Scan to OCR

If you scanned more than one page, click the page in this column that you want to edit.

This window shows a close-up of the scanned image.

Optical character recognition, or OCR, converts a scanned text image into text that you can edit in a word processing program. The Scan to OCR utility makes it easy for you to do all the steps in this process:

■Scan the document

■Process and edit the text, using a window like this:

Edit your text here.

Click the + or − button to enlarge or reduce the view.

■Save the file in any format you choose, including HTML.

■Open your word processor so you can work with the text. For detailed instructions, see “Scanning to OCR” on page 76.

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