Using the ScanSnap in Various Ways (for Mac OS Users)
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Target pages
Select [First page] to perform text recognition and set a keyword for the PDF file only
for the first page, and [All pages] for all pages.
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Click the [Apply] button.
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Click the [
] button in the upper left corner to close the ScanSnap
setup window.
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Load a document in the ScanSnap.
For details about how to load documents, refer to
"How to Load Documents" (page 32)
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Press the [Scan] button on the ScanSnap to start a scan.
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Text recognition is performed on marked character strings and a PDF file is created
with the keywords added.
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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 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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If the same character string is marked several times in the document, the same
keyword is added multiple times in the PDF file.
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Total length of all the keywords can be up to 255 characters.
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When you check keywords in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader, the added keywords
may be displayed with a set of quotation marks (e.g. "ABC").
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For Mac OS X v10.4, keywords cannot be set for PDF files that are 500 MB or larger.
