Using the ScanSnap in Various Ways (for Windows Users)
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6. Press the [Scan] button on the ScanSnap to start a scan.
DText recognition is performed on the scanned image and a searchable PDF file is
created.
ATTENTION
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 recognized
correctly.
In that case, better results in text recognition may be achieved by changing the setting for [Color
mode] or 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