VueScan User's Guide Copyright 2015 Hamrick Software 1
Contents Getting started with VueScan ............................................................................9 Common tasks ..................................................................................................12 Scanning to a multi-page PDF file .......................................................................................... 12 Scanning two-sided documents with a single-sided document feeder ................................... 12 Scanning many photographs in a batch .............
CONTENTS File | Default options ........................................................................................................ 40 File | Quit.......................................................................................................................... 40 Edit | Copy image ............................................................................................................ 40 Edit | Copy OCR text ....................................................................................
CONTENTS Scan+ button.................................................................................................................... 47 View button ...................................................................................................................... 47 Cancel button ................................................................................................................... 48 Save button ............................................................................................
CONTENTS Input | Focus .................................................................................................................... 57 Input | Auto scan .............................................................................................................. 57 Input | Auto save .............................................................................................................. 58 Input | Auto print ......................................................................................
CONTENTS Crop | Buffer (%) .............................................................................................................. 68 Crop | Preview area ......................................................................................................... 68 Crop | Preview X/Y offset/size ......................................................................................... 68 Crop | Focus X/Y offset...............................................................................................
CONTENTS Output tab ............................................................................................................................... 78 Output | Default folder ...................................................................................................... 80 Output | Printed size ........................................................................................................ 80 Output | Magnification (%) ..........................................................................
CONTENTS Output | Index width ......................................................................................................... 88 Output | Index height ....................................................................................................... 88 Output | Index margin ...................................................................................................... 88 Output | Index across ..............................................................................................
CONTENTS Prefs | Exit when done ..................................................................................................... 98 Prefs | Beep when done .................................................................................................. 98 Prefs | Beep when auto eject ........................................................................................... 98 Prefs | Use temp file name ..............................................................................................
Getting started with VueScan VueScan is a powerful scanning tool that's aimed at helping you get the most out of your scanner and producing stunning results from your scanned photos. It's packed with loads of useful and powerful features and currently supports more than 2500 scanners from 35 scanner manufacturers on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The following tutorial is designed to familiarise you with the software and its user interface, and to help you scan your first photos and slides.
VueScan User's Guide Basic Workflow You can do most things in VueScan by simply pressing the Scan button (p. 47). You can also see more options using Input | Options (p. 49) and you can choose additional options before pressing the Preview button (p. 46) or Scan button (p. 47). The basic process for scanning one image can be summed up in three simple steps (for an explanation of the more advanced functions, see the appendices in this manual): Load your image 1.
VueScan User's Guide Scan and save 1. Click the Scan button (p. 47) 2. Wait for the scan to finish. This varies depending on your scanner, the speed of your computer and the resolution you are scanning at 3. Once the scan is complete it is automatically named and saved in the location specified by Output | Default folder (p.
Common tasks Scanning to a multi-page PDF file Ever wanted to be able to scan in and send a multi-page document to a colleague, or a long magazine article to a friend overseas? Use VueScan's multi-page PDF feature, and you won't have to send them as individual image files any more. Here's how to do it: Adjust output settings 1. Select the Input tab (p. 49) at the top of the Options panel (p. 9) 2. Set Input | File type (p. 63) to PDF. Scan the first page 1.
VueScan User's Guide 3. The PDF file now contains pages 1,3,5,7,9 Scan the back sides 1. Place the documents in the document feeder back-side up 2. Click the Scan+ button (p. 47) to append to the PDF file 3. The PDF file now contains pages 1,3,5,7,9,10,8,6,4,2 Rearrange the pages 1. Use the PDF | Interleave (p. 44) command to rearrange the pages 2. The PDF file now contains pages 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 3. Click the View button (p.
VueScan User's Guide clicking the Scan button (p. 47) 2. On the Options panel (p. 9) select the Input tab (p. 49) 3. Set Input | Auto repeat (p. 59) to a 5 sec delay 4. Click the Scan button. Once VueScan has completed the first scan, place the next image in the exactly the same position. 5. Wait - VueScan will start the next scan in five seconds 6. Repeat until you're done, then click the Cancel button (p.
VueScan User's Guide 3. Click Print to finish the job Saving files VueScan automatically saves each image or document you scan automatically and puts it in a default folder. You can change this, however, if you want to organize your images differently. It's very easy to set up: Choose folder 1. Select the Output tab (p. 78) on the Options panel (p. 9) 2. Click the @ button next to the Output | Default folder (p. 80) option 3.
VueScan User's Guide Name your image 1. In the File name box, delete what's there already and type in a name for the image 2. Add a plus sign on the end of the name after some digits - VueScan will then save each subsequent scan, automatically numbering each one in sequence 3. For instance image01+.jpg will produce: image01.jpg, image02.jpg, image03.jpg...
