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Scan, File types – Brother DCP-J140W User Manual

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ControlCenter2

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SCAN

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There are four scan buttons for the Scan to Image, Scan to OCR, Scan to E-mail and Scan to File
applications.

Image (Default: Apple Preview)
Lets you scan a page directly into any graphic viewer/editor application. You can choose the destination
application, such as Adobe

®

Photoshop

®

or any kind of image editing application on your computer.

OCR (Default: Apple TextEdit)
Lets you scan a page or document, automatically run the OCR application and put text (not a graphic
image) into a word processing application. You can choose the target word processing application, such
as Microsoft

®

Word or any word processing application on your computer. You must download Presto!

PageManager and install it on your computer. For installation information see Using Presto! PageManager
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page 118.

E-mail (Default: your default E-mail software)
Lets you scan a page or document directly into an E-mail application as a standard attachment. You can
choose the file type and resolution for the attachment.

File
Lets you scan directly to a file. You can change the file type and destination folder, as needed.

ControlCenter2 gives you the ability to configure the hardware SCAN key on your machine and the
ControlCenter2 Software button for each scan feature. To configure the hardware SCAN key on your
machine choose the Device Button tab in the configuration menu for each of the SCAN buttons. To configure
the Software button in ControlCenter2 choose the Software Button tab in the configuration menu for each
of the SCAN buttons.

Note

You can configure your machine’s SCAN key for each ControlCenter2 button in the Device Button tab.
To change the default settings, click the button while holding down the Ctrl key and choose the
Device Button tab.

File types

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Choose the type of file to save the scanned images as from the drop-down list.