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USING BROTHER CONTROL CENTER
Before you can use the Scan keys on the control panel, you must have connected
the MFC to your Windows
®
based PC and loaded the appropriate Brother
Drivers for your version of Windows
®
. When you are ready to use the Scan
keys, make sure the Brother Control Center application is running on your PC.
(For details about how to configure the Brother Control Center buttons to launch
the application of your choice using the Scan keys, see Chapter 15, Using the
Windows
®
Based Brother Control Center.)
Scan Image
You can scan a color picture into your graphics application for viewing and
editing.
1
Place your original face down in the ADF.
2
Press Scan Image.
The MFC will scan the original and send
a color image to your graphics application.
Scan/OCR
If your original is text, you can have it automatically converted by ScanSoft™
TextBridge
®
to an editable text file and then displayed in your word processing
application for further editing.
1
Place your original face down in the ADF.
2
Press Scan/OCR.
3
The MFC will scan the original perform
OCR in ScanSoft
™ TextBridge
®
, and
then display the result in your word
processing application for viewing and editing.
Scan to E-mail
You can scan either a black and white or a color original into your E-mail
application as a file attachment. Although the Brother Control Center can be
configured to send only black and white or color file attachments at one time,
you can easily change this setting. (For details see Chapter 15, Using the
Windows
®
Based Brother Control Center.)
1
Place the original face down in the ADF or on the scanner glass.
2
Press Scan to E-mail.
3
The MFC will scan the original, create a
file attachment, and launch your E-mail
application, displaying the new message
waiting to be addressed.
SCANNING:IMAGE
SCANNING:OCR
SCANNING:E-MAIL