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Scan to an Editable Text File (OCR) Using ControlCenter2 (Macintosh)

Your machine can convert characters in a scanned document to text data using optical character recognition (OCR) technology. Edit this text using your preferred text-editing application.

  • (Macintosh) Presto! PageManager must be installed on your computer.

    Download Presto! PageManager from http://www.fujixeroxprinters.com/.

    The Scan to OCR feature is available for English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.

  1. Load your document.
  2. In the Finder menu bar, click Go>Applications>Fuji Xerox, and then double-click the (ControlCenter2) icon.
    The ControlCenter2 screen appears.
  3. Click the SCAN tab.
  4. Click the OCR button.
    The scan settings dialog box appears.
  5. Change the scan settings, such as file format, file name, destination file path, resolution, or colour, if needed.

    To change the file name or destination file path, click Change.

  6. Click the Start Scanning button.
    The machine scans the document, converts it to editable text, and then sends it to your default word processing application.
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