How to Send Scan to Email Attachments

Send scanned content to email accounts.

With a computer scanner you can create a digital copy of any document, ranging from word-based content to images. Once you scan the content into your computer, you can do anything with the document you normally would do with a standard digital computer document, including attach the scanned file onto an email so others with an email account can view the scanned content.

Things You'll Need

• Internet access
• Email account

Instructions

1. Open your Internet browser and log onto your email account.

2. Select either "New" or "Compose" (depending on your email provider) and type in the name of the email addresses where you want to send the scanned content.

3. Type in a title, then add a message to the main message window.

4. Click "Attach" and a browser window appears on the screen. Choose the document you scanned and click "OK." Once the email program scans the file, it appears as an attachment on the email message. You can add other scanned attachments at this time.

5. Click "Send" and the scanned document is sent along with your email.

References

• CTDLC: How to Attach a File to an Email Message