Microtek ScanWizard 5 tutorial

What is ScanWizar d 5?

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ScanWizard 5 is a scanning software that provides both amateur and professional levels
of color reproduction and scan-stage image editing for printed material, 35mm color
slides and filmstrips. ScanWizard 5 is also the driver for your scanner (see definition of
driver below).

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of the ScanWizard
– Standard Contro
Panel Interface.

Driver - A program that controls a device. Every device, whether it is a printer, scanner,
or keyboard, must have a driver program. Many drivers, such as the keyboard driver,
come with the operating system. For other devices, you may need to load a new driver
when you connect the device to your computer. In DOS systems, drivers are files with
a.SYS extension. In Windows environments, drivers often have a.DRV extension.

A driver acts like a translator between t he device and pro grams that use the device. Each
device has its own set of specialized commands that onl y its driver knows. In contrast,
most programs access devices by using generic commands. The driver, therefore, accepts
generic commands from a program and then translates them into specialized commands
for the device.

ScanWizard 5 interfaces with the scanner and Image Editing Software’s using
TWAIN

TWAIN - An image capture API for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating
systems. The standard was first released in 1992, and is currently ratified at version 1.9 as
of January 2000. TWAIN is typically used as an interface between image processing
software and a scanner or digital camera.

The word TWAIN is from Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" - "...and never the
twain shall meet...", reflecting the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and
personal computers. It was up-cased to TWAIN to make it more distinctive. This led
people to believe it was an acronym, and then to a contest to come up with an expansion.
None were selected, but the entry "Technology Without An Interesting Name" continues
to haunt the standard. " 1

All of our Microtek line of scanners are TWAIN compliant and therefore will work with
all TWAIN compliant image editing programs such as (Adobe PhotoShop, PhotoImpact,
Imaging, and etc.).

Launching ScanWizard 5 from various TWAIN compliant programs

Adobe PhotoShop – Click on File > Import > Microtek ScanWizard 5

Ulead Photo Impact – Click on File > Scanner > Microtek ScanWizard 5

Launching ScanWizard 5 as a stand-alone program

Click on Start > Programs > Microtek ScanWizard > Microtek ScanWizard 5

Identifying the buttons of ScanWizard 5

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Click To Prescan and
preview scan material.
When clicking on the
Preview button the
scanner carriage glides
across the entire length o
the glass bed and displays
a rough draft preview o
the scanned image or
documents.

Click to perform final scan
and select a destination fo
the scanned image. Once
you have selected you

destination such as (Adobe
PhotoShop, PhotoImapact,

and etc), then the scanne
will only transfer the image
surrounded by the sca
frame

Scan Frame – this
window of flashing
or cascading lines
is referred to as a
scan frame. The
purpose of having
such a useful tool
is to allow the
scanner user to
select specified
areas that the user
wishes to scan.
Any part of the

reviewed material
that is not within
the framed area
will not be
transferred to the
selected
destination. You
can Re-size the
scan frame by
pointing at any
side of the scan
frame. A 2-way
arrow pointer will
appear. Then you
simple drag the
pointer
horizontally or
vertically until you
have achie ved the
desired selection or
adjustment of
width and he ight o
the scan frame.
You can also drag
the scan frame
diagonally by
pointing at the
corners and when

ointing within the
scan frame a 4 way
arrow will appear
allowing to move
the entire scan
frame to a different
image selection
without changing
the original size of
the scan frame.

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Scan to – Allow the
user to scan into
specified folder. Once
the document or Image
has been scanned the
scanner user will have
the option to name his
file and save it to the
specified folder which,
then the user will be
able to retrieve the
saved file in the future

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software.

Copy – Selecting the cop

utton will prompt you to
send the scanned output to
your printer for printing.
Basically you will be using
your scanner a (photo copier).
A couple of advantages to this

roposition are that you can
copy a color image and prin
in color not to mention the
amount of space, money, time
and maintenance that is
required to keep a cop
machine.

E-mail – When
you select the e­mail option,
your e-mail
editor will be
invoked. The
output file or
image will be
attached
automatically to
your e-mail
editor. Using
the e-mail
option saves
time by
skipping many
steps that are
needed in order
to attach an
image or
document to be
e-mailed.

Advanced – Click
this button to
switch to advanced
control interface.

Scanner Information –

Click this button to switch
to scanner information
window.

Help – Click this button
for help and tutorials

Close Button –

Click here when
you are finished
with your scan and
want to edit your
image in your
image editing
software.