Epson ActionScanner Mac User Setup Information - What You Should Know Before S - Page 6

Line art Line art with shading OCR for yourself. Scan up to 25 pages with the Try-Pak. Try it on a fax, have fun with the daily newspaper, or even that dusty resume you prepared on the typewriter. If you find you're hooked, we offer the full package and documentation at a considerable discount. IMAGING PROGRAMS: PICTURE THE RESULTS You can use imaging programs to capture a wide variety of artwork, illustrations, and photographs into image files. Scanned images fall into three categories: line art, gray scale, and color. Line art includes all drawings made up of black and white only, with no gray tones. Both of the illustrations on the left are examples of line art, even though the artist has used lines that look like shading in the second one. Gray scale (also called monochrome or continuous tone) refers to images such as black and white photographs that contain various shades of gray in addition to black and white. You can also scan a color photograph as gray scale if you want to print it in black and white. For color reading, the scanner divides the various colors in the image into three primary colors: red, green, and blue. Epson's powerful 24-bit color scanners devote 8 bits/pixel to each of the three colors, so the scanner can represent over 16 million colors. Use color scanning for color photographs or other originals which will be printed or presented in color.