Image Capture behaves funnily under SnowLeopard

Dear Folks,
I have an Epson scanner, that is not likely to be supported under Snow.
Therefore I am happy that Image Capture can handle it.
However, this software seems to be too clever by half.
I scanned the first page of iWork, and Image Capture went immediately into research mode.
It successfully found "elements" that it thought to be independent, and produced 3 files:
one for "Wo", one for "T" and one that I wanted, "iWork".
I did not ask for this analysis and extra files.
First I thought that this facility was planned to find out if there were many different things on
the platen and scan/file separately. Not the elements of a single item.
Anyone who knows how to turn off this very silly behaviour?
Mike-oz
Version 6.0

Mike-oz wrote:
The problem is that whether the Detect Separate Items was and was not turned on, it made no difference.
After quick pre-scan, the user should be able
to draw around the thing it wants to scan at high resolution.
Mike-o, I might have a workaround for you.
First to recap ... I have the same problem with my Epson Stylus Photo RX500. The "Detect Separate Items" behavior occurs even when I uncheck the box before clicking Show Details. And still persists if I uncheck the box in the Show Details pane and redo the Overview scan.
Try this as a possible workaround:
Show Details
(an automatic Overview scan occurs)
Uncheck Detect Separate Items.
Eliminate the unwanted crop areas by clicking in the frame and hitting delete.
Then select the portion you want to scan by dragging the mouse pointer.
Click Scan.
Using this method I was able to get a single (full-page) output image.
The crucial step is deleting the unwanted crop areas before selecting the full page.

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