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zTarget pages
Select [First page] to perform text recognition and set a keyword for the PDF file only
for the first page, and [All pages] for all pages.
4. Click the [Apply] button.
5. Click the [ ] button in the upper left corner to close the ScanSnap
setup window.6. Load a document in the ScanSnap.
For details about how to load documents, refer to "How to Load Documents" (page 33).
7. Press the [Scan] button on the ScanSnap to start a scan.
DText recognition is performed on marked character strings and a PDF file is created
with the keywords added.
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 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").