Scanning42 DocuMate 250 Scanner User’s GuideText FormatsThe Text Formats are for text file types. The names of the formatsindicate their file types.Selecting the text format option also selects OCR processing as anautomatic step for scanning. Therefore, when you scan adocument with the text format selected, the text portions of thedocument are automatically converted to editable text. See“Scanning with Optical Character Recognition (OCR)” on page 61.Select a text format for documents with text or numbers, such as abusiness letter, report, or spreadsheet. The text format icon hasseveral file formats available, depending on the DestinationApplication you select.The file format is the file name extension on the text format icon.As you select Destination Applications that are text applications,the text format icon changes to match the file type of theapplication. In some cases, the Destination Application supportsseveral file types, and you can right-click on the icon to choose theparticular file type for that application.To select a file type for the text format:1. Select the Destination Application.2. Right-click on the text format icon.A menu opens. The following figure is an example of the TEXTformat with Microsoft Outlook as the Destination Application.The specific text format; this example is for RichText Format (RTF) used with Microsoft Word,Wordpad, and other word processing applications.
