Wednesday, October 3, 2012

HOW TO: Scan on A Mac (No Downloads Needed)

If you have ever used a PC computer, which I'm sure you have, than scanning on a PC is pretty straight forward. Not to say that scanning on a Mac is any easier or harder it's definitely different, so today I'm going to show you guys how to Scan on any Mac from any brand of printer(s). The beauty of the way I'm going to show you is that you don't need any extra software, so let's begin! (Ok..that kind of sounded corny). First go to your applications folder and locate Image Capture and click on it. Now the layout looks a big to simple but as you begin to scan more setting will bloom as your scan progresses. On the left side you will see a pane labeled "Devices" and below that "Shared".
If you're connected by USB than it will show under Devices or if you have it connected wirelessly it will show up under Shared. Next click  "Show Details" and you will have many options such as where to save the scanned document, color or black and white, format (JPEG, PNG, etc.), etc. Afterwards what you want to do is just crop it so wherever your image is double-click it and highlight the piece you want and hold Command + K (so you can crop the extra white space).

It's really simple to scan and if you're still having trouble scanning check out the video below!

-Thanks for reading and HAPPY TECH(: