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The input describes the source of the OCR, it can be a black and white, grayscale or color document. It can also be a computer file. Introduced with this release is a scanable file type, Acrobat files. More on the PDF scanning ability will be covered later.

The process part of the three elements allows the user to describe what he or she wants as a result. Among the choices are to preserve the page structure of the source, scan it as a single continuous column of information, include or exclude tables or to output to a spreadsheet format. The program also recognizes over 100 different languages.

Finally, the output function allows the user to save the information as a file for a word processor or other computer program, output to mail or copy the output to the clipboard. There was another interesting output available — speech. More on that later.

The first scans from the manuals went as expected. It interpreted everything with only three suspect words in three

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