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Introduction

Congratulations on the purchase of your new Trust Handy Scan
Colour. Trust Computer Products is one of the leading
companies in the world in the development of the high
performance sheet-fed scanner.

Before you install and operate the new scanner, please take a
few minutes to read through the manual.  It provides you the
proper instructions on how to unpack, install, operate and
maintain the scanner.

Safety Precautions

  Keep the scanner out of the sun. Direct sun or excessive

heat may damage the unit.

  Do not install the scanner in a humid or dusty place.

  Retain scanner box and packing material for shipping

purposes.

Summary of Contents for 08638

Page 1: ...Trust Handy Scan Colour User s Manual...

Page 2: ...nties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose with respect to the software the product manual s and written materials and any other accompanying hardware The manufacturer reserves the...

Page 3: ...Installing the Scan Driver 3 2 2 Installing the Interface Card 3 2 3 Connecting the scanner 5 Chapter 3 Launching the Image Source TWAIN 7 Chapter 4 Scantools 9 4 1 Installing Scantools 9 4 2 Getting...

Page 4: ...Before you install and operate the new scanner please take a few minutes to read through the manual It provides you the proper instructions on how to unpack install operate and maintain the scanner S...

Page 5: ...1 Chapter 1 The Trust Handy Scan Colour Figure 1 The Scanner Body 1 Viewing Window 2 Start Button 3 Brightness Control Dial 4 Clear Plastic Window 5 Rollers 6 Cable Connector...

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Page 7: ...t of drivers for you to choose Highlight the driver that corresponds to your scanner model and click the Install button 2 2 Installing the Interface Card Figure 2 The 16 bit Interface Card Note If you...

Page 8: ...ff 350 351 off off off on 370 371 Only one switch can be set to ON at one time All other setting combinations are invalid To install the interface card proceed as follows 1 Turn off your computer and...

Page 9: ...ace card from its protective package 6 Insert the card into the slot see Figure 4 above As you insert the card always keep the card at a 90 angle to the mainboard with its golden fingers aligned with...

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Page 11: ...andard The Handy Scan Colour is TWAIN compliant Therefore you can use the scanner with any application software that supports TWAIN We will be using Scantools TM a TWAIN supporting image processing ap...

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Page 13: ...pe in and execute A SETUP EXE or B SETUP EXE 3 The Scantools Installation dialog box appears as follows 4 Check both Install Application and Install Device Drivers and click OK to start the installati...

Page 14: ...ct button 2 From the Scan menu choose Acquire Now you are ready to scan your images 4 3 Applying Gamma Correction to Images The Gamma Correction feature of Scantools allows you to adjust the brightnes...

Page 15: ...Histogram Scale Factor to change the scale factor for the pixel value distribution curves in the histogram 5 Use Channel to correct the Red Green Blue or All the color components in the active image 6...

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Page 17: ...these portions back to an intact copy of the original image TWAIN source allows you to stitch images in three different ways Manual Stitch Semi Auto Stitch and Auto Stitch If you choose Manual or Sem...

Page 18: ...p 7 Auto Stitch 4 Gamma Correction 8 Preferences After you have manually or semi automatically matched the distinct features in the two images click on the Do Stitch button or select the Do Stitch com...

Page 19: ...stitch window will appear Rather the stitching will be automatically carried out after the two image portions have been scanned and the resulting stitched image will be displayed inside the Scan Windo...

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