Extracting Text from Scanned Images (OCR)
To edit a scanned PDF in Mac OS X (10.14 Mojave included), you will need to use the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program to edit, add text, and markup your scanned PDF file. Here we would like to introduce you to iSkysoft PDF Editor 6 Professional for Mac (or iSkysoft PDF Editor 6 Professional for Windows ), which is a powerful PDF.
Click OCR in the IJ Scan Utility main screen to scan text in scanned magazines and newspapers and display it in a specified application.
- Edit, Update, Scan & Extract Text: OCR scanning allows you to “unlock” text in images or PDF files that you can’t normally edit. After converting, you can edit or update, scan and extract text from a document that wasn’t possible before.
- 1: Scanned Text Editor; Edit any scanned document without loseing anything. Layout and quality will remain as in the original document. The program will NOT try to recognize the text, instead it will free the characters and pictures from the background.
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- You can also extract text from Document, Custom, or ScanGear.
- Start IJ Scan Utility.
- Click Settings..., then set the document type, resolution, etc. in the Settings (OCR) dialog box, and then select the application in which you want to display the result.
When setting is completed, click OK.
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- For Resolution, only 300 dpi or 400 dpi can be set.
- If a compatible application is not installed, the text in the image is extracted and appears in your text editor.
Text to be displayed is based on Document Language in the Settings (General Settings) dialog box. Select the language you want to extract in Document Language and scan. - You can add the application from the pull-down menu.
- Click OCR
.Scanning starts.
When scanning is completed, the scanned images are saved according to the settings, and the extracted text appears in the specified application.
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- Click Cancel to cancel the scan.
- Text displayed in your text editor is for guidance only. Text in the image of the following types of documents may not be detected correctly.
- Documents containing text with font size outside the range of 8 points to 40 points (at 300 dpi)
- Slanted documents
- Documents placed upside down or documents with text in the wrong orientation (rotated characters)
- Documents containing special fonts, effects, italics, or hand-written text
- Documents with narrow line spacing
- Documents with colors in the background of text
- Documents containing multiple languages
- Click Cancel to cancel the scan.
- Start IJ Scan Utility.