User Guide

Chapter 1
2 VRS User’s Manual
Standard Features
VRS is designed to ensure that every scanned image meets your quality standards.
While VRS products are designed to make high-volume scanning easier and more
cost-effective, VRS provides the same advantages for low-volume scanners.
Key VRS features include the ability to scan batches that consist of multiple document
sizes or varying degrees of quality, as well as the ability to automatically assign
brightness settings that are optimal for your document type. It is not necessary to pre-
sort mixed batches. During image optimization VRS suppresses any background or
noise, which keeps image file sizes to a minimum. VRS detects paper jams and
equipment conflicts. In addition to the time savings, post-processing accuracy is
increased and storage requirements are reduced.
For batch scans in which Optical Character Recognition (OCR) precision is crucial,
low-contrast documents traditionally pose significant problems. With VRS, you can
enable “Auto-Brightness,” and by selecting a high contrast value (greater than 50),
process the batch with confidence, knowing that every low-contrast image will be
adjusted automatically to the acceptable level of quality required for OCR.
Also critical for OCR is the VRS ability to perform an automatic deskew without
character deformation. Traditional deskew software produces jagged edges, but with
VRS, character edges remain smooth and precise even after deskew, as shown in
Figure 1-1.
Figure 1-1. Traditional Deskew vs. VRS
In addition to contrast enhancement, brightness adjustment, and high quality deskew
correction, VRS offers a range of other features to help you ensure the highest level of
quality for every scanned image:
• Automatic image cropping or Auto Crop (available only on scanners that
produce black borders)
•Despeckling
• Gamma correction