Scan Documents: Advanced Features

Filter Document

Available only to TIFF images, the Executive Assistant provides powerful tools for improving the quality of a scanned image. Select a filter and click the Filter Document button to filter the whole Document or right-click on a Thumbnail (see below) and select Filter Page to filter the page represented by the Thumbnail. Once a filter is applied, the Document should be compacted.

Border Removal

Dark borders can be inadvertently added when the original Document is smaller than the area scanned. This filter removes those borders.

Character Dilation

This filter makes indistinct text easier to read by darkening and sharpening areas that appear as though they contain characters.

Deskewing

This filter straightens pages that may have been scanned in at an angle. Deskewing is not available on Document scanned using a flatbed.

Hole Removal

This filter removes black circles that result from holes punched in the original Document. Only complete circles will be removed.

Invert Image

This filter converts black regions to white regions and white regions to black regions.

Remove Background

This filter removes lightly tinted backgrounds, such as those found in magazine callouts, captions, and graphics.

Remove Lines

This filter removes lines that may have been added to a Document that produced an image of poor quality.

Remove Noise

This filter removes blotches, darkened areas, and other visual "static". Note that text or other meaningful parts of an image may be removed as well.

Repair Lines

This filter attempts to fill gaps where lines appear broken.

Rotate

Each application of this filter permanently rotates an image by 90º.

Scale to Page

This filter changes the Document's proportions to match those specified in the Options menu`s Set Page Size for Scale to .... Change this setting to specify a new height and width (in inches) to which the Executive Assistant will scale Documents when you apply this filter.

Smoothing

This filter smoothes jagged edges.

Shrink (may distort)

This filter reduces the Document's size to approximately one half of its original area, in pixels. Because the Document's resolution remains constant, applying the Shrink filter may cause some distortion to occur.


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