Scanning using Paint Shop Pro 8

This offers many choices, more like the linux facility xsane but superior to it in some ways. With black and white drawings or text it is often most efficient to use the .png graphics format, as follows;

  1. Place the document or image on the bed of the scanner
  2. Open Paint Shop Pro 8 (Start button -> Programs -> Multimedia -> Jasc Software)
  3. From the File menu, choose Import, then TWAIN then Acquire.
  4. The scanner will then start up. It will first warm the lamp up, this can take a minute or so. It will them make a preview of the document or image. If you want to select part or the page or you want to cut out the edges of a book, you can move the little 'handles' that surround what the program thinks you'd want to scan.
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  5. Once you're happy with what you want to scan, you then need to change the 'Output Type'. This is where you select the black and white option. The Output Type is a menu on the HP Scanning window, pull the menu down and select 'Black & White (1-bit)'.
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  6. You also need to change the resolution of the scan. To do this, click on the word 'Resolution' from the list of options on the right of the HP Scanning window and select 300 from the drop down menu.
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  7. You are now ready to scan the image in. To do this press the green button labeled 'Accept' at the bottom of the HP Scanning window.
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  8. The Scanner will now start working again and will scan the image and display the result back in Paint Shop Pro.
  9. If you want to you can simply save the image as a .png file by going to the File menu and selecting 'Save As'. Decide where you want to save the file and select .png from the 'Save As Type' options.
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  10. If on the other hand you want to straighten the image, you can also do this in PSP. From the buttons on the left of the PSP window, select the one that looks square box with an arrow going around it.
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  11. If you can't see this button, click on the little black downward pointing triangle next to the icon of the second from top button and select the 'Straighten' button.
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  12. Once you've pressed the straighten button, a horizontal line will be drawn on the image you've just scanned in. You can move each end of this line (square boxes are at the end of the line that you can left click on and drag). Move the line so that it is running underneath a line of text or an edge of a picture that you want to straighten
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  13. Once you've moved the line, press the 'tick' button near the top of the screen
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  14. You'll now see the image rotate so that it is straight. Save the file as a .png file as instructed above.