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Convert Scanned Documents to Editable Text (OCR)

You can scan a document and convert the text into data that you can edit with a word processing,
spreadsheet, or HTML-editing program. This process is called OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

To scan and use OCR, you need to install an OCR program, such as ABBYY FineReader.

Scanning Using OCR - Windows
Scanning Using OCR - Mac

Parent topic:

Scanning Special Projects

Scanning Using OCR - Windows

You can use the ABBYY FineReader OCR program to convert scanned documents to editable text.

1.

Load your original in the scanner.

2.

Do one of the following to open ABBYY FineReader:

Windows 10

: Click

and select

ABBYY FineReader 12 Sprint

>

ABBYY FineReader 12

Sprint

.

Windows 8.x

: Navigate to the

Apps

screen and select

ABBYY FineReader 12 Sprint

.

Windows (other versions)

: Click

or

Start

, and select

All Programs

or

Programs

. Select

ABBYY FineReader 12 Sprint

>

ABBYY FineReader 12 Sprint

.

You see a window like this:

3.

Select the language used in the document you are going to scan as the

Document Languages

setting.