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Scan to Text (OCR) using OmniPage
Optical Character Recognition Using the Fujitsu or UMAX Scanner

Handout   Scan to text (OCR) using OmniPage  (2 pp.) Instructions Flash Video Demo OCR Scan to editable text with OmniPage   (02:57) 1. Open OmniPage Pro 14.0. 2. At the top of the screen, the following menu appears: This menu consists of 4 pull-down menus. Above the pull-down menu, the illustrations of the steps (1-2-3, 1, 2, and 3) work as buttons. These buttons may be clicked as you progress through the "3 steps" of the OCR scan. 3. For a quick scan of a basic black and white page with a single column of text, check that 1-2-3 is selected from the pull-down menu, click the 1-2-3 button. This will begin the scan. If you have a basic black and white page with a single column of text like the one which appears above, please skip ahead to Step 8. To adjust settings for color text and multiple-column text layout, please continue reading. 4. Under 1, select scan mode: B&W, Grayscale, or Color. For non-standard sizes, please see Optical Character Recognition: Scanning non-standard size pages and large items . Is any of the text color? If so, select Scan Color. Otherwise, the color text will be saved as an image embedded in the text in Word, and left out if saved as a .txt File. 5. Under Menu 2, select format. Most scholarly journal articles are single-column. OmniPage works best with single-column items in sans-serif fonts. If you are scanning a document in spreadsheet format, select Spreadsheet. 6. Under Menu 3, select Save to File. 7. Click the illustrated button above 1 to scan. 8. The item is scanned as text, and a spell check is performed (below). Click Document Ready to skip spell check, if desired (e.g. if document is in a language other than English). Once the text of your document is scanned, the item appears in the Document Manager, which notes its status: 9. The Save to File box should automatically appear as scan finishes, also. (If not, select Save to File in Menu 3 or click the 3 button.) Name the file, select Save As: Text and select as Files of type either:    • Microsoft Word 2000, XP(.doc) - specify another version of Word, if this is what you own- or,    • text (.txt) Success! You have now scanned the text of your document.

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