Epson Gt2500 User Manual

Brightness Home, Office, and Professional: 
Adjusts the overall image lightness and darkness.
 
In Home Mode, click the Brightness button to access the 
Brightness setting.
 
In Office Mode, click and move the slider to adjust the 
Brightness setting.
 
In Professional Mode, click the  Image Adjustment button 
to access the Brightness setting.
 
Contrast Home, Office, and Professional: 
Adjusts the difference between the light and dark areas of the 
overall image.
 
In Home Mode, click the Brightness...

Auto Exposure Home: Automatically applied. 
Office: Click the Configuration button, then click the Color 
tab to access the Auto Exposure Level slider.
 
Professional: Click the  Auto Exposure button. To turn it 
on continuously, click the Configuration button, click the Color 
tab, and select Continuous auto exposure. You can adjust the 
level of exposure adjustment using the slider.
 
Unsharp Mask 
Filter
 
Home: Automatically applied. 
Office and Professional: Turn on to make the edges of image...

Color Palette Professional only: 
Provides a graphical interface for adjusting mid-tone levels, 
such as skin tones, without affecting the highlight and 
shadow areas of the image. For advanced users only.
 
Click the  Color Palette button to use the Color Palette 
settings.
 
Threshold Home, Office, and Professional: 
Adjusts the level at which the black areas in text and line art 
are delineated, improving text recognition in OCR programs. 
(Available only when you select Black & White as the Image...

You can scan your images at their original size, or you can reduce or en\
large their size as you 
scan them. You do this using the Target Size setting in Home or Professi\
onal Mode.
 
Home Mode 
Professional Mode  

If you are going to scan your image to a particular size, you should sel\
ect the Target Size 
setting after previewing it, but before adjusting your scan area (indic\
ated by the marquee). 
This sets the scan area to the correct proportions so your image will no\
t be cropped 
unexpectedly. 
For instructions on previewing your image(s), see Previewing and Adjusting the Scan Area. 
Then follow these steps to select the Target Size setting:
 
You can choose a predefined scan size from the Target Size...

If you need to create a scan size that is not in the Target Size list, y\
ou can create a 
custom size. Click the arrow in the list and select Customize. You see the Target Size 
window:
 
Type a name for your custom size, enter the size, click the Save button, then click OK. 
Your new size appears in the Target Size list.
 
In Professional Mode, you can fine-tune the size using additional tools.\
 Click the + 
(Windows) or 
 (Mac OS X) next to Target Size to display these tools:  

l     To size your image by a certain percentage, adjust the Scale value. 
l     To change the way your image is cropped, turn Trimming on or off. (See EPSON 
Scan Help for details.)
 
l     To unlock the proportions of your scan size, click the  lock icon. Then adjust the 
marquee or enter new width/height measurements.
 
Once you have selected your scan size, you can click and drag the marque\
e to the 
area in the image you want to scan. For details, see Adjusting the Scan Area 
(Marquee). The...

When you have finished selecting scan settings, you are ready to scan. C\
lick the Scan button. 
After a few moments, your images are scanned.
 
What happens after you scan depends on how you started your scan: 
l     If you started your scan by running EPSON Scan as a standalone program, \
you see the 
File Save Settings window. This lets you select the name and location of\
 your saved 
scan files. See Selecting File Save Settings for details.
 
l     If you started your scan from a scanning program...

Home > Using the Scanner Features 
Scanning to a PDF File
You can scan multiple pages of a document using the ADF and save them as\
 one PDF file on 
your computer. EPSON Scan displays an editing page so you can view the p\
ages as you scan 
them and reorder, rotate, or delete them as necessary. You can also scan\
 one page at a time 
on the document table and save it as a PDF file.
 
 
Note:
If you are scanning from Adobe Acrobat 7 on a Macintosh system, you may \
not be able 
to use the ADF to scan...

If the Mode setting in the top right of the EPSON Scan window is not set\
 to 
Professional Mode, click the arrow in the box and select Professional Mode.