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Extracting text from images (ocr function) – Canon PIXMA MG2440 User Manual

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Extracting Text from Images (OCR Function)

Scan text in images and display it in TextEdit (included with Mac OS).

Important

PDF files cannot be converted to text.
Text conversion may not be possible depending on the size of the selected image.

1.

Display the image

you want to convert into text.

2.

Control-click the image you want to convert into text, then click OCR from
the displayed menu.

TextEdit (included with Mac OS) starts and editable text appears.

Note

Only text written in languages that can be selected in the

Advanced Settings

tab

of the Preferences dialog can be extracted to TextEdit (included with Mac

OS). Click Settings... on the

Advanced Settings tab

and specify the language

according to the language of the document to be scanned.
When scanning multiple documents, you can collect the extracted text into one
file.

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)

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