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6.9.7 Searchable PDF
When the file format is PDF, the scanned data can be converted to a searchable PDF.
1. On the "Scan Settings" screen, select the [Save] tab.
2. Press the [Searchable PDF] button.
The "Searchable PDF" screen appears.
The scanner may fail to correctly recognize the following kinds of documents
(characters) as text. However, by changing color mode and/or improving image
quality for scanning, such a document may be successfully recognized.
z Handwritten documents
z Documents including smaller characters and scanned in low quality
z Skewed documents
z Documents written in languages other than English
z Documents including texts written in italic characters
z Superscript/subscript letters and complex mathematical formulas
z Characters are written against an unevenly-colored or patterned background
z Characters to which effects (Shadow, Outline, and the like) are applied
z Shaded characters
z Documents of complex layout as well as documents including unreadable
characters due to print-through and smudges
(For such documents, the recognition time may be long)
Creating a searchable PDF will take some additional time.
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