VueScan User's Guide 1. Select the Input tab (p. 49) on the Options panel (p. 9) 2. If you want to output the image to a printer go to the next step, otherwise click the Scan button (p. 47) now Select output size 1. Select the Output tab (p. 78) on the Options panel (p. 9) 2. Choose the size you want to print at from the Output | Printed size (p.
Quick settings Each task so far has been carried out using the basic, default settings. These are fine for scanning photos on a flatbed scanner. If you want to scan documents, magazine articles slides or negatives, however, you need to use different settings. Here's a quick guide to setting up VueScan for different types of media: Color slide 1. Choose File | Default options (p. 40) from the File menu (p. 39) to reset VueScan 2. Select Input tab (p. 49) on the Options panel (p. 9) 3.
VueScan User's Guide 4. Set Input | Mode (p. 50) to "Transparency" 5. Set Input | Media (p. 50) to "B/W negative" Chromogenic black and white (or C-41 color processed) 1. Choose File | Default options (p. 40) from the File menu (p. 39) to reset VueScan 2. Select Input tab (p. 49) on the Options panel (p. 9) 3. Set Input | Source (p. 50) to your scanner 4. Set Input | Mode (p. 50) to "Transparency" 5. Set Input | Media (p. 50) to "Color negative" Black and white reversal film 1.
Hints and tips Scan images only once If you want to try different ways of processing a negative or slide, you don't need to scan it more than once. The raw scan data for both preview and scan is kept in memory. Just adjust the settings and use theFile | Save image (p. 39) command on the File menu (p. 39) to save the image once more. Be discriminating The best way to save time when scanning in a lot of photos is to first make some hard decisions about what you scan.
VueScan User's Guide Each time an image is saved as JPEG, some information about the image is lost, even at the highest quality (and lowest compression) levels. This effect is compounded if you save a file, then make some changes and save again. So if you plan on editing or otherwise modifying your images at a later date, JPEG isn't the ideal choice Instead, use TIFF, which stores all of the data of an image without any loss, even when compressed.
APPENDIX A: Advanced tools and techniques Most of the common tasks have already been covered in the previous section. The next section explains how to take advantage of some of VueScan's more advanced features. Adjusting Color Balance Correct color balance is critical for any image to look convincing. Neutral colors should remain neutral and other colors lifelike. VueScan's default setting for Color | Color balance (p. 71) ("White balance") is able to do this automatically for the vast majority of scans.
VueScan User's Guide Histograms Histograms are graphs that display the distribution of tones and colors in the scanned image. Dark tones are indicated at the left end of the x-axis of the graph, light tones at the right end, and midtones are in the middle. There are four different histogram graphs available in VueScan and these can be displayed in the Options panel (p. 9) by selecting one of the Image | Graph ... (p. 44) options from the Image menu (p. 39).
VueScan User's Guide Graph curve: similar to the Curves tool in image editors such as Photoshop(TM), this allows you to fine tune highlights, midtones and shadows. Drag the arrows at the base of the graph to make adjustments Calculating DPI for negatives The following shows a basic formula for scaling a negative up to print size. It is important to note that a 35mm frame will correctly scale proportionately to a 4x6in and 8x12in print.
VueScan User's Guide Using Raw Scan Files If you're scanning several images in one go, scan each image once and save the raw CCD data file. You can then re-process these scans in a variety of ways without having to scan the image again. This minimises film handling and is the fastest way to re-process all the scans if you want to try different options. For batch scanning: Select File | Default options (p. 40) from the File menu (p. 39). Set the options on the Input tab (p.
VueScan User's Guide starting file in the series (eg scan0001.tif) Use the File | Default options (p. 40) command to set all the other options to their default values, then set up the other options as if you were scanning the images Set Input | Batch scan (p. 53) to "All" to scan all files, or set it to "List" and manually set the frame numbers. For instance, if you set this to 1-3,5,7, then scan0001.tif, scan0002.tif, scan0003.tif, scan0005.tif and scan0007.
VueScan User's Guide step #2 above, use a film frame that has an area that would print as pure black for negative, or pure white for slides. Regardless of the lighting conditions, shutter speed and aperture of each frame, you should use these fixed values for exposure and film base color for scanning all frames on the roll of film. Once you have the exposure and film base color fixed, you can scan the whole roll of film using these values.
VueScan User's Guide 3. Click the '@' button next to Color | Scanner ICC profile (p. 76) and choose where you want to write the ICC profile 4. Press the Preview button (p. 46) 5. If necessary, rotate the preview image so that the grey scale is at the bottom and the letters and numbers can be read normally 6. Adjust size of the VueScan cropping mask until it matches the IT8 target image 7. You may need to readjust the target on the scanner platten and press the Preview button (p.
