About the OCR function of ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap
ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap is an application used exclusively with the ScanSnap. This
application can perform text recognition only for PDF files created by using the ScanSnap. It
cannot perform text recognition for PDF 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
Scan to Word
Documents with simple layouts
consisting of single or double
columns
Scan to Excel
Documents containing simple
tables with no cells merged
Suitable for conversion
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Actions (for Windows Users)
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