Scan a foreign-language document
By default, Microsoft Office Document Imaging performs optical character recognition (OCR) automatically when you scan a document, using your computer's normal language settings. Office Document Imaging can perform OCR on documents in any installed language dictionary.
Scan and recognize text in a foreign-language document
- Position the document on your scanner.
- On the File menu, click Scan New Document, and then select the preset you want to use.
- Click Preset options, and then do one of the following:
- If you want to create a new preset specifically for foreign-language scanning, click Create new preset. Type a name for the new preset and click OK.
- If you want to modify the existing preset so that it always uses the foreign language you select, click Edit selected preset.
- On the Processing tab, select the language you want from the OCR Language list.
- Click OK.
- Click Scan.
If you selected the Original is double sided or Prompt for additional pages check box, the Microsoft Office Document Scanning dialog box reappears.
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To save the file, click Done after the last page is scanned.
Recognize text in a previously scanned foreign-language document
- Open the document in Office Document Imaging.
- On the View menu, click Options, and then select the language you want from the OCR Language list.
- Click OK.
- On the File menu, click Recognize Text Using OCR.
If a confirmation message appears, click OK.