Brother PDS-5000F Guida Utente

After installing Brother’s scanner drivers, select a scanning application to save scanned images to your 
computer. Brother has supplied several options for you on Brother’s installation DVD; use this table to 
determine which of the included scanning applications will work best for you:

1

In addition to the above, you can also use your TWAIN (Windows

®

/Mac), WIA (Windows

®

), 

ISIS (Windows

®

) and ICA (Mac) compatible applications for scanning.

Brother’s scanning application: it allows 
you to scan, browse and file your 
scanned documents. DS Capture is 
installed automatically when you install 
the scanner driver.

Windows

®

: 

DVD/Brother 
Solutions Center

Mac: Brother 
Solutions Center

For Windows

®

For Macintosh: See Scan using 
your computer on page 65 and 
Scan using the control panel on 
page 64).

Use this application to extend the 
DS Capture scanning functionality, and to 
create multiple types of scan buttons to 
perform one-touch scanning. If scanning 
with your computer, click the button to 
which the required scan settings have 
been assigned with the application.
If scanning with your machine, select the 
menu to which the required scan settings 
have been assigned on the LCD screen, 
and then press the machine’s Scan 
button.
The following scan functions are 
supported:
Scan to File/Scan to File (OCR)/
Scan to App/E-mail/Printer/
Shared Folder/FTP/SharePoint
See the Button Manager Help menu 
for more information about using 
Button Manager V2.

DVD/Brother 
Solutions Center

See the Button Manager V2 
User’s Guide.

To scan using the Scan button 
on your machine’s control panel, 
customize the Scan button in 
advance (see Scan using the 
control panel on page 20).

OmniPage SE 18 is an OCR scanning 
application from Nuance.

DVD

See the software’s user 
instructions.

PageManager 9 is a scanning application 
from NewSoft.

Brother Solutions 
Center

See the software’s user 
instructions.