Canon iP7200 Series Manual page 281

My Image Garden Guide > Using Various Functions
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Extracting Text from Images (OCR Function)
Scan text in images and display it in TextEdit (included with Mac OS).
Important
PDF files cannot be converted to text.
Text conversion may not be possible depending on the size of the selected image.
1.
Display the image you want to convert into text.
Selecting Images, PDF Files and Videos
2.
Control-click the image you want to convert into text, then click OCR from the
displayed menu.
TextEdit (included with Mac OS) starts and editable text appears.
Note
Only text written in languages that can be selected in the Advanced Settings tab of the
Preferences dialog can be extracted to TextEdit (included with Mac OS). Click Settings... on the
Advanced Settings 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.
Preferences Dialog
Text displayed in TextEdit (included with Mac OS) 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
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