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
Scan to Word
Documents with simple lay-
outs 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 Mac OS Users)
Not suitable for conversion
Documents with complex layouts con-
taining 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