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USING YOUR MACHINE WITH A MACINTOSH
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SCAN
This section contains four buttons for Scan to Image, Scan to OCR, 
Scan to E-mail and Scan to File applications.
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Image (Default: Apple PreView) — enables you to scan a page 
directly into any graphic viewer/editor application. You can select 
the destination application, such as Adobe
®
PhotoShop
®
or any
kind of image editing application you already have installed on 
your computer.
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OCR (Default: Apple Text Edit) — enables you to scan a page or 
document, automatically run the OCR application and insert the 
text (not a graphic image) into a word processing application. You 
have the option of selecting the target word processing 
application, such as MS Word or whichever word processing 
application is installed on your computer.
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E-mail (Default: your default E-mail software) — enables you to 
scan a page or document directly into an E-mail application as a 
standard attachment. You have the option of selecting the file 
type and resolution for the attachment.
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File — enables you to scan directly to a disk file. You can change 
the file type and destination folder, as needed.
ControlCenter2.0 gives you the ability to configure the hardware 
Scan key on your machine for each scan feature. Select the Device 
Button in the configuration menu for each of the SCAN buttons.
CUSTOM SCAN
You can configure the button name and settings for each of these 
buttons to meet your specific requirements by clicking on a button 
while holding down the Ctrl key and following the configuration 
menus.
For details about how to use the Scan key, see Using the scan 
key (For USB or Parallel interface cable users) on page 3-17.