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Scanning Close Down Other Software Before A Scan

If you are planning on scanning a large document, or a photo into a high resolution file

You should consider closing down other software packages first.

When you scan a large document, normally the information is copied to memory, and then stored on disk.

If you have many other software programs open, taking up huge chunks of memory, you will slow down the scan to a very large extent.

Since storing information to disk can take time, this ʺvirtual memoryʺ thrashing can greatly increase the scan time.

If you have only the minimal opened your Scan time will decrease tremendously