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Scanning and saving images

Scanning of images and saving these to disk has increased with the proliferation of inexpensive scanning devices. Many clients will wish to send copies of photographs to their family via e-mail.

You should be able to demonstrate to a client how to scan an image - either of text or pictures - and save it to disk.

(Note that the scanned files will often be large and may need to be reduced in size if they are to be attachments to e-mails.)

Since there is such a range of types of scanner and associated software, we cannot realistically give instructions for use here.

Practice using your locally-available scanner and software to scan and save both text and images. Find out how to reduce the resulting file by compressing it so that it will be acceptable as an e-mail attachment. Note down any points which you will want to make your clients aware of.



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