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IJ Scan Utility

Extracting Text from Scanned Images (OCR)

Scan text in scanned magazines and newspapers and display it in TextEdit (included with Mac OS).

Note

  • You can extract text when scanning via Document, Custom, or ScanGear.

  • The screens for scanning documents are used as examples in the following descriptions.

  1. Start IJ Scan Utility.

    Starting IJ Scan Utility

  2. Click Settings....

    figure: IJ Scan Utility

    The Settings dialog appears.

    Settings Dialog

  3. Click Document Scan.

    figure: Settings dialog

  4. Select Start OCR for Application Settings, then select the application in which you want to display the result.

    figure: Settings dialog
    Note

    • When My Image Garden is specified, after the image is scanned, the text in the image is extracted and appears in TextEdit (included with Mac OS).

  5. Click OK.

    figure: Settings dialog

    The IJ Scan Utility main screen appears.

    Note

  6. Click Document.

    figure: IJ Scan Utility

    Scanning starts.

    When scanning is completed, the scanned images are saved according to the settings, and the extracted text appears in the specified application.

    Note

    • Click Cancel to cancel the scan.

    • Text displayed in TextEdit (included with Mac OS) is for guidance only. Text in the image of the following types of documents may not be detected correctly.

      • Documents containing text with font size outside the range of 8 points to 40 points (at 300 dpi)

      • Slanted documents

      • Documents placed upside down or documents with text in the wrong orientation (rotated characters)

      • Documents containing special fonts, effects, italics, or hand-written text

      • Documents with narrow line spacing

      • Documents with colors in the background of text

      • Documents containing multiple languages

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