Scan to an Editable Text File (OCR)

The OCR button lets you scan a document and convert it to text. This text can be edited using your favourite word processing software.

Note

•	Presto! PageManager must be installed from the supplied DVD-ROM on your computer.
•	The Scan to OCR function is available for English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Korean.
•	You can change the OCR Language with the OCR Language drop-down list in the setting dialog box for Scan to OCR action.

Load your document.

Click the

(ControlCenter2) icon in the menu bar and then select Open.

The ControlCenter2 window will appear.

Note

If the

(ControlCenter2) icon is not displayed in the menu bar, double-click the ControlCenter icon.
The ControlCenter icon is in Macintosh HD/Applications/Brother.
The

(ControlCenter2) icon will appear in the menu bar.

Click the OCR button in the SCAN tab while holding down the Control key to change scan settings, such as file format, resolution, colour or Scan-to application if needed (see Change Scan Settings).

Click the OCR button in the SCAN tab.

The message dialog appears. Click the Start Scanning button.

The machine scans the document, converts it into editable text, then sends it to your default word processing application.

Note

Check the Don’t show me again. check box to not show the message dialog again.

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