User manual NUANCE OMNIPAGE PRO 10

[. . . ] OmniPage Pro ® User's Manual Caere Corporation 100 Cooper Court Los Gatos, California 95032-7603 USA Caere GmbH Innere Wiener Strasse 5 81667 München, Germany Caere UK Information Centre Abbey House 4 Abbey Orchard Street Westminster, London SW1P 2JJ Centre d'informations Caere 72, rue Baratte-Cholet 94100 Saint-Maur, France Please Note To use this program, you should know how to work in the Microsoft Windows environment. Please refer to Windows documentation if you have questions about how to use menu commands, dialog boxes, scroll bars, edit boxes, and so on. OmniPage Pro for Windows Version 10 Registration Number: Copyright© 1999 by Caere Corporation. The Caere logo, Caere, OmniPage, OmniPage Pro, PageKeeper, PageKeeper Pro, AutoOCR Toolbar, True Page, and OCR Proofreader are registered trademarks of Caere Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. ii 800-1319-030A Table of Contents Welcome Using This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] To resize a page view: 1 2 Click in the view you want to enlarge or reduce to make it active. Choose a size options in the Zoom drop-down list in the Standard toolbar. Or, choose Zoom in the View menu and select a size option in the drop-down list. The page resizes as specified. You can also click your right mouse button in the view you want to resize and select a size option in the shortcut menu. (If you are resizing the image view, click outside of a zone. ) Changing Pages The thumbnail view, image view, and text view all display the same page of a document. You can change pages in a document in the following ways: · Click the thumbnail of the page you want to display. The thumbnail of the currently displayed page is highlighted with a light border around it. Processing Documents 29 Working with OmniPage Documents · Click the Next Page or Previous Page buttons at the lower-right corner of the OmniPage Pro desktop. · Choose Next Page, Previous Page, or Go to Page. . . in the Edit menu. Reordering Pages You can reorder pages in a document by dragging their thumbnails to different positions in the thumbnail view. Click the thumbnail of the page you want to move and drag it above the desired page number. Hold down the Ctrl key while you click thumbnails if you want to select multiple thumbnails to move as a group. Deleting Pages If you delete a page from a document in OmniPage Pro, the thumbnail, original image, and recognized text for that page are all deleted. To permanently delete pages: · Choose Delete Current Page in the Edit menu to delete the currently displayed page. · Select one or more thumbnails of pages you want to delete and press the Delete key. 30 Chapter 3 Working with OmniPage Documents Undoing Changes You can click the Undo button or choose Undo in the Edit menu to cancel the very last change you made in the text view. You can also choose Undo to cancel zone edits in the image view. However, page deletions cannot be undone. Printing a Document You can print the current document's original page images or recognized text. in the File menu and choose one of the following in the submenu: · Choose Image. . . 2 3 Select the desired print settings in the Print dialog box. Click OK to start the print job. As a shortcut, you can click either the text or image view to make it active and then click the Print button to print from that view. Closing a Document Choose Close in the File menu to close a document. You are prompted to save your document if you have not saved it or have modified it since the last save. Save a document as an OmniPage Document (*. opd) if you want to reopen it in OmniPage Pro. Processing Documents 31 32 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Settings and Commands This chapter describes OmniPage Pro toolbar commands and Options settings. Please also look in OmniPage Pro's online Help for more detailed information on settings and commands. The settings and commands you select for processing documents can greatly affect OCR results. You may have to experiment with different settings and commands to get the results you want. Please continue reading this chapter for information on these topics: · The OmniPage Toolbox · Selecting OmniPage Pro Settings · OCR Settings · Scanner Settings · Tables Settings · Direct OCR Settings · Process Settings 33 The OmniPage Toolbox The OmniPage Toolbox The OmniPage Toolbox contains the AutoOCR toolbar, the Manual OCR toolbar, and the OCR Wizard. AutoOCR Toolbar The AutoOCR toolbar allows you to process a document from start to finish automatically according to the commands you select in the dropdown lists. Document Source Original Layout Output Format Export Destination Start, Stop Finish, Additional Manual OCR Toolbar The Manual OCR toolbar allows you to process a document step-by-step according to the commands you select in each button's drop-down list. Document Source Original Layout and Output Format Export Destination The Original Layout and Output Format commands are combined on one button on the Manual OCR toolbar. To set each command, select Original Layout and Output Format in the button's drop-down list and choose the desired commands in the dialog box. OCR Wizard Click the OCR Wizard tab in the OmniPage Toolbox and then click the OCR Wizard button to open the OCR Wizard. OCR Wizard button 34 Chapter 4 The OmniPage Toolbox Setting Toolbar Commands Document Source You can bring documents into OmniPage Pro by loading a file or scanning an image. The Document Source drop-down list contains the following options: · Load File Select Load File to load existing image files such as TIFF or PCX files into OmniPage Pro. [. . . ] Do not train OmniPage Pro for regular characters because it may interfere with recognition. See "Training OCR for Special Characters" in the online Help for more information. · If you use True Page as the Output Format setting, recognized text gets put into frames (formatting boxes) in the text view. Some text may be hidden from view if a frame is too small. [. . . ]