Scan a document

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Scan a document

  1. Position the document on your scanner.
  2. On the File menu, click Scan New Document.
  3. In the Microsoft Office Document Scanning dialog box, select the options you want.
    • For information about scanning options, click Help.
    • To select additional scanning options, click Preset options, and then click either Create new preset or Edit selected preset.
    • If you want to scan double-sided pages, select the Original is double sided check box. If you have an automatic document feeder (ADF) and you have more pages than will fit into the feeder, click the Prompt for additional pages check box.
  4. Click Scan.

    If you selected the Original is double sided or Prompt for additional pages check box, the Microsoft Office Document Scanning dialog box reappears as necessary.

  5. To save the file, click Done after the last page is scanned.

Note   By default, optical character recognition (OCR) is performed automatically when you scan documents. To turn off this feature, click Scan New Document on the File menu, and then click either Create new preset or Edit selected preset. On the Processing tab of the Preset Options dialog box, clear the Use OCR to recognize the text of the scanned image check box.