VueScan User's Guide To profile your printer with an IT8 target: 1. Profile your scanner (see above) 2. Set Input | Task (p. 49) to "Make IT8 target" 3. Press the Scan button (p. 47), this will create a print with your printer 4. Insert printout into scanner 5. Set Input | Task (p. 49) to "Profile printer" 6. Press the Preview button (p. 46) 7. If necessary, rotate the preview image so that the grey scale is at the bottom and the letters and numbers can be read normally 8.
VueScan User's Guide To profile your film with an IT8 target: 1. Profile your scanner (see above) 2. Set Input | Task (p. 49) to "Profile film" 3. Copy the IT8 description file that came with your target into the same folder as vuescan.ini, and rename the copy film.it8 4. Press the Preview button (p. 46) 5. If necessary, rotate the preview image so that the grey scale is at the bottom and the letters and numbers can be read normally 6.
VueScan User's Guide VueScan does two different things: it scans an image, and then it processes the raw data from the scanner to produce a color-corrected image. These two things are done in steps, and it's useful to understand each of the steps when scanning and processing. The Preview button (p. 46) and Scan button (p. 47) perform both the scanning and processing steps. The Save button (p. 48) starts from the raw CCD data in memory and only performs the processing step.
VueScan User's Guide When the preview or scan is performed, the raw data is put into a memory buffer. If the Output | Raw file (p. 88) option is enabled and Output | Raw output with (p. 90) is set to "Preview" or "Scan", the raw data is written to a TIFF file at the same time as it's put into the memory buffer. Processing The processing steps are performed for both the preview and the full scan. The first step uses the infrared data for a first attempt at dust removal (if enabled).
VueScan User's Guide Imagine taking a picture of a typical outdoor scene with a bright blue sky with fluffy clouds along with a person standing in the shade under a tree. Further, imagine taking this picture with both slide film and negative film. When taking this picture with slide film, the photographer has to set the exposure to either capture the details of the sky and clouds, or set the exposure to capture the details of the person standing in the shade under the tree.
VueScan User's Guide Another useful way of getting multiple image samples is to scan at a higher resolution and then average adjacent blocks of pixels. For instance, scanning at 2700 dpi and averaging every 2x2 block of pixels will result in a higher-quality 1350 dpi scan than just scanning at 1350 dpi. In this example Scanning at 1350 dpi throws away every other pixel and every other scan line, while scanning at 2700 dpi and settingOutput | TIFF size reduction (p.
VueScan User's Guide VueScan contains information about the color sensitivity of many different types of film. Use the table below to identify the types of film from the labels and the colors of the stripes over the sprocket holes. If you're using film types that aren't in this table, particularly some of the newer Fuji films, try experimenting with the Kodak Gold and Kodak Advantix settings - these seem to work well.
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VueScan User's Guide KODAK GOLD KODAK GOLD KODAK GOLD KODAK GOLD KODAK Internegative KODAK Internegative KODAK Internegative KODAK Internegative KODAK KODACOLOR KODAK KODACOLOR KODAK KODACOLOR KODAK KODACOLOR KODAK KODACOLOR KODAK KODACOLOR KODAK KODACOLOR KODAK KODACOLOR KODAK KODACOLOR KODAK KODACOLOR 5090/YELLOW/YELLOW KODAK KODACOLOR KODAK KODACOLOR KODAK KODACOLOR KODAK KODACOLOR KODAK KODACOLOR KODAK KODACOLOR KODAK KODACOLOR KODAK KODACOLOR KODAK KODACOLOR 5095/MAGENTA/MAGENTA KODAK KODACOLOR 5096/GR
VueScan User's Guide KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KODAK KONICA KONICA KONICA KONICA KONICA KONICA KONICA KONICA POLAROID POLAROID POLAROID POLAROID TMAX-100 TMAX-400 TMAX-400 TMAX-400 TMAX-400 TMAX-400 TMAX-400 TMAX-400 TMAX-400 TMAX-400 TMAX-400 ULTRA Zoom VERICOLOR VERICOLOR VERICOLOR VERICOLOR VERICOLOR VERICOLOR VERICOLOR VERICOLOR VERICOLOR IMPRESSA KONICA COLOR KONICA COLOR KONICA COLOR KONICA COLOR KONICA COLO
APPENDIX B: Buttons, menus and options reference The following sections describe, in detail, what each and every one of VueScan's controls and options do. Menus There are a number of commands that can be chosen from the menus in the menu bar which are described below. File | Save image Same as pressing the Save button (p. 48). File | Save image+ Same as pressing the Save+ button (p. 48). File | View Same as pressing the View button (p. 47).
