Adjusting Brightness

Incorrect brightness settings may result in illegible scans and adversely affect the quality of data capture.

ABBYY Business Card Reader can tune brightness automatically. To enable automatic brightness selection, in the scanning dialog box, select Auto in the Brightness field. If the automatically selected values do not work for your business cards, adjust the brightness manually by moving the slider in the Brightness field.

Note:

1. If Auto is selected, the slider in the Brightness field is disabled. To be able to adjust the brightness manually, clear the Auto option.
2. Some scanner models do not allow automatic brightness selection. If this is the case, the Auto will not be available and you will need to adjust the brightness manually using the slider in the Brightness field.

If the resulting image contains too many defects (e.g. some of the letters are too thin and sketchy or, conversely, too thick and appear to be glued together), consult the table below to improve the legibility of your text.

If your image looks like this	Try the following
	This is a good quality image. No adjustments are needed.
letters are too thin and sketchy	Lower the brightness to make the image darker.
letters are too thick, distorted, and overlapping	Increase the brightness to make the image lighter.