Many thanks for the reply. I did all the above. No improvement. I did the manual thing (your link), no improvement. There was a firmware update for my Epson printer, no difference, regretfully. I uninstalled/re-installed the drivers (printer/scanner), no improvement. I then unstalled/re-installed Acrobat entirely (incl registry settings and all possible leftovers), no improvement. Finally, I could the left margin back by setting the papersize to "Letter" - when launching Epson scan software, by default it is set to that size: 215.9 x 279.4mm (A4 is longer format, 210x297mm) OTOH it looks like it is scanning the entire A4 page nonetheless. So, the left margin in 'restored', so to say. The blurry font isn't. I wonder whether it has something to do with how things are being displayed, i.e. Acrobat monitor settings. I have a 27"HP Dreamcolor monitor, maybe there is some setting within Acrobat to adjust it ..? Beats me.. Top is Acrobat, in the middle a screenshot when Epson scans it to a jpg file and at the bottom Abby FineReader.
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