Scan Documents (Scan to PDF)

Load your document.

Click the

(ControlCenter4) icon in the task tray and then select Open from the menu.

The ControlCenter4 window will appear.

Note

You can also start ControlCenter4 by doing one of the following:

•	(Windows^® XP, Windows Vista^®) Double-click the (ControlCenter4) icon in the task tray.
•	Click ControlCenter4 located in Start/All Programs/Brother/ADS-XXXX (where XXXX is your model name).

Select the Scan tab.

Do one of the following:

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Select Photo, Text and Graph, or Monochrome Text in the Document Type option for the type of document you want to scan.

•	Photo: 600 × 600 dpi, 24bit Colour
•	Text and Graph: 300 × 300 dpi, 24bit Colour
•	Monochrome Text: 200 × 200 dpi, Black and White

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Select Custom in the Document Type option and then configure the scan settings in detail. See Custom Scan Settings.

Change the scan size if needed (see Change the Scan Size).

Click the

(Scan) button.

The machine starts scanning, and then the Scanning Completed dialog box will appear and display the number of scanned pages. The scanned image appears in the image viewer.

Note

If the Scanning Completed dialog box does not appear and you want to display the number of scanned pages, check the Display Scanning Results check box.

Click the left or right arrow buttons to preview each scanned document.

Click the

(Save) button.

The Save dialog box will appear.

Select PDF (*.pdf) from the File Type drop-down list.

Note

•	To save the document as a password-protected PDF, select Secure PDF (*.pdf) from the File Type drop-down list, click the (Set PDF Password) button, and enter the password.
•	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.
•	To save the document as a searchable PDF, select Searchable PDF (*.pdf) from the File Type drop-down list.
•	To save the document as a searchable PDF, Nuance™ PaperPort™12SE must be installed on your computer.
•	Several file types such as TIFF, TIFF Multi-Page, PDF and JPEG support file size compression. Select Uncompressed or Compressed to adjust the file size for TIFF or TIFF Multi-Page. For JPEG and PDF use the slider to adjust the file size.

In the File Name field, enter a prefix for the file name if needed.

In the Destination Folder field, click the folder icon and browse to the folder you would like to save your scanned document to.

Click the OK button.

The scanned document is saved in the destination folder as a PDF.

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