Xerox Documate 3640 User Guide

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Document Settings
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Main panel —this panel contains the most commonly used scan settings. When the  Basic source 
configuration mode is selected, this is  the only panel available. Change to the  Advanced source 
configuration mode to enable the other panels  which are also described in this section. 
• Advanced panel —this panel contains advanced document handling options. If you select an 
option in this panel that also appears on the Main  panel, when you return...

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Disabled Options in this Section
Some options in the interface may be grayed out an
d cannot be selected. Grayed out options are either 
not appropriate for the current scanner, the software  needed to enable the feature is not installed, 
or 
the feature is dependent on another setting in the  scanner's interface. Hover the mouse cursor over a 
grayed out feature to see information  about why the feature is unavailable.
When you are using a scanner that has...

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Main Panel Options
Some of the options in this panel 
may have advanced adjustment opti ons on a different panel in this 
section. When the  Advanced configuration mode is selected, an icon will appear  next to those features 
which have adjustment options on  another tab. Click on one of the icons to go to the area of the 
interface where the adjustment options are located.
Click on a link below to go to the appropriate page in this section for instructions on...

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Text document  letters or forms with hand printed text – 150 dpi
• Text document (for OCR)  forms, letters, memos, or spreadsheets – 300 dpi
• Business cards  or other items with small print – 300 dpi
• Color page with graphics or color photographs – 150 dpi
• Color photographs of poor quality for image enhancement – 300 dpi
• Color photographs for printing – 200 dpi
• Color photographs for email – 100 to 150 dpi
• Magazine page  with graphics, line art, or color...

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Long Document
Select 
Long document  to enable support of paper sizes up to the scanner maximum. After you select 
this option make sure you input the page length fo r your document in the custom input field, located 
below the  Document size selection list. 
Note that some of the options in the scanner interf ace cannot be used when the page length will be 
greater than 14 inches. When you select this option,  incompatible options will either be automatically...

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Straighten Image
Select this option to let the scanner automatically determine if a page is skewed, then straighten its 
image. This option is only available if the scanner supports this feature.
If you are scanning using an automatic document fe
eder, and the page is fed through at too great of 
an angle, the image may not straighten correctly. In  that case, re-scan the page making sure the paper 
guides are adjusted to the width of the pages in th e input tray so...

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The following image shows a cheque scanned in du
plex mode without Merge two sides enabled, and 
the same cheque scanned with Merge two sides enable d.  When Merge two sides is not enabled, side 1 
and side 2 of the cheque are saved in two separa te files (IMG_0001 and IMG_0002 respectively).  
With Merge two sides enabled, both sides of the ch eque are in a single file (IMG_0003).  If you are 
scanning a stack of items using a multipage file format, such as a PDF...

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Skip Blank Originals
Select this option to have the scanner detect if 
a blank page has been fed through the scanner, and 
remove it from the final file. Typically you might us e this option when scanning a stack of two-sided 
pages which have a number of blank sides.
• Blank threshold —you can use the Threshold slider to fine  tune the sensitivity of the blank image 
detection. The results will depend on the scan se ttings and the types of documents being scanned....

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Compress transfers
Select this option to have the scanner compress th
e image in Gray and Color scans.  This reduces the 
file size and allows for faster image transfer from  the scanner to the computer.  Once the compressed 
image is on the computer, scanner’ s driver will then uncompress the image, and perform any image 
processing functions that have been selected in th e scanning interface.  The uncompressed image is 
then transferred to the scanning...

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When this option is available, it is an advanced us
er and application option and should not be adjusted 
if you are not familiar with the technology. However, if you are certain that you are using an 
application that can receive a compressed image,  and you want to be able to change the image 
compression type, you will need to enable user adjustable compression in the scanning interface. 
Please refer to the  Driver Settings section for instructions.
Please note...