User manual NUANCE OMNIPAGE DIRECT 2 FOR WINDOWS

[. . . ] OmniPage Direct OmniPage Direct adds the power of OCR directly to any Windows wordprocessing, spreadsheet, or communications program. Working within your application, you simply choose Scan text. . . Scanned text then appears in your document just as if you had typed it yourself. Direct is virtually automatic: just point and click to recognize a single paragraph or multiple pages. Chapter 1 Installation . [. . . ] 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. Cancel Click this button to stop a scan and return to your 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. 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 during recognition. For example, imagine you selected several zones on a page for recognition and clicked Recognize. During recognition, you notice that you forgot to 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. Commands and Settings 23 Pause After Every Page Rotate Tools Click these tools if you placed a page wrongly in your scanner. You can rotate the image 180° or 90° 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. After each page is scanned, you'll be able to draw different zones or change settings in the Options dialog box. Port Address With some scanner installations, you'll need to type information about your scanner's port address, speed, or other parameters. If the Hardware Options section of the Scanners dialog box is gray, you don't have to do anything. If Hardware Options is not gray, check your scanner's documentation for how to determine your scanner's port address and other parameters. These parameters are usually included at the end of the DEVICE=YOUR_SCANNER entry in your CONFIG. SYS file. Recognize Click this button to start the recognition process after you've selected zones. If you want to change the zones or settings after clicking Recognize, click the Adjust button. Register Application Direct is designed to automatically work with Windows applications installed on your hard disk when you install Direct. As you install new applications, you can set them up to work with Direct by registering the applications and designating the application type: whether the application is a word processor or a spreadsheet. 24 Commands and Settings Reject Character To set up a word processor, spreadsheet, or other application to work with Direct, follow these steps: 1 2 3 Launch the Direct program. Launch the application you want to register. [. . . ] 0 indicates that OCR will always stay loaded. This application does not work with Direct. Be sure you clicked the mouse on the correct application. The last step in registering an application with Direct is clicking the mouse pointer on the window of the application you want to register. [. . . ]