PaperPort Deluxe 6.0 User's Guide - Visioneer Product Support and ...

CHAPTER 8Converting Items toText With OCRPaperPort items, such as scanned documents, are images. Even the texton a scanned item is simply a picture of the text, which you can’t edit asyou would edit text in a word-processing document. Using PaperPort’sbuilt-in OCR (optical character recognition) application, you canconvert text “images” into real text that you can then edit using a wordprocessingapplication, such as Microsoft Word.If you already own another OCR application, you can use either it orPaperPort’s built-in OCR application to convert items to editable text.This chapter tells you about:• What is OCR• Converting an item to text• Converting part of a page to text• Converting a scanned spreadsheet to text• Converting an item using another OCR application• Setting the Visioneer OCR preferences77