Scanning and Configuring One TouchXerox® DocuMate® 4790User’s Guide6-87Scanning with Optical Character Recognition(OCR)Optical Character Recognition (OCR) converts text and numbers on a scanned page into editable text andnumbers. You can then work with the text and numbers to edit, spell check, change font or type size, sort,calculate, and so forth.The One Touch OmniPage Module must be installed on your computer in order to use the OCR options with theOne Touch software and your Xerox scanner. The One Touch OmniPage Module was automatically installed whenyou installed your driver from the installation disc.To scan with OCR:1. Open the One Touch Properties window.2. Select a text editing program in the Select Destination list, then select a text file format in the Selectformat panel.For example, if you want to edit your document in Microsoft’s WordPad, select that application then choosea file format such as TEXT or RTF.3. Click on OK to save the changes and close the One Touch Properties window.4. Press or click the One Touch button you set to scan with OCR.Your scanned pages appear in the Destination Application with the text ready for editing and other textprocessing.Note: Xerox recommends that all OCR processing use the original factory settings for OCRscanning that came with your scanner. When scanning with other settings, use at least 300dpi for the resolution. If the original documents are of poor quality or have a small type font,400 dpi can be used as the maximum resolution.Note: Some of the illustrations in this section may not look exactly as they appear on yourcomputer’s screen. The differences are minor and do not affect the steps to use the newfeatures.
