Visioneer 220 User Manual

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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) converts text and numbers on a 
scanned page into editable text and numbers. You can then work with 
the text and numbers to edit, spellcheck, change font or type size, sort, 
calculate, and so forth.
To scan with OCR:
1. Select a Destination Application that has one of the Text formats 
(TEXT, RTF, XLS, or HTML).
2. Scan the document.
Your scanned pages appear in the Destination Application with 
their text ready for editing and other text processing.
To select OCR settings:
1. Select the Destination Application.
2. Right-click on a text format icon. 
Note: Visioneer recommends that all OCR processing use the original 
factory settings for OCR scanning that come with your scanner. When 
scanning with other settings, use at least 300 dpi for the resolution. If 
the original documents are of poor quality and have small type, 400 
dpi can be used as the maximum resolution.
Note: OCR scanning is also for spreadsheets so you can work in 
Microsoft Excel (or other spreadsheet applications) with the figures 
and text from the original spreadsheets.