Detailed instructions for use are in the User's Guide.
User's Guide for the Microtek ScanWizard Scanner Software
PC Version
Copyright © 1998 Microtek Lab, Inc.
All rights reserved. Second Edition: May 1998
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Table of Contents
ScanWizard Reference ......................................................................................... 1 ScanWizard: The Four Windows .......................................................................... 2 The Preview Window ........................................................................................... 3 Elements of the Preview window .................................................................. 3 The Menu Bar ................................................................................................ 4 The Scanner Menu ........................................................................................ 5
Scanner Model .................................................................................................... 5 Get Current Scanner Info .................................................................................... 5 Get SCSI Chain .................................................................................................. 6 Exiting ScanWizard ............................................................................................ 7
The View Menu ............................................................................................. 8
Full Page Preview ............................................................................................... 8 Zoomed Preview ............................................................................................... 10 Resize Window to Fit ....................................................................................... 11 Show / Hide commands .................................................................................... 11
The Preferences Menu ................................................................................. 12
Scan Material .................................................................................................... 12 The Scan Material icon ..................................................................................... 13 Invert ................................................................................................................ 14 Horizontal Mirror ............................................................................................. 15 Cursor Auxiliary Lines ..................................................................................... 16 Preview Setup ................................................................................................... 18 Live Prevew .................................................................................................. 18 Color Preview ............................................................................................... 18 Fast Preview ................................................................................................. 18 The Preview Area .......................................................................................... 19 Keep Preview Image ......................................................................................... 20 Smoked Glass Background .............................................................................. 20 How Smoked Glass works with image enhancement .................................... 21 More ................................................................................................................. 22
The Help Menu ............................................................................................ 23
About ................................................................................................................ 23
The Toolbar ................................................................................................. 24
Zoom Preview tool ........................................................................................... 25 Scan Frame tool ................................................................................................ 26 Magnifying Lens tool ....................................................................................... 27 Pane tool ........................................................................................................... 28 Color Picker tool (Set Shadow / Highlight) ..................................................... 29
Action buttons ............................................................................................. 31 Rulers .......................................................................................................... 32 Preview Area ............................................................................................... 33
The Untitled Job1 (Settings) Window ................................................................ 34 Elements of the Settings window ................................................................ 34 Output Image Parameters ............................................................................ 35
Type (Image Type or Scan Mode) .................................................................... 35
Resolution .................................................................................................... 36
Optical vs. interpolated resolution .................................................................... 36 Choosing the best resolution setting ................................................................. 37 When to use high resolution ............................................................................. 37 When to use interpolated resolution ................................................................. 37
Unit Selection .............................................................................................. 38 Image Dimension controls .......................................................................... 39
How to use the Input-Output dimensions ......................................................... 40 Input dimensions ........................................................................................... 40 Output dimensions ........................................................................................ 41 How to use the Aspect Lock ............................................................................. 42
Scaling ......................................................................................................... 43 Image Adjustment controls .......................................................................... 44
Auto (Automatic Contrast Control) .................................................................. 44 Color Correction / DCR ................................................................................... 45
Image-Enhancement Tools .......................................................................... 46
What the Image Enhancement tools are ........................................................... 47 Using the Advanced Image Enhancer dialog box ............................................. 48 The Action Buttons in the AIE dialog box ....................................................... 49 Brightness, Contrast and Exposure tool ........................................................... 50 The BCE screen (for grayscale and color) ................................................... 51 The BCE screen (for line art) ....................................................................... 52 How to use the BCE tool .............................................................................. 53 Tints tool ........................................................................................................... 54 The Tints screen ............................................................................................ 55 How to use the Tints tool .............................................................................. 56 Shadows and Highlights tool ............................................................................ 57 The Shadows and Highlights screen ............................................................. 58 How to read and correct a histogram ........................................................... 60 How to use the Shadows and Highlights tool ............................................... 61 Curve tool ......................................................................................................... 62 How to read the curve .................................................................................. 62 Sample images and their curves ................................................................... 63 The Curve screen .......................................................................................... 64 Using the curve buttons ................................................................................ 65 How to use the Curve tool ............................................................................ 66 Filters tool ......................................................................................................... 67 Blur filters ..................................................................................................... 68 Sharpen filters .............................................................................................. 68 Edge Enhancement filter .............................................................................. 69 Emboss filter ................................................................................................. 69 Unsharm Mask filter ..................................................................................... 70 More Options tool ............................................................................................ 71 Descreen ....................................................................................................... 72 Scan Quality ................................................................................................. 73 Gray Scan CCD Filter .................................................................................. 73 Use Linear Gamma Curve ............................................................................ 73
The Window Expansion button ................................................................... 74
The Information Window ................................................................................... 75 Elements of the Information window .......................................................... 75 Using the Zoom Level Display ................................................................... 76 Using the Cursor Locator ............................................................................ 76 Using the Color Meter Display ................................................................... 77 Using the Sample Size button ..................................................................... 78
Value and Percent ............................................................................................. 78 Sample Size Options ........................................................................................ 79
Using the Pixel Display ............................................................................... 79 The Scan Job Window ........................................................................................ 80 Elements of the Scan Job window ............................................................... 80 How to read the Scan Job window .............................................................. 81 The New button ........................................................................................... 82
More Applications ............................................................................................ 85
The Duplicate button ............................................ ...
