The scanner can be used with the CanoScan toolbox or Adobe Photoshop to scan documents. Using the CanoScan toolbox is a bit easier, so we recommend this method unless you need to do further editing in Photoshop.

Scanning with CanoScan Toolbox

Open the finder (by clicking on the happy mac face in the dock) and click the applications tab. Click on the CanoScan Toolbox folder and double click the CanoScan Toolbox X icon to start it up. You should see the something like the following:

The floating window is the main CanoScan window. For the most part, you can ignore most of the buttons. The one we want is the Save button in the middle. Click this and the following window will pop up.

We'll look at the basics of this window:

• Select source: This allows you to choose between the Platen (which is the scanner platform), Film (the film adaptor for scanning negatives), or Auto mode (a simplified mode that automates scanning). For most people, auto mode will be sufficient. If you wish to choose your own resolution, an alternate paper size, or custom cropping and advanced features, select Platen.
• Scan Mode: Chooses between different modes such as Color Photo, Black and White, and Grayscale. Auto-mode will choose the best option depending on the type of document you are scanning.
• Image Quality: The resolution of the scanned image, again automatically chosen in auto-mode. If you are scanning images to put on a website or email to someone, you'll want to choose 75 dpi here so that the image is not incredibly large.
• Use the scanner driver to make advanced settings: This will bring up an advanced scan window that allows you to preview, crop before scanning (rather than having the software automatially crop, useful if you only want part of the image or document) and rotate the image. The advanced window looks like this:
  
  
  
  
  On the left is the preview of the image which appears after clicking the Preview button. After the preview is displayed, the software will automatically try to select the document and display it's selection with a dotted line. Anything outside the dotted line will not be saved, you can adjust this selection by clicking and draggin on the line. The top menu bar allows you to rotate the image and perform other functions. On the right, you can choose the source and type of document, then preview and scan. Finally, the multi-scan option lets you scan multiple photos at once and the advanced mode button allows you to select more options (resolution, etc).
• File name: The name of the saved file
• Save as type: Allows you to choose the type of file you want to save. Here you probably want either JPEG (good for images) or PDF (good for text documents, required the free Acrobat Reader). TIFF images are quite large and not very suitable for most purposes, and PICT images are only viewable from a macintosh. If you are scanning a document you want to put up on a website or email someone, choose PDF. Otherwise, choose JPEG.
• PDF Settings: Clicking this button (after selecting to save your scan as a PDF brings up the following window.
  
  
  
  
  The create searchable pdf button allows the pdf to be searchable (people can search for text in the document).
  
  The Create multiple PDF option, off by default, is very useful. Checking this box will allow you to create a single PDF document with pages from multiple scanned images. Selecting this will cause the scanning software to prompt you to place the next page on the scanner after each scan, until you are finished. All the pages will then be saved to a single PDF document. This is very useful for publishing things like homework solutions on web pages.
• Location: Click the browse button to select a location to save the scanned images to. You can select your home folder from the drop down menu and create a new folder with the New Folder button, or select an existing folder. Remember that on the Macs, your home folder is the same as your home directory on Math, so there is no need to FTP the images to your account.
• Put pictures in a subfolder using today's date: Checking this option will create a folder inside your chosen folder with today's date and save all images in this.
• Scan: Finally, the scan button will scan and save the image. If you selected the advanced option, it will bring up the advanced scanning screen, otherwise it will automatically crop the image and save it to the location you specified.

Scanning with Adobe Photoshop

To scan a document into adobe photoshop (useful if you wish to edit the image or save it in a format other than jpg, pdf, pict, or tiff), double click the Adobe Photoshop 7.0 icon in the /Applications/Adobe Photoshop 7/ folder. If a registration window opens up, click 'Do not display this dialog again' and click continue.

In Photoshop, go to the file menu and select Import, then click "ScanGear CS 8.0.1X". This will bring up the Advanced Window as discussed above. When you click scan, the document will appear in a window in Photoshop rather than be saved to a file.