Using the ScanSnap in Various Ways (for Mac OS Users)
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Press the [Scan] button on the ScanSnap to start a scan.
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Text recognition is performed on the scanned image and a searchable PDF file is
created.
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It may take extra time to process text recognition depending on your computer system
environment when you enable this setting in step
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Scanned images of the following types of documents (characters) may not be
recognized correctly.
In that case, better results in text recognition may be achieved by changing the setting
for [Color mode] or specifying a higher resolution in [Image quality].
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Documents including handwritten characters.
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Documents with small characters scanned at a low resolution
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Skewed documents
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Documents written in languages other than the specified language
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Documents including texts written in italic characters
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Documents containing characters with superscripts/subscripts and complicated
mathematical expressions
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Documents with characters on an unevenly colored background
e.g. Shaded characters
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Documents with many decorated characters
e.g. Decorated characters (embossed/outlined)
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Documents with characters on a patterned background
e.g. Characters overlapping illustrations and diagrams
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Documents with many characters contacting underlines or borders
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It may take extra time to perform text recognition on the following documents:
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Documents with complex layouts
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Documents with information other than text
e.g. Text on a shaded background
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Vertical text can be searched with Adobe Acrobat, but not with Spotlight or Preview.