Part of the many minor enhancements in Apple’s new Snow Leopard OS are the changes to the Preview Application. To quote Apple “Snow Leopard simplifies scanning by putting scanned data directly into Preview. Now you can scan, view, and correct your files and images in Preview. The scanning interface even detects the placement of images or documents on the scanner to automate the selection of regions to scan.”
I took it for a test-drive and it is fairly intuitive. I put together a 1-minute video (the quick and not too dirty kind, so pardon any jagged edges in the fonts) to show the steps involved in Scanning from Preview and sending it to your pixilymail email account. I used a HP OfficeJet for this, but the menu and clicks should be the same for pretty much any other scanner. The only item we recommend that you select a non-default is to choose 300 dpi during the scanning, so that the OCR quality is pretty good. You may use defaults for other settings and let OfficeDrop do the heavy-lifting for everything else.
Have you upgraded to Snow Leopard yet? Have you tried out this feature? Let us know what you think.
