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Posted on Mar 01, 2009

Brother MF-8440 scanner driver and document manager for Mac OS X

I am in process of migrating from Widows XP Pro to a Mac. I scan lots of documents. Have been using Nuance Paperport 11.0 on Windows.  I need a comparable document scanning and management tool for Mac environment.   The Mac automatically recognized the printer side of the MFC, but not the scanner.  And I'm having trouble finding a document management tool comparable to Paperport for the Mac

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I'm trying to scan 3 pages document but they are scanning as pictures instead of documents. I need to email these pages. Pleade help/

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Open preview and go to file and then scroll down to "import from scanner" MFC should show up as a choice and then when the window appears, go ahead and pick your preferences and scan

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