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Glossary
Troubleshooting
Glossary
Contents
Index
Acquired Images
Images sent from your scanner software to the host graphics application.
Auto Crop
After you select an area of the screen by clicking the Crop button and
dragging a rectangle around the object or text you want to crop, click the
Auto Crop button to size the rectangle exactly to the size of the object or
block of text enclosed in the rectangle.
Auto Tone Adjustment
Automatic analysis and adjustment of the image using Contrast/Brightness
and Gamma settings.
Automatic Preview
When the automatic preview feature is switched on, the original on the
scanner is pre-scanned immediately as ScanGear CS-U is launched from the
parent software application. To switch this feature on and off, open the
Preferences sheet for your scanner and click the button for “Automatically
execute a preview”. (
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Bits and Bit Depth
A bit (Binary digit) is the smallest possible unit of information on a
computer; it represents yes or no; on or off; 1 or 0. Bit Depth is used to
describe the complexity of a graphic image.
One-bit, or bi-level, images are black and white. This is the Black and White
setting in ScanGear CS-U. Eight-bit grayscale uses 256 shades of gray to
accurately represent most black and white photographs or gray
interpretations of color images. This is the Grayscale setting in ScanGear
CS-U. Twenty-four-bit color, also called True Color, uses three eight-bit
channels, one channel each for Red, Green and Blue, to create up to 16.7
million colors. This is the Color setting in ScanGear CS-U.