INDEX This command lets you load the current options settings from a file. File | Save options This command lets you save the current options settings to a file. File | Default options This command sets all options for the current scanner and scan mode to their default values. File | Quit This command causes VueScan to exit. The current option settings will be saved to vuescan.ini. On Mac OS X, this command is in the VueScan menu. Edit | Copy image This command copies the current image to the clipboard.
INDEX Scanner | Preview Same as pressing the Preview button (p. 46). Scanner | Scan Same as pressing the Scan button (p. 47). Scanner | Scan+ Same as pressing the Scan button (p. 47). Scanner | Eject Ejects film from a film scanner or paper from a document feeder. Scanner | Calibrate This command causes a scanner calibration on those scanners that support it.
INDEX The dark voltage level of each CCD element is slightly different When properly calibrated, the scanner should theoretically produce the same values for each pixel, if an image that is a single tone and color were scanned. Sometimes the calibration data gets stored inside the scanner memory, sometimes it's done once for every scan and sometimes VueScan stores the calibration data in a file when the "Scanner | Calibrate" command completes.
INDEX Profile | Profile printer See the section in this User's Guide describing ICC profiling of scanners, printers and film. Profile | Profile film See the section in this User's Guide describing ICC profiling of scanners, printers and film. Image | Zoom In Same as pressing the Zoom In button (p. 48). Image | Zoom Out Same as pressing the Zoom Out button (p.
INDEX Image | Release memory This command releases the memory used by VueScan to store the most recent scans and previews. This can be useful if you need more memory for another program. You can control how much memory VueScan will use by setting thePrefs | Image Memory (MB) (p. 100) option if your system is short on memory. Image | Graph off This command turns off any image graph that's being displayed. Image | Graph raw This command displays a histogram of the intensities of the raw scan data.
INDEX command will change the pages to 13578642. This is useful for un-doing the effect ofPDF | Interleave (p. 44). PDF | Swap even/odd This command reorders front/back scans by swapping front/back pages - i.e. bfbfbfbf gets reordered to fbfbfbfb. For instance, if there are eight pages 12345678 this command will change the pages to 21436587. This is useful to correct for scanning a stack of papers with the pages in the wrong orientation.
INDEX Mac OS X: /Users/yourname/.vuescanrc Linux ~/.vuescanrc Windows XP and earlier: Registry HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VueScan\license Windows Vista and later: Registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VueScan\license If you're running VueScan as Administrator when you enter the serial number, then the e-mail address, serial number and customer number will be saved to the following location also. This lets all users share the same serial number. Mac OS X: /Users/Shared/.vuescanrc (if writable) Linux /etc/.
INDEX This button does a quick preview scan of the area described byCrop | Preview area (p. 68) and displays it in the Preview tab. A preview scan is usually created at a lower resolution and is therefore faster. From the preview you can set your cropping, filtering and color balance options that will be applied to the final scan. Want to preview more than one frame at a time? Then use the Input | Batch scan (p. 53) option.
INDEX Cancel button This button is displayed when a scan is in progress. When you press it, the scan is stopped and batch scanning is stopped. Save button This button causes the most recent preview or scan to be saved as TIFF, JPEG, PDF, OCR text, Index and/or Raw files, as specified on the Output tab (p. 78). If you have just created a preview, the preview will be saved; if you have just done a scan the scan will be saved.
INDEX Previous frame button This button goes to the previous frame. Next frame button This button goes to the next frame. Input tab This tab contains the options that control the inputs to VueScan from scanners, raw scan files and digital camera files.
INDEX Input | Source If you've got more than one scanner on your system, this lets you specify which scanner you want to use. A special "scan from" source is from a disk file. On the Output tab (p. 78), VueScan provides a special option to save the raw output of a regular scan to a file. This option lets you read that raw file as though you were scanning it. If you set this option to "File", then you'll be able to enter a file name in the Input | Files (p. 50) option.
INDEX There are two lists of media, depending on whether you're scanning paper (reflective media) or film (transmissive media). Reflective media When scanning paper, Input | Media (p. 50) is used to control whether the final image is color or black/white, continuous tone (photo), or bi-level (line art or text). When Filter | Descreen (p. 71) is set, a descreen filter will be applied. You can control the strength of the descreen filter with the Filter | Descreen dpi (p. 71) option.
INDEX This option is used with flatbed scanners to specify the size of the reflective media you're scanning. If set to "Auto", the full size of the flatbed will be previewed and the location and size of the media automatically determined. If a specific size is chosen, no preview is necessary when you press the Scan button. This will save a significant amount of time. Basic Option: This option is displayed when using reflective media (i.e. paper).
