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OCR (Basic)

This image process converts text in a scanned image into text that can be edited on a computer. This process is called optical character recognition (OCR). OCR works best on clearly typed documents.

Extracted text is sent with the image to a Laserfiche repository. It will be available for text searches.

Note: OCR is a resource-intensive process which can be dramatically affected by poor quality images, improperly scanned images, and/or a machine's processing power and RAM.

Note: The OCR engine used by Laserfiche Scanning is OmniPage OCR. It is automatically installed with Laserfiche Scanning.

To utilize and configure OCR

Select OCR Settings from the toolbar.
In the OCR Settings dialog box, configure the following.

To enable OCR, select Perform OCR on new images.

Select a language to determine which type of characters will be preferred.

Select Decolumnize to remove column formatting from scanned images. If this option is disabled, columns will determine the vertical order in which text appears in a scanned document's text file.

In the Optimization Priority option, select Speed, Standard or Accuracy.