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Note: With OS X 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, or 10.9, in addition to scanning with Image Capture, you can download and install Epson Scan scanning software. Epson Scan provides additional image adjustment and photo correction features for enhancing scanned images, and provides an interface for TWAIN-compliant OCR scanning software, such as ABBYY FineReader. Adams rite 4550 installation instructions. To download Epson Scan, visit Epson's driver download site ( or ).
Place your original on your product for scanning. Open the Applications folder and click the ABBYY FineReader Sprint icon. You see this window. Open the Get Images From pop-up menu and select your product. Select the language used in the document you are going to scan as the Document Language setting. Select the type of document you are going to scan.
Epson Scan starts in the last scan mode you used. Select your scan settings and click Scan. Your document is scanned and you see the Epson Scan window while your document is converted to editable text. Click Close to close the Epson Scan window and Preview window, if necessary. You see the Save Converted File As window.
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. 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.
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). The IJ Scan Utility main screen appears.
Note. 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. Note.
Click Cancel to cancel the scan. Text displayed in TextEdit (included with Mac OS) is for guidance only.
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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.