Apple Fax - Manual (Page 101)

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
A fax is transmitted as graphic information. A received fax
document cannot be opened with a word processor or
edited as text. The Apple Fax OCR feature allows you to scan
a fax and convert its graphic pixels to text. You can convert
all or part of a document to text.
OCR converts only printed characters in a fax document to
text format. Character recognition is not the same as
handwriting recognition; OCR cannot recognize and convert
handwriting into text.
OCR Dictionaries
When you install Apple Fax, the Installer places some items
related to OCR in a Mimetics folder in your System Folder.
Some of these items are language-specific dictionaries
needed to recognize the words in the document target
language. Dictionaries exist in several languages. You can
obtain dictionaries for other languages by writing to
Mimetics at the address on page ii (copyright page) of this
manual.
To install other dictionaries, simply drag them into the
Mimetics folder. Choose the current dictionary in the OCR
preferences panel.
See also: “OCR preferences” in Chapter 8, “Apple Fax
Preferences” for an explanation of OCR preference options.
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