System requirements | OmniWare Pro 12 ScanSoft specification

System requirements

You need the following minimum system requirements to install and run OmniPage Pro 12:

XA computer with a Pentium or higher processor

XMicrosoft Windows 98 (from second edition), Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0 (with at least Service Pack 6), Windows 2000 or Windows XP

X64MB of memory (RAM), 128MB recommended

X90MB of free hard disk space for the application files plus 5MB working space during installation

X5MB for Microsoft Installer (MSI) if not present (This is present as part of the operating system in Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP)

XSVGA monitor with 256 colors, but preferably 16-bit color (called High Color in Windows 2000 and Medium Color in XP) and 800 x 600 pixel resolution

XWindows-compatible pointing device

XCD-ROM drive for installation

XA compatible scanner with its own scanner driver software, if you plan to scan documents. Please see the Scanner Guide at ScanSoft’s web site (www.scansoft.com) for a list of supported scanners.

Performance and speed will be enhanced if your computer’s processor, memory, and available disk space exceed minimum requirements.

12Installation and setup

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OmniWare Pro 12 ScanSoft manual System requirements

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 Using this Guide Bold Getting 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 New features in OmniPage Pro Registering your softwareDramatic increase in accuracy Streamlined interface Better proofing and verifying Formatting levels for display and savingSuperior page analysis Advanced saving options Introduction What is optical character recognition OmniPage Pro’s OCR capabilitiesGraphics Text formatting Documents in OmniPage Pro Basic processing stepsBring a set of images into OmniPage Pro Perform OCR to generate editable text OmniPage Desktop Image Panel Menu bar Toolbars Image Panel Text Editor OmniPage Toolbox Managing documents Thumbnails Document Manager Customizing Document Manager columns Deleting pages from a document OmniPage Documents Printing a documentClosing a document Why save to OPD How to save to OPD Settings ScannerDirect OCR Process Proofing Custom LayoutText Editor Processing documents Quick Start Guide Loading and recognizing sample image filesScanning and recognizing a single Quick Start Guide Processing overview AutomaticManual Combined Using the OCR Wizard Other applicationsAt a later time Automatic processing Stopping and restarting automatic processing Manual processing Combined processing Start automatically and finish manually Start manually and finish automatically Processing with the OCR Wizard Processing from other applications How to set up Direct OCR How to use Direct OCR How to use OmniPage Pro with PaperPort Processing with Schedule OCR Defining the source of page images Input from image files Input from scanner Scan black and whiteScan grayscale Scan color Scanning with an ADF Brightness and contrast Describing the layout of the document Scanning without an ADF Single column, no table Multiple columns, no tableSingle column with table Spreadsheet Zones and backgrounds Automatic zoningAuto-zone a whole Auto-zone a part of a Manual zoning Auto-zone a page backgroundDrawing zones on an ignore background Drawing zones on a process background Zone types and properties Process zone olive Ignore zone gray Text zone brownTable zone blue Graphic zone green Working 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 row dividers Insert column dividersMove dividers Remove dividers Using 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 Editor display and views Green Non-dictionary words These were recognizedNo Formatting view Retain Fonts and Paragraphs view Proofreading OCR results True Page view Verifying text Verifying text User dictionaries Starting a user dictionaryLoading or unloading a user dictionary Editing or deleting a user dictionary Training Manual training IntelliTrain Training files Text and image editing Editing character attributesEditing paragraph attributes Paragraph styles TablesHyperlinks Editing in True On-the-fly editing Reading text aloud To hear text Use these keys You also have the following keyboard controls Saving and exporting Saving original images Saving recognition results Saving a document as you work Selecting a formatting level No Formatting NFRetain Fonts and Paragraphs RFP Flowing Page FP Selecting advanced saving options True Page TP Spreadsheet Chapter Copying pages to Clipboard Sending pages by mail To copy pages to the ClipboardTo send pages by e-mail Saving and exporting Technical information Troubleshooting Solutions to try first Testing OmniPage Pro To test OmniPage Pro in VGA mode Windows NT Increasing memory resources Increasing disk space Text does not get recognized properly Problems with fax recognition System or performance problems during OCR Advanced features in Schedule OCR Odma support Supported file types File types for opening and saving images File types for saving recognition results RFP Uninstalling the software To uninstall or reinstall OmniPage Pro D E Index Processing steps, 21 Overview of processing Index