INDEX Advanced Option: This option is displayed when scanning with 1 bit per pixel. Input | Batch scan If you set this option to "All", pressing either the Preview or Scan button will preview or scan all the frames in the scanner. By setting it to "List", you can specify a list of frames to preview or scan. If you set this option to "Auto" and you're using the Crop | Multi crop (p. 65)option, VueScan will automatically detect the list of frames that are visible in the preview.
INDEX Change Input | Frame number (p. 54) to view each previewed frame. Adjust rotation and cropping for the frame. When done, move to the next frame. Scan the batch. VueScan will create a series of cropped files (e.g. "crop0001.tif", "crop0002.tif" ... "crop0006.tif"). Basic Option: This option is displayed when Input | Batch scan (p. 53)is set to "List".
INDEX hardware. It is not available for most film scanners or flatbed scanners. This is the distance between the starting positions of two consecutive frames. The units for this option are normally in millimeters, but this can be changed with the Prefs | Crop units (p. 93) option. Basic Option: This option is displayed when the scanner is capable of frame spacing. Input | Preview resolution Use this option to specify the resolution the scanner will use when performing the preview scan.
INDEX You can also select a specific scan resolution from the list. Basic Option: This option is always displayed. Input | Scan dpi If Input | Scan resolution (p. 55) is set to "Custom", the scanner will use a hardware-supported resolution that is greater than or equal to this value. VueScan will rescale the image to the requested resolution. Note that this uses simple rescaling, so if quality is an issue, you should use an external image editor to rescale the image.
INDEX Basic Option: This option is always displayed. Input | Skew Use this option to rotate the image by a small angle to correct for images that aren't quite straight. The angle is specified in degrees, plus or minus two degrees. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when auto skew isn't enabled. Input | Mirror This option mirrors images left/right before rotating. This lets you position your film emulsion side up or down. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.
INDEX media or when the scanner is capable of addressing frames separately. Input | Auto save If this option is set to "Preview" or "Scan", VueScan will save files after a preview or scan is completed. If set to "None" files will be saved only after pressing the Save button (p. 48). When using a document feeder, scanning text and this option is set to "Blank page removal", only non-blank pages will be saved when the Scan button (p. 47) is pressed. In most cases, this option should be set to "Scan".
INDEX Advanced Option: This option is displayed when the scanner's lamp can be controlled. Input | Auto eject This option controls when the media is ejected (assuming the scanner is capable of ejecting media). It can be ejected after a preview, or a scan, or when VueScan exits. The media can be ejected manually with the "Scanner | Eject" command. When Input | Batch scan (p. 53) is set, ejection will occur after the batch is complete.
INDEX in the output. Noise will appear as one pixel whose color or tone is different than surrounding pixels. By taking multiple passes and averaging the results, the effect of inaccurate exposure is reduced. This option will slow down scanning because the scanner is doing more. You should experiment with your scanner to see which balance of speed and accuracy is appropriate. On multiple passes the scanner head needs to be repositioned precisely at the same location as where it started on the previous pass.
INDEX image. It is available on scanners that are able to increase the CCD exposure time. A first pass is performed as usual with the normal RGB exposure. This will be an appropriate exposure for the image as a whole. Then a second pass is performed with a longer exposure, which can reveal additional detail in dark areas not captured in the first pass. VueScan then merges the results of the two by choosing from either the first or second exposure pass.
INDEX exposure time and the Input | Lock exposure (p. 61)option is on. The infrared CCD exposure time is only displayed if the hardware is also capable of infrared scanning. Input | Red/Green/Blue analog gain On Nikon scanners, this option multiplies Input | RGB exposure (p. 61)by the per-color analog gain. You can change the analog gain options to change the ratio of the CCD exposure times for the red, green and blue channels. Note that "analog gain" is Nikon's term for CCD exposure time.
INDEX Procedure in this User's Guide. Input | Default folder This is a mirror of the Output | Default folder (p. 80) option. Input | File type This is a mirror of the Output | File type (p. 81) option. Input | TIFF file name This is a mirror of the Output | TIFF file name (p. 82) option. Input | JPEG file name This is a mirror of the Output | JPEG file name (p. 83) option. Input | PDF file name This is a mirror of the Output | PDF file name (p. 85) option.
INDEX scan tab for VueScan to display the result of the cropping automatically. The scan tab will use the data from the preview if a full scan has not yet been performed. The area included in the crop is important in two ways. First, this is the area of the scan that will be included in the output files. Second, this area is used to calculate color balance, histogram, and other settings.
