Manual
Table Of Contents
- Product overview
- Use the scanner
- Load originals
- Start a scan from the hardware
- Use the scanning software (Windows)
- Work with scan shortcuts
- Scan by using the HP Scan software (Windows)
- Scan to a picture (Windows)
- Scan to a PDF (Windows)
- Scan text for editing (OCR) (Windows)
- Scan to Email (Windows)
- Send to cloud (Windows)
- Scan long or extra-long documents (Windows)
- Detect multi-feeds
- Everyday Scan
- Automatically detect page size (Windows)
- Automatically detect color (Windows)
- Scan using text-enhanced black and white mode (Windows)
- Automatically straighten scanned images (Windows)
- Use the scanning software (OS X)
- Scanning tips
- Care and maintenance
- Solve problems
- Basic troubleshooting tips
- Test the scanner
- Reset the scanner
- Scanner installation troubleshooting
- Power issues
- Paper jams
- Paper feed issues
- Image quality problems
- Scanner operation problems
- Additional troubleshooting
- Index

To automatically detect color in a scanned image, follow these steps:
1. Open the HP Scan Software.
2. Select a scan shortcut.
3. Click on the Color Mode drop down box, and then select Auto Detect Color.
4. To adjust the Auto Detect Color sensitivity and output mode settings, click More, select Image, and then
click the Auto Detect Color drop down box.
NOTE: For information about the automatic color detection settings, see the online help for the scanning
software that you are using.
Use the TWAIN user interface to automatically detect color when scanning from non-HP scanning software.
Scan using text-enhanced black and white mode (Windows)
Use this feature to enhance the scanned image when scanning black and white text. To use this feature,
complete the following steps:
1. Open the HP Scan Software.
2. Select a scan shortcut.
3. Click More, select the Image tab, and then select Threshold.
4. Select Enhance Content, and then click OK.
Automatically straighten scanned images (Windows)
Windows: Use the Auto-Straighten feature to straighten content that is skewed relative to the page
dimensions in the source document. Use the Auto Detect Size feature to deskew page images that might have
become skewed during the scanning process.
1. Open the HP Scan Software.
2. Select a scan shortcut.
3. Click More, select the Document tab, and then select Straighten Content.
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