
HOW TO SCAN USING WINDOWS® 3 - 1
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How to scan using Windows®
■The scanning operations and drivers will be different
depending on your operating system.
■The screens shown in this chapter are from MFC-8840D.
For Windows® XP
The machine uses Windows® Imaging Acquisition (WIA) for
scanning documents. (See Scanning a document (For
Windows® XP only) on page 3-2.)
In addition to the WIA driver, there is also a TWAIN compliant
scanner driver installed. If you want to use it, you can switch
TWAIN on from the MFC-XXXX or DCP-XXXX (for advanced
user) located in the Start/All Programs/Brother/MFL-Pro
Suite MFC-XXXX, or DCP-XXXX/Enable-Disable
TWAIN/MFC-XXXX or DCP-XXXX (for advanced user) on
your computer. (See TWAIN compliant on page 3-8.)
For Windows® 98/98SE/Me and 2000 Professional
The machine uses a TWAIN Compliant driver for scanning
documents from your applications. (See Scanning a document
on page 3-8.)
For Macintosh®
Go to Using the Brother TWAIN scanner driver with your
Macintosh® on page 7-20.
For ScanSoft® PaperPort® 9.0SE and OmniPage® OCR
Go to Using ScanSoft® PaperPort® 9.0SE and OmniPage® OCR
on page 3-20.