How to scan using the Macintosh computers located in ES 238.

To begin, you need to decide what kind of document you wish to scan, and with what program you want to scan with. In comparison to the P.C.s, Epson's Smart Panel is used instead of HP Precision Scan. The scanners available in the ES Macintosh Lab are Epson Perfection 1670s. Hopefully, you are already familiar with the Macintosh OS X environment. If not, please refer to the Macintosh documentation for some helpful tips. When you're ready, login to a machine and reach a point similar to this:

The Macintosh OSX Desktop

A Portion of the Macintosh Dock

Above, you'll find a list of programs located in the Dock on the Macintosh Desktop.
By moving the mouse over these icons and clicking on them, you can access the applications. From left to right in the above section: Adobe Photoshop CS (A), Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional (B), Adobe Illustrator CS (C), Adobe Go Live CS (D), In Design CS (E), Epson Smart Panel (F), and Omnipage Pro X (G). This documentation assumes that you have some familiarity with these applications and will focus only on how to scan into or from the most commonly used ones.

The primary scanning application is the Epson Smart Panel. From there, you can scan your image and save it to a file or send it to an application. To begin using Smart Panel, first click on the icon located in the dock, and you should see a window like this:

Smart Panel Previewing the Document

Smart Panel will automatically begin a preview scan, after which it will give you some options of what to do with the scan. The following window is displayed after selecting "Scan to Application". From here, you can choose which application you want to scan to; many are supported such as: Photoshop, Appleworks, Illustrator, Photoimpression, Preview, Acrobat, Word, and Omnipage.

Selecting Software to "Scan to Application"

After having chosen a destination for Smart Panel to scan to, whether it's to a file, print source, or application, you should see the following screen:

Selecting Multiple Scans for Further Use

The above screen allows you to keep a series of scans. After scanning multiple pages, you can decide here if you want to keep them or not by checking the small box underneath the image. After clicking "Next", your scans will be directed to the location that you chose them to go. For example if you picked "Scan to Application" these scans will go to that application for further editing.

You can also scan from certain applications using "Import" options. Photoshop, Acrobat, Word and Omnipage all support the "Import" option in some form or another. If the application you're using doesn't seem to support importing a scan, try using Smart Panel to "Scan to Application" or "Scan to File" then opening the file using your application of choice. The next section will show you how to use the above four applications to scan an image into your document. Photoshop has a wide array of uses from creating text documents to image documents like brochures and fliers. Acrobat is the application that you would use to create PDF files which are useful when trying to post manuals or applications to places such as the web. Microsoft Word is a common text document creation tool. Omnipage is a powerful OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool that allows you to scan most text images and it attempts to recognize the characters for further editing with applications such as Microsoft Word. Each application is a little different; to begin we'll start with Photoshop:

Importing from Photoshop

After opening Photoshop, go to "File", then go to "Import", then next to "Epson Perfection 1670", as illustrated above. You should then see the following:

Smart Panel Interface Intermediate Screen

Then Smart Panel should return you to Photoshop with your scan displayed on the page:

Scan Imported into Photoshop

Next, using Acrobat, you can import your images directly into the application to better assist in creating your PDF files:

Importing a Scan into Acrobat

After opening Acrobat, go to "File", then go to "Create PDF", then "From Scanner". You should next see the window:

Acrobat Scanning Options

The main thing to do at this page is make sure that "Device" is set to "Epson Perfection 1670" as shown above. Click on "Scan" and you should see the next screen. If you're scanning multiple scans into your PDF document, the option "Append To Current Document" will be enabled and you can then add additional scans.

Completed Scan in Acrobat

Next the steps to import a scan into Microsoft Word will be demonstrated. First open Word as shown below:

Scanning into Microsoft Word

Go to "Insert", then "Picture, and then "From Scanner or Camera". The following screen is then displayed:

Microsoft Word Scanner Selection

Make sure that under "Device", "Epson Perfection 1670" is displayed, then click on "Acquire". You should then see the following screen with your scanned image:

Scanned Image in Microsoft Word

Lastly, we'll demonstrate here the steps to acquire an image into Omnipage Pro X. First open Omnipage and you should see the following:

Omnipage Pro X Before a Scan

From here, you can either click on the "Assistant" button to get a guided scan process or you can click on 1 (making sure that the drop down menu under 1 is set to "Scan Image" as shown above). Here, we selected 1 and came up with the following:

Smart Panel Interface Intermediate Screen

After Smart Panel acquires the image and it automatically transfers it back to Omnipage:

Omnipage and Scanned Image

You can then use the options in Omnipage to manipulate the document.

This documentation is certainly not all inclusive. If you have questions, comments or a good challenge on what you'd like to do, feel free to contact us at Computing Services x7741 and ask for Chris Olance.

Created May-04 by Jesse Geis