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Scan to an Editable Text File (OCR) Using ControlCenter4 Home Mode (Windows®)

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.
  • Select Home Mode as the mode setting for ControlCenter4.
  • (Windows®) Nuance™ PaperPort™ 12SE must be installed on your computer.
  1. Load your document.
  2. Click the (ControlCenter4) icon in the task tray, and then click Open.
  3. Click the Scan tab.
  4. Select the Document Type.
  5. Change the size of your document, if needed.
  6. Click (Scan).
    The machine starts scanning, and the scanned image appears in the image viewer.
  7. Click the left or right arrow buttons to preview each scanned page.
  8. Click the OCR button.
  9. Configure the OCR settings, and then click OK.
    The machine scans the document, converts it to editable text, and then sends it to your default word processing application.
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