The document is larger than the scanner bed?
There are a few A3 12×17 inch flatbed scanners, but they are quite expensive. Otherwise, you can scan two or more partial images, and join them. The manual way is to open the images in a photo program, and enlarge the canvas size (meaning background frame) of one image large enough to hold all images, and then copy them in. Layers are easier to align than Copy-Paste operations (layers float independently, more tries at alignment). Manually adjust the positions to align pixels. Joining images this way is called stitching. Ulead PhotoImpact and Corel Photo-Paint and Micrografx Picture Publisher 8 have menus EDIT – STITCH, which are specific tools for this purpose. See their STITCH Help menu. Photoshop Elements has File – Photo Merge (which is more manual). Several panoramic photo programs also do this, search www.google.com for panoramic. Turn off all automatic contrast settings when scanning the parts. Adjust the contrast of the first using manual settings, and leave it the same for the
