User manual NUANCE OMNIPAGE PRO X FOR MACINTOSH

[. . . ] LEGAL NOTICES ©2001 by ScanSoft, 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 the Legal Department at ScanSoft, Inc. , 9 Centennial Drive, Peabody, Massachusetts 01960. Printed in the United States of America and in the Netherlands. 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. [. . . ] After you choose Undo, it changes to Redo. If an action cannot be reversed, the command appears as Can't Undo. Modifying images You can modify an image when Image view is active. Drag the splitter at the base of the Document window to the right if Image view is not big enough or not visible at all. Rotating an image You can rotate a page image when Image view is active. For example, if a page is accidentally scanned upside down, you do not have to scan it again. You can correct the orientation by rotating it. Click the Rotate tools in the Tools palette to turn the entire page 90 degrees left, 180 degrees, or 90 degrees right. If possible, rotate a page before you create zones. All zones are deleted during page rotation. Note You can also specify that images coming from scanner should be flipped around their vertical or horizontal axes. These types of rotation cannot be performed on loaded images; they must be specified in the Scanner panel of the Preferences dialog box before scanning is started. Working with documents 57 Erasing areas of an image You can erase areas of the actual image using the Erase Image tool in the Tools palette. This is useful if you want to get rid of smudges, signatures, or other types of "noise" on the page before OCR. Use the Zoom tool in the Tools palette to enlarge the area of the image you want to erase. Click the Erase Image tool in the Tools palette. The mouse pointer turns into a square box. Click the box over the image area that you want to erase. A piece of the image disappears with each mouse click. You can also hold the mouse button down and drag the mouse pointer over the area you want to erase. Note If you do not want to permanently erase parts of the actual image, but want to omit areas of a page from OCR, identify the areas as Ignore zone types prior to auto-zoning, or do not include them in zones when you do manual zoning. Modifying text You can modify recognized text in Text view before exporting it to another application. Move the splitter at the base of the Document window to the left to give more space to Text view. If you drag it far to the left, Image view disappears completely. Select a suitable magnification for Text view. See also Proofreading OCR results on page 51. Selecting all text To apply formatting, such as a particular font, to all text on a page, you can select the entire page by choosing Select All in the Edit menu (or zA). [. . . ] Drag the splitter between the two views to the right. The table editing tools in the Tools palette are grayed. These become available only if the current page contains a table zone. The Export pop-up menu offers no choices. [. . . ]