N T E N T S | OmniWare Pro 12 ScanSoft specs

C O N T E N T S

	W E L C O M E	7
	Using this Guide	8
	Getting online Help	9
	Online HTML Help	9
	Context-Sensitive Help	9
	Tech Notes	10
	Glossary	10
1	I N S T A L L A T I O N A N D S E T U P	11
	System requirements	12
	Installing OmniPage Pro	13
	Setting up your scanner with OmniPage Pro	14
	How to start the program	16
	Registering your software	17
	New features in OmniPage Pro 12	17
2	I N T R O D U C T I O N	19
	What is optical character recognition	20
	OmniPage Pro’s OCR capabilities	20
	Documents in OmniPage Pro	21
	Basic processing steps	21
	The OmniPage Desktop	22
	The Menu bar	23
	The Toolbars	23
	The Image Panel	24

OmniPage Pro User’s Guide

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OmniWare Pro 12 ScanSoft manual N T E N T S

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 Bold Using this Guide 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 Streamlined interface New features in OmniPage ProRegistering your software Dramatic increase in accuracy Advanced saving options Better proofing and verifyingFormatting levels for display and saving Superior page analysis Introduction Text formatting What is optical character recognitionOmniPage Pro’s OCR capabilities Graphics Perform OCR to generate editable text Documents in OmniPage ProBasic processing steps Bring a set of images into OmniPage Pro 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 OmniPage Documents Printing a documentClosing a document How to save to OPD Why save to OPD Process SettingsScanner Direct OCR Proofing Custom LayoutText Editor Processing documents Quick Start Guide Loading and recognizing sample image filesScanning and recognizing a single Quick Start Guide Combined Processing overviewAutomatic Manual Using the OCR Wizard Other applicationsAt 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 color Input from scannerScan black and white Scan grayscale Brightness and contrast Scanning with an ADF Scanning without an ADF Describing the layout of the document Spreadsheet Single column, no tableMultiple columns, no table Single column with table Auto-zone a part of a Zones and backgroundsAutomatic zoning Auto-zone a whole Drawing zones on a process background Manual zoningAuto-zone a page background Drawing zones on an ignore background Process zone olive Zone types and properties Graphic zone green Ignore zone grayText zone brown Table zone blue 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 Remove dividers Insert row dividersInsert column dividers Move 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 Retain Fonts and Paragraphs view Editor display and viewsGreen Non-dictionary words These were recognized No Formatting view True Page view Proofreading OCR results Verifying text Verifying text Editing or deleting a user dictionary User dictionariesStarting a user dictionary Loading or unloading a user dictionary Manual training Training IntelliTrain Training files Text and image editing Editing character attributesEditing paragraph attributes Editing in True Paragraph stylesTables Hyperlinks 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 Flowing Page FP Selecting a formatting levelNo Formatting NF Retain Fonts and Paragraphs RFP True Page TP Spreadsheet Selecting advanced saving options 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 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