OmniWare Pro 12 ScanSoft manual Processing overview, Automatic, Manual, Combined

Processing overview

The following flow diagram summarizes the processing steps:

Get Pages

from file page 48

from

scanner page 49

Describe	Auto-
page	zoning
layout	page 53
page 51
	Manual
Apply a	zoning
	page 54
template
page 61

Perform	Verify and
OCR
	edit
with	page 66
current
settings	Proofread
page 31
	page 65

Export pages

to file

page 79

to Clipboard

page 84

via Mail page 85

Here is an overview of the processing methods you can use. You will find step-by-step guidance for each of them in the following pages.

Automatic

The fastest and easiest way to process documents is to let OmniPage Pro do it automatically for you. Select settings in the Options dialog box and in the OmniPage Toolbox drop-down lists and then click Start. It will take each page through the whole process from beginning to end, when possible running in parallel. It will typically auto-zone the pages.

Manual

Manual processing gives you more precise control over the way your pages are handled. You can process the document page-by-page with different settings for each page. The program also stops between each step: acquiring images, performing recognition, exporting. This lets you, for instance, draw zones manually or change recognition language(s). You start each step by clicking the three buttons on the OmniPage Toolbox.

Combined

You can process a document automatically and view results in the Text Editor. If most pages are in order, but a few have not turned out as expected, you can switch to manual processing to adjust settings and re- recognize just those problem pages. Alternatively, you can acquire images with manual processing, draw zones on some or all of them, and then send all pages to automatic processing.

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