Quick Start Guide | OmniWare Pro 12 ScanSoft guide

Quick Start Guide

This topic takes you step-by-step through the basic OCR process.

Loading and recognizing sample image files

You will find sample image files in the program folder, both single-page and multi-page files. First try reading these files using the procedure presented below, except for the references to a scanner. See “Input from image files” on page 48. The results provide you with a benchmark of the recognition quality you should expect from your own files of comparable quality.

Next, try scanning a page from your scanner.

Scanning and recognizing a single page

Turn your scanner on and be sure it is working correctly. Choose a page with good-quality clear text for this test.

We assume OmniPage Pro’s default settings are set and that your document is in the language you specified for interface language during installation. Open the Options dialog box from the Tools menu and choose Use Defaults if you are not using the program for the first time.

You will process the document automatically and save the recognition results to a file. You will proof the document but will not edit it inside the Text Editor.

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