OmniWare Pro 12 ScanSoft manual How to set up Direct OCR, How to use Direct OCR

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Chapter 3

How to set up Direct OCR

1.Start the application you want connected to OmniPage Pro. Start OmniPage Pro, open the Options dialog box at the Direct OCR panel and select Enable Direct OCR.

2.Select process options for proofing and zoning. These function for future Direct OCR work until you change them again; they are not applied when OmniPage Pro is used on its own.

3.The Unregistered panel displays running or previously registered applications. Select the desired one(s) and click Add. You can browse for an unlisted application.

How to use Direct OCR

1.Open your registered application and work in a document. To acquire recognition results from scanned pages, place them correctly in the scanner.

2.Use the target application’s File Menu item Acquire Text Settings... to specify settings to be used during recognition. Any settings not offered take their values from those last used in OmniPage Pro. Settings changed for Direct OCR are also changed in OmniPage Pro.

3.Use the File Menu item Acquire Text to acquire images from scanner or file.

4.If you selected Draw zones automatically in the Direct OCR panel of the Options dialog box, or under Acquire Text Settings..., recognition proceeds immediately.

5.If Draw zones automatically is not selected, each page image will be presented to you, allowing you to draw zones manually. Click the Perform OCR button to continue with recognition.

6.If proofing was specified, this follows recognition. Then the recognized text is placed at the cursor position in your application, with the formatting level specified by Acquire Text Settings... .

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Contents Page G a L N O T I C E S N T E N T S O C E S S I N G D O C U M E N T S O O F I N G a N D E D I T I N G D E This User’s Guide Online Help Readme FileScanning and other information Bold Using this GuideGetting online Help Online Html HelpContext-Sensitive Help Tech Notes Glossary Installation and setup System requirements Installing OmniPage Pro Before installing OmniPage ProTo install OmniPage Pro Setting up your scanner with OmniPage Pro Setting up your scanner with OmniPage Pro How to start the program Registering your software New features in OmniPage ProDramatic increase in accuracy Streamlined interfaceFormatting levels for display and saving Better proofing and verifyingSuperior page analysis Advanced saving optionsIntroduction OmniPage Pro’s OCR capabilities What is optical character recognitionGraphics Text formattingBasic processing steps Documents in OmniPage ProBring a set of images into OmniPage Pro Perform OCR to generate editable textImage Panel OmniPage DesktopToolbars Menu barText Editor Image PanelOmniPage Toolbox Thumbnails Managing documentsDocument Manager Deleting pages from a document Customizing Document Manager columnsOmniPage Documents Printing a documentClosing a document How to save to OPD Why save to OPDScanner SettingsDirect OCR ProcessProofing Custom LayoutText Editor Processing documents Quick Start Guide Loading and recognizing sample image filesScanning and recognizing a single Quick Start Guide Automatic Processing overviewManual CombinedUsing the OCR Wizard Other applicationsAt a later time Automatic processing Stopping and restarting automatic processing Manual processing Start automatically and finish manually Combined processingStart manually and finish automatically Processing with the OCR Wizard Processing from other applications How to use Direct OCR How to set up Direct OCRHow to use OmniPage Pro with PaperPort Processing with Schedule OCR Input from image files Defining the source of page imagesScan black and white Input from scannerScan grayscale Scan colorBrightness and contrast Scanning with an ADFScanning without an ADF Describing the layout of the documentMultiple columns, no table Single column, no tableSingle column with table SpreadsheetAutomatic zoning Zones and backgroundsAuto-zone a whole Auto-zone a part of aAuto-zone a page background Manual zoningDrawing zones on an ignore background Drawing zones on a process backgroundProcess zone olive Zone types and propertiesText zone brown Ignore zone grayTable zone blue Graphic zone greenWorking with zones Draw a single zoneMake an irregular zone by addition Join two zones of the same type Make an irregular zone by subtractionSplit a zone Table grids in the image Insert column dividers Insert row dividersMove dividers Remove dividersUsing zone templates How to save a zone templateHow to modify a zone template How to unload a template How to replace one template with anotherHow to delete a template file Proofing and editing Green Non-dictionary words These were recognized Editor display and viewsNo Formatting view Retain Fonts and Paragraphs viewTrue Page view Proofreading OCR resultsVerifying text Verifying text Starting a user dictionary User dictionariesLoading or unloading a user dictionary Editing or deleting a user dictionaryManual training TrainingIntelliTrain Training files Text and image editing Editing character attributesEditing paragraph attributes Tables Paragraph stylesHyperlinks Editing in TrueOn-the-fly editing To hear text Use these keys Reading text aloudYou also have the following keyboard controls Saving and exporting Saving original images Saving recognition results Saving a document as you work No Formatting NF Selecting a formatting levelRetain Fonts and Paragraphs RFP Flowing Page FPTrue Page TP Spreadsheet Selecting advanced saving optionsChapter Copying pages to Clipboard Sending pages by mail To copy pages to the ClipboardTo send pages by e-mail Saving and exporting Technical information Solutions to try first TroubleshootingTo test OmniPage Pro in VGA mode Windows NT Testing OmniPage ProIncreasing disk space Increasing memory resourcesText does not get recognized properly System or performance problems during OCR Problems with fax recognitionOdma support Advanced features in Schedule OCRFile types for opening and saving images Supported file typesRFP File types for saving recognition resultsTo uninstall or reinstall OmniPage Pro Uninstalling the softwareD E Index Processing steps, 21 Overview of processing Index