How to scan a document, photos on a computer from a printer, scanner: instruction

Description of two universal ways to scan a document from a printer, a scanner to a computer.

Almost every person at least once in his life had to translate paper photographs, copies of passports or other documents into electronic form. But, despite the simplicity of this task, some people do not have a sufficient amount of knowledge and skills to cope with it on their own.

This article presents detailed instructions for scanning photos and documents on a PC using a printer or scanner, which will help to perform this procedure with maximum speed and without much trouble even inexperienced users of personal computers.

What do you need to know before starting working with a scanner, a printer on a computer?

In order to avoid possible conflicts with equipment and other difficulties when scanning photography or document, it is extremely important to prepare correctly for this process and make sure that some conditions have been fulfilled. So what do you need to know before starting working with a scanner, a printer on a computer:

• Make sure your device is designed to scan documents. Despite the fact that the modern office equipment presented on the market today is multifunctional, there are a lot of narrow profile models that do not have scanning function;
• Make sure the printer or scanner is correctly connected to the computer. Most models allow you to connect to a computer using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, however, some personal computers may not have these modules. Therefore, it is best to choose a method of connecting via a USB cable that comes with your device. So you will definitely be sure that there will be no problems with the connection;
• After connecting the device to the computer via a USB-shhnur, you need to turn on the device itself. It should have an activation button, after pressing on which one or more light indicators should light up on the device. If this does not happen, then it is worth checking the USB-shhnur. Perhaps it is not inserted into the connector or damaged. Also, some models of scanners and printers have additional power supplies that need to be connected to the outlet;

Important: for some models of printers and scanners, it is necessary to install additional software (drivers). As a rule, a disk with the necessary software is complete with the device itself. If you lost or damaged it, then their model is indicated on the back of the scanner or printer. Enter the name of the model in the search engine Yandex or Google And download a package of drivers compatible for them.

After you connected the scanning device to the computer and it recognized it, insert your photo or document in the slot corresponding on the printer/scanner and close it tightly. On this, the preparatory part is completed and can be proceeded directly to the scan process itself.

How to work with a printer, scanner on a computer: scanning a document or photo

It is worth saying that there are a lot of various programs that will help you scan the document and save it to your computer. There are individual programs from producers of printers and scanners that are installed along with a package of drivers for individual models.

There are also professional programs for type Abbyy FinereaderEquipped with an impressive set of tools for recognizing printed and handwritten texts. But in this article two universal ways will be considered scan and save the document on a computer without the help of third -party software.

How to scan and save a document on a computer, photo by means of Windows operating system?

The easiest way to scan and save the document on a computer is to use standard means of the operating system. After connecting the device to the PC and installing the necessary drivers, you need to do the following actions:

Step 1.

• Expand the menu " Start"And choose" Control Panel».
• In the window that opens, find and go to the section " Devices and printers».

Step 2.

• A window will open in which the entire office equipment that has ever connected to your PC will be displayed. Among these devices, find a printer or scanner currently connected to a computer and click on it with a right mouse button.
• In the context menu that appears, select the line " Start scanning". If you use a printer for scanning and this function is absent in the context menu, then your model does not have a scan function.

Step 3.

• A window with scanning settings will open in front of you. Here you can choose a color or black and white version of the resulting image, configure its resolution, adjust contrast and brightness, improve the quality of the text, and so on.
• As soon as you configure everything, click on the button " Scan"And after some time, the program will automatically offer you to choose the path on the disk, where you should save the finished image.

How to scan and save a document on a computer, a photo using the Paint program?

The second way to scan and save a document or photo on a computer is to use a standard graphic editor Windows Paint. There is no particular difference between this option and the previous one. With the exception of, except, more quick setting and the preliminary viewing function of the resulting image. The procedure is as follows:

Step 1.

• Run the graphic editor Paint. You can do this through the menu " Start", In chapter " All programs" in folder " Standard».

Step 2.

• The working environment of the graphic editor will open in front of you Paintwhich will further be used for image import.
• In the upper left corner of the editor window, you need to open the menu section " File", Which looks like a white rectangle, and in the context menu that appears on the line" From a scanner or camera».

Step 3.

• A small window will appear in front of you, in which you can configure scan parameters. Initially, it seems that the assortment of the proposed scanning parameters is not large, but it is quite enough to create an image in good quality.
• Select the necessary settings and click on the button " View". This will allow you to see what the final result of the scan will look like.
• If everything suits you, then click on the button " Scan"And wait for the completion of the process.

Step 4.

• After the document is scored, its image will be automatically placed in the working environment of the graphic editor Paintwhere you can immediately make some changes to it, if necessary, turn it at a certain angle or reflect mirrored).
• To save the image to the computer, you should again open the menu section " File", And then bring the mouse cursor on the arrow next to the line" Save as". Thus, you can choose in what format to save the image on the computer.
• To obtain the best quality, it is recommended to save the image in the format PNG. If you need a balance between the quality and weight of the image, then save the document in the format JPEG.

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