INDEX Basic Option: This option is displayed whenCrop | Crop size (p. 64) is set to "Manual". Crop | Auto offset Setting this option will automatically offset the crop box. It will find the best placement for it to capture as much of the image as possible. To save time when batch scanning, clear this option andCrop | Auto rotate (p. 66) and set Input | Lock exposure (p. 61). Then when you press "Scan" it will perform a scan without additionally creating a preview.
INDEX Crop | X/Y images Set these options to set up a grid for scanning separate images. Each image within the grid can be cropped and rotated independently. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenCrop | Multi crop (p. 65) is set to "Custom". Crop | X/Y spacing These values can be set when Crop | X/Y images (p. 66) is set to a value greater than 1. See Crop | X/Y images (p. 66). Set the approximate width (X spacing) and height (Y spacing) of each element in the grid defined by Crop | X/Y images (p.
INDEX orientation to match the image. To save time when batch scanning, clear this option andCrop | Auto rotate (p. 66) and set Input | Lock exposure (p. 61). Then when you press "Scan" it will perform a scan without additionally creating a preview. Basic Option: This option is displayed when Crop | Crop size (p. 64)is set to anything except "Maximum" and when Crop | Multi crop (p. 65)isn't used. Crop | Crop orientation Use this option to control whether the size specified in theCrop | Crop size (p.
INDEX area that is cropped, it will tend to include areas of white (or black) in the resulting image; if these parts of the image were not ignored when computing color balance, they could skew the results. Border is a percentage relative to the dimensions of the cropped area, up to the maximum size of the preview area. Border can also be set as a negative value in order to reduce the size of the image. Compare this option to Crop | Buffer (%) (p. 68). Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.
INDEX Crop | Focus X/Y offset This option determines where the auto focus is centered. This position is displayed on the preview as a small animated box. Film tends to curl along its length, as well as across its width in which case the focus will be slightly off as the edges of the film will be closer to the lens than the center.
INDEX Filter | Infrared clean When an infrared channel is available, use this option to remove dust spots and scratches. It only causes image softening in the immediate vicinity of the spots and scratches, except when this option is set to "Heavy". You can control the amount of cleaning of the image by choosing the Light, Medium or Heavy options. Basic Option: This option is displayed when the scanner has an infrared lamp.
INDEX Input | Descreen Set this option when scanning images made up of an array of dots in a "screen" pattern. Basic Option: This option is displayed when scanning reflective media. Input | Descreen dpi Set this option to the approximate number of dots per inch of the "screen" used when printing the media you're scanning. The default value of 75 works well for most media. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when scanning reflective media and Filter | Descreen (p. 71) is set.
INDEX setting of White Balance is appropriate for typical lighting conditions. See the topic "Adjusting Color Balance" for general guidance on using Neutral and Auto levels to handle these cases if White Balance is not right. None The black and white points aren't used at all, and the image is only corrected for the CCD's color response (if the Media option is set to Image) or by the film's color response. This image is gamma corrected.
INDEX This is a simple mapping of the darkest color to 0.00 intensity and the brightest color to 0.95 intensity. White balance VueScan analyzes the image and adjusts it to make neutral colors appear more neutral. Landscape VueScan analyzes the image and adjusts it to make neutral colors appear more neutral, and sky blue and green foliage colors more lifelike. Portrait VueScan analyzes the image and adjusts it to make neutral colors appear more neutral and skin tones more lifelike.
INDEX use the Input | Lock image color (p. 62) option. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenInput | Lock image color (p. 62) is set. Color | White point (%) The white point is used by the color balance algorithm and is computed by using the histogram of each color in the image. Use this option to leave the white point at the maximum intensity (0%), or to choose the white point such that some percentage of the pixels in the image are above the white point.
INDEX Double-click on the graph of the curve to reset these options to their default values. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed. Color | Brightness Use this option to increase or decrease the overall image brightness. VueScan's brightness is effectively a multiplier of the gamma of the color space. Basic Option: This option is always displayed. Color | Brightness red/green/blue Use these options to increase or decrease the red/green/blue image brightness.
INDEX If you use specific color spaces, you must ensure that all other software, printing, etc. that operates on that source uses the same color space. Color spaces are an advanced topic -- use them only if you understand and need them. The Scanner color space is the color space used by a scanner, raw scan file or raw digital camera file. It is also the name of the ICC file that gets written when "Profile | Profile scanner" is chosen.
INDEX (Professional Edition only) Every IT8 or Q60 target has an associated data file that describes the measured color at each square in the target. This file is read when the "Profile | Profile scanner" command is used. If you don't have a data file for your target, the default IT8 target colors will be used. Basic Option: This option is displayed when the color space is set to "ICC profile".
