About Actions (for Mac OS users)
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About the OCR function of ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap
zABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap is an application used exclusively with the ScanSnap. This
program can perform text recognition only for PDF files created by using the ScanSnap. It
cannot perform text recognition for files created using Adobe Acrobat or other applications.
zThe optical character recognition has the following features. Before performing text recogni-
tion, check whether the documents you want to convert are suitable for conversion according
to the following guidelines:
Scan to Word
- Suitable for conversion
Documents created by using simple page layout with one or two columns.
- Not suitable for conversion
Documents created by using complex page layout comprised of diagrams, tables and
letters, such as brochures, magazines or newspapers.
Scan to Excel
- Suitable for conversion
Simple tables in which every border connects to the outer frame.
- Not suitable for conversion
Documents with table without borders, complex tables with too many borders, nested
tables containing sub-tables, diagrams, graphs and charts, photographs and characters
written vertically.
(Diagrams, graphs and charts, photographs and characters written vertically are not
reproduced.)
zThe following parameters may not be reproduced as they are in the original document. It is
recommended that the converted documents be opened with Word or Excel to correct or edit
misrecognized characters:
- Character font and size
- Character and line spacing
- Underlined, bold and italic characters
- Superscript/subscript
zThe following types of documents (characters) may not be recognized correctly.
Better results in text recognition may be achieved by changing the color mode or increasing
the resolution:
- Documents including handwritten characters
- Documents containing small characters (smaller than 10 points)
- Skewed documents
- Documents written in languages other than the specified language
- 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
- Documents of complex layouts as well as documents including unreadable characters
(It may take extra time to process text recognition for these documents.)
zWhen converting to Excel files, if the recognition result exceeds 65,536 lines, no more results
are output.
zWhen converting to Excel files, information about the layout of the entire document,
diagrams, and length/width of graphs and tables is not duplicated. Only tables and character
strings are reproduced.
zDocuments upside down or in landscape orientation cannot be recognized properly. Select
the [Allow automatic image rotation] checkbox (page 249), or load documents face down in
portrait orientation.
zIn the ScanSnap setup window, even if the [Generate one PDF file per (n) page (s)] checkbox
is selected in the [File option] tab J[Option], the conversion result is saved as separate files.