Glossary – Digital Research Technologies DRSCAN36EPPR User Manual
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Glossary
Italicized words in the definitions refer to other entries in the
glossary.
application program
A software program that carries out a specific task, for example,
Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The ScanOffix S.E.
software suite that came with your scanner contains many
different application programs.
auto settings
Click on this button then choose the kind of original you’re
scanning to have the scanner automatically adjust settings for
you (resolution, brightness, etc.).
brightness
The measure of the intensity of the tones of an image.
color image
One of four possible image types. When you choose color as the
image type, your scanner can produce an image with over one
trillion colors. See also grayscale image, halftone image, line art
image.
contrast
The degree of difference between tones in the scanned image.
dot
see pixel.