Scan text in scanned magazines and newspapers and display it in Notepad (included with Windows).

• 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.

    Starting IJ Scan Utility

  • Click Settings....

    

    The Settings dialog box appears.

    Settings Dialog Box

  • 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 Notepad (included with Windows).

  • Click OK.

    

    The IJ Scan Utility main screen appears.

  • 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 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