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Mustek Scanning Desktop Tutorial

Windows 95/98/Me Version

Windows 3.1x Version

Mustek Scanning Desktop For Windows 95/98

The Mustek Scanning Desktop was created to give users a quick way to FAX or Copy documents. These functions can be performed from iPhoto Plus or Picture Publisher; however, there are less steps involved when done from the Mustek Scanning Desktop.

  Clicking this icon will allow you to scan an image into iPhoto Plus without having to start iPhoto Plus first. When you click the icon, you will be given a Quick Setting screen where you can set certain parameters for the scan such as Scan Mode, Resolution and Paper Size. If you click the more Control button, the TWAIN dialog box will open. The TWAIN dialog box allows you to do two things the quick setting screen does not allow. First it lets you Prescan and second, it lets you set the Crop Frame to a custom paper size.

  Clicking this icon will scan a text document using TextBridge Classic OCR. The finished document will automatically be opened in the Windows 95/98 Wordpad. The Quick Settings screen allows you to choose Paper Size and 300 dpi or 400 dpi. You should use 300 dpi for most documents because the OCR engine is optimized for 300 dpi scans. Use 400 dpi only if the original text is a very small font.

  Clicking this icon allows you to photocopy a document from the scanner to the printer. The document will not be saved, merely scanned and printed. The resolution is rather low so if you need a high quality copy, you should scan the page with iPhoto Plus or Picture Publisher at the optimum resolution for your printer. See the article on Understanding Resolution and Color Depth Issues to determine what the best resolution to scan for your printer is if using iPhoto Plus or Picture Publisher.

  Clicking this icon allows you to scan a document and FAX it over your modem. You have two resolution choices, fine and normal. Normal is 100 dpi and fine is 200 dpi which are the standards for FAX machines. Fine Resolution is recommended. The Quick Settings screen has a button which allows you to choose your FAX software. If your FAX driver is not already listed, you will need to choose it. Click here to see how to FAX more than one page.

  Clicking this icon allows you to scan an image into the InBox with iPhoto Plus. The image will be saved in the *.jpg format. From the inbox, you can send the image to the Printer, FAX modem or e-mail.

  Clicking this icon allows you to scan text into the InBox with TextBridge Classic OCR. The document will be saved in the *.txt format. From the inbox, you can send the image to the Printer or FAX modem.

  Clicking this icon allows you to view the contents of the InBox. A picture of the InBox is shown below.

The icons on the left side represent Folders. The one with the Gray Box around it is the active folder. You can rename images or folders by typing over their name or you can add new folders from the file menu. You can move images from one folder to the next by dragging them from the right window to any folder in the left window. The image with the Red Box around it is the currently selected file. You can select more than one file by holding down the CTRL key while clicking the files. Any document in the InBox can be sent to the Printer, FAX or Mail from the Send To command on the file menu. They can also be dragged to the appropriate icon on the Mustek Scanning Desktop.

FAXing more than one page:

To FAX multiple pages, do not scan them with the  icon. You should use the  icon to scan your pages into the InBox. When the Quick Settings screen comes up, set the Scan Mode to Line art, the Resolution to 200 dpi and the paper size to Letter. Scan each page into the InBox in the order that you want to FAX them. Once all pages have been scanned to the InBox, open the InBox and select all of the pages you wish to FAX in the order you want to send them (Selected pages will have a red box around them). Hold down the CTRL key to select more than one page at a time. To send the FAX pages, click on File then Send To FAX or keep the CTRL key held down and drag the pages to the FAX icon on the Mustek Scanning Desktop. (NOTE: For this to work, your FAX software must allow FAXing of multiple files.)

Mustek Scanning Desktop For Windows 3.1x

  Clicking this icon will allow you to scan an image into iPhoto Plus without having to start iPhoto Plus first. When you click the icon, you will be given a Quick Setting screen where you can set certain parameters for the scan such as Scan Mode, Resolution and Paper Size. If you click the more Control button, the TWAIN dialog box will open. The TWAIN dialog box allows you to do two things the Quick Setting screen does not allow. First it lets you Prescan and second, it lets you set the Crop Frame to a custom paper size.

  Clicking this icon will scan a text document using TextBridge Classic OCR. The finished document will automatically be opened in the Windows 3.1x Notepad. The Quick Settings screen allows you to choose Paper Size and 300 dpi or 400 dpi. You should use 300 dpi for most documents because the OCR engine is optimized for 300 dpi scans. Use 400 dpi only if the original text is a very small font.