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Dropout
Thescanwillnotpickupthecoloryouselect.ThissettingisonlyavailableifyouselectanImage
TypeofGrayscaleorBlack&White.
ColorEnhance
Enhancesthered,green,orblueshadesinthescannedimage.
Threshold
Adjuststhelevelatwhichblackareasintextandlineartaredelineated,improvingtextrecognitionin
OCR(OpticalCharacterRecognition)programs.
Parenttopic:ScanningtoaPDFFileUsingaScannerButton
ConvertScannedDocumentstoEditableText(OCR)
Youcanscanadocumentandconvertthetextintodatathatyoucaneditwithawordprocessing,
spreadsheet,orHTML-editingprogram.ThisprocessiscalledOCR(OpticalCharacterRecognition).
ToscananduseOCR,youneedtoinstallanOCRprogram,suchasABBYYFineReader.
InMacOSX10.6/10.7/10.8,youcanuseABBYYFineReadertoconvertscanneddocumentstoeditable
textbyfirstusinganapplicationsuchasImageCapture.ScanandsaveyourdocumentinImage
Capture,thenopenABBYYFineReader,opentheGetImagesFrompop-upmenu,andselectFile.
Selecttheconversionoptionyouwanttouse,thenselectyourscannedfileandfollowtheinstructionson
thescreen.
Note:WithMacOSX10.6,10.7,or10.8,inadditiontoscanningwithImageCapture,youcandownload
andinstallEpsonScanscanningsoftware.EpsonScanprovidesadditionalimageadjustmentandphoto
correctionfeaturesforenhancingscannedimages,andprovidesaninterfaceforTWAIN-compliantOCR
scanningsoftware,suchasABBYYFineReader.TodownloadEpsonScan,visitEpson'sdriver
downloadsite(U.S.downloadsorCanadiandownloads).
ScanningUsingOCR-Windows
ScanningUsingOCR-MacOSX
Parenttopic:ScanningSpecialProjects
ScanningUsingOCR-Windows
YoucanusetheABBYYFineReaderOCRprogramtoconvertscanneddocumentstoeditabletext.
1. Placeyouroriginalonyourproductforscanning.
2. DooneofthefollowingtoopenABBYYFineReader:
• Windows8:NavigatetotheStartscreenandselectABBYYFineReader9.0Sprint.
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