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Digital Research Technologies DRSCAN36EPPR User Manual

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line art image

One of four possible image types. When you choose line art as

the image type, your scanner will produce an image containing

only pure black and pure white. Choose line art if the original

you are scanning is a text document or a pen-and-ink drawing.

See also color image, grayscale image, halftone image.

main unit

The part of the personal computer that houses the motherboard

and usually also the disk drives.

Optical Character

Recognition (OCR)

An application program that can translate characters in a

scanned image of a printed page into machine-readable

characters which, for example, could be edited on a word

processor.

original

the document or photo that you place onto the scanner to be

scanned.

pixel

the smallest discrete unit of the scanned image. All scanned

images are made up of many pixels, each of which is one

particular color (or white, gray, or black). Also called dot.

prescan

The first step in the scanning process. You prescan to quickly

capture a large area of an image, after which you can adjust

other settings in order to carry out the final scan.

preview image

The image of the original that appears after you click the

preview button.

preview screen

The part of the user interface that shows you the preview

image.

primary color

Each of the three colors – red, green, and blue – which your

scanner mixes to produce over one trillion different colors.