Using the HP Scanjet G4010 Scanners

You don’t need to go to the Start menu to start the scanner software – the scanners are set
to open the software by using the buttons on top of the scanner.

If you are scanning documents, such as:

• Tests
• Old hard-copy documents you want to have as
electronic files
• Magazine or Scan to PDF
newspaper articles
Use the Scan to PDF button.
(Go to Scanning Documents.)

If you are scanning Scan

images, such as:
• Images from textbooks or other sources
• Photographs Scan Film
• Student artwork
Use the Scan button. Scan to Printer
(Go to Scanning Pictures.)

The other two buttons on the top are Scan Film (you can scan print negatives or slides
using the insert on the underside of the scanner cover) or Scan to Printer (send a
scanned document directly to a printer).

When placing documents or images on the glass,

you will want to try to line the edges up with the
edges of the glass, and let the top right corner of
the glass be the “top” of the document.

To follow these instructions, go to:

• Scanning Documents or Scanning Pictures, whichever you are doing;
then
• Using the HP Scanning Tool.
Scanning Documents
Place the document you wish to scan on the
glass, close the cover, and press the Scan to
PDF button on the top of the
scanner.

Choose the type of document you are

scanning.

The default is to scan the document to a PDF

– suitable for posting to the web or emailing
to someone else, but not an editable
document.

Click on the Save to file Save Options… (under the File Type: selection) to make sure
the scanner is saving documents where you want them.

Save Options

The Base File Name is what the scanner will

use to create file names automatically –
numbers will be added to the end of whatever
is in the box. (For example, “scan0001”,
“scan0002”, etc.)

Save Location defaults to a (new) folder in

your H: drive. If Use Monthly Sub-Folder is
checked, new folders for each month will be created automatically.

If you want to scan a text document so that it becomes editable, change Scan to: to
Microsoft Word or WordPad. (File Type will then become greyed out and unavailable.)
• The scanner will use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to attempt to identify
the text in the original document. Success with the OCR process is dependent
upon things like font, quality and/or color of the original, etc.

Check the Show Preview box to be able to select the exact area which you would like to
scan.

Click the Scan button. The hp scanning tool will appear.

(Go to Using the HP Scanning Tool.)
Scanning Pictures
Place the picture, document, or book with
the desired picture on the scanner glass,
close the cover, and press
the Scan button on the top
of the scanner.

Check the Show Preview box.

Click the Save Options button (under the

File Type: selection) to make sure the
scanner is saving images where you want
them. (See the Save Options instructions on
the previous page.)

Click the Scan Picture Settings… button to make sure the scanner will scan pictures
with the proper settings.

Scan Picture Settings

You can change the Output Type to reduce

the number of colors (and therefore the size
of the file created).

The scanner software has the ability to scan

multiple images in one pass. Based on what
you select, the scanner will attempt to
select the correct areas. (You can choose
specific areas later.)

Click the Scan button. The hp scanning tool will appear.

(Go to Using the HP Scanning Tool.)
 Using the HP Scanning Tool
The HP scanning tool lets you select specific areas to scan, and modify the image before
it is turned into a document or image file.
The black boxes are “handles” that allow you
to adjust the size of the scan area. Click and
drag to change the area.

These options can be

used to alter the color,
lightness, and
appearance of the
Rotate the image scanned image.
before scanning it.

Zoom in (+) to the

selected area, or out (-) Once your settings
to the whole image on are correct, click
the glass. Accept to scan.

After scanning the image, you will be asked to scan another.

If you are creating a PDF document (or scanning to

Microsoft Word or WordPad), any additional files
scanned will be placed in the same single document.

If you are scanning images, they will be scanned to new

files (and named sequentially).