Converting Scanned Documents Into Editable Text
Converting into Editable Text in Office Mode
Converting into Editable Text in Home Mode
Converting into Editable Text in Professional Mode
You can scan a document and convert the text into a format that you can edit with a word processing program. This
process is called OCR (Optical Character Recognition). To scan and use OCR, you need to use an OCR program, such as
the ABBYY FineReader program that came with your scanner.
Note:
ABBYY FineReader may not be included in some countries.
OCR software cannot recognize or has difficulty recognizing the following types of documents or text:
Handwritten characters
Items that have been copied from other copies
Faxes
Text with tightly spaced characters or line pitch
Text that is in tables or underlined
Cursive or italic fonts, and font sizes less than 8 points
See one of these sections to scan and convert text using ABBYY FineReader.
Office Mode:
Converting into Editable Text in Office Mode
Home Mode:
Converting into Editable Text in Home Mode
Professional Mode:
Converting into Editable Text in Professional Mode
Converting into Editable Text in Office Mode
Windows
Place your document on the document table. See
Do one of the following to start ABBYY FineReader.
Windows 8:
Navigate to the
Start
screen and select
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Sprint
.
Windows (other versions):
Select
or
Start
>
Programs
or
All Programs
>
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Sprint
>
ABBYY FineReader
9.0 Sprint
.