DocuMate 515 Scanner User’s Guide 39ScanningSelecting Page Format OptionsThe format option you select determines the file format of the scanneddocument. Appropriate format options and file types are available for thetype of Destination Application selected for the button.The available options are for images and text.Create Single Image FilesThe TIFF and PDF formats, as well as the text document formats, supportmultiple page documents. Select Create single image files if you wantone file created for each image scanned. Note that this option isautomatically selected and disabled if you have selected a format thatonly supports single pages, such as BMP or JPG.Image FormatsSelect an image file format for photos, artwork or other documents thatyou want to save as images. BMP and TIFF are standard image fileformats generally used if you want to do additional image processing,such as photo touch-up or color correction. Both of those file formats tendto be larger than the JPEG format.Because JPEG image files can be reduced in size, the JPEG format isoften used for images on web pages, or if file size might be a problemwhen electronically sending the files. JPEG files are reduced in size bylowering their image quality, and you can select the degree of quality foryour scanned images from the JPEG file format icon.Image Formats. Text Formats; sPDF isonly one of several textformats available.
