At that place may come a fourth dimension when you want to digitize your priceless old pictures, or need to scan a receipts and documents for your visitor. Today we look at how to browse a picture or document in Windows vii.

Scanning Your Certificate

In this case nosotros're using an HP PSC 1500 All-In-I printer connected to a Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit organization. Different scanners will vary, however the process is essentially the same.

The scanning process has changed a bit since the XP days. To scan a document in Windows 7, place the certificate or picture in the scanner, click on Start, and go to Devices and Printers.

When the Devices and Printers window opens, find your scanning device and double-click on information technology to become the manufacturers Printer Actions menu.

For our HP PSC 1500 we accept a few unlike options like printing, device setup, and scanner actions. Here we'll click on the Scan a certificate or photograph hyperlink.

The New Scan window opens and from hither you can adjust the quality of the scanned image and cull the output file type. Then click the Preview button to get an thought of what the image will expect similar.

If you're not happy with the preview, so y'all can become dorsum and make any adjustments to the quality of the document or photo. Once everything looks good, click on the Scan button.

The scanning process will start. The corporeality of time information technology takes volition depend on your scanner type, and the quality of the settings you choose. The higher the quality…the more time information technology volition accept.

You will have the option to tag the pic if you desire to…

Now you tin view your scanned document or photo inside Windows Photo Viewer. If y'all're happy with the look of the document, you tin ship it off in an email, put information technology on an network bulldoze, FTP it… whatever yous need to do with it.

Another method is to place the document of photograph you wish to scan in the scanner, open up Devices and Printers, then correct-click on the scanning device and select Start Scan from the context menu.

This should bypass the manufacturer screen and go straight into the New Scan window, where you can start the scan procedure. From the Context Card you tin too choose Browse Properties.

This will permit you lot to test the scanner if you lot're having issues with it and change some of its settings.

Or y'all tin can choose Scan Profiles which allows you to utilise pre-selected settings, create your own, or prepare 1 every bit the default.

Although scanning documents and photos isn't a common occurrence every bit information technology was a few years ago, Windows 7 still includes the feature. When you need to scan a document or photo in Windows vii, this should get you started.