MFC-L5800DW
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MFC-L5800DW
Date: 10/17/2018 ID: faq00100293_000
Scan to an Editable Text File (OCR) Using ControlCenter4 Home Mode (Windows)
Your machine can convert characters in a scanned document to text using optical character recognition (OCR) technology. You can edit this text using your preferred text-editing application.
NOTE: Illustrations shown below are from a representative product and operating system and may differ from your Brother machine and operating system.
- Load your document.
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Click the
(ControlCenter4) icon in the task tray, and then click Open.
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Click the Scan tab.
- Choose the Document Type.
- Change the document's Scan Size, if needed.
-
Click
(Scan).
The machine starts scanning, and the scanned image appears in the image viewer. - Click the left or right arrow buttons to preview each scanned page.
- Crop the scanned image, if needed.
-
Click
(OCR).
- The OCR dialog will appear. Configure the OCR settings, and click OK. The application you have chosen will open and display the converted text data.
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