OCR Dialog Box

Click OCR on the Custom Scan with One-click tab or in the One-click Mode screen to open the OCR dialog box.

Scan Settings

• Document Type

  Select the type of document to be scanned.

• Color Mode

  Select how to scan the document.

• Document Size

  Select the size of the document to be scanned.

  When you select Custom, a screen in which you can specify the document size appears. Select a Units, then enter the Width and Height and click OK.

  

   

• Resolution

  Select the resolution at which to scan documents.

  Resolution

• Use the scanner driver

  Select this checkbox to display the ScanGear (scanner driver) screen and make advanced scan settings.

  Color Mode, Document Size, Resolution and other settings in the OCR dialog box will be disabled. Specify these settings in the ScanGear screen.

• Specify...

  Opens the Scan Settings dialog box in which you can make advanced scan settings.

  Scan Settings Dialog Box

  Note

  • When scanning slanted documents, select the Correct slanted document checkbox to improve the text recognition accuracy.

Save Settings

• File name

  Enter the file name of the image to be saved (up to 64 characters). When saving multiple files, 4 digits are appended to each file name.

• Save as type

  Select a file type to save the scanned images.

  Select JPEG/Exif, TIFF or BMP.

  Important

  • You cannot select JPEG/Exif when Color Mode is Black and White.

• Set...

  When Save as type is JPEG/Exif

  You can specify a compression type for JPEG files. Select High(Low Compression), Standard or Low(High Compression).

• Save in

  Displays the folder in which to save the scanned images. To change the folder, click Browse... to specify another one.

  By default, the scanned images are saved in the following folders.

  Windows 7: MP Navigator EX folder in My Pictures folder

  Windows Vista: MP Navigator EX folder in Pictures folder

  Windows XP: MP Navigator EX folder in My Pictures folder

• Save to a Subfolder with Current Date

  Select this checkbox to create a subfolder in the folder specified in Save in with the current date and save scanned files in it. A subfolder with a name such as "2010_01_01" (Year_Month_Date) will be created.

  If this checkbox is not selected, files are saved directly in the folder specified in Save in.

Application Settings

• OCR with

  Specify an OCR application.

  When MP Navigator EX is specified, after the image is scanned, the text in the image is extracted and appears in Notepad (included with Windows).

  Note

  • Only text written in languages that can be selected on the General tab can be extracted to Notepad (included with Windows). Click Set... on the General 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.

    General Tab

  • 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

  • For further procedures, refer to the application's manual.

• Reset

  Cancels the application setting.

• Set...

  Allows you to select an application.

  Important

  • Depending on the specified application, the text may not be extracted correctly or the application may not start.

• Start scanning by clicking the one-click button

  Select this checkbox to start scanning when you click an icon in One-click Mode.

  Important

  • Start scanning by clicking the one-click button is not displayed when the dialog box is opened directly from Solution Menu EX.

• Apply

  Saves and applies the specified settings.

  Click Cancel instead of Apply to cancel the specified settings.

• Cancel

  Cancels the specified settings. The current screen closes.

• Defaults

  Returns all settings in the screen to their defaults.

• Scan

  Scans documents with the specified settings.