DocuMate 515 Scanner User’s Guide 49ScanningScanning with Optical Character Recognition (OCR)Optical Character Recognition (OCR) converts text and numbers on ascanned page into editable text and numbers. You can then work with thetext and numbers to edit, spellcheck, change font or type size, sort,calculate, and so forth.The One Touch OmniPage Module or the OmniPage Pro software mustbe installed on your computer in order to use the OCR options with theOne Touch 4.0 software and your DocuMate 515 scanner. TheOne Touch OmniPage Module was automatically installed when youinstalled the scanner’s driver. The One Touch OmniPage Mini-Guide isavailable on the installation disc.With the One Touch OmniPage Module or OmniPage Pro softwareinstalled, the OCR process is automatic when the page format on theOne Touch Properties window is a text format, such as DOC, TEXT, XLS,RTF and so forth.To scan with OCR:1. Open the One Touch Properties window.2. Select a One Touch button to scan to a text editing application suchas Microsoft Word.3. Click OK to save the changes and close the One Touch Propertieswindow.4. Press or click the One Touch button your set to scan with OCR.Your scanned pages appear in the Destination Application with theirtext ready for editing and other text processing.NOTE: Xerox recommends that all OCR processing use the originalfactory settings for OCR scanning that came with your scanner. Whenscanning with other settings, use at least 200 dpi for the resolution. Ifthe original documents are of poor quality or have a small type font,300 dpi can be used as the maximum resolution.
