3 From the Finder desktop, double-click the Lexmark 6500 Series folder.
4 Double-click the Lexmark 6500 Series Center icon.
5 Click Preview/Edit.
6 Click inside the document or image in the preview area.
7 Drag the nodes on the crop area to select the part of the image that you want to scan.
Note: Drag the nodes on the dashed border to expand or minimize the crop area.
8 Click .
9 Click . Only the designated cropped area is saved or sent to an application.
Related topics:
• “Loading original documents on the scanner glass” on page 33
Scanning clear images from magazines or newspapers
Descreening helps to remove wavy patterns from images scanned from magazines or newspapers.
1 Make sure the printer is connected to a computer, and both the printer and the computer are on.
2 Load an original document facedown on the scanner glass in the lower right corner.
3 From the Finder desktop, double-click the Lexmark 6500 Series folder.
4 Double-click the Lexmark 6500 Series Center icon.
5 From the “What is being scanned?” menu, select Magazine or Newspaper.
6 Click Preview/Edit.
7 Click to open the Scan Settings drawer.
8 From the Descreen pop-up menu on the Settings tab, choose Magazine or Newspaper.
9 Click .
Related topics:
• “Loading original documents on the scanner glass” on page 33
Scanning text for editing
Use the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software feature to scan a document and produce text you can edit
with a word-processing application.
Note: This function will work only if you have installed ABBYY FineReader 5 SprintX.
1 Load an original document facedown on the scanner glass.
2 From the Finder desktop, double-click the Lexmark 6500 Series folder.
3 Double-click the Lexmark 6500 Series Center icon.
4 From the “What is being scanned?” menu, select a document type other than Photo.
5 From the “How will the scanned image be used?” pop-up menu, choose To be edited (OCR).
6 From the “Send scanned image to” menu, choose a word-processing application to use for editing.
7 Click Scan.
Scanning
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