The steps below will show you how to scan photos and documents with your printer from a Mac.

Start to scan

1. Place the document on the scanning glass.

2. On you computer start MP Navigator EX and open the Navigation Mode screen.

3. In Scan/Import, select Photos/Documents (Platen).

   

4. In Document Type select a match to the type of document you want to scan.

   
   
   When you select Magazine (Color), the descreen function will be enabled and the scans will take longer than usual. To disable the descreen function, deselect the Descreen checkbox in the Scan Settings box.

   • Select Text(OCR) to extract the text from an image and convert it to editable text. This setting isn't available when the Compress scanned images when transferring checkbox is selected on the General tab of the Preferences dialog.

   • Color scans aren't 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.

5. Click Specify... to set the document size and scan resolution as required.

6. When setup is complete, select OK.
    When you scan a large document, such as an A4 size photo, align its corner with the corner at the arrow or alignment mark of the glass and specify the document size in the Scan Settings dialog.

7. Select Scan.

8. ​When the scan completes, a dialog box opens. Select Exit to complete the task or Scan to scan the another document. Select Cancel to cancel the scan.

9. ​The scanned images appear in the Thumbnail window.

10. Edit the scanned images as required.

• Use Edit Tools to rotate images, select a part of an image, etc.

• See the Edit Tools in the Photos/Documents (Platen) Screen Scan/Import Window for details.

• 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 the drag and drop method and place them into the Selected Images area.

11. Saved the scan as a regular image or PDF file.

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