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Paul Moews · 12-06-2006, 11:23 PM

The scan snap is a bit limited in its software. It comes with a copy of
Adobe Acrobat 7 - I believe the newer models still come bundled with
Acrobat. Scans can only be saved as PDF's or JPEG's but PDF's can be
converted to tifs with Acrobat.

Acrobat does contain an OCR module - it works best with business documents
and not so well with old books which often contain difficult to recognize fonts.
Once converted and proofed the PDF's can be saved as text or rich text format files.

I have tried some inexpensive OCR software that accepts PDF files as input
but haven't found them much better than Adobe Acrobat.

12-06-2006, 11:23 PM	#21
Paul Moews Enthusiast Posts: 32 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jul 2006	scan snap and ocr The scan snap is a bit limited in its software. It comes with a copy of Adobe Acrobat 7 - I believe the newer models still come bundled with Acrobat. Scans can only be saved as PDF's or JPEG's but PDF's can be converted to tifs with Acrobat. Acrobat does contain an OCR module - it works best with business documents and not so well with old books which often contain difficult to recognize fonts. Once converted and proofed the PDF's can be saved as text or rich text format files. I have tried some inexpensive OCR software that accepts PDF files as input but haven't found them much better than Adobe Acrobat.