OmniPage Toolbox | OmniWare Pro 12 ScanSoft manual

Chapter 2

The OmniPage Toolbox

This Toolbox lets you drive the processing. By default it is located along the top of the OmniPage Desktop, just above the working areas. It can be floated and also be docked along the bottom of the desktop.

Start button

Get Page button

Perform OCR button

Export Results button

Get Pages
		Layout Description		Export Results
drop-down list
		drop-down list		drop-down list

Automatic processing is started, and can be stopped and re-started with the Start (1-2-3) button. See “Automatic processing” on page 38.

Manual processing allows you to process documents page-by-page and step-by-step. Start each step with the three large buttons: the Get Page button (1), the Perform OCR button (2) and the Export Results button

(3). See “Manual processing” on page 40.

You can switch between automatic and manual processing any time the program is not busy with processing. That means you can switch between them while you are working within a document. You can automatically process some pages, then add more pages with manual processing. After processing a stack of pages automatically, you can inspect the results and then go back to reprocess certain pages manually. This procedure is described in chapter 3. See “Combined processing” on page 41.

The OCR Wizard is designed for new users. See “Processing with the OCR Wizard” on page 43. If you have a document open when you start the OCR Wizard, the document will be closed after a prompting to save it. When you have used the OCR Wizard to process and save a document, it remains in the program and can be further processed (adding more pages, re-recognizing pages etc.) with either manual or automatic processing.

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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 Guide Online 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 Registering your software New features in OmniPage ProDramatic increase in accuracy Streamlined interface Formatting levels for display and saving Better proofing and verifyingSuperior page analysis Advanced saving options Introduction OmniPage Pro’s OCR capabilities What is optical character recognitionGraphics Text formatting Basic processing steps Documents in OmniPage ProBring a set of images into OmniPage Pro Perform OCR to generate editable text Image Panel OmniPage Desktop Toolbars Menu bar Text Editor Image Panel OmniPage Toolbox Thumbnails Managing documents Document Manager Deleting pages from a document Customizing Document Manager columns Printing a document OmniPage DocumentsClosing a document How to save to OPD Why save to OPD Scanner SettingsDirect OCR Process Custom Layout ProofingText Editor Processing documents Loading and recognizing sample image files Quick Start GuideScanning and recognizing a single Quick Start Guide Automatic Processing overviewManual Combined Other applications Using the OCR WizardAt a later time Automatic processing Stopping and restarting automatic processing Manual processing Start automatically and finish manually Combined processing Start manually and finish automatically Processing with the OCR Wizard Processing from other applications How to use Direct OCR How to set up Direct OCR How to use OmniPage Pro with PaperPort Processing with Schedule OCR Input from image files Defining the source of page images Scan black and white Input from scannerScan grayscale Scan color Brightness and contrast Scanning with an ADF Scanning without an ADF Describing the layout of the document Multiple columns, no table Single column, no tableSingle column with table Spreadsheet Automatic zoning Zones and backgroundsAuto-zone a whole Auto-zone a part of a Auto-zone a page background Manual zoningDrawing zones on an ignore background Drawing zones on a process background Process zone olive Zone types and properties Text zone brown Ignore zone grayTable zone blue Graphic zone green Draw 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 Insert column dividers Insert row dividersMove dividers Remove dividers How 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 Green Non-dictionary words These were recognized Editor display and viewsNo Formatting view Retain Fonts and Paragraphs view True Page view Proofreading OCR results Verifying text Verifying text Starting a user dictionary User dictionariesLoading or unloading a user dictionary Editing or deleting a user dictionary Manual training Training IntelliTrain Training files Editing character attributes Text and image editingEditing paragraph attributes Tables Paragraph stylesHyperlinks Editing in True On-the-fly editing To hear text Use these keys Reading text aloud You 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 FP True Page TP Spreadsheet Selecting advanced saving options Chapter 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 Troubleshooting To test OmniPage Pro in VGA mode Windows NT Testing OmniPage Pro Increasing disk space Increasing memory resources Text does not get recognized properly System or performance problems during OCR Problems with fax recognition Odma support Advanced features in Schedule OCR File types for opening and saving images Supported file types RFP File types for saving recognition results To uninstall or reinstall OmniPage Pro Uninstalling the software D E Index Processing steps, 21 Overview of processing Index