Cause 1: You are running other applications in the background.
Solution1: Close all the other applications that are running in the background.
Cause 2: You are scanning at a high resolution (DPI).
Solution 2:
Reduce the resolution. See Chapter 2 of the Software User’s Guide for
information about recommended resolution settings.
Symptom:
The scanned document comes out as strange characters on the
screen after the OCR process is completed.
Cause 1: Text page was scanned upside down.
Solution 1: Reverse the page and scan again.
Cause 2:
The OCR software is limited to certain types of documents, fonts and
formats. You might be trying to scan a form, spread sheet, a hand
written letter or a document with color text or color page.
Solution 2:
Scan a clean document that contains, preferably, one column and has
black text on a white page.
Symptom:
The scanner is not in the list of supported scanners in other
commercial software.
Solution:
Select TWAIN as the scanner.
Symptom:
Unable to scan from other software other than the one that came
with the scanner.
Solution:
Enter the Scanner Setup within the program, Select TWAIN and you
will see your scanner listed (e.g., Plustek USB Scanner).
Symptom:
Unable to save to a floppy diskette.
Cause 1: The floppy disk might be write protected.
Solution 1:
Move the write protection tab, located in the back of the diskette, to the
closed position.
Cause 2: Your disk might not be formatted.
Solution 2: Format the diskette.
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