Sometimes, the default settings for DocuScan Plus do not appropriately recognize the material you've scanned. In these instances, it is helpful to be able to customize how DocuScan Plus recognizes what you've scanned. For these occasions, DocuScan Plus allows you to customize a scanning profile. Upon doing this, you can use the scanning profile you've created to recognize similar materials in the future.
To create a scanning profile, you must first scan a page of the material you'll be working with. When you've done that, you can examine how DocuScan Plus has recognized your image, and make changes if necessary. To begin making changes to the profile, tab to the "change settings"Â button which will appear among the other buttons, such as for rescanning a page, once your first page has been recognized. Once you choose the "change settings"Â button, you'll be presented with the following options:
This setting will enhance your image for better recognition. This option can be used with materials coming from a fax machine, or images with similar characteristics.
This setting will allow you to set whether DocuScan Plus attempts to analyze the image and recognize columns separately, or to treat the entire page as a single column. If you'd like DocuScan Plus to treat the entire page as a single column, set this option to "disabled."
This setting will tell DocuScan Plus whether it should attempt to detect and recognize multiple tables on a page, treat the entire page as a single table, or not attempt to determine whether tables are present on the page at all. Open the dropdown list with alt+down arrow and choose the option you prefer.
This option tells DocuScan Plus whether to attempt to find and ignore pictures on the page, or whether to recognize the entire page without attempting graphics detection. Disable this option if you'd like DocuScan Plus to recognize the entire page without attempting to find and ignore pictures, or set this option to automatic if you'd like DocuScan Plus to find, detect and recognize only the textual portions of the page.
Often, in books or similar material, there are headers and footers on a page which are not part of the rest of the text, and should be recognized and formatted as separate text from the main body of the material. Check this box if you'd like DocuScan Plus to look for headers and footers, and uncheck the box if you want the entire page to be treated as one body of text.
In some materials, web links may be present. DocuScan Plus can recognize these and format its output such that the recognized link is clickable. Check this box if you'd like DocuScan Plus to attempt this, and leave it unchecked if you just want DocuScan Plus to recognize the text without attempting to search for and format web links.
When you've made the changes you believe are appropriate, you should choose the "rescan page"Â button to verify that your settings are working as you expect. If they are, choose the "save scanning profile button" once you've viewed the recognized text. You can give this profile a name which specifies the kind of material the profile works best with, such as "book"Â or "magazine"Â. Now, each time you begin scanning, you'll first see a dropdown list which allows you to choose the scanning profile you want to use for this session. You may choose "default"Â if you want DocuScan Plus to use its default settings, or press alt+down arrow to open the dropdown list and choose from the scanning profiles you've created.