Scanning Photos and Documents

MP Navigator EX is an application that enables you to easily scan photos and documents. It is suitable even for beginners.

Scan documents such as photographs and text on the platen.

1. Place the document on the Platen.
    

2. Start MP Navigator EX and open the Navigation Mode screen.

   1. From the Start menu, select All Programs > Canon Utilities > MP Navigator EX folder > the MP Navigator EX icon.
      
      Navigation Mode Screen
      
      
      
      
      One-click Mode Screen
      
      
       

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

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

4. From the Document Type drop-down, select the type of document to scan.
   
   Scanning photos: Color Photo or Black and White Photo
   Scanning text documents: Color Document, Black and White Document or Text(OCR)
   Scanning magazines: Magazine(Color)
   
   
   
   Note:
   When you select Magazine(Color), the descreen function will be enabled and scanning takes longer than usual. To disable the descreen function, deselect the Descreen checkbox 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 of the Preferences dialog box.
   
   Color scanning is not available for Text(OCR). To scan in color, open the OCR dialog box from the One-click Mode screen and scan with Color Mode set to Color.
    

5. Click 'Specify' and specify the document size and resolution as required.
   The Scan Settings Dialog Box opens.
    

6. Click 'Scan'.
   Scanning starts.
   
   
    

7. 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.
   
   
   
    

8. Edit the scanned image as required.
   Use Edit Tools to rotate images, select a part of an image, etc.
   
   Note:
   
   When there are multiple images, first select images to edit (selected images are outlined in orange). Drag the mouse or use Shift + arrow keys to select multiple images.
   
    

9. Select the checkboxes of the images you want to save, then click 'Save' or 'Save as PDF' file.
   
   When Save is selected:
   The Save dialog box opens. Specify the destination folder, file name and file type.
   
   
   
   Note:
   
   You cannot select JPEG/Exif when Document Type is Text(OCR).
   
   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:

Note:
By default, the following folders are specified as the destination folders.
Windows Vista: MP Navigator EX folder in Picture folder
Windows XP: MP Navigator EX folder in My Pictures folder
Windows 2000: MP Navigator EX folder in My Pictures folder.

10. 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 on the Platen.
    

2. Start MP Navigator EX and open the Navigation Mode screen.

   1. From the Start menu, select All Programs > Canon Utilities > MP Navigator EX folder > the MP Navigator EX icon.
      
      Navigation Mode Screen
      
      
      
      
      One-click Mode Screen
      
      
      
      
      Note:
      
      Skip ahead to Step 4 if One-click Mode screen is open.
       

3. Point to One-click.
   
   
    

4. Click the corresponding icon.
    

5. Select Document Type according to the document to be scanned.
    

6. Set the document size and scanning resolution as required.
    

7. Start scanning.
   Starts scanning.
   
    

Auto Scan

Scan documents by automatically detecting the document type. File format is automatically set. Files are saved to a computer. You can apply Auto Photo Fix as required.
When you click this icon, the Auto Scan dialog box opens and you can specify the save settings.

Save to PC

Scan documents or photos and save them to a computer. The document type can be detected automatically.
When you click this icon, the Save dialog box opens and you can specify the scan/save settings.

Save as PDF file

Scan documents and save them as PDF files.
When you click this icon, the PDF dialog box opens and you can specify the scan/save and application settings.

Attach to E-mail

Scan documents or photos and attach them to e-mail.
When you click this icon, the Mail dialog box opens and you can specify the scan/save and e-mail software program settings.

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.

Custom

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