ScanSoft PDF CONVERTER STANDARD 3 - GUIDE, Online Help Manual

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Document Options Panel
This panel appears in the PDF Converter Assistant and also in the PDF
Converter Settings dialog box. It is available in the Assistant only if
Document is
selected under Convert as in the Preview panel.
Image-only Pages
PDF Converter converts image-only PDF pages using Optical Character
Recognition (OCR). An icon in the top-right corner of the
Preview panel tells you
whether the displayed page has a text layer or not. Choose here how PDF
Converter should handle image-only pages:
Convert Page with OCR
PDF Converter will perform the conversion by calling its built-in OCR . Full
language support is available with more than 100 languages.
Settings
You can change the recognition language and the reject character under
Settings . To achieve the best accuracy, select only the languages your
document contains. Unrecognizable characters are represented by a reject
character which is a tilde ~ by default. You can change this reject character if you
wish.
Skip
Image-only pages will be skipped. When pages are skipped, you will be notified
at the end of processing. The converted document will have fewer pages than the
source PDF.
Add to Document as Image
Image-only pages will appear in the target file as full-page images. Text on those
pages will not be editable, but the pages can be printed. You will be notified at
the end of processing if pages were transferred as image. The target file may be
large; you can reduce file size by setting
Color Conversion to Grayscale or
Black-and-White or lowering the resolution for graphics elsewhere in this panel.
Inspect First Pages
Select the inspection checkmark to have the first pages of PDF files inspected.
Define how many pages should be inspected by entering a value between 1 and
10. We suggest placing a value of at least 2 because many PDF files have an
image-only cover page followed by pages with text layers.