
Preview and adjust the scan area, if necessary, then click Scan. Then select Black & White or Color as the Image Type, and choose Printer or Other as your Destination setting.
In Home Mode, select Magazine, Newspaper, or Text/Line Art as the Document Type. Then select Colour or Black & White as the Image Type and select 300 dpi as the Resolution. In Office Mode, select Auto Detect, ADF, or Document Table as the Document Source. Depending on your scanning mode, do one of the following:. Epson Scan starts in the last mode you used.įor Mac OS X users: If you don't see the Scan & Read icon, choose Select Scanner from the Scan & Read menu, select your Epson product name, and click OK. Once the ABBYY FineReader window opens, click the Scan&Read icon at the top of the window. macOS / Mac OS X: Open the Applications > ABBYY FineReader Sprint Plus folders and select the Launch FineReader Sprint icon. Windows: Type ABBYY FineReader Sprint in to Start Search bar or click Start > Programs or All Programs > ABBYY FineReader Sprint > ABBYY FineReader Sprint.
Do one of the following to start ABBYY FineReader:. Place your original document(s) on the scanner glass or in the Automatic Document Feeder. Cursive or italic fonts, and font sizes less than 8 pointsįollow these steps to scan and convert text using ABBYY FineReader. Text with tightly spaced characters or line pitch. Items that have been copied from other copies. OCR software cannot recognise handwritten characters, and certain types of documents or text may be difficult for OCR software to recognise, such as:
To scan and use OCR, you need to use an OCR program, such as ABBYY® FineReader® Sprint Plus and Presto! PageManager. This process is called OCR (Optical Character Recognition). You can scan a document and convert the text into data that you can edit with a word processing program.
All Epson Scanners and All-In-One products that are supplied with ABBYY FineReader or Presto! PageManager.