AGFA ScanWise User Guide
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Scanning has never before
been this easy.You need no
previous experience to use the
intelligent ScanWise interface
Do it ScanWise!
for your Agfa scanner.Do it ScanWise!Do it ScanWise!
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To find how to make perfect scans for a
wide range of applications, open a tab menu.
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Click the numbered light bulbs at the side of
the descriptions to view useful tips.
Having read the relevant tips, you can return
to the same point in the description by
clicking this icon in the upper left corner.
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Original Type
menu
Destination
menu
The four ScanWise menuÕs (Original Type,
Destination, Image Control and Dimensions)
appear as buttons to the left of the preview
window in the interface. Click on them to
manually adjust the settings.
Image Control
menu
Have fun!
Dimensions
menu
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Copy it ScanWise! If you have a color or black and white
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printer configured on your computer,
ScanWise will find it.You can then make
copies of photos, or any other types of
original images, by scanning them
directly to the printer.
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How it works
Imagine youÕre the marketing manager for a
manufacturer of handbags and you want to copy the
latest proposals from your advertising agency to
distribute among colleagues.
You have an HP 720c color inkjet printer, which is
loaded with photo-quality AgfaJet glossy paper.
You place the original on the scanner bed and then
launch ScanWise. At the end of the automatic
Preview scan, the AutoSelect feature has located your
original and selected its borders. ScanWise even
detects the type of your original: it senses image- or
text-based documents.
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When your original is selected, you then make
some very simple choices from the four tab
menus. Normally you start with the top tab and
progress down to the SCAN button.
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The first tab opens the Original Type menu. Your
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original is a contract proof made from the screened
films that will be used for printing.You select the
ÒPrint (others)Óoption so that ScanWise will remove
the dots from the proof to improve the inkjet print
quality (descreening).
The second Destination tab menu displays the list of
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compatible programs and printers available on your
system. ScanWise finds these items when it launches.
Here you click the printer option.
Image Control is the third tab, which allows you to
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define the appearance of your final scan. Color mode
has already been selected by ScanWise but there are
two ways to fine-tune your results.Normally you
would rely on the highly intelligent PhotoGenie
software to optimize the results, but you can also
manually adjust the brightness, contrast and
saturation sliders.
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You use the last tab menu, Dimensions, to set the size
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of the printed image.This is either indicated as a
percentage of the original size,or you enter its
dimensions.
After these four simple settings have been made, you
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can hit the SCAN button.The normal printer dialog
then opens, allowing you to alter settings if necessary.
And thatÕs all you have to do: ScanWise now makes
the final scan and feeds it directly to your printer.
TheyÕll be crazy about these simulated Frisian Cow
handbags - theyÕre definitely worth putting money
into!
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Suppose you have some photos or
drawings that you would like to send to
a colleague by e-mail.These could be
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Share it ScanWise!Share it ScanWise!
urgent work-related items or simply
your latest holiday snaps. ScanWise
automatically scans your originals and
places them directly into your favorite
e-mail application: itÕs as easy as
typing the e-mail itself!
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How it works
LetÕs say you want to send some snaps of your latest
ascent of Everest to your Granny in Wichita by e-mail.
Well who knows?
You place your photos on the scanner bed and then
click the Preview button. ScanWise finds the photos
and selects their borders. Assuming you were
wearing some trendy climbing gear, it will also detect
the fact that they are colored originals!
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Now you choose one option from each of the four
tab menus. Starting with the top Original Type menu,
you descend swiftly towards the SCAN button.
You pick ÒPhoto - glossyÓ from the Original Type tab
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menu and then move on to the Destination tab
menu.
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This Destination menu displays the list of compatible
programs and printers available on your system.
ScanWise finds these as it launches.You click the
ÒMail recipientÓ as your destination.
In the third Image Control tab you find that Color
mode has already been selected by ScanWise.
Normally you would rely on the highly intelligent
PhotoGenie software to optimize the results, but you
can also manually adjust the brightness, contrast and
saturation sliders.
So that Granny wonÕt have to waste on-line time, you
set the image size to 50% in the last Dimensions
menu.The default resolution setting for e-mail
images intended for on-screen viewing is lower
than printed images.
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You repeat these four simple settings for each
original, and then hit the SCAN button. ScanWise
now makes the final scans, opens your e-mail
application, creates a new mail and then pastes in the
images as attachments. All you need to add is
GrannyÕs e-mail address and wish her a very happy
90th birthday.Even free fall couldnÕt be simpler!
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Fax it ScanWise! When you have software on your
Fax it ScanWise!Fax it ScanWise!
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computer to send faxes via your modem,
ScanWise will locate this.You can then
immediately fax hard-copy documents,
images or drawings just like a
conventional fax machine.
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How it works
Imagine itÕs your seventh birthday! YouÕve put a lot of
effort into creating your own party invitation but itÕs
too late to post it to your friends.Some of them donÕt
have an e-mail connection but their parents do own
fax machines.
Calmly put your card on the scanner bed.Open
ScanWise and click the Preview button.Your card
appears with a border surrounding it. But thereÕs also
a red outline that you definitely didnÕt draw. DonÕt
panic: itÕs only clever ScanWise showing you that it
will use AutoRotate to straighten up your card so that
it will fax perfectly.You obviously werenÕt calm
enough!
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Opening the first Original Type menu,you click the
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Original artwork option.
In the next tab menu called Destination, you select
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the fax option.
Then in the third Image Control menu you select the
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Grayscale mode and you see that PhotoGenie has
done a great job in adjusting the tonal ranges,
preserving all your artistic details! You donÕt bother
altering the other sliders.
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Since you want to send your invitation at full size,
thereÕs no need to go into the Dimensions menu
because this will be already set to 100%.
So all you have to do is click the SCAN button.
The normal dialog box of your fax application opens
to allow you to give the fax number and thatÕs it.
Get into your party gear!
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If youÕve installed the optical character
recognition program (OCR) that was
supplied with your scanner, ScanWise
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Type it ScanWise!Type it ScanWise!
can easily save you hours of re-typing
printed matter. Documents are scanned,
converted to text and then automatically
loaded into your favorite word
processor.
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How it works
YouÕre a head chef for the duration of this example,
if not for life! ItÕs time to revitalize the image of your
restaurant so youÕve decided to whip up a new,
dynamic menu.The old menu was typed out
manually so you donÕt have digital text files.
Rather than wasting valuable time re-typing it,
you use ScanWise to do the job in seconds.
Having fed your old menu into the scanner, you click
the Preview button in ScanWise.
The menu is automatically selected in the Preview
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window and is outlined in red.This tells you that
in your haste you laid the menu on an angle.
If you scan lines of text on an angle, your OCR
program may have problems recognizing the
characters. For error-free results, ScanWise uses
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its built-in AutoRotate function to square up the text.
Icons on the preview indicate the settings detected
by ScanWise. One of these shows that your menu has
been recognized as text, so you donÕt need to open
the first Original Type menu.
In the second Destination tab menu, you choose your
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word processor.
The combination of a text Original Type and the word
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processor Destination tells ScanWise that OCR must
be used, resulting in the Image Control and
Dimensions tab menus being disabled.
So that couldnÕt have been much simpler: all you
had to do was open a single menu!
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ScanWise gets cooking, converting your old menu to
Line Art, passing this image into your OCR program,
then opening your word processor and pasting in the
converted text.You can immediately add your latest
mouth-watering creations, before sending the file to
a design bureau.
DonÕt you wish you had such reliable, fast-moving,
self-motivated staff?!
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