Nuance paperport 4.0 deluxe software for windows Benutzerhandbuch

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The page is now a word processing document containing text that word 
processing applications can recognize. You can then edit the text, format 
it, cut and paste it, and so on as you would normally when word 
processing.

The process is not always perfect. If the scanned item contains smudges 
or hand-written notes, the OCR application will try to analyze them 
but, of course, won’t be able to come up with a suitable match. For that 
reason, you should always try to scan clean copies when planning to use 
PaperPort’s OCR feature. Also, you should carefully check the converted 
document to correct any mistakes that the OCR application made.

Here’s an example:

The scanned words on 
this page are not text. 
The words are pictures of 
text, and can’t be edited 
in a word processing 
application. For example, 
if you tried to select a line 
of text to reformat it, you 
couldn’t.

After being processed 
with the OCR 
software, the pictures of 
the text are now “real” text 
that a word processing 
application recognizes. 
You can select text, as 
shown here, to edit it. 
This example shows how 
the converted text would 
appear in Microsoft 
Word.