HP Officejet 590 All-in-One Printer - Manual (Page 88)

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5.
Sc
anning
Scanning Your Document to
Edit the Words (OCR)
Scan using the optical character recognition (OCR) method when
your original document has words that you want to edit in your word
processing program.
When you scan using OCR, each separate letter and character in your
document is compared to a library of letters and characters that have
been programmed into the OCR software. When the software finds a
match, it’s placed in your word processing program.
Keep in mind that this technology isn’t perfect. After OCR scanning,
you’ll still need to proofread your document carefully to make sure
none of the letters or characters have been misinterpreted by the soft-
ware. Even a spell checker won’t catch everything.
For more information about the OCR software, refer to the Caere doc-
umentation that was shipped in the box with the HP OfficeJet, the
OmniPage Limited Edition User’s Guide.
To scan using OCR:
Load your document in the document tray with the printed side
facing away from you (up to 20 pages, or a single document carrier).
If necessary, slide the document guides on the tray to the left or right
to adjust them for the width of your document.
Now look at your computer screen. The OfficeJet Document Assis-
tant asks you what you’d like to do with the document.
Click Scan and the Scan Settings dialog box will be displayed.
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When you load your
document, the Document
Assistant asks you what
you want to do.
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