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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:

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text in standard fonts

text in 9-point font or larger crisp, clear text

black text on a white background

These types of text might convert less accurately:

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text close to non-text elements, such as bullets, lines, or graphics text in spreadsheets, tables, or forms

letters that have gaps, that “bleed” along their edges, or that touch other letters

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underlined text

text on colored paper

Handwriting cannot be converted.