User manual NUANCE OMNIPAGE PRO FOR WINDOWS 95

[. . . ] OmniPage Pro for Windows 95 CAERE CORPORATION 100 Cooper Court Los Gatos, California 95030 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 95 Version 7. 0 Copyright© 1996 Caere Corporation. CAERE®, OmniPage®, Language Analyst®, 3D OCR®, True Page®, AnyPage, and AnyFax 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. Product Serial Number: _______________________________________________ (from Disk #1 label) ii Table of Contents Welcome Help Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi Context-Sensitive Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi Chapter 1 Introduction to OmniPage Pro What Is Optical Character Recognition (OCR)?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] A zone template contains zone attributes such as size, position, order, and zone type. This is useful if you frequently process documents that have similar layouts and content. To save a zone template: 1 Manually draw the desired zones on a page image. (Automatically-drawn zones cannot be saved as a template. ) See "Creating Zones Manually" on page 3-11. Type a name for your file in the File Name text box and click OK. The zone template file is saved in the data folder within your installation folder. It can be selected in the Zone button dropdown list. 2 3 To create zones with a template: 1 2 Select the zone template that you want to use in the Zone button drop-down list. Click the Zone button or choose the template name in the Process menu. OmniPage Pro draws zones on the page image according to the zone template. 3-12 Basic Procedures Creating Zones for OCR Deleting Zones You can delete the current zones if you want to create new zones or if you do not want to process a particular area of a page during OCR. To delete zones: 1 Select the zone you want to delete by clicking inside it in the image viewer. You can Shift-click to select additional zones. Choose Select All in the Edit menu to select all zones on the current page. Press the Delete key or choose Clear in the Edit menu. The selected zones disappear but the contents of the page image remain as is. Any part of a page image not enclosed by a zone will be ignored during OCR. 2 Reidentifying Zone Types The letter in the upper-right corner of a zone indicates its zone type. This specifies characters or graphics that OmniPage Pro looks for within the zone during OCR. OmniPage Pro is supplied with Alphanumeric, Graphic, and Numeric zone types. Alphanumeric zones are labeled with an A and Graphic zones are labeled with a G. You can also create your own zone types. User-defined zone types are marked with a U. (Numeric zone types are considered user-defined zone types because they are editable. ) See OmniPage Pro's online help for information on creating and editing zone types. Make sure zones are identified correctly before OCR. For example, if a page contains three paragraphs of text and a company logo, the paragraphs should be Alphanumeric zone types and the logo should be a Graphic zone type. [. . . ] Some scanners do not require drivers and other scanners require more than one driver. Refer to your scanner documentation for information about installing any required scanner drivers. Make sure that your scanner and scanner driver are properly installed and configured before installing OmniPage Pro. Like all software, scanner drivers are periodically updated. [. . . ]