Microtek Scan Module

Microtek Scan Module is a standard TWAIN module for Microtek scanners. It provides basic controls, allowing you to specify scanning settings and get images from Microtek scanners. For advanced manual controls, please install the Microtek scanners TWAIN drivers from Microtek scanning software CD that shipped with your scanner.


Scan Type

The Scan Type menu determines the resulting scan will be. It does not refer to the original image mode.


Resolution

Resolution refers to the desired resolution for outputting the image to a device, such as a monitor or printer. For example, if you plan to use the scan a for position only image as a wallpaper in your desktop window, scan it at a low resolution such as 72 dpi. There is no benefit to scanning the image at 300 dpi, for it takes up more disk space without improving image quality.

To specify resolution: Enter a resolution setting in Resolution edit box. If the value you entered is too low or too high, the minimum or maximum resolution value is rounded for use.


Brightness

Dragging it to brighten or darken the image, just the way it does on your television set.


Contrast

Increasing the contrast pushes the brightness levels away from the middle range and towards the extremes of light and dark. Decreasing the contrast has the opposite effect.


Shadow

You can change the shadow point to an image. The shadow point becomes the new darkest value. Shades that are darker than the shadow point turn out to be black.


Highlight

You can change the highlight point to an image. The highlight point becomes the new lightest value. Shades that are lighter than the highlight point turn out to be white.


Scan Quality

This control allows you to specify the image quality of your scan, corresponding to your scanning speed.

If Draft is selected, the scanning speed is faster but image quality is inferior to the Final selection. Draft is selected by default.

If Final is selected, image quality is better than Draft, but scanning speed is rather slow.


Scanner

If you have multiple scanners on your system, all the scanner models are shown in list. To switch among various scanners, select the scanner you need.


Media

This control allows you to select the correct scan media to scan. There are three types available: Reflective, Transparency and ADF. The Reflective is the default option and the available choices are depending on your equipment.

The Transparency option appears only when youre using a Transparent Media Adapter (TMA) with your scanner. The ADF option appears only when youre using Automatic Document Feeder with your scanner.


Scan button

The Scan button lets you scan in the image in your scanner, and delivers the scanned image to your image-editing software. The scanned image is based on the image types you have chosen in the above settings.


Close button

The Close button lets you exit the scan module without physical scanning.


Preview button

The Preview button gives you a preliminary view of the image on your scanner work bed.

Previewing an image gives you greater flexibility, as it allows you to apply various controls to the preview image before physically scanning. With the preview image displayed, you can apply image enhancements or crop the image before performing the final scan.


Preview Area

The preview area is where the preview image appears.
The size of the preview area varies, depending on your scanner model.