Installation guide
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1. Place a text document to be scanned on the scanner
bed, then launch ScanWizard 5.
6.How to use the OCR feature in ScanWizard 5
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is an application that converts scanned documents into
text that can be edited from your word processing program.
3. Click the Scan to
button, then hold down your mouse
for a moment. When the options menu appears, select
OCR.
2. Click the following buttons and select the following
options if you are scanning a black & white text
document for OCR purposes:
OriginalOriginal
OriginalOriginal
Original:
Select
Text Document.
Scan TScan T
Scan TScan T
Scan T
ypeype
ypeype
ype: Only Black & White
option is available if
you selected Text Document as your Original (previous
step).
PurposePurpose
PurposePurpose
Purpose: Select OCR Text.
4. When the OCR Save As
dialog box appears, use the
default “Document” file name or key in your preferred
name, and select
.rtf .rtf
.rtf .rtf
.rtf or
.txt .txt
.txt .txt
.txt as the export file format.
Click
SaveSave
SaveSave
Save to deliver the scanned image directly to
your chosen folder.
If you select the check box “Send documents to
application after saving”, the saved file can be opened
in your word processing application and is ready to be
edited.
Selecting this
check box will
add specified file
name with serial
numbers to
generate multiple
file names for the
scanned and
saved images in
continuous
sequence.
From Combo box, choose one word
processing application for text editing.