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14 • SCANFLOW & MOUSEFREE • DESCRIPTION
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ColorQuartet 5.0 Pro
14•ScanFlow & MouseFree • Description
ScanFlow & MouseFree • What are they?
ColorQuartet Pro includes the ScanFlow System for automatic previewing and scanning of mul-
tiple batches of images, based on the use of templates. ScanFlow is primarily intended for high-
throughput production environments with multiple users, and includes various features for
maximizing productivity and flexibility in the scanning workflow. The ScanFlow System has two
modes of operation:
• Auto Previews mode lets you save any number of preview scans to disk and lets you pause and
resume scanning, so that you can work with more than one batch of images at a time and scan
part or all of each batch when ready.
• MouseFree mode adds automatic image cropping, image setup and scanning. It can be used
with ScanMate flatbed scanners.
Differences between ScanFlow and Magic Touch
A simpler form of automatic scanning that can be used with or without templates is available via
the
Magic Touch function, which is primarily aimed at single-user installations. Compared with
Magic Touch, the ScanFlow System lets you:
• Distinguish among multiple templates of the same type and, for example, apply different scan
setups to them.
• Create customized image cropping layouts, save them, and re-use them.
• Save and retrieve multiple preview scans, with or without scan setups for the individual
images.
• Interrupt scanning of any template in order to preview or scan another template, and then go
back and continue scanning the first template where you left off.
• Make previews available to multiple users across a network, so that, for example, preview
scanning, image setup, and final scanning of the same template can be done from different
work stations.
Note, however, that automatic image cropping without a template can only be done with Magic
Touch.
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low & MouseFree • Features
ScanFlow & MouseFree • Configurations
Previews in the ScanFlow System
MouseFree Tutorials 1, 2 and 3