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5. Load the document in the ScanSnap.
For details, refer to "Paper Sizes of Documents" (page 26) and "How to Load
Documents" (page 28).
6. Press the [Scan] button on the ScanSnap.
D Scanning starts.
Text recognition is performed on marked character strings and the image data is
saved as a PDF file with keywords.
z It may take extra time to process text recognition depending on your computer system
environment when you enable this setting.
z The following types of documents (characters) may not be recognized correctly. Better
results in text recognition may be achieved by changing the color mode or increasing
the resolution:
- Documents including handwritten characters
- Documents with small characters scanned at a low resolution
- Skewed documents
- Documents written in languages other than the specified language
- Documents including texts written in italic characters
- Documents with superscript/subscript characters and complicated mathematical
expressions
- Documents with characters on an unevenly colored background
e.g. Shaded characters
- Documents with many decorated characters
e.g. Decorated characters (embossed/outlined)
- Documents with characters on a patterned background
e.g. Characters overlapping illustrations and diagrams
- Documents with many characters contacting underlines or borders
z It may take extra time to perform text recognition on documents with complex layouts or
smudged documents.
z If the same character string is marked several times in the document, the same keyword
is added multiple times in the PDF file.
z Total length of all the keywords can be up to 255 characters, including punctuation
marks in between keywords.
z When you check keywords in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader, the added keywords
may be displayed with a set of quotation marks (e.g. "ABC").