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hi this is gary with macmost.com today let me show you how to scan documents using image capture [Music] macmost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than a thousand supporters go to macmost.com patreon there you could read more about the patreon campaign join us and get exclusive content and course discounts so i often hear from people that are trying to use their scanner and maybe the software that came with the scanner doesn't work with the mac or they can't seem to get it installed and my question is why use any third-party software at all your mac already comes with an app that's built for accessing your scanner and scanning documents and photos this app is called image capture and you've already got it on your mac it's part of the system go to your applications folder and then scroll down to i and you'll see image capture right there if you use this a lot you may want to add it to the dock somewhere so you can get to it easily now when you run image capture if your scanner is attached to your mac you should see it here on the left so notice i don't have my scanner attached directly to my mac with usb i've got it through the network so it's here i have to reveal the shared devices this is a multi-function printer and scanner yours may just be a regular scanner now there may be some drivers you need to install every scanner is going to be a little bit different for mine i didn't have to install anything mac os recognized it just by either connecting it or accessing it over the network if you go into system preferences and then to printers and scanners you should be able to add a scanner here with the plus button if the scanner is on your network you should see it here but follow the scanner's documentation or contact the manufacturer for the right way to do it if you don't see it right away so let's assume that you've got it connected and you can see it here if you select it then you can use the scanner now you may see a simple interface like this but what you're going to want to do is click show details to see everything if you've got something loaded in the scanner it should give you an overview scan now i should warn you that every scanner is a little bit different so what you see here is going to be a little different for your scanner so for my scanner it shows me the preview here and then it tries to predict what i want to scan in this case it gets it wrong it sees an image here and it thinks well that's all i want so the first thing i want to do here on this preview is i want to expand to...