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Scan to PDF

You can scan and save documents as PDF files.
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Load your document.
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Click the Graphic (ControlCenter2) icon in the menu bar and then select Open.
The ControlCenter2 window will appear.
Screen
Note Note
If Graphic (ControlCenter2) icon is not displayed in the menu bar, double-click the ControlCenter icon.
The ControlCenter icon is in Macintosh HD/Applications/Brother.
The Graphic (ControlCenter2) icon will appear in the menu bar.
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While holding down the Control key click the Image button in the SCAN tab.
The settings dialog box will appear.
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Select PDF (*.pdf) from the File Type drop-down list.
Note Note
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To save the document as a password-protected PDF, select Secure PDF (*.pdf) for File Type and then enter the password in the Set PDF Password dialog box.
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Searchable PDF is a file format that includes the text data layer over a scanned image. This layer allows you to search the text on the image data. The OCR language setting must be set to match the language you want to make the searchable PDF for.
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To save the document as a searchable PDF, select Searchable PDF (*.pdf) from the File Type drop-down list.
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To save the document as a searchable PDF, Presto! PageManager must be installed on your computer from the supplied DVD-ROM.
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Searchable PDF (*.pdf) is available for English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Korean.
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You can change the OCR Language with the OCR Language drop-down list in the setting dialog box for the Scan to OCR action.
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Several file types such as TIFF, TIFF Multi-Page, PDF, Secure PDF and JPEG support file size compression. Select Uncompressed or Compressed to adjust the file size for TIFF or TIFF Multi-Page. For PDF, Secure PDF and JPEG, use the slider to adjust the file size.
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Change other settings if needed (see Change Scan Settings).
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Click the Image button in the SCAN tab.
The message dialog appears. Click the Start Scanning button.
The machine starts scanning.
Note Note
Check the Don’t show me again. check box not to show the message dialog again.
The application selected for Target Application starts and the PDF file of the scanned document is displayed.
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