Brother International MFC 9420CN Software Users Manual - English - Page 34

Scanning, Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver, TWAIN compliant

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2 Scanning The scanning operations and drivers will be different depending on your operating system. The machine uses a TWAIN compliant driver for scanning documents from your applications. ■ For Windows® XP 2 Two scanner drivers are installed. A TWAIN compliant scanner driver (see Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver on page 2-1) and a Windows Imaging Acquisition (WIA) driver (see Scanning a document using the WIA driver (For Windows® XP only) on page 2-8). Windows® XP users can select either one of the two when you scan documents. Note For ScanSoft®, PaperPort® 9.0SE and OmniPage® OCR, see Using ScanSoft® PaperPort® 9.0SE and OmniPage® OCR on page 2-14. Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver TWAIN compliant The Brother MFL-Pro Suite software includes a TWAIN compliant scanner driver. TWAIN drivers meet the standard universal protocol for communicating between scanners and software applications. This means that not only you can scan images directly into the PaperPort® 9.0SE viewer that Brother included with your machine, but you can also scan images directly into hundreds of other software applications that support TWAIN scanning. These applications include popular programs like Adobe® PhotoShop®, Adobe® PageMaker®, CorelDraw® and many more. 2 - 1

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The scanning operations and drivers will be different depending on your operating system. The machine uses
a TWAIN compliant driver for scanning documents from your applications.
For Windows
®
XP
Two scanner drivers are installed. A TWAIN compliant scanner driver (see
Scanning a document using the
TWAIN driver
on page 2-1) and a Windows Imaging Acquisition (WIA) driver (see
Scanning a document using
the WIA driver (For Windows
®
XP only)
on page 2-8). Windows
®
XP users can select either one of the two
when you scan documents.
Note
For ScanSoft
®
, PaperPort
®
9.0SE and OmniPage
®
OCR,
see Using ScanSoft
®
PaperPort
®
9.0SE and
OmniPage
®
OCR
on page 2-14.
Scanning a document using the TWAIN driver
TWAIN compliant
The Brother MFL-Pro Suite software includes a TWAIN compliant scanner driver. TWAIN drivers meet the
standard universal protocol for communicating between scanners and software applications. This means that
not only you can scan images directly into the PaperPort
®
9.0SE
viewer that Brother included with your
machine, but you can also scan images directly into hundreds of other software applications that support
TWAIN scanning. These applications include popular programs like Adobe
®
PhotoShop
®
, Adobe
®
PageMaker
®
, CorelDraw
®
and many more.
Scanning