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Question :

I have recently bought an Scanmarker Air scanner-pen. Seems like a great device. I’ve also installed the macOS-app. Strange thing is that the app’s icon is very pixelated.

How can I change that ?

Answer :

Scanmarker has released new colorful versions of the Scanmarker Air pen that can be bought here. It’s a great device for :

reading out written text from a book (very handy for anyone having dyslexia)
translating text on-the-fly
scanning text (or just portions of text) from textbooks

The official icon of the current Scanmarker app for macOS is still a 32x32pixels icon, which is a very old that shouldn’t be used in macOS (where 1024x1024pixels icons are standard).

Simplest way to fix this is to download an appropriate icon of higher resolution and paste that onto the app. Here’s how to :

either download my custom made 1024×1024 icon here :
or download the original icon here (still fuzzy since it is a 300x300pixels icon enlarged to OSX-native 152x152pixels) :
or download the icon of the iOS app here :
or download the diap desktop icon here :
after downloading your preferred icon, do this :
select the Scanmarker app in your Applications folder
press [CMD]+[I] to open the “Info” popup menu
then click on the icon (top left) and a blue outline will open around it
then open the file (with the icon as a picture) you’ve just downloaded in Preview
in Preview press [CMD]+[A] to select the entire image
then return to the Info-popup window, and press [CMD]+[V] to paste the new icon
now your Scanmarker app has a better looking icon
to make sure it also shows on the Desktop, delete the old Scanmarker alias from the Dock, then open the Scanmarker app again and right-click on it’s icon in the Dock and select “Keep in Dock” from the popup menu