Going Digital

What if you're scanning a whole page of a newspaper but all you're really interested in is a headline and a photo? Use ScanGear MF. You can select what you want from a preview, and then have the scanner disregard the rest. Otherwise you'll have to use an editing program to crop out everything you don't need.


Using your product to scan, print or otherwise reproduce certain documents, and the use of such images as scanned, printed or otherwise reproduced by your product, may be prohibited by law and may result in criminal and/or civil liability. If you are uncertain about the legality of using your product to scan, print or otherwise reproduce any particular document, and/or of the use of the images scanned, printed or otherwise reproduced, you should consult in advance with your legal advisor for guidance.

Using your product to scan, print or otherwise reproduce certain documents, and the use of such images as scanned, printed or otherwise reproduced by your product, may be prohibited by law and may result in criminal and/or civil liability. If you are uncertain about the legality of using your product to scan, print or otherwise reproduce any particular document, and/or of the use of the images scanned, printed or otherwise reproduced, you should consult in advance with your legal advisor for guidance.

For more information about this function, see Configuring Scan Settings in ScanGear MF.

You can convert scanned documents to regular PDF files, or you can go a step further and make the text in that scanned document searchable. There's a lot more you can do with a PDF file when you make it text-searchable. To do this, just select "PDF" as the scan type when you scan with MF Toolbox.


You cannot create a searchable PDF in the Macintosh environment.

For more information about this function, see Scanning Using MF Toolbox.

Text normally gets scanned as an image, but you can convert it into text that can also be edited. Select "OCR" as the scan type when you scan with MF Toolbox. The software that comes with this machine will convert any text in the scanned image into text data that you can then edit with a text editor.

For more information about this function, see Scanning Using MF Toolbox.

Some applications work with the machine to let you easily import scanned images directly into documents you're working on. This way you can skip the steps of opening a separate application just for receiving the scanned images and then exporting them to the application you're really using.

For more information about this function, see Scanning Using an Application.