Brother MFC-6800 User Manual

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PaperPort

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 automatically recognizes many other applications on your computer 

and creates a “working link” to them. The Link Bar at the bottom of Desktop 
view shows icons of those linked applications. To use a link, drag an item onto 
one of the icons to start the application represented by the icon. A typical use of 
the Link Bar is to select an item and then fax it.

This sample Link Bar shows several applications with links to PaperPort

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If PaperPort

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 does not automatically recognize one of the applications on your 

computer, you can manually create a link using the Create New Link 
command. (See PaperPort

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 Help for more information about creating new 

links.)

Software by: 

ScanSoft™ TextBridge

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 OCR is automatically installed with PaperPort

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 when 

you install Multi-Function Link

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 Pro on your computer.

PaperPort

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 can quickly convert the text on a PaperPort

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 item (which is really 

just a picture of the text) into text that you can edit with a word processing 
application. PaperPort

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 uses the optical character recognition application 

ScanSoft™ TextBridge, which comes with PaperPort

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—OR—PaperPort

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 uses 

your application if it is already on your computer. You can convert the entire 
item, or by using the Copy As Text command, you can select only a portion of 
the text to convert.

Dragging an item onto a word-processing link icon starts PaperPort

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’s built-in 

OCR application, or you can use your own OCR application.

In addition to scanning items, you can bring items into PaperPort

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 in a variety 

of ways and convert them to PaperPort

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 (MAX) files in several different ways:

• Print to the Desktop View from another application, such as Microsoft Excel.

• Import files saved in other file formats, such as Windows

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 Bitmap (BMP) or 

Tag Image File Format (TIFF).