How to scan a document using Fine reader and CuneiForm?

Modern equipment allows quitequickly and easily to cope with many tasks. Using the scanner, you can download various texts and images to your computer. When you get to a hard disk in a matter of seconds, handwritten materials and photos can be immediately used for their intended purpose. Those interested in this possibility are probably concerned with the question of how to scan a document. It should be said that when performing this operation in the electronic text, erroneous combinations of letters can often occur. Such shortcomings are caused by imperfections in the scanning system. Therefore, after the completion of the operation, you should read the text and correct all the shortcomings.

In this article I will describe in detail howscan the document using specially designed programs for this purpose. It should be noted that this operation is impossible without a special apparatus. It's called a scanner. The device must be connected to a computer with the drivers installed on it.

First, we'll look at how to scan a document withusing the most popular program "Fine Reader" (seventh version). So, open the lid of the device and put the text on the glass. Run the program. In the appeared window choose "File", and then "Scan the picture". If you want to transfer to the computer already finished drawing, then click "Open Image". After that, the scanner settings should appear.

For the text choose the item "Black and white drawing". After a while, the page will be transferred to the electronic view and appear on the screen of your monitor. We select the part of the text we need (or the whole document as a whole) with the arrow frame. After that click on it with the right mouse button and select "Block type" - "Text". The required area will be highlighted in green. Then again click the right button and make the "Recognize block" item. Next to the window should appear text in electronic form. Now, knowing how to scan a document, you can use it in the most common way to "Copy" and "Insert". To transfer electronic material to the Word, you must select "File" - "Send pages" - Word.

There is another good program forcalled the CuneiForm. Consider how to scan a document using this resource. So, run the program. In the opened window in the upper left corner under the word "File" there is a button "Recognition Wizard". Push it. A window opens. In it we put a "tick" next to the item "Scan", press the "Next" button.

After that, the windows withparameters of the operation, select the required format and color. Click "Next". The newly appeared window will display the settings for contrast, brightness, etc. We improve or leave the processing quality at the same level, choose "Next". The scanner is running, check that the document you need is on the machine's glass. After the procedure is complete, select "Recognize now" in the newly appeared window, then select the language, then tick the "Vocabulary control" item. The next step is to mark the parameters "Search tables, pictures", and "Save fragments location". The recognition process is started. After its completion, the Word application opens in the workspace. Now electronic material can be edited and saved. Scanning the text is complete.