Scanning Photos and Documents

Scan documents such as photographs and text on the platen.

1.Open the Applications folder on the hard disk on which MP Navigator EX is installed (In Mac OS X v.10.6.x, select Applications from the Go menu in the Finder), then open the Canon Utilities folder and double-click the MP Navigator EX icon.

MP Navigator EX starts.

The MP Navigator EX navigation mode screen or one-click mode screen opens.

Navigation Mode Screen

One-click Mode Screen

When the one-click mode screen has opened, click the (Switch Mode) button to switch to the navigation mode screen.

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If the Show this window at startup checkbox is not selected, the last used screen opens.

You can complete scanning to saving, etc. all at one time by clicking the corresponding icon on the one-click mode screen. See the section below for details.

Easy Scanning with One-click

2. Point to Scan/Import and click Photos/Documents (Platen).

3. Place the document face-down on the platen, and select Document Type.

Place the document according to its type. Refer to the table below.

Important

When you select Color Photo or Black and White Photo, the position or size of the image may not be scanned correctly if you do not leave 3/8 inches (1 cm) or more space between the edges of the platen and the document.

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When you select Magazine(Color), the Descreen function will be enabled and scanning takes longer than usual. To reset the Descreen function, disable Descreen in the Scan Settings dialog box.

Select Text(OCR) to extract the text in the image and convert to editable text data using MP Navigator EX. This setting is not available when the Compress scanned images when transferring checkbox is selected on the "General Tab" of the Preferences dialog.

Color scanning is not available for Text(OCR). To scan in color, open the OCR dialog from the One-click Mode screen and scan with Color Mode set to Color.

4. Click Specify... and set the preferences as required.

The Scan Settings Dialog Box opens. Specify the Document Size and Scanning Resolution.

5. Click Scan.

Scanning starts.


When scanning is completed, a dialog opens. Select Scan or Exit. Select Scan to scan the next document, or select Exit to end.

When scanning is completed, the scanned image appears in the Thumbnail window.

6. Edit the scanned image as required.

When there are multiple images, first select images to edit. (Selected images are outlined in orange.)
Use edit tools to rotate images, select a part of an image, etc.

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First select images to edit. (Selected images are outlined in orange.) Use shift-click or command-click to select multiple images. You can also select images by dragging and dropping them into the Selected Images area.

7. Click 'Save' or 'Save as PDF' file.

8. Specify the following settings as required:

When Save is selected:

The Save dialog box opens. Specify the destination folder, file name and file type.

Important

You cannot select JPEG/Exif when Document Type is Text(OCR).

You cannot select JPEG/Exif when Black and White is selected for Color Mode on the Advanced Mode tab of ScanGear (scanner driver).

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By default, MP Navigator EX in the Pictures folder is specified as the destination folder.

When Save as PDF file is selected:

The Save as PDF file dialog box opens. Specify the file type, file name and destination folder.

Select from the following PDF file types:

PDF	When multiple images are selected, each image is saved as a separate PDF file.
PDF(Multiple Pages)	Multiple images are saved in one PDF file.
PDF(Add Page)	Selected images are added to a specified PDF file. The images are added to the end of the PDF file. You cannot rearrange pages of the PDF file to which images are added. Important You can select only PDF files created with MP Navigator EX PDF files edited in other applications cannot be selected as well.

Important

PDF(Multiple Pages) is displayed when multiple images are selected.

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9. Click 'Save'.

Scanned images are saved according to the settings.

To further use/edit the scanned images on MP Navigator EX, click Open saved location in the Save Complete dialog box. The saved images appear in the View & Use screen.

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Easy Scanning with One-click

You can complete from scanning to saving easily by simply clicking the corresponding icon.

1. Place the document face-down on the platen.

2. Open the Applications folder on the hard disk on which MP Navigator EX is installed (In Mac OS X v.10.6.x, select Applications from the Go menu in the Finder), then open the Canon Utilities folder and double-click the MP Navigator EX icon.

3. Point to One-click.

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Omit this step if the one-click mode screen opened in Step 2.

4. Click the corresponding icon.

Save

PDF

Scan documents, save them as PDF files and start the specified application.

The PDF dialog box opens when you click this button. Specify the scan/save settings and scan.

Mail

Scan documents or photographs and attach them to e-mail.

The Mail dialog box opens when you click this button.

*Select an ADF option in Document type if scanning from the Automatic Document Feeder (ADF).

You can click Specify to open the Scan Settings dialog in which you can make advanced scan settings. You can also specify the settings for scanning sides of the documents at one time from the ADF (Auto Document Feeder).

Specify the save settings and e-mail software program, and scan.

Note:

MP Navigator EX is compatible with the following e-mail software programs:

- Mail (Mac OS standard)

- EUDORA

- Microsoft Entourage

(If an e-mail software program does not operate properly, check that the program supports file attachments. For details, refer to the manual of the e-mail software program.)

OCR

Important

For further procedures, refer to the manual of the application.

Custom

Scan documents or photographs and open them in the specified application.

The Custom dialog box opens when you click this button. Specify the scan/save settings and application, and scan.

Important

For further procedures, refer to the manual of the application.

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When saving multiple files, 4 digits are appended to each file name.

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