User manual HP SCANJET 4400C

[. . . ] Reproduction, adaptation, or translation without prior written permission is prohibited, except as allowed under copyright laws. All other products mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. Hewlett-Packard makes no warranty of any kind with respect to this information. [. . . ] If the image does not appear, the program might not accept the resolution or output type you selected. Start a scan from within the other program by choosing the Acquire (or similar) command. You can crop the scan (if necessary), select the output type, and make optional adjustments as you normally would. see the appropriate sections in this chapter for instructions. When finished making changes to the scanned image, do one of the following to perform a final scan and place it in the program from which you started scanning: On the Scan menu, click Return Image To. You can make text on a scanned image editable. The optical character recognition (OCR) program converts the text to be editable and then places it in a supported word-processing program. Depending on the capabilities of the word-processing program, graphics on a scanned image might be retained or discarded, or the OCR program might try to convert them and they will appear as random characters. If a block of text appears in Microsoft Word or another word-processing program inside a frame you do not want, double-click the frame border and click Remove Frame or a similar command. Choose Text File from the Destination pull-down menu, and then click Scan. If the program you select accepts multipage files, you might be asked if you have more pages to scan to this file. do one of the following: If this is a one-page item , click Done. If there are more pages of this item, load the next page in the scanner and click Scan on the computer. Note: You can also save a scanned image and import the image into your OCR program. See "To save a scan for future processing in an OCR program" on page 61. OCR programs convert some text more accurately than other text. Because OCR technology is never perfect, proofread all converted text carefully to ensure the characters have been correctly interpreted. Text in standard fonts text in 9-point font or larger crisp, clear text black text on a white background underlined text text on colored paper Handwriting cannot be converted. These types of text might convert less accurately: text close to non-text elements, such as bullets, lines, or graphics text in spreadsheets, tables, or forms letters that have gaps, that "bleed" along their edges, or that touch other letters Some scanners support using the HP Scanjet Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) and the HP Scanjet Transparency Adapter (XPA) for scanning slides and negatives. 2 Adjust the paper guides to center the stack. You can scan multiple-page items quickly and easily using the ADF. When you use the ADF, you can scan to the HP Precisionscan Pro software or other destinations. [. . . ] Smart Friends are tips that appear automatically to notify you of potential problems. For example, if you are setting a very high resolution but want to use e-mail to send the scanned image, a Smart Friend would alert you that the file will probably be too large to send in e-mail. The program from which an image is retrieved for use in a document. Programs that support TWAIN or the HP Scanjet Plug-in pull an image from a source, such as the HP Precisionscan Pro software. [. . . ]