Canon MF Toolbox

If you own a scanner, you might understand and appreciate the importance of having specialized applications that can help you simplify the way you interact with it through various commands.

An example of such an application is Canon MF Toolbox, which can help you unleash the full potential of your scanner, specifically your Canon scanner, by providing you with a series of useful controls.

Since its name is not entirely suggestive, let us fill the picture for you. As mentioned above, this program can help you consolidate the bridge between software and hardware components (namely, your Canon scanner) by giving you access to a bunch of its controls.

After deploying and launching the app, you'll notice that the main window comes with eight buttons that come with intuitive descriptions, so that you can jump straight to action without looking around for more detailed instructions.

The first feature in the main screen is called "Mail' and, naturally, it makes use of your default email client to send the output of your scans to a recipient of your choice via email. You need to make sure that the email client is properly configured before attempting to even use this feature.

The second one is called OCR, which is short for Optical Character Recognition and does exactly what you'd expect: analyzes the documents you feed to your scanner and attempts to extract text from them. Unfortunately, Canon MF Toolbox doesn't feature an OCR component, but can feed it directly to a third-party app already available on your system. So this, too, needs to be configured beforehand. The other two functions, "Save" and "PDF" are as intuitive as the first ones, except no additional configuration is needed whenever you want to make use of them.

If you have a Canon scanner in your posession, you might want to tap into its full potential by turning to dedicated software solutions such as Canon MF Toolbox.