Setting the text alignment – I.R.I.S. IRISPen Express 6 for Mac User Manual

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ETTING THE TEXT ALIGNMENT

With the Text Alignment feature, you can indicate how the
scanned lines must be delimited. Where should the reading actually
start if a word has been cropped during scanning? How should
hyphens be interpreted when occurring at the end of a line? Should
prefixes or suffixes be added before and/or after the read data?

To set the text alignment:

• Click on Set the text Alignment in the IRISPen Palette or

select Alignment from the Settings menu.

• Indicate how the scanned area must be isolated and what the

output should be:
- keep all scanned characters
- keep all characters before the last space
- keep all characters after the first space
- keep all characters between the first and the last space

Ignore rejected characters in first and last position


If characters are not properly scanned or read at the beginning or
at the end of a line (these are by default represented by a tilde,
i.e. the "~" symbol), you can ignore them for the output. This
option is particularly useful when the word spacing is reduced or

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