INDEX Advanced Option: This option is displayed when "Color | Pixel colors" is set. Color | Out of gamut color Use this option to show the pixels that have at least one color component that is out of gamut. These colored pixels aren't written to output files, but are displayed in the Preview and Scan tabs. Advanced Option: This option is displayed when "Color | Pixel colors" is set. Color | Infrared defect color Use this option to show the defects found by theFilter | Infrared clean (p. 70) option.
INDEX The various measures of the image files produced will be displayed in the status area at the bottom right of the VueScan window. File naming and saving The Output tab has several options to specify the name of the files VueScan produces. You may either type the filename in directly, or click the '@' button to open a visual file and folder navigation window.
INDEX Use an asterix (*) for the output file name to cause the raw file name to be used. For instance, when scanning raw files with different names that aren't in numerical order, click the '@' button to the right of the Input | Files (p. 50) option, choose multiple file names, and when you batch scan these, the output files will have the same file names as the input files, albeit in different folders and with different file extensions.
INDEX If the "Printed size" is "Scan size", you can increase the printed size of the output file with this option. This option divides the scanned dpi of the image by this value, resulting in an increase in the printed size of the output file. Basic Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Printed size (p. 80) is set to "Scan size". Output | Printed dpi If "Printed size" is "Fixed dpi", you can specify the dpi of the output file with this option.
INDEX Output | TIFF file This enables writing the cropped and processed images to a TIFF file when scanning. Basic Option: This option is always displayed. Output | TIFF file name This specifies the name of the TIFF file to hold the cropped and processed images. In addition to VueScan writing a specific file name, it can also automatically name your files in three ways by placing special characters in the filename. See the beginning of this section for information on how to use this auto-numbering feature.
INDEX Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | TIFF file (p. 82) is set. Output | TIFF compression This specifies whether to use compression when writing the TIFF file. TIFF compression will not cause any loss of image data. It will take a little longer to read, and especially write, as the algorithm is computationally intensive, but can reduce total file size by as much as 40%.
INDEX Output | JPEG size reduction You can use this option to write files with a reduced number of pixels. For instance, if size reduction is set to 3, then every 3x3 block of pixels in the image will be written as a single pixel, which is the average of these 9 pixels. This option will reduce the resolution and size of the file produced. These values will be displayed in the status area at the bottom of the VueScan window.
INDEX Basic Option: This option is always displayed. Output | PDF file name This specifies the name of the PDF file to hold the cropped and processed images. In addition to VueScan writing a specific file name, it can also automatically name your files in three ways by placing special characters in the filename. See the beginning of this section for information on how to use this auto-numbering feature. The default setting of this option is "@.pdf", which is expanded to "Scan-YYMMDD-0001+.pdf".
INDEX This specifies whether to use compression when writing the PDF file. PDF compression uses the JPEG format internally when writing PDF files with more than one bit per pixel. If this option is set to 'Maximum', additional JPEG compression is used (level 75) otherwise minimal JPEG compression is used (level 90). Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | PDF file (p. 84) is set. Output | PDF paper size This option describes the page size to be used in PDF files.
INDEX This specifies the name of the OCR text file to hold the text from the scanned image. In addition to VueScan writing a specific file name, it can also automatically name your files in three ways by placing special characters in the filename. See the beginning of this section for information on how to use this auto-numbering feature. The default setting of this option is "@.txt", which is expanded to "Scan-YYMMDD-0001+.txt". Basic Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | OCR text file (p.
INDEX Output | Index file name This specifies the name of the file to hold the index images. Index files are always saved as windows bitmap (BMP) files. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Index file (p. 87) is set. Output | Index frame This option controls the placement of images in the index. If zero, the images are added from left to right, top to bottom; this is the default setting.
INDEX (Professional Edition only) This enables writing raw data from the scanner to a TIFF file. The raw files are the result of the first of two steps VueScan performs: "scanning". The second step is "processing". These steps are described in the topic "How VueScan Works" in this User's Guide. By providing a mechanism to cleanly separate these two steps, VueScan provides great flexibility and offers options not available in most other scanner software.
INDEX Output | Raw size reduction (Professional Edition only) You can use this option to write files with a reduced number of pixels. For instance, if size reduction is set to 3, then every 3x3 block of pixels in the image will be written as a single pixel, which is the average of these 9 pixels. However, this option produces better results than reducing the resolution of the scan, as the averaging of multiple pixels results in a similar noise reduction benefit as multi-sampling.
INDEX It's much faster to save the raw file at the same time as the scan, since writing the file is overlapped with scanning the data. Advanced Option: This option is displayed whenOutput | Raw file (p. 88) is set. Output | Raw save film (Professional Edition only) If this option is set, then the film corrections are done before the raw file is written. The Output | Raw output with (p.
