Scanning; Scanning A Document Using The Twain Driver; Twain Compliant - Brother MFC-8460N Software User's Manual

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Scanning

The scanning operations and drivers will be different depending on your operating system. The machine uses
a TWAIN compliant driver for scanning documents from your applications.
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For Windows XP/Windows Vista
Two scanner drivers are installed. A TWAIN compliant scanner driver (See TWAIN compliant on page 34)
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and a Windows Imaging Acquisition (WIA) driver (See Scanning a document using the WIA driver (For
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Windows XP/Windows Vista
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Windows XP and Windows Vista
Note
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• For ScanSoft PaperPort
• If your PC is protected by a firewall, and is unable to scan, you may need to configure the firewall settings
to allow communication through port number 137 and 54925. Visit the Brother Solutions Center
(http://solutions.brother.com) for more information.

Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver

TWAIN compliant

The Brother MFL-Pro Suite software includes a TWAIN compliant scanner driver. TWAIN drivers meet the
standard universal protocol for communicating between scanners and applications. This means that you can
not only scan images directly into the PaperPort
can also scan images directly into hundreds of other software applications that support TWAIN scanning.
These applications include popular programs like Adobe
and many more.
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user's can choose either one of two when you scan documents.
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, see Using ScanSoft
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SE viewer that Brother included with your machine, but you
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PaperPort SE with OCR on page 53.
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Photoshop , Adobe
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PageMaker , CorelDraw
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