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3.4 Changing Scan Settings
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Basic Scanner Operations
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■ 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.
ATTENTION
• Available only for Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
• Marking this checkbox may require an extended period of processing depend-
ing 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.)