4 responses to “how do you scan something ex. credit card on your printer or copy machine into your computer?”

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  Nicholas F February 4th, 2012 at 09:02

  You will need to have either a scanner or a scanner/printer. They come with software, and usually have a Scan button on the device, once pushed it will open the scanning program. It will scan the document, and save it (I usually have problems finding where). Try to save the scanned document to your desktop. Then just open your email program, choose Attach. If you push the scan button, and nothing happens, hunt down the scanning program in your menu list (click on Start, then All Programs)

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  spsleggett February 4th, 2012 at 09:26

  I scan items and documents and there is this great freeware I use that is a print driver. After scanning, I print using PDF995 and save it as a PDF which can then be emailed or faxed.

  http://www.pdf995.com/download.html

  You will need the print driver and free converter.

  Enjoy. I use these regularly and love it.

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  Dani February 4th, 2012 at 10:25

  I would not suggest sending it over your computer. But, if you still want to and you are running windows.

  Start Menu > Settings > Control Panel > Scanners & Camera
  Then Choose your Scanner and follow the instructions. You will have to save the file to your computers desktop, so it is easy to find.

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  Paul R February 4th, 2012 at 10:40

  For the purpose of this article I presume you have a scanner hooked up to your computer. Older scanners were connected to the printer port; now, generally, scanners are USB same as almost every external device.

  Usually, your scanner has one or more buttons on it, that you press one, and it sends a message that activates the software to either do a scan, or a print, or save as a file, which then activates the scanner to take the image.

  At least that’s the way mine does it, and it’s a Canon $ 80 scanner, it wasn’t very expensive. It simply does scans, it does not print or anything else. It’s also a flatbed scanner, which is the safest to use when scanning items because there’s no chance of damaging them. It’s also the slowest, but unless you’re doing volume scans the time it takes isn’t that significant, perhaps one minute for a full 8 1/2 x 11″ page.

  If the button feature isn’t present, your scanner came with some program that you activate that tells the scanner to begin doing a scan.

  You will want to save to a file. You then attach that file to the e-mail. Be sure you know what you’re scanning and if it shows you the area in question, that you mark it correctly, as sometimes the scanner program guesses which part of the image to capture and guesses wrong.