How To Scan Using Windows; Scanning A Document; Twain Compliant - Brother MFC-8420 User Manual

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How to scan using
Windows
The scanning operations and drivers will be different depending
on your operating system.
For Windows
Windows
The MFC uses a TWAIN Compliant driver for scanning
documents from your applications. (See Scanning a document,
TWAIN compliant on page 13-1.)
For Windows
The MFC uses Windows
scanning documents. (See Scanning a document (For
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Windows
For ScanSoft
Go to Using ScanSoft
page 13-19.

Scanning a document

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 software applications.
This means that not only can you scan images directly into the
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PaperPort viewer that Brother included with your MFC, but you can
also scan images directly into hundreds of other software
applications that support TWAIN scanning. These applications
include popular programs like Adobe
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PageMaker , CorelDraw
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95/98/98SE/Me/2000 Professional and
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NT Workstation 4.0
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XP
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XP only) on page 13-10.)
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, PaperPort
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PaperPort
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and many more.
Imaging Acquisition (WIA) for
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and TextBridge
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and TextBridge
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Photoshop

HOW TO SCAN USING WINDOWS

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OCR
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OCR on
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, Adobe
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