3.4 Changing Scan Settings

■Searchable PDF (OCRs during scan)

You can use this function only when PDF is selected in the [File format:] drop-down list. By marking the checkbox, you can create a searchable PDF file.

■Select text recognition language:

You can select a language for conversion to recognize text.

■Select page for text recognition:

•All pages

All pages are recognized as text when a PDF file is created.

•First page

Only the first page is recognized as text when a PDF file is created.

•Available only for Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

ATTENTION

• Marking this checkbox may require an extended period of processing depending on your personal computer environment.

• ScanSnap may fail to correctly recognize the following kinds of documents (characters) as text. However, by changing Color mode and/or improving Image quality for scanning, such a document may be successfully text-recog- nized.

- Handwritten documents

- Documents including smaller characters and scanned in low quality - Skewed documents

- Documents written in languages other than the specified language for text recognition

- Documents including texts written in Italic characters

- Superscript/subscript letters and complex mathematical formulas

- Characters are written against an unevenly-colored or patterned background

• Characters to which effects (Shadow, Outline, and the like) are applied

• Shaded characters

- Documents of complex layout as well as documents including unreadable characters (due to print-through and smudges)

(It may take an extended period of time to scan documents described above.)

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