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2 A tour of the scanning software 13

Scanning software window 14

Context-sensitive pointers 24

Image adjustment tools 26

Output Resolution tool 27

Sharpen Level tool 29

Dimensions tool 30

Exposure Adjustment tool 32

Color Adjustment tool 33

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Black & White Threshold tool 34

Online Help 35

Save and re-use adjustment settings 38

Set preferences 41

What can you scan?

Using the scanning software, you can scan:

■color photographs

■color drawings and line art

■grayscale drawings

■black and white photographs

■black and white drawings and line art

■pages that have both pictures and text

H o w s c a n n i n g w o r k s

During a scan, the scanner light turns on and moves across the bed. The chargecouple device (CCD) in the scanner records a digital image of the light reflected from the original you placed on the scanner bed. The recorded image is made up of 600 pixels per inch (ppi) and each pixel can have a depth of up to 36 bits.

The resulting image can potentially have millions of colors.

An image is saved for use in another program when you drag-and-drop it, save it as a file and insert the file, or copy it, then paste it into an open document.

The picture you want to scan must be placed face down on the scanner glass.

A D F u s e r s

If you are using the HP Automatic Document Feeder, see the online manual HP Automatic Document Feeder Guide.

1Lift the scanner lid and hold it up.

2Place the picture face down on the scanner glass.

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If the picture has straight edges, place the top and right edges next to the top and right edges of the scanner bed. This will make the preview image straight when you scan.

3Close the scanner lid.

There are three ways to start the scanning software:

■push the Scan button on the scanner

■use the Windows Start menu

■launch the scanning software from another program using TWAIN (page 11)

Pushing the button on the scanner

1 Push the Scan button on the scanner once.

After the scanning software window appears, the scanner automatically performs a Preview scan and displays the preview image.

Scan button

The Scan button is below the lid on the front of the scanner.

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You may need to use the HP ScanJet Button Manager to configure the Scan button to set HP PrecisionScan Pro as the default software to launch when the Scan button is pushed (see page 12).

Using the Windows Start menu

1 Select , the Windows Start button.

The Windows Start menu appears.

2From the Start menu, choose Programs, then choose HP ScanJet Software:HP PrecisionScan Pro.

When the scanning software window appears, the scanner does not automatically perform a

Preview scan.

3 To start a Preview scan:

■click , the Preview button in the scanning software window toolbar, or

■from the Scan menu, select Preview, or

■press Ctrl+R.

The scanner performs a Preview scan and displays the preview image.

Launching from another program

If you are creating a project such as a greeting card or a calendar, and want to include a picture from a photograph, you might be able to scan the photograph directly into the program you are using. To do this, the program must have a TWAIN command such as Acquire, which is probably on one of its main menus.

1Open the program in which you will place the scanned image.

2If necessary, select the program’s Select Source command and choose HP PrecisionScan Pro.

3Select the program’s TWAIN command.

After the scanning software window appears, the scanner automatically performs a Preview scan and displays the preview image.

4Create a selection area in the preview image, make necessary adjustments, and select Place Image from the Scan menu. The final scan occurs and the image is placed in the calling program.

W h a t i s T W A I N ?

TWAIN is an industry-standard communications protocol for sending instructions to hardware (such as a scanner) and receiving data back (such as an image). If you are using a program that supports TWAIN, you can start HP PrecisionScan Pro directly from that program.

■HP ScanJet scanners and HP scanning software can use TWAIN, but the programs you use to create projects may not be TWAIN-compatible.

■If a program can use TWAIN, it should have a command named Acquire, Acquire Image, or Import on one of its main menus, usually the File menu.

■Selecting one of these commands launches the scanning software selected with the Select Source command.

■Editable text cannot be transferred using TWAIN.

You can use the HP ScanJet Button Manager to configure the Scan button. It is set at the factory with HP PrecisionScan Pro as the default scanning software to launch when the Scan button is pushed.

Scan button

1 Select , the Windows Start button.

The Windows Start menu appears.

2From the Start menu, choose Programs, then choose HP ScanJet Software:HP ScanJet Utilities:HP ScanJet Button Manager.

The HP ScanJet Button Manager window appears.

3Click HP PrecisionScan Pro in the list box.

4If necessary, click the Enable the Scan button checkbox to place a checkmark in it.

5Click OK.

The HP ScanJet Button Manager window closes.

This chapter describes the scanning software.

Menus — The commands in the menus are summarized beginning on page 15.

Toolbar — The toolbar has buttons for the most commonly used commands (see page 20).

Preview area — The scanned image appears in the preview area of the scanning software window (see page 21).

