Example 3: Scanning A Document Of Multi-Column Text - Visioneer PROOCR100 User Manual

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Example 3: Scanning a Document of Multi-Column Text

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Pro OCR displays the next suspect entry.
4. Repeat the previous steps until you have checked the entire document.
5. If you want to change the font style, select the text, and click the Style option.
Saving the document places a permanent copy of it on disk.
To save the document:
1. Choose Save from the File menu, or click the Save As button in the Gallery
toolbar.
The Save As dialog box appears.
2. Type the file name in the File Name box.
3. Select MS Word for Windows from the Save as drop-down list.
You can save documents in many popular formats, including Rich Text Format
(RTF), plain text, and Microsoft Excel.
4. Click Save.
5. Choose Close from the File menu.
This example introduces you to processing of multi-column text like newspapers,
magazine articles, and multicolumn books (but not tables), where you want the text to
be recognized column by column.
To scan multi-column text and save in Pro OCR format:
1. Put Sample Document C in the scanner. You can find a copy of this document
in the back of the Getting Started Guide.
Make sure to place the document in the correct orientation and to align it.
2. Select Locate Text Only and Multiple Columns from the Locate drop-down
list in the Gallery toolbar.