Extracting Text from Scanned Images (OCR)
Scan text in scanned magazines and newspapers and display it in Notepad (included with Windows).
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.
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Click Settings....
The Settings dialog box appears.
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Click Document Scan.
Note
- For Resolution, only 300 dpi or 400 dpi can be set when Start OCR is selected in Application Settings.
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Select Start OCR for Application Settings, then select the application in which you want to display the result.
Note
- When My Image Garden is specified, after the image is scanned, the text in the image is extracted and appears in Notepad (included with Windows).
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Click OK.
The IJ Scan Utility main screen appears.
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Refer to the following pages for details on the setting items in the Settings dialog box.
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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.
Note
- Click Cancel to cancel the scan.
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Text displayed in Notepad (included with Windows) 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