Info bar — Displays width and height of the output image, scale percentage, the Output Type currently selected, and Help button (see page 22).

Status bar — Displays messages and approximate size of the selection area (Image Size) (see page 23).

Image adjustment tools — The scanning software has six tools for making adjustments to the image. These tools can be placed anywhere on the Windows desktop (see page 26).

Online Help — Help includes topics, What’s This, more online manuals, and videos (see page 35).

Scanning software window showing a Preview scan

Menu bar Toolbar

Preview area

Info bar Status bar

Preview

Zoom

Save As

Copy

Undo Zoom

Reset Controls

Print

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Scans the entire scanner glass and displays the preview image (see page 50).

Scans and enlarges the view of the selection area (see page 56).

Scans and saves the selection to a file (see page 100).

Scans and copies the selection to the Clipboard (see page 99).

Displays the existing preview image (see page 57).

Resets the controls in all tools except the Dimensions tool to their optimal (default) values.

Scans and prints the selection (see page 96).

Displays an interactive introduction to scanning (see page 36).

Displays the What’s This Help pointer for getting Help by clicking on a tool, field, button, or menu item.

Preview area

The preview area in the scanning software window displays the:

■preview image of the entire scanner glass, or

■zoomed image of the selection area

A selection area in Preview scan

Selection

area

Preview

area

When you Preview scan, the entire scanner glass area displays in the scanning software window.

Enlarging the preview area

The size of the preview area determines how big the image displays.

Enlarge the scanning software window when you want to increase the magnification of the view of a zoomed image.

Enlarged image after a Zoom scan

Zoomed selection area

Info bar

The info bar displays the following information:

the width of the output image

the height of the output image

scale of the output image

the Output Type currently selected

the Help button for HP PrecisionScan Pro

Scanning software window info bar

Status bar

The status bar displays the following information:

a message about the action you can take when the pointer is over some part of the scanning software window or a tool

the number of KB (kilobytes), MB (megabytes), GB (gigabytes), or TB (terabytes) in the image displayed in the selection area (Image Size)

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a progress bar for showing when the scanner is scanning or the scanning software is processing a command

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The Image Size shown in the status bar is the number of KB, MB, GB, or TB in the image displayed in the selection area.

This size is only an estimate of the actual size of the saved file. The file size depends on the format used to save the file (see page 100) and may be larger or smaller than the Image Size value shown.

Scanning software window status bar

New selection area

Move selection area

Resize selection area horizontally

Resize selection area vertically

Resize selection area diagonally

Drop allowed

Drop not allowed

Draw a new selection area.

■Move the selection area to a new location in the preview area.

■Drag the selection area to another program’s open document.

■When Ctrl key is pressed, drag the selection area to the Windows desktop or to a folder in the Windows Explorer.

Drag the mouse from a handle on a side of the selection area to resize the width of the selection area.

Drag the mouse from a handle on the top or bottom of the selection area to resize the height of the selection area.

Drag the mouse from a handle on a corner of the selection area to resize both the height and the width of the selection area.

The program or folder the image has been dragged to accepts this kind of drop.

The program the image has been dragged to does not accept this kind of drop.

Image adjustment tools

Six tools can be used to make adjustments to the image in the selection area:

■Output Resolution tool (see page 27)

■Sharpen Level tool (see page 29)

■Dimensions tool (see page 30)

■Exposure Adjustment tool (see page 32)

■Color Adjustment tool (see page 33)

■Black & White Threshold tool (see page 34)

Each tool has controls you can set for applying to a final scan. Five of the tools have reset buttons for applying optimal values to their controls.

Docking a tool

Two tools can be docked to the scanning software window:

■Output Resolution tool

■Sharpen Level tool

If either of these tools are docked when you close the scanning software, they will be docked the next time you start the scanning software.

To dock a tool

■Double-click somewhere in the margin of a dockable tool, or drag the tool to the toolbar.

Displaying a tool

■From the Tools menu, select the name of the tool you want to display. A checkmark displays next to the choice in the Tools menu and the tool appears.

Closing a tool

■Click the Close button in the tool’s title bar, or from the Tools menu, select the name of the tool you want to hide. The checkmark disappears and the tool closes. The tool’s values are still applied to the image.

To undock a tool

■Double-click somewhere in the margin of the docked tool.

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You can place the tools anywhere on the Windows desktop.

1Position the pointer over the tool’s title bar.

2Click and drag the tool to a new location.

Output Resolution tool

The Output Resolution tool lets you determine the amount of data for the final scan of an image of a picture. See Set output resolution on page 83 for more about when to use the Output Resolution tool.

