers the
most common standards for file formats:
JPEG
BMP
TIFF
For black and white scanning, there are also CALS, and
for color there is also the newer JPEG 2000 file format.
Nothing more, nothing less. We like the simple approach
and the realization that 99% of all users out there will use
one of these formats.
Another innovative approach is that Nextimage allows you
to automatically generate an output file name, which is
very useful for indexing scanned files. When you put your
cursor in the file name or save in field, you can hit the
Insert button and select a list of Insert fields like time and
day or a counter that adds up for every scan.
The Insert Fields option can automatically generate output
file names, a nice feature for batch scanning.
Detail view is another powerful new feature. The idea is
that most often we are dealing with documents of C, D, or
E-size or even larger. A monitor that displays the whole
image will have to scale it down with a factor of 20 to
make it fit on the screen. With that kind of scaling, you
lose the details. Plus, zooming in and out all the time is a
tedious task. Nextimage offers a new feature call Detail
view, which shows a detail of part of the drawing that you
select in 1:1. You can store as many as 10 detail views
and quickly switch between them or between the Detail
view and Overview view.
Overview view of a blueprint.