Brother DCP 8020 User Manual

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6If you require advanced settings, click Picture Type from the 
Adjust the quality of the scanned picture (C). You can select 
Brightness, Contrast, Resolution and Advanced Properties.  
Click the OK button after you choose your settings.
7To start scanning your document, click the Scan button in the 
Scan dialog box.
This time only the selected area of the original will appear in the 
PaperPort
® window (or your software application window).
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Brother Scanner Utility
The Brother Scanner Utility is used for configuring the scanner driver 
for resolutions greater than 1200dpi and for changing the paper size.
If you want to set Legal size as the default size, change the setting 
using this utility. You must restart your PC for the new settings to take 
effect.
To run the utility:
You can run the utility by selecting the Scanner Utility located in the 
Start/All Programs/Brother/Brother MFL-Pro Suite menu.
If...

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Using the scan key (For USB or 
Parallel interface cable users)
You can use Scan on the control panel to scan originals into your 
word processing, graphics or E-mail applications or your computer 
folder. The advantage of using 
Scan is that you avoid the mouse 
clicks required to scan from your computer.
For Scan to E-mail, Scan to Image, Scan to OCR and Scan 
to File
Before you can use 
Scan on the control panel, you must have 
connected the DCP to your Windows
®...

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Scan to E-mail
You can either scan a black and white or color original into your 
E-mail application as a file attachment. You can change the 
Scan 
configuration. (See Scan to E-mail on page 9-10 to 9-11) (For 
Windows
® XP: See Hardware Section: Changing the Scan to button 
configuration
 on page 10-5 to 10-11.)
1Place the original face up in the ADF, or face down on the 
scanner glass.
2Press Scan.
3Press   or   to select Scan 
to E-mail
.
Press 
Set.
The DCP will...

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Scan to OCR
If your original is text, you can have it converted by ScanSoft® 
TextBridge
® to an editable text file and then have the result displayed 
in your word processing application for viewing and editing. You can 
change the 
Scan configuration. (See Scan to OCR (Word 
Processor) on page 9-12 to 9-13.) (For Windows
® XP: See Hardware 
Section: Changing the Scan to button configuration on page 10-5 to 
10-11.)
1Place the original face up in the ADF, or face down...

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Using ScanSoft® PaperPort® and 
TextBridge
® OCR
ScanSoft® PaperPort® for Brother is a document management 
application. You will use PaperPort® to view scanned documents. 
PaperPort
® has a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use, filing system that 
will help you organize your graphics and text documents. It allows 
you to combine or “stack” documents of different formats for printing 
or filing. 
ScanSoft
® PaperPort® can be accessed through the ScanSoft® 
PaperPort® program...

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Viewing items
ScanSoft® PaperPort® provides several ways to view items:
Desktop View displays a thumbnail (a small graphic that represents 
each item in a Desktop or folder).
Items in the selected folder appear on the PaperPort
® Desktop. You 
can see PaperPort® items (MAX files) and non-PaperPort® items 
(files created using other applications). 
Non-PaperPort
® items include an icon that indicates the application 
that was used to create the item; a non-PaperPort®...

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Organizing your items in folders
PaperPort® has an easy-to-use filing system for organizing your 
items. The filing system consists of folders and items that you select 
to view in Desktop View. An item can be a PaperPort
® item or a 
non-PaperPort® item:
■Folders are arranged in a “tree” structure in the Folder View.
You use this section to select folders and view their items in 
Desktop View.
■You can simply drag and drop an item onto a folder.
When the folder is...

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ScanSoft® TextBridge® OCR lets you convert 
image text into text you can edit
ScanSoft® TextBridge® OCR is installed automatically with 
PaperPort® when you install MFL-Pro Suite on your computer.
ScanSoft
® PaperPort® can quickly convert the text on a ScanSoft® 
PaperPort® item (which is really just a picture of the text) into text that 
you can edit with a word processing application.
PaperPort
® uses the optical character recognition application 
ScanSoft®...

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You can Export items in other formats
You can export or save PaperPort® items in several popular file 
formats, such as BMP, JPEG, TIFF, or self-viewing. 
For example, to create a file for an Internet Web site, export it as a 
JPEG file. Web pages often use JPEG files for displaying images.
Exporting an image file
1Select the Save As command from the File pull-down menu in 
the PaperPort® window. The Save ‘XXXXX’ as dialog box will be 
displayed.
2Select the drive and...