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Follow these steps to use ABBYY Screenshot Reader:
1. Go to Start Menu f All Programs f ABBYY
Screenshot Reader.
2. From the Capture drop-down menu, select what section
of the screen you want to capture in your screenshot:
Area: Select this option to capture only a certain
area of your screen, which you can select by
clicking and dragging the mouse (see below).
Window: Select this option to capture only a
certain window shown on your screen, which you
can select by placing and clicking the mouse (see
below).
Screen: Select this option to capture the entire computer screen (see below).
Timed Screen: Select this option to capture the entire computer screen but with a 5-second delay
(see below).
3. From the Language drop-down menu, select what language the software will recognize when it reads text
in the screenshot.
4. From the Send drop-down menu, select what part of the scanned document will be captured in the
screenshot and where it will be sent.
Text to Clipboard: Text pulled from the
screenshot will be sent to your Clipboard, where
it can be pasted elsewhere.
Text to Microsoft Word: Text pulled from the
screenshot will be automatically pasted to a new
document in Microsoft Word.
Text to File: Text pulled from the screenshot will be automatically pasted to a new document you
select. (You will be prompted to select the document after taking the screenshot.)
Table to Clipboard: A table (and its text) pulled from the screenshot will be sent to your Clipboard,
where it can be pasted elsewhere.
Table to Microsoft Excel: A table (and its text) pulled from the screenshot will be automatically
pasted to a new document in Microsoft Excel.
Table to File: A table (and its text) pulled from the screenshot will be automatically pasted to a new
document you select. (You will be prompted to select the document after taking the screenshot.)
Image to Clipboard: The whole screenshot will be sent to your Clipboard, where it can be pasted
elsewhere.
Image to File: The screenshot will be automatically pasted to a new document you select. (You will
be prompted to select the document after taking the screenshot.)
Image to E-mail: The screenshot will be automatically saved as a .bmp file and attached to a new
e-mail message.
For more informatio
n
on ABBYY
Screenshot Reader, refer to the software's
hel
p
file b
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p
ressin
g
F1.
For tips o
n
acquiring the clearest scans
and achieving the best results using the
text recognition feature in the software,
please see the TEXT RECOGNITION
TIPS section in this manual.