Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M Operator's Manual page 315

About the OCR function of ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap
ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap is an application used exclusively with the ScanSnap. This
program can perform text recognition only for PDF files created by using the ScanSnap. It
cannot perform text recognition for files created using Adobe Acrobat or other applications.
The optical character recognition program has the following features. Before performing text
recognition, check whether the documents you want to convert are suitable for conversion
according to the following guidelines:
Application Suitable for conversion
Scan to Word Documents with simple
layouts consisting of single or
double columns
Scan to Excel Documents containing simple
tables with no cells merged
Not suitable for conversion
Documents with complex layouts
containing a mixture of diagrams, tables,
and text (e.g. brochures, magazines, and
newspapers)
Documents containing:
- Tables with no solid border lines
- Tables with complicated cell formats
- Complex tables containing sub-tables
- Diagrams
- Graphs
- Photos
- Vertical text
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