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Supported file types

The program supports a wide range of file types for images and text.

File types for opening and saving images

	File type	Extension	Multi-	Open / Save	B/W, Grayscale,
	File type	Extension	page	Open / Save	Color
			page		Color
	BMP, Bitmap	bmp	No	Open and Save	All

	DCX	dcx	Yes	Open and Save	All

	GIF	gif	No	Open and Save	All

	JPEG	jpg	No	Open and Save	Grayscale, color

	MAX	max	Yes	Open and Save	All

	PCX	pcx	No	Open and Save	All

	PDF	pdf	Yes	Open (see note)	All

	PNG	png	No	Open and Save	All

	TIFF Compressed G3	tif	Yes	Open and Save	B/W

	TIFF Compressed G4	tif	Yes	Open and Save	B/W

	TIFF Compressed LZW	tif	Yes	Open and Save	All

	TIFF FX	xif	Yes	Open	All

	TIFF PackBits	tif	Yes	Open and Save	All

	TIFF Uncompressed	tif	Yes	Open and Save	All

Input image files can have resolutions up to 600 dpi, but 300 dpi (both horizontally and vertically) is recommended for optimum OCR accuracy. The program stores black-and-white images at their original resolution, but grayscale and color images are not usually saved above 150 dpi. That means these are not good candidates for future OCR processing.

Hover the cursor over a page thumbnail for a popup window showing the size and resolution of the original image.

If you try to save a black-and-white image to JPEG format, the program will offer conversion to grayscale. With TIFF G3 and G4 it will offer conversion to black- and-white.

Saving to PDF format is supported, with five options. Two of these, Image only and Image on text, export original images. This is done in the Save As dialog box for recognized pages. See “Saving to PDF” on page 84.

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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