Scanning Photos and Documents
Scan documents such as photographs and text on the platen.
1. On the Windows desktop, double-click the MP Navigator EX icon.
Alternatively, on the Windows taskbar, click Start, point to (All) Programs, Canon Utilities, then MP Navigator EX. Then click MP Navigator EX.
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.
Reference 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.
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.
Document Type | How to place the document |
---|
Color Photo | Allow 3/8 inches (1 cm) or more space between the edges of the platen and the document. |
Black and White Photo |
Color Document | Align a corner of the document with the corner at the arrow of the platen. |
Black and White Document |
Magazine(Color) |
Text(OCR) |
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.
Reference 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 convert hand-written text or image data of printed text to text data with OCR software.
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, the Scan Complete dialog box 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 List area.
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.
Reference Drag the mouse or use Shift + arrow keys to select multiple images. (An orange frame appears around the selected image.)
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).
Reference By default, the following folders are specified as the destination folders. Windows 7: MP Navigator EX folder in My Pictures folder
Windows Vista: MP Navigator EX folder in Pictures folder
Windows XP: MP Navigator EX folder in My Pictures folder
Windows 2000: MP Navigator EX folder in My Pictures 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, MP Navigator or CanoScan Toolbox. You cannot select PDF files created with other applications. PDF files edited in other applications cannot be selected as well. |
Important PDF(Multiple Pages) is displayed when multiple images are selected.
Reference By default, the following folders are specified as the destination folders. Windows 7: MP Navigator EX folder in My Pictures folder
Windows Vista: MP Navigator EX folder in Pictures folder
Windows XP: MP Navigator EX folder in My Pictures folder
Windows 2000: MP Navigator EX folder in My Pictures folder
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.
TOP
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. On the Windows desktop, double-click the MP Navigator EX icon.
Alternatively, on the Windows taskbar, click Start, point to (All) Programs, Canon Utilities, then MP Navigator EX. Then click MP Navigator EX.
The MP Navigator EX navigation mode screen or one-click mode screen opens.
Navigation Mode Screen
One-click Mode Screen
3. Point to One-click.
Reference Omit this step if the one-click mode screen opened in Step
2.
4. Click the corresponding icon.
Save to PC/Save
Scan and save documents. Document type is automatically detected. File format is automatically set. Files are saved to a computer.
When you click this icon, the Save dialog box opens and you can specify the scan/save settings
Save as PDF file/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.
Attach to E-mail/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.
Important
- MP Navigator EX is compatible with the following e-mail software programs:
- Windows Mail (Windows Vista)
- Outlook Express (Windows XP/Windows 2000)
- Microsoft Outlook
(If an e-mail software program does not operate properly, check that the program's MAPI is enabled. To enable MAPI, refer to the manual of the e-mail software program.)
OCR
Scan text documents then extract text in the image and display it in Notepad (included with Windows).
When you click this icon, the OCR dialog box opens and you can specify the scan/save settings.
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.
Reference When saving multiple files, 4 digits are appended to each file name.
TOP