You can scan a document and convert the text into data that you can edit with a word processing, spreadsheet, or HTML-editing program. This process is called OCR (Optical Character Recognition). To scan and use OCR, you need to use an OCR program, such as ABBYY FineReader.
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Open the document cover and place your original on the scanner glass.
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Select the language of the document you’re going to scan, then click the Scan to Other Formats icon. You’ll see the Select Scanner window.
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Select your Epson product, then click OK. The ABBYY FineReader scan settings window opens.
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Select your scanning settings, then click Scan. (If you are scanning only one page, click Close in the ABBYY FineReader window.)
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If you’re going to scan multiple pages, select the settings in the Multi-Page Scanning section. Click the Scan button on the ABBYY FineReader window for each page you want to scan. Click Close after the last page.
If you’re going to scan multiple pages, select the settings in the Multi-Page Scanning section. Click the Scan button on the ABBYY FineReader window for each page you want to scan. Click Close after the last page.
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The Save As window opens. Select a file format for your document (.rtf, .xls, .txt, .htm, and .pdf), then click the Save button. The file is saved and then opened in the application associated with the file type you selected.
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Open the document cover and place your original on the scanner glass.
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Open the Applications folder, then click the ABBYY FineReader icon. You see the ABBYY FineReader window.
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Select your Epson product in the Get Images From pop-up menu. Then select the language of your document and the type of document you want to scan.
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After your document is scanned, you see the Epson Scan window again. Your document is scanned and processed into editable text. Close the Preview window, if necessary, then click the Close button to close Epson Scan.
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The Save Converted File As window opens. Click the Save button. The file is saved and then opened in the application associated with the file type you selected.
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