You may already be familiar with the app on your Mac called Image Capture.
Image Capture can be used, for instance, to pull photos off of cameras or phones without
having to go through the Photos app.
But you can use it for other things as well.
I'm going to run it here by just using Spotlight here, searching for Image Capture and hitting
Return.
You can find it in the Applications folder if you want.
It will come up with a list of devices.
In this case there's my iPhone.
But also under Shared, I see now, I've got one and I show it and there's my scanner.
My scanner shows up under Shared because it's a shared wifi scanner.
If you have it hooked directly to your Mac it may show up under devices.
If I select it I can now, it will just do this overview scan of what is on the scanning
bed right now and you can see, there it is.
I can expand this window quite a bit which I'm going to want to do to see more detail.
So let me expand it this much.
Now I can really see the detail in here.
Notice a couple of things.
First of all you have this high this High Detail to show details button.
If you didn't see all this happen when you first selected the scanner click Show Details
to bring that up.
Second is it automatically detected that there's a region with something in it and it outlined
it.
Now you can just accept that and go to scan right now which is what I'm going to do or
you can adjust this by dragging the corners here to adjust the edges.
You can also select multiple items.
So I can click and drag here and you see I've selected a second area.
So now if I hit scan it will actually scan two separate files and you can do as many
as you want.
You can select existing ones and just hit the Delete key to delete them.
So I can scan this in.
I've got lots of options here.
I can go between the document feeder type scanner and a flatbed.
I can go color, black and white, or even lower quality than black and white for just text
documents.
Select a resolution.
I can even rotate what I've got here which is something I'm going to want to do because
you can see this image is rotated on its side.
The Auto selection, I can select one of these now and it would reset everything.
I can determine where I want to scan to or I can select any folder I want.
Give it a Name and I select a Format.
So for images jpeg is great and there's other image formats as well.
If you're doing documents you may want to just go to PDF which will give you a PDF document
with the image inside it which is probably what you want if you're scanning a document
and not a picture.
You also have some image correction which you can use here with the brightness, tint,
temperature saturation, that kind of thing.
So let's go and change the rotation angle to 90 degrees.
I can also click and drag this handle here to rotate it freely.
But I'll do 90 degrees and once I've done that this is going to mess up the selection
so I'm going to reselect by grabbing the corners.
So now with the 90 angle it should scan this the right side up.
I'm going to hit scan and it will scan just this region and put it in a file.
It's 300 dots per inch jpeg and stick it on the desktop and there it is.
I will also see it here under scan results.
Hit the magnifying glass there to jump right to it in the Finder if I'm not sure where
it was.
I can double click it here and it will open up in Preview and there's my scan.
You can see I could even have gone tighter here at the top and right sides because there's
a little bit of white space in there.
Or I can just continue here in Preview and crop it a little bit more.
Of course I can use that jpeg in anything I want.
Doing this in Image Capture is really handy.
You may get software that comes with your scanner that sometimes may have more capabilities.
Sometimes it may have less.
So you may want to look at using Image Capture.
Also some scanners they may not even have software or at least software that's even
up to date with the current version of Mac OS and Image Capture might be the way to do
it.
There's also some cases where you need to install the scanning software in order for
the scanner to be recognized by your Mac.
But once you do you now have the option to either use their default software for scanning
or simply use Image Capture which may be a quicker, easier way with more features.
So you should definitely look into at least trying Image Capture out with your scanner
to see whether or not you like it.