Character Recognition
As already mentioned, the gocr must be installed. Scan a preview of your document in grayscale or color. You can only scan in binary mode if you have a pure white sheet of paper with black print. Next, highlight the text to have recognized in the preview window. Then, do your final scan in binary mode with Scan.
Now click the second icon from the left in the icon panel, Character recognition for image..., or select this item in the Image settings menu. For your first try, do not change the default settings shown in the emerging OCR window. These are usually appropriate and meet most needs. Now click Start character recognition. You will now see a window containing the OCR results. The quality depends heavily on that of the document itself.
The gocr Window
The text can now be opened by clicking the button with the editor. After the final scan, mark a selection in the image display to the right to load just a part of the text or image to the OCR. Next, in the icon panel, click the third button from the right or click in the menu on OCR on selection. Now proceed as described in the previous section.
The Results of the OCR