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HP PrecisionScan Pro User’s Guide 11
Using the HP ScanJet
scanner
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from the Scan menu, select Preview, or
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press Ctrl+R.
The scanner performs a
Preview scan and
displays the preview image.
Launching from another program
If you are creating a project such as a greeting
card or a calendar, and want to include a picture
from a photograph, you might be able to scan the
photograph directly into the program you are
using. To do this, the program must have a TWAIN
command such as
Acquire, which is probably on
one of its main menus.
1 Open the program in which you will place the
scanned image.
2 If necessary, select the program’s Select Source
command and choose
HP PrecisionScan Pro.
3 Select the program’s TWAIN command.
After the scanning software window appears,
the scanner automatically performs a
Preview
scan and displays the preview image.
4 Create a selection area in the preview image,
make necessary adjustments, and select
Place
Image
from the Scan menu. The final scan occurs
and the image is placed in the calling program.
TWAIN is an industry-standard
communications protocol for sending
instructions to hardware (such as a scanner)
and receiving data back (such as an image).
If you are using a program that supports
TWAIN, you can start
HP PrecisionScan Pro
directly from that program.
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HP ScanJet scanners and HP scanning
software can use TWAIN, but the
programs you use to create projects may
not be TWAIN-compatible.
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If a program can use TWAIN, it should
have a command named
Acquire, Acquire
Image
, or Import on one of its main
menus, usually the
File menu.
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Selecting one of these commands
launches the scanning software selected
with the
Select Source command.
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Editable text cannot be transferred using
TWAIN.
What is TWAIN?
