A scanner is a device that is indispensable for converting a wide variety of documents into electronic form, from texts and tables to photographs. Scanner models are constantly improving, their functionality is increasing, and prices are falling, so that the scanner increasingly finds itself on the table next to your home computer.
To take full advantage of today's scanning technologies, you need to configure your scanner. Fortunately, with the advent of modern USB models and operating systems, configuration is often done automatically by simply connecting the scanner to a computer. However, in other cases, the user may also be required to take simple steps to set up the scanner. Their approximate sequence may be as follows:
1. First, connect your device to your computer. The operating system will try to recognize it and automatically install the necessary drivers and configure the scanner.
2. Open the Scanners and Cameras item in the Control Panel. All imaging devices connected to your computer are listed here, as well as a shortcut to launch the Connect New Devices Wizard. If the connection was successful in automatic mode. If it is missing, run the scanner installation wizard.
3. Select manually the manufacturer of the scanner, as well as the name of a specific model and click "Next". If your scanner model is not in the list, insert the supplied driver disk into the drive and click the Have Disk button. You will need to provide the path to the device driver on the disk. As a rule, the required driver is located in a folder with the name of the model of your scanner and the name of the operating system in which you are working. If there is no driver disk, try downloading them from the scanner manufacturer's website and specifying the path to the folder where you save them.
4. At the next step, the wizard will ask you to specify the port to which the scanner is connected. If in doubt about which port to specify, select "Auto-detect port".
5. It remains to set the name of the new device in the system, and the installation is complete. Now it can be used from any program that supports working with images.
