Brother Control Center 3 User Guide

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ePress and hold down the left mouse button and drag it over the portion you want to scan.  
fIf you need advanced settings, click Adjust the quality of the scanned picture (3). You can choose 
Brightness, Contrast, Resolution and Picture type from Advanced Properties. Click OK after you 
choose settings.
 
gClick the Scan button in the Scan dialog box.
The machine starts scanning the document.
This time only the chosen area of the document appears in the PaperPort™11SE window (or your...

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Running the utility
You can run the utility by clicking the Scanner Utility located in Start/All Programs/Brother/MFC-XXXX 
menu (where XXXX is your model name)/Scanner Settings/Scanner Utility.
Screens on your PC may vary depending on your operating system or the model of your machine.
 
Note
(Windows Vista® and Windows®7)
When the User Account Control screen appears, do the following.
• For users who have administrator rights: Click Allow or Yes.
 
• For users who do not have...

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Scanning a document using the WIA driver 
(Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Fax and Scan users)
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Scanning a document into the PC2
There are two ways to scan a whole page. You can either use the ADF (automatic document feeder) or the 
Flatbed scanner glass.
If you want to scan and then crop a portion of a page after pre-scanning the document, you must scan using 
the scanner glass (Flatbed). (See Pre-Scanning and cropping a portion using the scanner glass on page 49.)
aLoad your...

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fAdjust the following settings, if needed, in the Scanner dialog box: 
1 Profile
2 Source
3 Paper size
4 Color format
5Filetype
6 Resolution
7 Brightness
8 Contrast
Note
By default, the scanner resolution can be set to a maximum of 1200 dpi.
If you want to scan at higher resolutions, use the Scanner Utility. (See Scanner Utility on page 45.)
 
gClick the Scan button in the Scan dialog box.
The machine starts scanning the document.
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Pre-Scanning and cropping a portion using the scanner glass2
The Preview button is used to preview an image for cropping any unwanted portions from the image. When 
you are satisfied with the preview, click the Scan button in the Scan dialog box to scan the image.
aFollow the steps from a to e of Scanning a document into the PC on page 47.
bPut the document face down on the scanner glass.
cChoose Flatbed in the Source drop-down list. Adjust the following settings, if needed, in the Scanner...

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ePress and hold down the left mouse button and drag it over the portion you want to scan. 
fClick the Scan button in the Scan dialog box.
The machine starts scanning the document.
This time only the chosen area of the document appears in your application window. 

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Using ScanSoft™ PaperPort™11SE with OCR by NUANCE™2
Note
ScanSoft™ PaperPort™11SE supports Windows® 2000 (SP4 or greater) or XP (SP2 or greater), XP 
Professional x64 Edition, Windows Vista
® and Windows®7 only.
 
ScanSoft™ PaperPort™11SE for Brother is a document management application. You can use 
PaperPort™11SE to view scanned documents.
PaperPort™11SE has a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use filing system that will help you organize your graphics 
and text documents. It allows you to mix...

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Viewing items2
ScanSoft™ PaperPort™11SE gives several ways to view items:
Desktop view displays the item in the chosen folder with a thumbnail (a small graphic that shows each item 
in a desktop or folder) or an icon.
You can see both PaperPort™11SE items (MAX files) and non-PaperPort™11SE items (files created using 
other applications).
All graphical files (PaperPort™11SEs *.max and other files) will be displayed and include an icon that 
indicates the application that the specific file...

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Organizing your items in folders2
PaperPort™11SE has an easy-to-use filing system for organizing your items. The filing system consists of 
folders and items that you choose to view in Desktop view. An item can be a PaperPort™11SE item or a 
non-PaperPort™11SE item:
Folders are arranged in a ‘tree’ structure in the Folder View. You use this section to choose folders and 
view their items in Desktop view.
You can simply drag and drop an item onto a folder. When the folder is highlighted,...

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Importing items from other applications2
As well as scanning items, you can bring items into PaperPort™11SE in a variety of ways and convert them 
to PaperPort™11SE (MAX) files in several different ways:
Print to the Desktop view from another application, such as Microsoft
® Excel®.
Import files saved in other file formats, such as Windows
® Bitmap (BMP) or Tagged Image File Format 
(TIFF).
Exporting items into other formats2
You can export or save PaperPort™11SE items in several popular...