INDEX Output | Copyright This field will be written to TIFF files and JPEG files as an EXIF field and in OCR text files at the top of the page. You should normally use "Copyright 2015 Your Name". Basic Option: This option is displayed when at least one of the output files is enabled. Output | Date This field will be written to TIFF files and JPEG files as an EXIF field indicating the date that the picture was taken originally (not the date that it was scanned).
INDEX This tab lets you set preferences that control the behavior of VueScan. Prefs | Language Use this option to set the language to use in VueScan. Basic Option: This option is always displayed. Prefs | Font size (pt) Use this option to set the font size to use in VueScan. The font size is specified in points, which are about the height of characters in pixels (varies a bit by operating system and type of display). Basic Option: This option is always displayed.
INDEX This also affects the units displayed in the status area at the bottom of the VueScan window. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed. Prefs | External viewer Setting this option to "Folder" will open a window at the end of the scan showing the contents of the folder where the file is written. On Windows, this opens an explorer window, on Mac OS X this opens a finder window and on Linux, this uses xdg-open to open a window.
INDEX The default value is "default". On Windows, if the editor name is "default", the file association for this type of file will be used. You can also put command-line options after the name of the editor. If the name of the editor has "%1" after it (e.g. notepad "%1"), the file name will be substituted at that point. If you use the %1 argument on the command line, be sure to put double-quotes around it, otherwise file names that have embedded spaces won't work.
INDEX multiplier). You can adjust the curve by moving the small triangles under the histogram. If you choose "Image", a histogram of the displayed image is shown. Note that the graph isn't displayed in guided mode. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed. Prefs | Button 1/2/3/4 action Use these options to control what VueScan does when you press a button on the front of a scanner. The default values of these options disable the buttons.
INDEX when animated, but can be distracting. The option is set by default. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed. Prefs | Thick crop box This option controls whether the crop box in the Preview is drawn with a thick line or a thin line. It's easier to see the thick line, but sometimes easier to get fine control with the thin line. The option is set by default. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.
INDEX Advanced Option: This option is always displayed. Prefs | Warn on no scanner When enabled, VueScan will display a warning message when a scanner is not connected. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed. Prefs | Exit when done Enabling this option causes VueScan to exit when scanning completes. This option is not set by default. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.
INDEX Prefs | Anti alias text Controls whether 1-bit images (i.e. text and line art) are displayed with anti-aliasing. This results in smoother looking displays but also takes a bit more computing power. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed. Prefs | Anti alias image Controls whether gray-scale and color images are displayed with anti-aliasing. This results in smoother looking displays but also takes a bit more computing power. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.
INDEX Advanced Option: This option is always displayed. Prefs | Enable sliders/spin buttons You can use this option to remove the slider and spin button controls. This is sometimes useful if you want the Options panel (p. 9) to be quite small to maximize the image display area. This option is set by default. Advanced Option: This option is always displayed.
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Index Edit | Copy OCR text, 40 —C— Cancel button, 48 Color | All frames, 78 Color | Black point (%), 73 Color | Black point red/green/blue, 73 Color | Brightness, 75 Color | Brightness red/green/blue, 75 Color | Clipped black color, 77 Color | Clipped white color, 77 Color | Color balance, 71 Color | Curve low/high, 74 Color | Film base color red/green/blue, 75 Color | Infrared defect color, 78 Color | Invert, 74 Color | Neutral red/green/blue, 73 Color | Out of gamut color, 78 Color | Pixel colors, 77 Co
INDEX Input | Default folder, 63 Input | Descreen, 71 Input | Descreen dpi, 71 Input | File type, 63 Input | Files, 50 Input | Fine mode, 60 Input | Focus, 57 Input | Frame alignment, 60 Input | Frame number, 54 Input | Frame offset, 54 Input | Frame spacing, 54 Input | Grain dissolver, 60 Input | JPEG file name, 63 Input | Lock exposure, 61 Input | Lock film base color, 62 Input | Lock image color, 62 Input | Make gray from, 52 Input | Media, 50 Input | Media size, 51 Input | Microfilm zoom, 51 Input | Mir
INDEX Prefs | Enable density display, 99 Prefs | Enable popup tips, 100 Prefs | Enable raw from disk, 99 Prefs | Enable sliders/spin buttons, 100 Prefs | Enable TIFF thumbnails, 99 Prefs | Exit when done, 98 Prefs | External viewer, 94 Prefs | Font size (pt), 93 Prefs | Graph type, 95 Prefs | Histogram type, 96 Prefs | Image memory (MB), 100 Prefs | Language, 93 Prefs | Printed units, 93 Prefs | Splash screen, 96 Prefs | Substitute date, 97 Prefs | Thick crop box, 97 Prefs | Use temp file name, 98 Prefs | V
