Scan text in scanned magazines and newspapers and display it in TextEdit (included with Mac OS).
You can extract text when scanning via Document, Custom, or ScanGear.
The screens for scanning documents are used as examples in the following descriptions.
Start IJ Scan Utility.
Click Settings....
The Settings dialog appears.
Click Document Scan.
Select Start OCR for Application Settings, then select the application in which you want to display the result.
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).
Click OK.
The IJ Scan Utility main screen appears.
See the following pages for details on the setting items in the Settings dialog.
Click Document.
Scanning starts.
When scanning is completed, the scanned images are saved according to the settings, and the extracted text appears in the specified application.
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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