Canon MP550 manual OCR with

settings.

Color Mode, Document Size, Resolution and other settings in the OCR dialog box will be disabled. Specify these settings in the ScanGear (scanner driver) screen.

Specify...

Click to open the Scan Settings dialog box in which you can make advanced scan settings. Scan Settings Dialog Box

Note

When scanning slanted documents, select the Correct slanted document checkbox to improve the text recognition accuracy.

Save Settings

File name

Enter the file name of the image to be saved (up to 64 characters). When saving multiple files, 4 digits are appended to each file name.

Save as type

Select a file type to save the scanned images.

Select JPEG/Exif, TIFF or BMP.

Important

You cannot select JPEG/Exif when Color Mode is Black and White.

Set...

When Save as type is JPEG/Exif

You can specify a compression type for JPEG files. Select High(Low Compression), Standard or

Low(High Compression).

Important

This setting is not available when the Compress scanned images when transferring checkbox

is selected on the General tab of the Preferences dialog box.

Save in

Displays the folder in which to save the scanned images. To change the folder, click Browse... to specify another one.

The following folders are specified by default.

Windows Vista: MP Navigator EX folder in Pictures folder

Windows XP: MP Navigator EX folder in My Pictures folder

Windows 2000: MP Navigator EX folder in My Pictures folder

Save to a Subfolder with Current Date

Select this checkbox to create a subfolder in the folder specified in Save in with the current date and save scanned files in it. A subfolder with a name such as "2009_01_01" (Year_Month_Date) will be created.

If this checkbox is not selected, files are saved directly in the folder specified in Save in.

Application Settings

OCR with

Specify an OCR application.

When MP Navigator EX is specified, after the image is scanned, the text in the image is extracted and appears in Notepad (included with Windows).

Note

Only text written in languages that can be selected on the General tab can be extracted to Notepad (included with Windows). Click Set... on the General tab and specify the language according to the language of the document to be scanned.