Brother MFC-9660 - Chapter 13: Using the Windows-Based Brother Control Centre Continued 2

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Using the Control Panel Keys
Before you can use the Scan keys on the control panel, you must have connected the machine 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 Centre application is
running on your PC.
Scan to E-mail
You can scan documents into your E-mail application as a file attachment. Although the Brother
Control Centre can be configured to send only black and white file attachments at one time, you can
easily change this setting. (See Scan to E-mail, page 86)
1 Insert the document face down in the Automatic Document Feeder.
2 Press Scan to E-mail.
3 The machine will scan the document, create a file attachment, and launch your E-mail
application, displaying the new message waiting to be addressed.
Scan to Image
You can scan a picture into your graphics application for viewing and editing.
1 Insert the document face down in the Automatic Document Feeder.
2 Press Scan to Image.
3 The machine will scan the document and send a image to your graphics application.
Scan to OCR
If your document 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 Insert the document face down in the Automatic Document Feeder.
2 Press Scan to OCR.
3 The machine will scan the document perform OCR in ScanSoft
™
TextBridge
®
, and then display
the result in your word processing application for viewing and editing.