User's Guide

DIGITAL ICE Technology
DIGITAL ICE removes dust and scratch marks from photos. It cannot be used with the Dust Removal
option. The effects of DIGITAL ICE Technology will not appear in the Preview of the image. You must
scan the original to see the results.
Text Enhancement
Sharpens the appearance of letters in text documents.
Auto Area Segmentation
Makes grayscale images clearer and text recognition more accurate by separating the text from the
graphics.
Brightness
Adjusts the overall lightness and darkness of the scanned image.
Contrast
Adjusts the difference between the light and dark areas of the overall scanned image.
Threshold
Adjusts the level at which black areas in text and line art are delineated, improving text recognition in
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) programs.
Parent topic: Scanning in Home Mode
Related concepts
Convert Scanned Documents to Editable Text (OCR)
Related tasks
Removing Dust and Scratch Marks Using DIGITAL ICE Technology
Scanning in Office Mode
When you scan in Office Mode, Epson Scan automatically saves your scanned file in JPEG format in
your operating system's Pictures or My Pictures folder, or opens it in your scanning program. You can
select settings, preview, and change the scanned file settings as necessary.
1. Start Epson Scan and select Office Mode as the Mode setting.
You see this window:
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