Scanning: In most cases

In most cases, Windows automatically discovers and installs both scanners connected locally and scanners located in the network. However, if a scanner isn't automatically discovered and installed, this article covers how to manually install the scanner. Once installed, the article then covers how to scan a picture or document. The default action and often only option of scanning a document is to save it as a picture. To scan the text of a document directly into text that a word processor can edit, you'd need to use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software. Scanning documents and photos is now as effortless as it’s supposed to be. Scan some pages as image files, rotate and crop them with the built-in presets and quickly share them via email — or create a multi-page PDF file, give it an expressive name and archive it in the right folder. With Scanner you can get everything done in one place, no additional image editors or expensive PDF software needed. Almost every scanner in use today is supported by this app, so you don’t need to use the ...