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USING THE WINDOWS
®
-BASED BROTHER CONTROL CENTER
16 - 3
Using the Control Panel Keys
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 Brother Control Center
Features, pages 16-4 to 16-7.)
Scan Image
You can scan a color picture into your graphics application for viewing and
editing.
1
Place your original face up in the ADF, or face down on the scanner glass.
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 the original face up in the ADF, or face down on the scanner glass.
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 Send Scan to E-mail, pages
16-8 to 16-10.)
1
Place the original face up in the ADF or face down on the scanner glass.
2
Press Scan to E-mail.
If you have connected a Macintosh, the control panel keys will not work with
your computer. Please see page 21-1.
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