Support: Spectrum XF: FAQs

How do I get rid of black borders?

It depends upon which mode you are scanning: bitonal, grayscale or color.

Bitonal and Grayscale

Though your VRS interface, make sure that Deskew, Auto Crop and Edge Cleanup are turned on in the Clarity tab. These combined features serve as black border removal. If you still see black borders around the image, take a look at the black background bar for dust or dirt. Such things can be interpreted as part of the document and be picked up as the edge of the document image. The black background bar can be found inside the scanner, so open the scanner and wipe it down with one of the optic cleaning pads found in every Spectrum All-In-One consumables kit and every Universal Maintenance Kit.

Color

Follow the same procedure outlined above for bitonal and grayscale scanning. The only difference is that Edge Cleanup does not need to be checked because this feature is not enabled for color scanning. If you still see black borders around the image after the VRS is set for deskew and auto crop and the black background border has been cleaned, there is another procedure you can follow that may help. However, you will need to know what is truly impacted by the procedure, so please read the following section carefully.

Further Color Black Border Removal Procedure

This procedure is intended to remove additional black border pixels, which are most commonly found around the bottom and right edge of color images. The risk of this procedure is that it is possible to overcrop the original document's borders by a few pixels, which will not be desirable if you scan documents that contain handwriting (often in patient records) or other important information located all the way to the edge of any of your documents. If there is no risk of losing such important information, please follow the procedure below:

  1. Run VCDemo and select the scanner
  2. Exit VCDemo – this is very important, otherwise the change you make below will be lost when VCDemo is exited
  3. Go into your windows directory, find and open the file "kfxscsi.ini" – this file is often found in the C:WINNT directory
  4. Copy the file "kfxscsi.ini" to another location on your PC so that if you make a mistake with the live file, you'll have an unedited copy that you can default back to
  5. Find the section called "[KfxScsi-B+H-8125]" – Please note: if you have an 8100 or 8080 model, the section will contain that model instead of "8125" and if you use multiple models with the same PC there will be a different section named for each model and you need to make this change in each model's section
  6. Under this section, there should be an entry: "KfxScsi.Page.Dimension.Round.Up.Attribute.Value=1"; change this value to 0; please make sure the syntax and spacing is identical, otherwise it will not work properly.
  7. Save the file; when you then run VCDemo or any other application, it will use this change