Operation Manual

Operation
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 File Format:
The file format that you have selected determined the file format for the scanned image
of your document.
Choose your ideal file format for the specific button number. Choice includes BMP, PNG,
GIF, JPEG, Single-Page PDF, Multi-Page PDF, Multi-TIFF and TIFF.
BMP:
BMP is the standard Windows image format on DOS and Windows-compatible
computers. The BMP format supports RGB, indexed-color, grayscale, and Bitmap color
modes.
GIF:
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) format was created mainly for Internet uses,
mainly for its small file size. It's good for fast-loading web pages only. Nowadays Gif is
widely used on the World Wide Web, both for still images and for animations. GIF
displays a maximum of 256 colors, which makes it unsuitable for pictures with
continuous colors. Its application is best for color clip art, black-and-white line
drawings, or images with large blocks of solid colors.
PNG:
PNG (Portable Network Graphic) is also a bitmap of indexed colors under a lossless
compression, but without copyright limitations; commonly used to store graphics for
Web images. PNG is superior to GIF in that it has better compression and supports
millions of colors. PNG files end in a .png suffix.
TIFF:
TIFF (The Tagged-Image File Format) is a flexible bitmap image format supported by
virtually all paint, image-editing, and page-layout applications. Also, virtually all
desktop scanners can produce TIFF images. To compress your file size, click the
“Properties” button. Move the slider to the right or to the left to increase or decrease
the level of compression. Note the greater the compression level, the lower image
quality.
Multi-TIFF:
Multi-TIFF combines all the scanned images into a single TIFF file.
JPEG:
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) compression provides the best results with
continuous-tone color and the smallest file size. To compress your file size, click the
“Properties” button. Move the slider to the right or to the left to increase or decrease
the level of compression. Note the greater the compression level, the lower image
quality.