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Scan using controlcenter2 (macintosh) – Brother ADS-2400N User Manual

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Scan Using Your Computer

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Scan Using ControlCenter2 (Macintosh)

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ControlCenter2 is a software utility that lets you access your frequently-used applications. Using
ControlCenter2 eliminates the need to manually launch specific applications.
There are four scan options: Scan to Image, Scan to OCR, Scan to E-mail and Scan to File.

Image (Default: Apple Preview)
Lets you scan a page directly into any graphic viewer/editor application. 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. Choose the target word processing application, such as
Microsoft

®

Word or any word processing application on your computer.

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

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

ControlCenter2 gives you the ability to configure the hardware to PC button on your machine and the

ControlCenter2 software button for each scan feature. To configure the hardware to PC button 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.

To start ControlCenter2, click the

(ControlCenter2) icon in the Dock.

If the

(ControlCenter2) icon is not displayed in the Dock, in the Finder menu bar,

click Go > Applications > Brother, and then double-click the

(ControlCenter2) icon.

The

ControlCenter2 will start.

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