OmniWare Pro 12 ScanSoft manual Zone types and properties, Process zone olive

		Chapter 3
No.	Type	What happens:
1	Text zone	OCR runs and generates text.
2	Table zone	OCR runs, text is placed in a table grid.
3	Graphic zone	Image is embedded in recognized page.
4	Process zone	Auto-zoning creates one or more zones,
		decides their types and processes their
5	Process background
		contents.
6	Ignore zone	Nothing
7	Ignore background

Automatically drawn zones and template zones have solid borders:

Manually drawn or modified zones have dotted borders:

Zones do not have a reading order. Reordering of recognized elements can be done in the Text Editor. See “Text and image editing” on page 72. On-the-fly zoning is described in chapter 4. See “On-the-fly editing” on page 74.

Zone types and properties

Each zone has a zone type. Zones containing text can also have a zone contents setting: alphanumeric or numeric. The zone type and zone contents together constitute the zone properties. Right-click in a zone for a shortcut menu allowing you to change the zone’s properties. Select multiple zones with Shift+clicks to change their properties in one move.

The Image toolbar provides five zone drawing tools, one for each type. A zone’s type is shown by an icon in its top left corner, and by the icon and zone border color. Here are the tools and the colors:

Process zone (olive)

Use this to draw a process zone, to define a page area where auto-zoning will run. After recognition, this zone will be replaced by one or more zones with automatically determined zone types. You normally draw

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