Epson Perfection V500 Office - Converting Scanned Documents into Editable Text

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Converting Scanned Documents Into Editable Text
You can scan a document and convert the text into data that you can edit with a word
processing program. This process is called OCR (Optical Character Recognition). To scan and use
OCR, you need to use an OCR program, such as the ABBYY FineReader program.
OCR software cannot recognize handwritten characters, and certain types of documents or text
are difficult for OCR software to recognize, such as:
Items that have been copied from other copies
Faxes
Text with tightly spaced characters or line pitch
Text that is in tables or underlined
Cursive or italic fonts, and font sizes less than 8 points
Follow these steps to scan and convert text using ABBYY FineReader.
Place your original document on the scanner. See Placing Documents or Photos for
instructions.
Do one of the following to start ABBYY FineReader.
Windows: Select
or Start > All Programs or Programs > ABBYY FineReader
6.0 Sprint > ABBYY FineReader 6.0 Sprint.
Mac OS X: Open the Applications > ABBYY FineReader 5 Sprint Plus folders and
double-click the Launch FineReader 5 Sprint icon.
You see the ABBYY FineReader window.