Scanning; Scanning A Document Using The Twain Driver; Scanning A Document Into The Pc - Brother MFC-250C Software User's Manual

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Scanning

The scanning operations and the drivers used 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 Scanning a document using
the TWAIN driver on page 35) and a Windows
using the WIA driver (For Windows
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Windows XP/Windows Vista
Note
• For ScanSoft™ PaperPort™ 11SE, see Using ScanSoft™ PaperPort™ 11SE with OCR by NUANCE™
on page 63.
• If your PC is protected by a firewall and is unable to network scan, you may need to configure the firewall
settings to allow communication through port number 54925 and 137. If you are using Windows
and you installed MFL-Pro Suite from the CD-ROM, the necessary Firewall settings have already been
made. For more information, see Firewall settings (For Network users) on page 139.

Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver

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™ 11SE viewer that Brother included with your machine, but
you 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.

Scanning a document into the PC

There are two ways in which you can scan a whole page. You can either use the ADF (automatic document
feeder) or the scanner glass.
a
Load your document.
b
Start the ScanSoft™ PaperPort™ 11SE software that was installed during the MFL-Pro Suite installation
to scan a document.
Note
The instructions for scanning in this Guide are for when you use ScanSoft™ PaperPort™ 11SE. The
scanning steps may vary when using other software applications.
c
Click File, then Scan or Get Photo. You can also click the Scan or Get Photo button.
The Scan or Get Photo panel appears on the left side of the screen.
d
Click the Select button.
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Image Acquisition (WIA) driver (See Scanning a document
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XP/Windows Vista
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users can select either driver when scanning documents.
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Photoshop , Adobe PageMaker
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