TWAIN Scanning
TWAIN (Windows and Mac) is a scanning protocol that connects scanners
and applications together by providing standard interface. TWAIN allows
applications to acquire images from TWAIN compliant devices (scanners,
digital cameras, etc.). Most scanners come with TWAIN drivers that are
installed automatically when you install the scanner in your computer.
Please refer to your scanner documentation if there are no TWAIN sources
available. When scanning using TWAIN PDF Studio will first launch the
scanning application provided by the hardware, then once the scanning
is complete import the scanned image to complete the Scan to PDF process.
Note:
The TWAIN protocol is only supported
in 32-bit installations of PDF Studio on Windows and Mac If you are using
the 64-bit PDF Studio installation this option will not be available.
- Go to Convert Tab >
From Scanner click
on the small down arrow to the right of the scanning button
and select "Scan to
PDF (Twain)".
- Choose a scanner from the list and click on the OK button to proceed.
If there is an error with the selected scanner, the dialog will
appear again with the previously tried scanner highlighted so you
can choose a new scanner.
- If the selected scanner had been a default option, you can
use this dialog to change the default scanner by selecting the
new scanner and checking the "Set default Scanner" option.
- When the OK button is pressed, your scanner's custom scanning application
will open. This is a separate program that will allow you to preview
the scan, choose a region to scan, adjust the scan resolution, and
then accept the scan using the software that came with your scanner.
- Once the scan has been accepted and PDF Studio has received the
data from the scanner software, PDF Studio will display a dialog box
showing some information about the scan and will prompt you for a
number of choices to determine how to insert the new image.
- Once you've selected the options click OK to then create a new
PDF or append the image to an existing PDF depending on the option
selected.
TWAIN Scan Import Settings
Image Info
This sections displays some basic details on the image that was received
from your scanners software
PDF Options
Insert At - Where to insert
the new image. Choose from the following options:
- Beginning Of Document: Inserts the scanned pages before the first
page of the currently opened document
- Current Location: Inserts the scanned pages in front of the current
page being displayed of the currently opened document
- End Of Document: Appends the scan at the end of the document.
- New Document: Creates a new document using only the scanned pages
- Interleave – When scanning multiple images, this option can be
used to insert them at every other page. This is especially
useful for scanning two-sided documents.
- Reverse Interleave: Insert the scan in the current document at
every other page in reverse order starting after the last page of
the document.
- Multiple documents - Use this option to create multiple documents
when scanning multiple pages. When selected a dialog will be displayed
to set the following options.
- Pages per PDF - Number of pages before
creating the next PDF
- File Name Pattern - The file name
to be used when creating the PDFs. Each file will have the number
of the document appended to the end of the file name
- Save files To - Where to save the
created files
- Save as Default - When checked this
will make the selected options the default going forward
Page Size - What size to use
when creating a new page to hold the image.
- Size to Image – The new page will be created the same size as the
scanned image.
- Same as Document – The new page will be created the same size as
the current open document. If the document is empty or if the Insert
At choice is set to New Document the new page will be created at the
same size as the scanned image.
Compression - What compression
to use when saving the image into the PDF document.
- JPEG - Lossy compression (recommended compression)
- Quality (for JPEG compression only) – If using JPEG, the compression
quality can be adjusted from 1 to 100%.
- 1 = high compression, very low quality
- 100 = low compression, very high quality
- Generally, 80=high quality, 50=medium quality, 20=low quality
- Flate - Lossless compression format
- JBIG2 B&W - Lossless compression format that only supports
B&W color
Auto deskew images - When checked,
if the document’s text/images are slanting too far in one direction or
is misaligned, PDF Studio will attempt to auto-rotate the document so
that the alignment is corrected.
OCR Options
OCR - Create Searchable PDF
- Check this to automatically OCR the document after scanning
Language - Language to be used
if OCR is selected. Click on "Download OCR Languages" to download
additional languages.