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3.7 The image viewer

The image viewer is used to display the scanned images and to start OCR. It's also possible to save the images and the recognized text from here. Furthermore you can print the image. There a several possibilities to open an image with the image viewer:

  1. If you scan using the "Temporary/Internal viewer" mode, the scanned image is automatically displayed with the image viewer.
  2. If you click the "Viewer..." button, the last scanned image is opened with the image viewer.
  3. If you are scanning using the "Multi scan" mode, you can doubleclick on an entry in the image list, to display the image with the internal viewer.
  4. If you doubleclick on an item in the "History/Imagebrowser", the image is displayed with the image viewer.

The menu bar

From left to right:
  1. The File menu
  2. The Edit menu
  3. The Zoom menu
    Select one of the zoom factors. This only affects the representation in the image viewer; it doesn't affect saving or printing.
  4. The Image menu
    The image menu supplies some functions for image manipulation: Brightness/Contrast, Gamma, Normalize, Invert, Posterize
  5. The OCR menu
  6. The View menu
  7. The Editor menu
    Choose Options... to setup the editor. Save settings saves the current viewer settings like toolbar positions, splitter size and others.
  8. The Help menu
    Select the About... item, to display the about dialog. Select the About Qt... item for information about Qt.

The tool bars

For some of the menu items, corresponding tool buttons are available; please read in the menubar documentation about their meaning.
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