Scanning to OneDrive offers the ability to save scanned documents directly to OneDrive bypassing receiving them as an email attachment. It is also particularly useful if you want to scan large documents as emails have a size restriction.

Note the first time you can to OneDrive it may take a couple minutes. Please leave about 10 minutes for the scan to process, however subsequent files will be uploaded instantly.


Scanning your documents

  1. Log in to the printer by tapping your card or logging in using your username and password.




  2. Click on the 'Scan' option.




  3. Click on 'Scan to OneDrive'.




  4. Ensure your document is in the correct position and click 'Start Scanning'.




  5. Once the scan is finished the following screen will appear, you will be redirected back to the main screen afterwards.


    PaperCut is now uploading your file to the cloud, continue onto the next step if this is the first file you've uploaded.

Granting PaperCut Permission to Save to Onedrive.

PaperCut will send you an authorisation email to give it permissions to save to your OneDrive.

  1. Open your email, find the email with the subject 'Scans for PaperCut MF', click on 'Log in to OneDrive for business'.






  2. Click on your Brigidine Account and follow the prompts to log in.




  3. Allow PaperCut permissions by clicking 'Accept'.



    The following screen will appear and your file will be syncing into your OneDrive shortly.


Accessing your OneDrive Scans

a) In Outlook Web App

  1. Open the Outlook Web App, you'll notice an email from PaperCut entitled 'Scans for PaperCut MF', open this email.



  2. Click on 'Go to your scan!'.



  3. Your scan should now open in the tab next to your email.

b) In Outlook Desktop App

  1. Open Outlook and find the email sent to you from PaperCut entitled 'Scans for PaperCut MF', open this email.




  2. Click on 'Go to your scan!' this will open a your scan in a browser window after signing into your email account.




  3. Select your Brigidine email account, your scan will then be sent to your email



c) OneDrive Folder

  1. Open your OneDrive folder, you'll notice a new folder called 'Apps'.



  2. Open the following folders OneDrive/Apps/Scans for PaperCut MS, here are all your scanned files.





You can down rename and move the files to another location as desired.

Splitting PDF's into Individual Files

For how to split your PDF please click the link below.

Splitting PDFs


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