Scan a foreign-language document

By default, Microsoft Office Document Imaging performs optical character recognition (OCR) automatically when you scan a document, using your computer's normal language settings. Office Document Imaging can perform OCR on documents in any installed language dictionary.

Scan and recognize text in a foreign-language document

1. Position the document on your scanner.
2. On the File menu, click Scan New Document, and then select the preset you want to use.
3. Click Preset options, and then do one of the following:
   • If you want to create a new preset specifically for foreign-language scanning, click Create new preset. Type a name for the new preset and click OK. 
   • If you want to modify the existing preset so that it always uses the foreign language you select, click Edit selected preset.
4. On the Processing tab, select the language you want from the OCR Language list.
5. Click OK.
6. Click Scan.

   If you selected the Original is double sided or Prompt for additional pages check box, the Microsoft Office Document Scanning dialog box reappears.

7. To save the file, click Done after the last page is scanned.

Recognize text in a previously scanned foreign-language document

1. Open the document in Office Document Imaging.
2. On the View menu, click Options, and then select the language you want from the OCR Language list.
3. Click OK.
4. On the File menu, click Recognize Text Using OCR.

5. If a confirmation message appears, click OK.