MFC-J5830DW(XL)
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MFC-J5830DW(XL)
Date: 07/31/2024 ID: faq00100295_503
Scan to an Editable Text File (OCR) Using ControlCenter2 (Macintosh)
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.
The Scan to OCR feature is available for certain languages.
- Load your document.
- In the Finder menu bar, click , and then double-click the (ControlCenter) icon.The ControlCenter2 screen appears.
- Click the SCAN tab.
- Click the OCR button.The scan settings dialog box appears.
- Change the scan settings, such as file format, file name, destination file path, resolution and color, if needed.
To change the file name or destination file path, click Change.
- Click the Start Scanning button.The machine scans the document, converts it to editable text, and then sends it to your default word processing application.
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