Scan Using ControlCenter4 Advanced Mode (Windows®)

Scan Using ControlCenter4 Advanced Mode (Windows^®)

Brother provides a software interface for your machine called ControlCenter. You can use this software to quickly scan photos and save them as JPEGs or PDFs, as well as other file formats. You can also scan single sided and 2-sided documents or use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to convert them to editable text.

•	Scan Photos and Graphics
•	Scan Documents (Scan to PDF)
•	Scan Documents (Other File Types)
•	Scan Colour and Black-and-white Documents at the Same Time
•	Scan Documents of Different Sizes at the Same Time
•	Scan Business Cards
•	Scan Two Documents and Combine Them as a Single Page (2 in 1)
•	Scan Documents Larger than A4
•	Scan Documents Longer than A4
•	Scan Documents with More than 50 Pages
•	Scan Both Sides of a Document Automatically
•	Scan Specific and Irregular Sized Documents Using the Carrier Sheet
•	Scan Plastic Cards
•	Correct the Skew of the Document
•	Delete Blank Pages
•	Change Document Orientation to Match the Text
•	Detect Overlapping (Multifeed) Documents
•	Scan Documents Laid on Top of Each Other
•	Scan Envelopes
•	Prevent Bleed Through
•	Remove the Background Colour and Make Documents Easier to Read
•	View the Page Count of Scanning Results
•	Scan to an Application
•	Scan to an E-mail Attachment
•	Scan to an Editable Text File (OCR)
•	Save Scanned Data to a Folder
•	Change Scan Settings

Scan Photos and Graphics

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.

Right-click the

(Image) button and select Button settings to change scan settings, such as file format, resolution, colour or Scan-to application if needed (see Change Scan Settings).

Click the

(Image) button.

The message dialog appears. Click the Start Scanning button.

The machine starts scanning, and the image will be opened in the application you have chosen.

Note

Check the Don’t show me again. check box to not show the message dialog again.

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