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.

Right-click the

(Image) button and select Button settings.

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.

Change other settings 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.

The PDF file of the scanned document is opened in the application you selected in Target Application.