Scanning text for editing

Use the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software feature to scan a document and produce text you can edit with a word-processing application.

Note: This function will work only if you have installed ABBYY FineReader 5 SprintX.

  1. Load an original document facedown on the scanner glass.

  2. From the Finder desktop, double-click the Lexmark 3500-4500 Series folder.

  3. Double-click the Lexmark 3500-4500 Series Center icon.

  4. From the “What is being scanned?” menu, select a document type other than Photo.

  5. From the “How will the scanned image be used?” pop-up menu, choose To be edited (OCR).

  6. From the “Send scanned image to” menu, choose a word-processing application to use for editing.

  7. Click Scan.

  8. Open the scanned document from the word-processing application for previewing and editing.

  9. Edit and save the document.

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