User manual NUANCE SCANSOFT PAPERPORT 1.1 GETTING STARTED GUIDE

[. . . ] L EGAL N OTICES Copyright © 2006 Nuance Communications, Inc. No part of this publication may be transmitted, transcribed, reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or translated into any language or computer language in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual, or otherwise, without prior written consent from Nuance Communications, Inc. , 1 Wayside Road, Burlington, Massachusetts 01803-4609, U. S. A. Printed in the United States of America and Ireland. The software described in this book is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license. [. . . ] If your device is displayed as a drive you can start acquiring your files. If your camera does not support this kind of operation, and its driver is installed properly, its TWAIN or WIA interface will display enabling you to import images from it. Do not edit the images on your camera in place ­ not all editing produces the desired result first time. Instead, bring your files into PaperPort and use the SET tools to enhance them. Touching Up Images When you display an image item in the Page View window, PaperPort provides several tools you can use to adjust or improve your image. For example, you can straighten a scanned page, lighten an underexposed photograph that is too dark, adjust the color in a color picture, remove "dirt spots" from a document page, clear shadows and spots from page edges, or sharpen fuzzy pictures. In addition, you can rotate an item, remove stray dots, enhance lines, remove red eye, and crop part of an image. Some SET Tools are primarily designed for photo, or image enhancement, while others (shaded) help you prepare items containing text for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Right-click on the Image Editing toolbar to choose which icons you want to display. Touching Up Images 22 Scanner Enhancement Technology tools Select Area Use the Select Area tool to select part of an image you want to cut, copy, or delete using the commands on the Edit menu or in the shortcut menu. Use it also to select part of an image before cropping or using the Remove Red Eye tool. Click the Rotate Right tool to rotate the selected item 90 degrees to the right. Rotate an image Straighten an Sometimes a document is crooked when scanned. image When this occurs, you can use the Straighten and Auto Straighten tools to adjust it. Straightening lines of text in an image file will yield better OCR results. Enhance an image The Auto Enhance feature adjusts the brightness and contrast, color, and tint of an image. PaperPort analyzes the image and tries to correct whatever is wrong with it. You can manually adjust your image using the Enhance tool. It lets you change brightness, contrast, color and tint values and choose the best result from nine candidates. Select the Sharpen tool to adjust the sharpness of a blurry picture or blur a sharp image for special effect. The Remove Red Eye tool helps you to remove the red-eye effect from a selected part of a picture. Red Eye may occur when photographing people or animals in low light or with a flash. Sharpen an image Remove red eye PaperPort Getting Started Guide 23 Remove part of an image When you want to save or work with only part of a page or image, you can crop the image or you can erase the part that you do not want to use. Use the Selection tool to define the part you want to keep and then use the Crop tool to remove the remainder. Select the Eraser tool to erase the area of the image that you draw over with the pointer. Remove stray Scanned images sometimes include stray dots or dots "speckles". The Remove Stray Dots tool automatically finds and removes such "dirt" from a page. Improve lines The Improve Lines tool (for black-and-white images) darkens lines and connects broken lines in a table or form to appear darker and straighter. [. . . ] PaperPort Professional can additionally combine text items. To convert a text item, the application that created it must be available on your system. Convert images to text You can convert scanned documents to text by a simple drag and drop of the thumbnail to your word processor program. PaperPort automatically processes your scanned document using PaperPort's OCR software, launches your word processing program, and loads the scanned text into a document ready for editing. PaperPort also allows you to copy text from part of an image item for use in a text editing, word processing, or spreadsheet program. [. . . ]