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Scanning With the Multi Photo Feeder

Scanning in Home Mode
Scanning in Professional Mode

Load up to 24 photos or business cards in the input tray of the Multi Photo Feeder. Make sure all the loaded photos or business cards are the same size. See Loading Photos or Business Cards in the Multi Photo Feeder for instructions.

Start EPSON Scan by one of the following methods:

Once EPSON Scan starts, choose the scanning mode from the list box at the top right of the window. For details, see Changing the Scan Mode.

  • To scan photos or business cards using the default settings with no preview, select Full Auto Mode and click Scan.

  • To scan photos or business cards using custom settings with no preview, select Home Mode. For details, see Scanning in Home Mode.

  • To scan photos or business cards one at a time using custom settings and a preview, select Professional Mode. For details, see Scanning in Professional Mode.

Scanning in Home Mode

Select the Document Type and Image Type settings as follows:

    Original

    Document Type setting

    Image Type setting

    Photo

    Photograph

    Color or Black&White

    Business Card

    Text/Line Art

    Color, Black&White, or Grayscale

Click the button for the way you plan to use the scanned images in the Destination box:

  • Screen/Web for images you will view only on a computer screen or post on the web.

  • Printer for images you will be printing or for business cards you will be converting into editable text with an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program.

  • Other if you want to select a specific resolution for other purposes.

If you selected Screen/Web or Printer as the Destination setting, the Resolution setting is already selected for you. If you selected Other, click the arrow next to the Resolution list and select the number of dots per inch at which you want to scan. For guidelines, see Selecting the Scan Resolution.

Click the Image Adjustments button to change any necessary settings. For guidelines, see Adjusting the Color and Other Image Settings.

Click Scan. All photos or business cards in the input tray are scanned automatically.


Note:

Preview is not available in Full Auto Mode or Home Mode. To preview each photo or business card one by one, scan using Professional Mode. See Scanning in Professional Mode for instructions.

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Scanning in Professional Mode

Make sure that MPF is selected as the Document Source.

Select the Auto Exposure Type and Image Type settings as follows:

    Original

    Auto Exposure Type setting

    Image Type setting

    Photo

    Photo

    24-bit Color, 48-bit Color, 8-bit Grayscale, or 16-bit Grayscale

    Business Card

    Document

    Any, depending on card style. See step 2 in Selecting Basic Settings for details.

Click Preview. The Preview window appears.


Note:

  • After previewing a photo or business card loaded in the Multi Photo Feeder, if you do not scan within 15 minutes, the photo or card is ejected automatically and the scanner enters sleep mode. Load the ejected photos or cards into the Multi Photo Feeder and click Preview again to scan them.

  • If you do not want to preview each photo or business card, scan using Full Auto Mode or Home Mode (see Scanning in Home Mode).

Draw a marquee (a frame around the scan area) by dragging the mouse pointer over the image of your photo or business card in the Preview window. For instructions, see Adjusting the Scan Area (Marquee).

Change any necessary Image Adjustments settings. (You may need to scroll down in the main EPSON Scan window.) For details, see Adjusting the Color and Other Image Settings.

Click Scan. The photo or business card is scanned and ejected to the output tray, then the next one is previewed. If you do not want to scan that one, click Preview to go to the next one.

Repeat steps 4 through 6 until all the photos or business cards in the input tray are scanned.

What happens next depends on how you started EPSON Scan. See Finishing the Scan for details.

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