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Brightness and contrast

Good brightness and contrast settings play an important role in OCR accuracy. Set these in the Scanner panel of the Options dialog box or in your scanner’s interface. The diagram illustrates an optimum brightness setting. After loading an image, check its appearance. If characters are thick and touching, lighten the brightness. If characters are thin and broken, darken it. Then rescan the page.

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Scanning with an ADF

The best way to scan multi-page documents is with an Automatic Document Feeder (ADF). Simply load pages in the correct order into the ADF. Place blank pages if you want to save your document to multiple output files using the Create a new file at each blank page option. See “Saving recognition results” on page 79.

If you have a document longer than the capacity of your ADF, select Automatically prompt for more pages in the Process panel of the Options dialog box. Then a dialog box lets you add further page batches and signal when all pages are scanned.

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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 Scanning and other information This User’s Guide Online HelpReadme File Using this Guide BoldContext-Sensitive Help Getting online HelpOnline Html Help Tech Notes Glossary Installation and setup System requirements To install OmniPage Pro Installing OmniPage ProBefore installing OmniPage Pro Setting up your scanner with OmniPage Pro Setting up your scanner with OmniPage Pro How to start the program Dramatic increase in accuracy New features in OmniPage ProRegistering your software Streamlined interfaceSuperior page analysis Better proofing and verifyingFormatting levels for display and saving Advanced saving optionsIntroduction Graphics What is optical character recognitionOmniPage Pro’s OCR capabilities Text formattingBring a set of images into OmniPage Pro Documents in OmniPage ProBasic processing steps Perform OCR to generate editable textOmniPage Desktop Image PanelMenu bar ToolbarsImage Panel Text EditorOmniPage Toolbox Managing documents ThumbnailsDocument Manager Customizing Document Manager columns Deleting pages from a documentClosing a document OmniPage DocumentsPrinting a document Why save to OPD How to save to OPDDirect OCR SettingsScanner ProcessText Editor ProofingCustom Layout Processing documents Scanning and recognizing a single Quick Start GuideLoading and recognizing sample image files Quick Start Guide Manual Processing overviewAutomatic CombinedAt a later time Using the OCR WizardOther applications Automatic processing Stopping and restarting automatic processing Manual processing Combined processing Start automatically and finish manuallyStart manually and finish automatically Processing with the OCR Wizard Processing from other applications How to set up Direct OCR How to use Direct OCRHow to use OmniPage Pro with PaperPort Processing with Schedule OCR Defining the source of page images Input from image filesScan grayscale Input from scannerScan black and white Scan colorScanning with an ADF Brightness and contrastDescribing the layout of the document Scanning without an ADFSingle column with table Single column, no tableMultiple columns, no table SpreadsheetAuto-zone a whole Zones and backgroundsAutomatic zoning Auto-zone a part of aDrawing zones on an ignore background Manual zoningAuto-zone a page background Drawing zones on a process backgroundZone types and properties Process zone oliveTable zone blue Ignore zone grayText zone brown Graphic zone greenMake an irregular zone by addition Working with zonesDraw a single zone Split a zone Join two zones of the same typeMake an irregular zone by subtraction Table grids in the image Move dividers Insert row dividersInsert column dividers Remove dividersHow to modify a zone template Using zone templatesHow to save a zone template How to delete a template file How to unload a templateHow to replace one template with another Proofing and editing No Formatting view Editor display and viewsGreen Non-dictionary words These were recognized Retain Fonts and Paragraphs viewProofreading OCR results True Page viewVerifying text Verifying text Loading or unloading a user dictionary User dictionariesStarting a user dictionary Editing or deleting a user dictionaryTraining Manual trainingIntelliTrain Training files Editing paragraph attributes Text and image editingEditing character attributes Hyperlinks Paragraph stylesTables Editing in TrueOn-the-fly editing Reading text aloud To hear text Use these keysYou also have the following keyboard controls Saving and exporting Saving original images Saving recognition results Saving a document as you work Retain Fonts and Paragraphs RFP Selecting a formatting levelNo Formatting NF Flowing Page FPSelecting advanced saving options True Page TP SpreadsheetChapter Copying pages to Clipboard To send pages by e-mail Sending pages by mailTo copy pages to the Clipboard Saving and exporting Technical information Troubleshooting Solutions to try firstTesting OmniPage Pro To test OmniPage Pro in VGA mode Windows NTIncreasing memory resources Increasing disk spaceText does not get recognized properly Problems with fax recognition System or performance problems during OCRAdvanced features in Schedule OCR Odma supportSupported file types File types for opening and saving imagesFile types for saving recognition results RFPUninstalling the software To uninstall or reinstall OmniPage ProD E Index Processing steps, 21 Overview of processing Index