Image Operations

As a part of your document review process, you may need to perform operations on the document pages (especially for scanned/copied images), such as rotating, flipping, deskewing, or changing the resolution of an image.

Contents

  1. Rotate Left
  2. Rotate Right
  3. Flip Horizontal
  4. Flip Vertical
  5. Rotate 180°
  6. Deskew
  7. Undo Deskew
  8. Change DPI

 

The various options in the Image Operations portion of the toolbar are described in the table below:

Button

Action

Description

Rotate Left button

Rotate Left

Rotates the page 90° to the left.

Rotate Right button

Rotate Right

Rotates the page 90° to the right.

Flip Horizontal button

Flip Horizontal

Flips the page horizontally.

Flip Vertical button

Flip Vertical

Flips the page vertically (180° rotation).

Rotate 180 Degrees button

Rotate 180°

Rotates the page, selected pages, or entire document 180° degrees.

Deskew button

Deskew

Adjusts slightly askew images. Used when scanned pages appear askew upon display. Requires the scanned page to be mainly horizontal text. See specific instructions below.

Undo Deskew button

Undo Deskew

Reverse the deskew action. Adjusts the image to its previous state before the deskew action was performed.

A control screen is shown below. See the sections below to see how the various actions

Sample document

See examples of the available actions in the sections below.

 

Rotate Left

Click Rotate Left Rotate Left button to rotate the page 90° to the left, as shown below:

Document, rotated left

 

Rotate Right

Click Rotate RightRotate Right button to rotate the page 90° to the right, as shown below:

Document rotated right

 

Flip Horizontal

Click Flip Horizontal Flip Horizontal button to reverse the image from right to left, as shown in the image below:

Document flipped horizontally

 

Flip Vertical

Click Flip Vertical Flip Vertical button to reverse the image from top to bottom, as shown in the sample below:

Document flipped vertically

 

Rotate 180°

Click Rotate 180° to rotate the image 180°, as shown in the sample below:

Document rotated 180 degrees

 

Deskew

If a page is skewed, such as in the sample below, there is a tool to Deskew the pages automatically:

Skewed document

Click the Deskew button to automatically straighten the image. The results of the deskew action are shown in the sample below:

Deskewed document

Undo Deskew

After you have deskewed a page, you can click Undo Deskew to reverse the deskew action, bringing back the original image, as shown in the example below:

Deskewed document

Change DPI

You have the option to change the DPI, or dots per inch for the image. The DPI determines the clarity of the image. You have options to adjust the image DPI from the left-hand Navigation Pane.

To adjust the DPI of an image, right click the page you'd like to adjust in the Navigation Pane, then select Image Operations > Change DPI. The Change DPI menu window will appear as shown below:

Change DPI window

First, select the (1) Page Range for which you'd like to adjust the DPI. Next, from the (2) Select DPI drop down menu, select the desired DPI from the list (from 75 - 300). When the new settings are configured, click (3) OK to make the changes.