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guess”, and so on. This option tells the OCR engine to look through the dictionary to validate its best guess for the letters in that word; if its best guess is not in the dictionary, it checks for the second-best guess, and so on.

For example, if the word “house” appears in the original document but the OCR engine is 75% sure that the “o” is actually an “a”, the finished document would have the word “hause”. Turning this option on tells the OCR engine to look at the other letters in the word, check to see which version of the word is in the dictionary, and output the correct word “house” in the final document.

The OCR engine does not automatically correct misspelled words that were present in the original document.

When dictionaries are selected, the terms in those dictionaries are used to check the spelling. If this is option is not selected, User Dictionaries and Professional Dictionaries cannot be selected.

User Dictionary—A user dictionary is your personal dictionary with words that you want the OCR engine to reference for better accuracy when converting the document into editable text. For example, if you scan documents with highly technical terms or acronyms not found in typical dictionaries, you can add them to your personal dictionary. You can also add names that you expect to be in the documents too. This way, as the OCR process recognizes each letter or symbol, there is a higher chance that the technical term or name will be correctly spelled in the final document. You can create multiple user dictionaries. See the section “Creating Your Own Dictionaries” on page 62.

Click the menu arrow and select a user dictionary from the list.

If you select [none] as the user dictionary, the text will be validated using the terms in the dictionaries for the selected languages, as well as any professional dictionaries if they are selected.

The label [current] is next to the currently-select user dictionary.

Professional Dictionaries—These are legal and medical dictionaries containing highly specialized words and phrases. The options are: Dutch Legal, Dutch Medical, English Financial,

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