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2. In Thumbnails mode, you can change page numbering simply by dragging selected pages to the
desired place in the document.
Taking Into Account Some of the Features of Your Paper
Document
OCR quality greatly depends on the quality of the source image. Consider the following elements to
ascertain whether you will get the scanning results you desire:
• Document Type
Various devices may be used to produce printed documents, such as typewriters or faxes.
Recognition quality for these documents may vary. This section provides recommendations for
selecting the right print type.
• Print Quality
OCR quality may be greatly impaired by "noise" that sometimes occurs on poor quality documents.
This section provides recommendations for scanning these documents.
• Color mode
A document may be color or black–and–white. More about selecting a color mode for OCR.
• Document Languages
A document may contain text written in multiple languages. This section provides recommendations
for selecting recognition languages.
Document Type
When recognizing typewritten texts or faxes, OCR quality can be improved by selecting the
corresponding Document type in the Options dialog box.
For most documents, the program will detect the print type automatically. For automatic print type
detection, the Auto option must be selected under Document type in the Options dialog box
(the Tools>Options…> menu, then the Document tab). You can process the document in full–
color or black–and–white mode.
You may also choose to manually select the print type as needed.
An example of typewritten text. All letters are of equal width (compare,
for example, "w" and "t"). For texts of this type, select Typewriter.
An example of a text produced by a fax machine. As you can see from the
example, the letters are not clear in some places, in addition to noise and
distortion. For texts of this type, select Fax.
Tip. After recognizing typewritten texts and faxes, be sure to select Auto to process regular
printed documents.
Print Quality
Poor–quality documents with "noise" (i.e. random black dots or speckles), blurred and uneven
letters, or skewed lines and shifted table borders may require specific scanning settings.
Fax
Newspaper