Genius Scanner
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Chapter II. Usage and Maintenance
Operating the Scanner
Your scanner accepts documents as small as business cards and as large as letter-sized
documents. However, some software programs have limitations as to the information they can
handle. The capacity of the computer’s memory and free space on your hard drive can also limit
the physical size of the document that you scan.
There are two different ways to operate the scanner:
1. From within an image-editing program that can acquire images from the scanner.
2. By using the Genius Scan Manager program that is automatically installed as your
scanner software.
Your scanner needs to be driven by some type of software program. Since all documents or
images (whether text or pictures) that are acquired from the scanner are treated by your computer
as images, most scanning will probably be done from an image-editing program where you can
view, edit, save and output the scanned images. An image-editing program has been bundled
with your scanner on the included Setup/Application CD-ROM. It will allow you to alter and correct
any scanned images by using a variety of filters, tools and effects.
What about scanning text documents and editing them in a word processor? This is the role of
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. OCR software converts the image files that are
created from scanning text documents into text files that can be viewed, edited and saved by word
processors. An OCR program has also been bundled on the included Setup/Application CD-ROM,
and if you wish to use the scanner in this way you should install the OCR software that is included.
Genius Scan Manager program is a program that allows you to conveniently scan images and text
without the need to work directly within any image-editing application (i.e. Presto! ImageFolio).
Genius Scan Manager program also includes features to allow you to use your scanner as fax
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and copy machines
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. Refer to Chapter III of this User’s Guide for details about how to use this
Scan Manager program with your scanner buttons.
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A fax/modem and fax software is required to send faxes.
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A printer is required to make copies of document.
