Adding Documents from the Scanner

  1. In M-Files, click Create and select Add Document from Scanner .
  2. Optional: If the Select Source dialog appears, select your scanner from the list and click Select.
  3. Scan your document using the scanner application.
    Result:When the scanning is complete, the Scanner Job dialog appears.
  4. Select one of the following options:
    Option:Objective:
    Scanning done You do not want to scan additional documents.
    Scan more pages to the current document You want to scan another document and combine it with the previously scanned document.
    Scan another document You want to scan another document and do not want to combine it with the previously scanned document.
  5. Optional: If the Conversion to Searchable PDF dialog appears, select Convert if you want to convert the scanned document into a searchable PDF. Otherwise, click Skip Conversion.
    For more information on converting scanned documents to searchable PDFs, see Scanning and Text Recognition (OCR).
  6. When the New Document dialog is shown, enter the metadata and click Create.
The scanned document or documents are added to M-Files.