After you have drawn a selection area, use this tool to:

change the resolution setting, if necessary

AutoResolution

When you choose an Output Type, the scanning software automatically applies the optimal output resolution to the selection area. For example, output resolution is automatically set to 150 when the True Color output type is selected, and set to 300 for the Black & White Bitmap (raster) output type.

To re-apply AutoResolution, click in the Output Resolution tool.

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You can add commonly-used resolution settings to the Output Resolution tool’s list box in the Resolution tab of the

HP PrecisionScan Pro Preferences dialog box (see page 46).

Custom resolution

When you choose an output type from the Output Type menu, the scanning software automatically applies the optimal output resolution to the image. You may override the automatic setting by selecting a different value from the list box in the Output Resolution tool or by typing any value between 12 and 999,999 in the field of the Output Resolution tool.

Images to be displayed on a monitor

Always use 75 as the resolution setting if the image will be viewed on a monitor, such as in email or on a Web page.

Images to be printed

The resolution setting for printing images varies, depending on the output type applied to the image and the maximum resolution capability of the printer (see page 83).

To print images of photographs with the True Color, 256 Color, or Grayscale output types, set the value in the Output Resolution tool according to the following table.

To print images of drawings with the 256 Color or

Black & White Bitmap (raster) output types, set the value in the Output Resolution tool equal to the resolution of the printer.

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You can change the resolution settings available in the Resolution tool’s list box (see page 46).

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■When you change the resolution setting for the image of a picture, you will not see the image change in the preview area.

■You can type any value between 12 and 999,999 in the Output Resolution tool.

■If you change the resolution setting in the Output Resolution tool and then change the output type,

Sharpen Level tool

The Sharpen Level tool lets you enhance details in the image of a picture for the final scan. See Sharpen on page 68 for more about how to use the

Sharpen Level tool.

When you choose an Output Type for the image of a picture, the scanning software automatically applies the optimal sharpen level.

After you have drawn a selection area, use this tool to:

The choices in the Sharpen Level list box are listed in order from the least amount of sharpening to the most amount of sharpening:

■None

■Low

■Medium

■High

■Extreme

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After you select a new sharpen level in the Sharpen Level tool, the result of the new sharpen level can be seen in the preview area.

Grayscale output type

Medium sharpen level Extreme sharpen level

Dimensions tool

The Dimensions tool lets you change the size of the scanned image of a picture so that the image will be the size you want it when you use the image in another program or print it. For example, you can save a small scanned image from a larger original picture.

In the Dimensions tool, you can:

■set the dimensions of the selection area

■set the units for the selection area and the output dimensions

■scale the image to a percentage of the size of the original

■set the output dimensions of the image for the final scan

After you have drawn a selection area, use the

Dimensions tool to:

adjust the dimensions of the selection area

set values for the width and height of the image to be included in the final scan

select the units you want to work with

enlarge or reduce output dimensions of the image for the final scan proportionally by scaling to a percentage of the original’s size

lock the output dimensions so you can change the dimensions of the selection area without changing the output dimensions

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To preserve image quality when you use it in another program:

■measure the dimensions of the area in which you will place the image, then

■use the Dimensions tool in

HP PrecisionScan Pro to scale or resize the image to fit that area.

See Set the output dimensions on page 58 for more about how to use the Dimensions tool.

The Exposure Adjustment tool lets you make fine adjustments to highlights, shadows, and midtones, or set the output level of black and white pixels in a color or grayscale image of a picture. See Adjust exposure on page 70 for more about how to use the Exposure Adjustment tool.

After you have drawn a selection area, use this tool to:

adjust highlights in the image

adjust shadows in the image

adjust midtones in the image

adjust output level of white pixels

adjust output level of black pixels

view black pixels that will be clipped in the final scan

view white pixels that will be clipped in the final scan

view RGB values and pixel distribution for any light or dark area of the image

reset all the exposure controls to the values determined by the scanning software

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After you change exposure settings in the Exposure Adjustment tool, the results of the changes can be seen in the preview area.

Color Adjustment tool

The Color Adjustment tool lets you change the hue and make colors brighter in a color image.

See Adjust color on page 80 for more about how to use the Color Adjustment tool.

After you have drawn a selection area, use this tool to:

change the hue by dragging the indicator circle in the Color Wheel with the mouse

change the hue by clicking a color’s triangle on the Color Wheel to move the indicator circle

set color saturation between 0 and 150; the higher the saturation value, the brighter the colors

change the hue by typing X and Y values for the

Color Wheel.

reset the color controls to the values determined by the scanning software

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After you change settings in the Color Adjustment tool, the results of the new settings can be seen in the preview area.