![]() With most apps, you can choose between automation and interaction by giving you a set of interactive tools and letting you decide which ones to use. When it runs interactively, you typically use image-enhancement tools to straighten or sharpen an image, layout tools to block out parts of a page that you don't want in the output, and then a proofreading tool to correct any misreadings by the software. When an OCR app runs automatically, all you do is click a button, walk away, and come back to find your output files already created. ![]() When you choose an OCR app, you'll want to decide whether you want it to run automatically, interactively, or a combination of both. High-powered OCR software can also convert printed text into HTML files that anyone can view in a browser. ![]() For archiving, you'll typically feed your documents (receipts, business cards, handouts, or anything else) into your scanner and let your OCR software create searchable PDF files that show a scanned image of the original document but also contain-hidden underneath the scanned image-text that you can copy from the PDF and paste into other applications, or that you can search for when you need to find the original.įor repurposing, OCR typically converts a printed table into an Excel spreadsheet, or an old book either into a PDF with searchable text hidden under the page images or into a word-processing document that you can edit and reuse. ![]() You use OCR for two basic functions: archiving documents or repurposing documents.
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