Scanning

Using your fax machine as a scanner

Your facsimile unit can be used as a scanner enabling you to incorporate image files into other Windows applications. The scanned file can be saved as a Panasonic .ALA (image) file (see note below), a .TIF, .PCX,

.DCX, or .BMP file.

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Place the document(s) on your machine. <Fig. 1>

2

Windows 95 Users:

Select the Start button. Point to Programs, point

 

to Multi-Function Center, and then click Viewer.

 

¡The Viewer application window will appear.

 

Windows 3.1/3.11 Users:

 

Double click Viewer in the Multi-Function Center.

 

¡The Viewer application window will appear.

3

Select Scan from the File menu. <Fig. 2>

¡The TWAIN Scanner dialog box will appear.

 

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4

Set the intensity and optimize for the type of

document you are scanning.

5

Select Scan.

¡The scanned document is displayed in the

 

Viewer application window.

6

Select Save As... from the File menu.

¡The Save As dialog box will appear. <Fig. 4>

7

Enter the file name in the File name text box, and

then select the drive and directory where you want

 

to store the document.

8

Select the OK button.

Note:

¡Text editing cannot be performed with this unit without OCR upgrade software. See Upgrade Now!

¡If you are using Windows 3.1/3.11, the dialog box images will slightly differ from the ones shown here.

¡A Panasonic .ALA (image) file is a file only for Panasonic Multi-Function Center software. If you save an image file as .ALA file with description, you can search for the file with Finder application even if you cannot remember the name of the document or the directory in which it is filed.

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