Brother Image Viewer Guide
for Android™
Version 0
ENG
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NOTE
Notes tell you how you should respond to a situation that may arise or give
tips about how the operation works with other features.
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction 1
Overview....................................................................................................................................................1
Supported operating systems ....................................................................................................................1
Downloading Brother Image Viewer from the Google Play (Android™ Market)........................................1
Scanning to your mobile device.................................................................................................................2
Supported file formats................................................................................................................................3
2 Viewing and editing documents using Brother Image Viewer 4
List of documents.......................................................................................................................................4
Opening the list of documents.............................................................................................................4
Editing documents .....................................................................................................................................5
Renaming documents..........................................................................................................................5
Deleting documents.............................................................................................................................5
Rotating documents.............................................................................................................................5
Combining documents.........................................................................................................................6
Sharing documents with other applications ...............................................................................................7
Viewing pages of documents.....................................................................................................................8
Opening a document to view each page .............................................................................................8
Changing the page display settings.....................................................................................................9
Editing pages of documents ....................................................................................................................10
Dividing a document..........................................................................................................................10
Deleting a page .................................................................................................................................10
Rotating a page .................................................................................................................................10
Sharing a page with other applications....................................................................................................11
A Troubleshooting 12
Error messages .......................................................................................................................................12
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Introduction 1
Overview 1
Brother Image Viewer allows you to use your Android™ mobile device to view and edit documents that were
scanned by a Brother machine.
Brother Image Viewer supports the following functions:
Categorizing and organizing documents.
Editing documents and pages.
Supported operating systems 1
Brother Image Viewer is compatible with mobile devices running Android™ 2.1 or later.
Downloading Brother Image Viewer from the Google Play
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(Android™ Market)
You can download and install Brother Image Viewer from the Google Play (Android™ Market). To take
advantage of all the features supported by Brother Image Viewer, make sure you are using the latest version.
To download, install, or uninstall Brother Image Viewer, please refer to the user’s guide for your mobile
device.
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Introduction
Scanning to your mobile device 1
You can use Brother Image Viewer to view and edit documents that were scanned using the following
methods:
Using Brother iPrint&Scan application
Brother iPrint&Scan is an application for Android™ mobile devices. You can use this application to save
documents that were scanned using a Brother machine directly to your mobile device.
For details about Brother iPrint&Scan, please visit the Brother web site at
http://www.brother.com/apps/android/
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1 Mobile device
2 Wireless access point/router
3 Wired or wireless network connection
4 Network machine (your Brother machine)
Connecting your Android™ mobile device directly to a Brother machine for scanning
If your Brother machine can save scanned documents directly to a USB flash memory drive, you can
connect your mobile device to the machine and save the documents directly to the device.
This feature can be used with mobile devices that use the USB mass storage mode as standard.
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1 Mobile device
2USB cable
3 Your Brother machine
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