Select the image source: you capture images using your scanner or open prescanned images - for instance faxes or images generated by a digital camera.
Be sure that your scanner is selected and that its settings are correct.
Scan the page with your scanner or open the image file. (You capture images using your scanner or open prescanned images - for instance faxes or images generated by a digital camera.)
Have a closer look at the scanned page to control the image quality.
If the page analysis is enabled, the text windows, graphics and tables are detected automatically. Perform “sorting” to select the windows of interest and define their order. If the page analysis is disabled, use manual windowing or a zoning layout to indicate which blocks you want to recognize.
Specify the document’s language and characteristics.
You can save the recognized text in a text file, send it directly to a target application or copy it to the clipboard.
Start the character recognition.
You may interrupt at any time by clicking the Stop button (or pressing Escape).
If learning is enabled, you’ll enter the interactive phase.
Tip: the OCR wizard guides you through the OCR process comfortably - answer a few simple questions and you’ll obtain quick and easy results.
Tip: use the scanner’s document feeder (ADF) to efficiently convert a multipage document.