Chapter 3
•Choose the correct profile.
Be sure to select a shortcut or preset that allows scanning as editable text. These options use scan settings designed to maximize the quality of your OCR scan. In Windows, use the Editable Text (OCR) or Save as PDF shortcuts. In Mac OS X, use the Documents preset.
•Save your file in the correct format.
If you want to extract just the text from the document, without any of the formatting of the original, select a plain text format (such as Text (.txt) or TXT). If you want to extract the text, as well as some of the formatting of the original, select Rich Text Format (such as Rich Text (.rtf) or RTF) or searchable PDF format (Searchable PDF (.pdf) or
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