Lines in the Scanned Image Are Colored or Distorted
When you are scanning with the ScanSnap, if lines in the scanned image are colored or distorted, check the following:
Did you move the ScanSnap or the table where the ScanSnap is placed during scanning?
If the ScanSnap is moved during scanning, lines in the scanned image may be colored or distorted.
Do not move the ScanSnap and the table where the ScanSnap is placed during scanning.
Did you scan wrinkled, curled, or folded documents?
Place the documents after smoothing them out.
In addition, for creased documents such as newspapers, rescanning them by using the following method may correct horizontal distortions in the text, lines, or graphics in the scanned image.
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Click the [Scan] button at the top of the main window of ScanSnap Home to display the scan window.
If the main window is not already displayed, refer to To Display the Main Window.
Select the profile that you are using from the profile list.
Click
to display the [Edit profiles] window.Click the [Option] button for [Feed] to display the [Feed option] window.
Select the [Correct skewed text] checkbox.
Specify the size of documents to be scanned for [Type].
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Click the [Scan] button at the top of the main window of ScanSnap Home to display the scan window.
If the main window is not already displayed, click the [ScanSnap Home] icon
in the application list that appears when you click Launchpad in the Dock. Select the profile that you are using from the profile list.
Click
to display the [Edit profiles] window.Click the [Option] button for [Feed] to display the [Feed option] window.
Select the [Correct skewed text] checkbox.
Specify the size of documents to be scanned for [Type].
In the following types of documents, skews are not corrected:
Documents with no horizontal lines
Documents with fine (less than 0.5 point thick), broken, dotted, wavy, or light-colored lines
Have you corrected the distorted book image with Book Image Viewer?
If the shape of the book was not detected correctly or the outline of the book is not aligned with the actual shape of the book due to manual correction, lines in the book image may be distorted.
Correct the distorted book image by aligning the corner points and the outline with the shape of the book in Book Image Viewer.