If, as sometimes happen with scans or pictures of printed material, the app misidentifies a smudge as a picture, or plain text as a table, use an Inspector panel to remove the smudge from the output or mark the text properly as text, not table. The app then analyzes each page image to detect text, pictures, and tables.

An image editor lets you deskew images, erase or crop out parts of an image that you don't want, adjust perspective, color, and brightness and much else. If you perform a manual operation, you first import pictures or scanned pages into a FineReader Pro document which you can modify for best results. After a few seconds, the program prompts you for an output location and file name, and your output document is written to disk. On the right-hand side, you choose an automated operation, such as 'Convert to Excel Spreadsheet.' A gear icon next to the name of the automated operation lets you specify some basic output options, such as image quality and whether to use CSS styles in creating HTML pages. On the left-hand side of the opening menu, you select a source-either your scanner or a file on your disk. In automated mode, you simply choose an operation from the opening menu and let the program do its work-for example. Getting Started You can use FineReader Pro either in its automated mode or in a mode that lets you adjust its settings at each stage of its operation. It also outputs PDF files that display either clean text instead of the original scanned image of the text, or with searchable invisible text hidden under the original picture so you get the combined benefits of accurate appearance and searchable text. FineReader Pro outputs editable documents in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, plain text, and e-book formats-and these documents typically require only a minimum of editing to correct any mistakes the app made in reading the original text or layout.

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