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About the OCR function of ABBYY FineReader for ScanSnap
z 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.
z 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 Not suitable for conversion
Scan to Word Documents with simple lay-
outs consisting of single or
double columns
Documents with complex layouts con-
taining a mixture of diagrams, tables,
and text (e.g. brochures, magazines, and
newspapers)
Scan to Excel Documents containing simple
tables with no cells merged
Documents containing;
- tables with no solid border lines
- tables with complicated cell formats
- complex tables containing sub-tables
- diagrams, graphs, photos and/or
vertical text
(Note that documents containing dia-
grams, graphs or vertical text will not be
reproduced.)