OmniWare Pro 12 ScanSoft Input from scanner, Scan black and white, Scan grayscale, Scan color

Chapter 3

Normally the Add button places each file at the bottom of the file list. To place a file at a different location, highlight a file in the list. The new file will be added immediately below the lowest highlighted file.

Input from scanner

You must have a functioning, supported scanner correctly installed with OmniPage Pro. See “Setting up your scanner with OmniPage Pro” on page 14. You have a choice of scanning modes. In making your choice, there are two main considerations:

XWhich type of output do you want in your export document?

XWhich mode will yield best OCR accuracy?

Scan black and white

Select this to scan in black-and-white. This is not suitable if you want color in your output document, nor if you want pictures to look like so-called ‘black-and-white’ photographs: they need grayscale scanning. For best OCR accuracy, use this for crisp black texts on a white or light background. Black-and-white images can be scanned and handled quicker than others and occupy less disk space.

Scan grayscale

Select this to use grayscale scanning. Choose this to keep ‘black-and- white’ photographs in the output document. For best OCR accuracy, use this for pages with varying or low contrast (not much difference between light and dark) and with text on colored or shaded backgrounds.

Scan color

Select this to scan in color. This will function only with color scanners. Choose this if you want colored graphics, texts or backgrounds in the output document. For OCR accuracy, it offers no more benefit than grayscale scanning (for a given resolution), but will require much more time, memory resources and disk space.

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