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What to expect from OCR programs
Optical character recognition programs convert some text more accurately than other text. Because OCR technology is never perfect, proofread all converted text carefully to ensure the characters have been correctly interpreted.
These types of text convert most accurately:
text in standard fonts
text in
black text on a white background
These types of text might convert less accurately:
text close to
letters that have gaps, that “bleed” along their edges, or that touch other letters
underlined text
text on colored paper
Handwriting cannot be converted.