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4. Click the [Apply] button.
5. Click the [ ] button in the upper left corner to close the ScanSnap
setup window. 6. Load the document in the ScanSnap.
For details about how to load documents, refer to "How to Load Documents" (page 30).
7. Press the [Scan/Stop] button on the ScanSnap to start scanning.
8. Press the [Scan/Stop] button on the ScanSnap to finish scanning.
Text recognition is performed on marked character strings and a PDF file is created
with the keywords added.
Load another document in the ScanSnap when you want to scan multiple sheets. Scanning
starts automatically when a document is loaded.
zIt may take extra time to process text recognition depending on your computer system
environment when you enable this setting in step 3.
zScanned images of the following types of documents (characters) may not be recog-
nized correctly.
In that case, better results in text recognition may be achieved by specifying a higher
resolution in [Image quality].
- Documents including handwritten characters
- Documents with small characters scanned at a low resolution
- Skewed documents
- Documents written in languages other than the specified language
- Documents including texts written in italic characters
- Documents containing characters with superscripts/subscripts and complicated
mathematical expressions
- Documents with characters on an unevenly colored background
e.g. Shaded characters
- Documents with many decorated characters
e.g. Decorated characters (embossed/outlined)
- Documents with characters on a patterned background
e.g. Characters overlapping illustrations and diagrams
- Documents with many characters contacting underlines or borders
zIt may take extra time to perform text recognition on the following documents:
- Documents with complex layouts
- Documents with information other than text
e.g. Text on a shaded background
zIf the same character string is marked several times in the document, the same keyword
is added multiple times in the PDF file.
zTotal length of all the keywords can be up to 255 characters.
zWhen you check keywords in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader, the added keywords
may be displayed with a set of quotation marks (e.g. "ABC").
zFor Mac OS X v10.4, keywords cannot be set for PDF files that are 500 MB or larger.