Using the ScanSnap in Various Ways (for Mac OS users)
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5.
Click the [
] button in the upper left corner or press the [esc] key to
close the ScanSnap setup window.
6.
Load the document in the ScanSnap.
For details, refer to
"Paper Sizes of Documents" (page 26)
and
7.
Press the [Scan] button on the ScanSnap.
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Scanning starts.
Text recognition is performed on marked character strings and the image data is
saved as a PDF file with keywords.
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It may take extra time to process text recognition when you enable this setting depend-
ing on your computer system environment.
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The following types of documents (characters) may not be recognized correctly. Better
results in text recognition may be achieved by changing the color mode or increasing
the resolution:
- Documents including handwritten characters
- Documents with small characters scanned at a low resolution
- Skewed documents
- Documents written in languages other than the specified language
- Documents including texts written in italic characters
- Documents containing superscript/subscript characters and complicated mathemati-
cal expressions
- Documents with characters on an unevenly colored background
e.g. Shaded characters
- Documents with many decorated characters
e.g. Decorated characters (embossed/outlined)
- Documents with characters on a patterned background
e.g. Characters overlapping illustrations and diagrams
- Documents with many characters contacting underlines or borders
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It may take extra time to perform text recognition on documents with complex layouts or
smudged documents.
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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 512 MB or larger.
