User manual NUANCE OMNIPAGE PRO 8

[. . . ] OmniPage® Pro Users Manual CAERE CORPORATION 100 Cooper Court Los Gatos, California 95032 European Offices: Caere GmbH Innere Wiener Strasse 5 81667 Munich Germany Please Note In order 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 8 Copyright© 1997 Caere Corporation. CAERE®, OmniPage®, OmniPage Pro®, Language Analyst®, 3D OCR®, AutoOCRTM, and True Page® are trademarks of Caere Corporation Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Such designations appearing in this manual have been printed in initial caps. PD 802-0584-030A 2 Welcome Welcome to OmniPage Pro, and thank you for buying our software! [. . . ] These are marked with a G in the upper-right corner. Select Retain graphics in the Save As dialog box when you save a document to another file format. To save graphics separately from text after OCR, choose Save Image. . . in the File menu and select Save each graphic zone to a file. No Ignore graphics such as logos and photos during OCR processing Recommendations For best accuracy, select Black and white in the Accuracy settings if your page contains black text on a white background. Deselect Retain graphics in the Save As dialog box when you save a document to another file format. OmniPage Pro Settings - 60 Settings Guidelines How many languages are in your document? One language Recommendations If your document contains a language that is not installed in OmniPage Pro, you can add languages to OmniPage Pro by uninstalling and then reinstalling it. Select the document language in the settings. For faster processing and more accurate results, select only the language that appears in your document in the Language Language settings. More than one language Recommendations If your document contains languages that are not installed in OmniPage Pro, you can add languages to OmniPage Pro by uninstalling and then reinstalling it. You will be prompted during installation to select which languages you want installed. Select all languages that your document contains, as well as any other languages you commonly use. Select the main document language and any additional languages in the Language settings. For faster processing and more accurate results, select only the languages that appear in your document in the Language settings. OmniPage Pro Settings - 61 Settings Guidelines Are you processing a multi-page document? Yes Recommendations if you have an automatic document feeder (ADF) Select Scan until empty in the Scanner settings to scan a stack of pages at once. Otherwise, you must click the Image button to scan each subsequent page. Select Double-sided pages to scan pages with print on both sides. You will be prompted to turn the stack over. Insert blank pages to separate more than one job within a stack of pages. You can save pages between blank pages as separate files after OCR. Other recommendations Set the desired process commands and click AUTO to automatically process each page of your document in order. Create and use a zone template if all pages have similar zoning requirements. See Creating Zone Templates on page 72 for more information. in the Process menu to schedule processing for a specific time. Pick a time that you plan to be away from your computer. You can select an option to save the recognized document as a single file, one file per page, or a new file after each blank page. No Recommendations Set the desired process commands and click AUTO to automatically process the page. Click the Image button to add more pages to the document by scanning or loading images. OmniPage Pro Settings - 62 Chapter 5 Customizing OCR OmniPage Pro has many features that allow you to customize the way your documents are handled during OCR. This chapter describes how to use these features. [. . . ] You can perform OCR on an image and paste the resulting text directly into an open document. OmniPage Document A file that is saved in OmniPage Pro's proprietary format ( PHW). OmniPage Documents can consist of original page images, zones, and recognized text. optical character recognition (OCR) The process of turning an image, such as a scanned paper document or an electronic fax file, into computer-editable text so you do not have to retype the text manually. [. . . ]