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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
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.
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 layouts
consisting of single or double
columns
Documents with complex layouts
containing 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
- Vertical text