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Epson ES-300C Supplementary Manual
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Your scanner hardware works hand in hand with
your software to produce data files. In fact, the
most important aspect of getting great results with
your scanner is understanding a little bit about the
software that creates these files. The rest of this
booklet presents software topics that will help you
to understand the scanning process. You'll find
that scanning software is used to produce two types
of files: text files, which contain characters and
letters, or image files, which depict some type of
illustration. Text files can be edited with an
ordinary word processing program. Image files
can be manipulated using special software
programs called image editors.
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OCR (optical character recognition) programs
decipher hard copy words and covert them into
editable text files, just as if you had typed them
yourself. More powerful programs even recognize
a variety of typestyles and page formats.
Why waste time reentering information to get it on
disk? For businesses with a steady stream of critical
information or any hard copy data that must be
converted to disk, a scanner and an OCR program
can be real time-savers. You can combine infor-
mation from many different sources into com-
prehensive reports, convert old documents to data
files for easy storage, capture information from
trade journals or papers-the list goes on and on.
Even if you usually use your computer for simple
word processing or spreadsheets, you'll appreciate
the convenience of OCR. To prove it, Epson
includes a leading manufacturer's OCR Try-Pak
with each of its scanners, so that you can try out
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