OmniWare Pro 12 ScanSoft manual Zone types and properties, Process zone olive

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No.

Type

What happens:

 

 

 

1

Text zone

OCR runs and generates text.

 

 

 

2

Table zone

OCR runs, text is placed in a table grid.

 

 

 

3

Graphic zone

Image is embedded in recognized page.

 

 

 

4

Process zone

Auto-zoning creates one or more zones,

 

 

decides their types and processes their

5

Process background

contents.

 

 

 

6

Ignore zone

Nothing

 

 

7

Ignore background

 

 

 

 

Automatically drawn zones and template zones have solid borders:

Manually drawn or modified zones have dotted borders:

Zones do not have a reading order. Reordering of recognized elements can be done in the Text Editor. See “Text and image editing” on page 72. On-the-fly zoning is described in chapter 4. See “On-the-fly editing” on page 74.

Zone types and properties

Each zone has a zone type. Zones containing text can also have a zone contents setting: alphanumeric or numeric. The zone type and zone contents together constitute the zone properties. Right-click in a zone for a shortcut menu allowing you to change the zone’s properties. Select multiple zones with Shift+clicks to change their properties in one move.

The Image toolbar provides five zone drawing tools, one for each type. A zone’s type is shown by an icon in its top left corner, and by the icon and zone border color. Here are the tools and the colors:

Process zone (olive)

Use this to draw a process zone, to define a page area where auto-zoning will run. After recognition, this zone will be replaced by one or more zones with automatically determined zone types. You normally draw

Zones and backgrounds

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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 Readme File This User’s Guide Online HelpScanning and other information Bold Using this GuideOnline Html Help Getting online HelpContext-Sensitive Help Tech Notes Glossary Installation and setup System requirements Before installing OmniPage Pro 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 Streamlined interface New features in OmniPage ProRegistering your software Dramatic increase in accuracyAdvanced saving options Better proofing and verifyingFormatting levels for display and saving Superior page analysisIntroduction Text formatting What is optical character recognitionOmniPage Pro’s OCR capabilities GraphicsPerform OCR to generate editable text Documents in OmniPage ProBasic processing steps Bring a set of images into OmniPage ProImage Panel OmniPage DesktopToolbars Menu barText Editor Image PanelOmniPage Toolbox Thumbnails Managing documentsDocument Manager Deleting pages from a document Customizing Document Manager columnsPrinting a document OmniPage DocumentsClosing a document How to save to OPD Why save to OPDProcess SettingsScanner Direct OCRCustom Layout ProofingText Editor Processing documents Loading and recognizing sample image files Quick Start GuideScanning and recognizing a single Quick Start Guide Combined Processing overviewAutomatic ManualOther applications Using the OCR WizardAt 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 color Input from scannerScan black and white Scan grayscaleBrightness and contrast Scanning with an ADFScanning without an ADF Describing the layout of the documentSpreadsheet Single column, no tableMultiple columns, no table Single column with tableAuto-zone a part of a Zones and backgroundsAutomatic zoning Auto-zone a wholeDrawing zones on a process background Manual zoningAuto-zone a page background Drawing zones on an ignore backgroundProcess zone olive Zone types and propertiesGraphic zone green Ignore zone grayText zone brown Table zone blueDraw a single zone Working with zonesMake an irregular zone by addition Make an irregular zone by subtraction Join two zones of the same typeSplit a zone Table grids in the image Remove dividers Insert row dividersInsert column dividers Move dividersHow to save a zone template Using zone templatesHow to modify a zone template How to replace one template with another How to unload a templateHow to delete a template file Proofing and editing Retain Fonts and Paragraphs view Editor display and viewsGreen Non-dictionary words These were recognized No Formatting viewTrue Page view Proofreading OCR resultsVerifying text Verifying text Editing or deleting a user dictionary User dictionariesStarting a user dictionary Loading or unloading a user dictionaryManual training TrainingIntelliTrain Training files Editing character attributes Text and image editingEditing paragraph attributes Editing in True Paragraph stylesTables HyperlinksOn-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 Flowing Page FP Selecting a formatting levelNo Formatting NF Retain Fonts and Paragraphs RFPTrue Page TP Spreadsheet Selecting advanced saving optionsChapter Copying pages to Clipboard To copy pages to the Clipboard Sending pages by mailTo 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