What Are Scanner Buttons?

The five buttons on the scanner are referred to as scanner buttons. You can create PDF files, print items, send images, etc. by simply placing the item on the platen and pressing a scanner button.

Important

In Windows, when you press a scanner button, a program selection screen may appear instead of IJ Scan Utility. In that case, set IJ Scan Utility as the program to start.
Refer to "Scanner Button Settings (Windows)" for details. To set to start IJ Scan Utility Lite in macOS, see Scanner Button Settings (macOS).

PDF Buttons

Scans items and easily creates PDF files, then saves them.

Note

These button names are not inscribed on the scanner.

SCAN START Button: Starts scanning. Saves multiple items to a computer as one PDF file, as required.
FINISH Button: Ends the PDF button operation and saves the images.

AUTO SCAN Button

Detects the item type automatically and saves them to a computer.

COPY Button

Scans items and prints them on a printer.

SEND Button

Scans items and attaches the scanned images to an e-mail or sends them to an application.

Note

You can specify how IJ Scan Utility/IJ Scan Utility Lite responds when a scanner button is pressed.
- Scanner Button Settings via IJ Scan Utility
- Scanner Button Settings via IJ Scan Utility Lite
The default save folders are as follows.
- Windows:
  - Windows 10/Windows 8.1: Documents folder
  - Windows 7: My Documents folder
- macOS:
  - The default save folder is the Pictures folder.