Ricoh 420/430 and Böwe Bell + Howell 4000/5000 (IPU) scanner settings when used with ISIS

For introductory information, please see Advanced scanner settings: ISIS settings.

Smooth

Activates a non-destructive filter that smoothes characters and lines. This option may increase legibility, and it may increase OCR rates. It may also reduce file sizes by 10 to 15%.

Enhance image

Choose this option to enhance (strengthen) lines. The options are: Line bolding and Edge extraction. Line bolding strengthens lines. Edge extraction enhances edges and lines in images. This is usually not useful for forms.

Thresholding

Select this option to activate dynamic thresholding. Then choose a thresholding type. The options are: Auto, Light characters, Remove background. With Light characters, thin characters are enhanced. Remove background is for filtering out rasters in the background that interfere with interpretation. With Auto, an attempt is made to decide what is best while the image is being scanned.

Remove noise

Select this option to remove noise automatically. Then choose the maximum size of the noise to be removed.