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PDF Settings Dialog Box

You can make advanced settings such as the PDF compression type to the PDF file to be saved.

Select PDF for Data Format in the Save dialog box of the Scan view, then click Settings... to display the PDF Settings dialog box.

figure: PDF Settings dialog box

Important

  • Only Security can be set for images with resolutions outside the range of 75 dpi to 600 dpi.
Enable keyword search
Select this checkbox to convert text in images into text data and create PDF files that support keyword search.
Document Language
Select the language for detecting text in images.
Detect the orientation of text documents and rotate images

Select this checkbox to detect the page orientation based on the text in images and automatically rotate the images for creating PDF files.

Important

  • This function is available only for images (text documents) containing languages that can be selected from Document Language. This function is not available depending on the language in the image.

  • The page orientation may not be detected for the following types of images since the text cannot be detected correctly.

    • Images with small amount of text
    • Images containing text with font size outside the range of 8 points to 48 points
    • Images containing special fonts, effects, italics, or hand-written text
    • Images with patterned backgrounds
Correct slanted text document

Select this checkbox to detect the document orientation based on the text in images and correct the angle (within the range of -0.1 to -10 degrees or +0.1 to +10 degrees) for creating PDF files.

Important

  • The following types of images may not be corrected properly since the text cannot be detected correctly.

    • Images in which the text lines are inclined more than 10 degrees or the angles vary by line
    • Images containing both vertical and horizontal text
    • Images with extremely large or small fonts
    • Images with small amount of text
    • Images containing figures/images
    • Hand-written image
PDF Compression

Select a compression type for saving.

Standard
It is recommended that you normally select this setting.
High

Compresses the file size when saving. You can reduce the load on your network/server.

Important

  • PDF images may degrade if you repeatedly save them with high compression.
Security

You can set passwords for the created PDF files.

Select Password-protected to display the Password Security Settings dialog box in which you can set a password to open a file and restriction on functions such as editing and printing.