Basic Flow of the Scanning Operation

This section explains the basic flow of scanning operations.

In order to perform a scan, you need a scanner driver and an application that supports the scanner driver.

The following scanner drivers and image scanning applications are bundled with the scanner:

Scanner driver
- PaperStream IP driver
Image scanning application
- PaperStream ClickScan
- PaperStream Capture
- PaperStream Capture Pro (EVALUATION)

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For details about the scanner driver and image scanning applications, refer to Overview of the Bundled Software.
Scanning procedures, operations, and scan setting items slightly vary depending on the image scanning application and the scanner driver.

For details, refer to the manual or help for the image scanning application, and the help for the scanner driver.

Turn on the scanner.

For information on how to turn on the power, refer to How to Turn the Power ON.
Load documents on the hopper.

Set the documents with the front side (scanning side) facing up.

For information on how to load documents, refer to How to Load Documents.
Start an image scanning application.
Select a scanner driver to be used for scanning.

For some image scanning applications, selection of a scanner driver may not be needed.
Select a scanner.

Make sure to select the scanner model that is connected to the computer.

For some image scanning applications, selection of a scanner may not be needed.
In the setup window for the scanner driver, configure the scan settings.

For some image scanning applications, the setup window for the scanner driver may not appear.
Scan documents with the image scanning application.

For details, refer to the manual or help of the image scanning application.

ATTENTION

When the scanner and the computer are communicating, for instance, during scanning, do not perform an operation that causes disconnection of their communication, such as unplugging the USB cable or logging off the user account.