How+to+scan+text+using+OCR

The following instructions detail how to scan a document to text using the OCR (optical character recognition) feature of the EPSON scanner.


 * 1) Scan your document to PDF form. Scans should be at least 200 DPI.
 * 2) In Adobe Acrobat Professional (not Adobe Acrobat Reader, which only views PDFs):


 * Go to the 'Document' menu, and select "OCR text recognition" > "Recognize text using OCR".
 * Make sure "All pages" is selected in the dialog box, then hit OK. It may take some time for Acrobat to process your images into text. The result of this process appears indistinguishable from the original PDF - except now your PDF supports text searches, highlighting, and other text relevant functions. (It may also reduce the size of the PDF file.)
 * Click the "Export" button (also found in the 'File' menu) - and export to plain text. You may have to do some cleanup and proofreading. (You can experiment with exporting to Word document format, but this may create a document full of text boxes and mixed fonts/font sizes.)