How to Scan a Document

Most people love the ideas of scanning a document of a picture but are not sure of how to do it. We are here to help, we are going to go basic step by step and help you learn how to scan a document to the computer.

Step one: Place your document face down like a copier machine on the face of the scanner. Make sure you follow the arrows on the base of the scanner to make sure that your paper is in the correct position.

Step two: Press the start button, now what will happen is that will ignite the scanning software to come on. Then in the right side corner of the computer you will see a preview of what the document will scan like, it will appear as a thumbnail in the corner.

Step three: This step lets you scan a part of the document if you wish. You can do this by using the mouse and dragging the part of the document you wish to be scanned only.

Step four: Once you have a decided what you are going to scan either a complete document or a partial, then you click on the button SCAN.

Step Five: Once the scanning is complete you will see the words Imaging for Windows, this is where you can either save or delete the image that was just scanned. You can save your image in a folder or you can keep it on your desk top.

Scanning doesn’t seem so hard once you see it printed out like this. It is quick and very simple to use. These instructions are for the Epson Expression 1640.