6. Click Straighten Image to have the software automatically correct crooked scans and improve the accuracy of the text.

7. Click OK to return to the Scan to OCR window. Then

 

 

 

 

click Recognize to process the text.

 

 

 

 

When processing is completed, you see a window like this:

If you scanned

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

more than one

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

page, click

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

here to display

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the one you

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edit your text

want to edit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click to enlarge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

or reduce the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

view.

This window

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

shows a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

close-up of

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the scanned

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

image.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8. Your text appears in the square window. If necessary, click

 

 

 

 

the + or button to change the size of the display. Use the

 

 

 

 

scroll bars to display the rest of the page.

 

 

 

 

9. Unclear characters are highlighted in blue (Windows) or

 

 

 

 

underlined (Macintosh). Unrecognized characters are

 

 

 

 

marked with a tilde (~).

 

 

 

 

Click on the text in the square window and correct or edit

 

 

 

 

it as necessary. The small window at the bottom shows an

 

 

 

 

enlarged view of the original scanned image, corresponding

 

 

 

 

to the text you are editing.

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