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ScanSoft

OmniPage

OCR lets you convert

image text into text you can edit

ScanSoft

PaperPort

9.0SE can quickly convert the text on a

ScanSoft

PaperPort

9.0SE item (which is really just a picture of the

text) into text that you can edit with a word processing application.

PaperPort

9.0SE uses the optical character recognition application

ScanSoft

OmniPage

OCR, which comes with PaperPort

9.0SE.

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PaperPort

9.0SE can use your preferred OCR application if it is

already on your computer. You can convert the entire item, or by

using the Copy Text command, you can select only a portion of the

text to convert.

Dragging an item onto a word-processing link icon starts

PaperPort

’s built-in OCR application, or you can use your own

OCR application.

You can Import items from other applications

In addition to scanning items, you can bring items into PaperPort

9.0SE in a variety of ways and convert them to PaperPort

9.0SE

(MAX) files in several different ways:

■

Print to the Desktop View from another application, such as

Microsoft

Excel.

■

Import files saved in other file formats, such as Windows

Bitmap

(BMP) or Tagged Image File Format (TIFF).