Genius VividPro II, User Manual

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Chapter III. Usage and Maintenance
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Operating the Scanner
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our scanner accepts documents as small as
business cards and as wide as letter-sized magazines.
However, some software programs have limitations as
to the information they can handle. The capacity of the
computers memory, or free hard disk space, 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 ScanManager program
that is automatically installed as your
scanner software.
Basically, the scanner needs to be driven by some
type of software program. And since all documents or
image (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 installation
CD-ROM and if you do not currently have a TWAIN
compatible image-editing program on your computer,
you should install the image-editor that is included.
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
installation CD-ROM, and if you wish to use the
scanner in this way you should install the OCR
software included.
The scanner also comes with other software which
increases its functionality. These other programs
called Copy Utility and Fax Utility are automatically
installed with the ScanManager software. Please refer
to the ScanManager section of this manual or the