Scanning documents in Windows 8 is easy if you know how with these applications

Native apps in Windows 8.1

Before showing you the wonderful applications that you can find in the Windows 8.1 App Store, we are going to teach you how to scan documents with the native applications that Windows 8.1 offers, very easy to use and very intuitive, I'll start by explaining the desktop version and then the version with the new modern UI interface.

Native application in Windows 8.1

Press the Start button and write in the search box Scanner
We click with the left mouse button on the result Windows Fax and Scanner, accessing the following screen
Click on Scanning
And finally we will obtain the digitized document on the following screen, indicating the name of the file obtained and the place where it is located within our computer.

Native application on Windows 8.1 with the new interface

The steps to perform to scan any document from the new interface offered by Windows 8 are the following:

We go to start and write Scan, this is the name of the native Windows 8 application to scan documents
In the right column, we have the options available to digitize the document, among which we can select the scanner with which We will carry out the digitalization, in addition to the origin, type of file that we want to save and in which folder we want to save it. Once the desired configuration has been selected, click on the icon called Digitalize in the lower right area

Other alternative apps in the Windows 8.1 Store

Next we are going to show you the operation of two other applications that you can find in the Windows application store, valid for any scanner no matter the brand. In this case we are talking about Epson Print and Scan and HP Scan and Capture

Epson Print and Scan

From the Windows app store, we search for Epson getting the following result:

The steps to take to digitize a document are very simple:

First we press the Start button and look for epson and click on the application Print and Scan
Within it, we can choose if we want to Print or Scan a document from the upper left area
Having chosen Scanner, we will access the screen where we can choose some data for our future scanning, such as the size of the scanned document , resolution and color
After having selected the options, press the button Scan located in the lower right area and we will obtain our scanned document

Epson Print and Scan

Developer: Seiko Epson Corp.
Price: Free

You can download it at: Windows 8 App Store

HP Scan and Capture

Finally, we are going to show you a fairly complete application that has different configuration options, HP Scan and Capture Accessing the store of Windows 8 applications.1 type HP Scan and Capture and install the application:

The steps to perform to scan a document are as follows:

First, we open the application by accessing it from our start menu, typing HP Scan
Once inside, we must select the device that we are going to use in the menu
Having configured our scanner, we proceed to scan by clicking on Capture photos
Then we can see in the following box, some of the options that we can configure when digitizing our document, such as color, page size, Origin, type of file that we want to store , resolution and compression:
Finally we will obtain our digitized image and by clicking on the button located in the lower right area called Save, we can store the scanned document in our computer:

HP Scan & Capture

Developer: Hewlett-Packard Development Company L.P.
Price: Free

You can download it at: Windows 8 App Store

And these are some of the tools offered to us Windows 8.1 to quickly and easily scan any type of document or photograph in a few minutes.Without a doubt, it is an advantage to be able to carry out this task of digitizing documents in such an intuitive way. And you, have you already digitized your documents? What are you waiting for to have your childhood albums in digital format?