Scan Documents with OCR

Your KODAK Home Center Software includes Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.  Using OCR, you can convert paper documents into text files that you can edit.

 

Scanning documents using OCR

1    Scan the document.

2    Edit the scanned image, if necessary.

3    On the Finish screen, select Save to file.

Important: When selecting the File type, choose rtf or pdf.

rtf

Saves the file as a rich text document file that can be viewed and edited in most word processing applications.

pdf

Saves a graphic rendition of the file with embedded text that can be searched.  PDF files can be viewed with ADOBE Reader, and edited with ADOBE Acrobat.

4    Select .rtf from the File type drop-down list.

5    To create a multi-page file, select Combine selected pages into single document.

6    Click Save.

7    Click Done to return to the main screen.