User manual NUANCE OMNIPAGE DIRECT 2 FOR MACINTOSH

[. . . ] OmniPage Direct OmniPage Direct adds the power of OCR directly to any Macintosh wordprocessing, spreadsheet, or communications program. Working within your application, you simply choose OmniPage Direct in the Apple menu. Scanned text then appears in your document just as if you had typed it yourself. It is virtually automatic: just point and click to recognize a single paragraph or multiple pages. Chapter 1 Installation . [. . . ] Click the Zoom out tool and then click on the area to zoom to a wider view. The levels of zoom are Fit in Window, 25%, 50%, and 100%. The 100% view gives you a pixel-for-pixel view of the scanned image. Recognize Click this button to start recognition. If you highlighted the Multiple Pages and Partial Page icons (and you did not select Pause after every page in the Options dialog box) the same zones will be recognized on each page that is scanned. For example, if you select a zone on a form, and then scan five forms, the same zone will be recognized on each form. If you selected Pause after every page, you'll be able to draw different zones for each page. This turns into the Adjust button after recognition has started. Adjust Click this button to change settings after a scan has started but before recognition is complete. The Recognize button turns into the Adjust button after recognition has started. For example, imagine you selected several zones on a page for recognition and clicked Recognize. During recognition, you notice that you forgot to 22 Commands and Settings select a particular zone. You click Adjust; recognition stops and you can select zones correctly or adjust settings without having to re-scan the page. Cancel Click this button to stop a scan and return to the Direct application. Options Click this button to display the Options dialog box so you can change settings. All settings are explained in alphabetical order in this chapter. Rotate Tools Click these tools if you placed a page incorrectly in your scanner. You can rotate the image 1800 or 900 clockwise or counter-clockwise. You don't need to replace the page in your scanner; Direct will recognize the text if it appears correctly oriented in the image window. Pause after every page Select this if you are scanning multiple pages and you may want to change settings for different pages. For example, imagine you are scanning a magazine article that stretches over several pages. You select Partial Page because you don't want to recognize all the advertisements that are on the page. You also select Pause after every page because each page has a different text/ad layout and you will have to select different parts of each page. [. . . ] You'll know that memory is a problem if, after scanning many pages, no text transfers to your application. To solve this problem, increase your application's memory size. Highlight your application's icon and choose Get info. . . In the Memory box at the bottom, increase the number to 4000 (4000K). [. . . ]