User manual NUANCE TEXTBRIDGE PRO 11

[. . . ] LEGAL NOTICES Copyright © 2002 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, USA. 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. [. . . ] If PaperPort exists on a computer when TextBridge Pro is installed, its OCR services become available and amplify the power of PaperPort. You can choose an OCR program by right clicking on a text applications PaperPort link, selecting Preferences and then selecting TextBridge Pro 11 as the OCR package. OCR settings can be specified, as with Direct OCR. : Here TextBridge Pro 11 has been selected as the OCR package for MS Word 2000. Then you can drag page images from the PaperPort desktop onto the MS Word link on the PaperPort. While the text is being recognized, only a progress monitor is displayed. TextBridge Pro's manual zoning window or proofing facility will appear if requested. The recognition results are placed in a new unnamed document in the target application. 46 T U T O R I A L : PROC E S S I N G DOCUMENTS PROCESSING DOCUMENTS WITH SCHEDULE OCR You can schedule OCR jobs to be performed automatically at any time within the following 24 hours. The document pages can come from a scanner with an ADF or from image files. You do not have to be present at your computer at job start time, nor does TextBridge Pro have to be running. It does not matter if your computer is turned off after the job is set up, so long as it is running at job start time. If you are scanning pages, your scanner must be functioning at job start time, with the pages loaded in the ADF. Click Schedule OCR in the Process menu or in the Windows Start menu: select ProgramsÉScanSoftÉTextBridge Pro 11. 0ÉSchedule OCR. It takes you through six panels, similar to the OCR Wizard. In the first panel you define image source. An additional feature lets you process all supported image files in a defined folder. The next three panels are similar to those in the OCR Wizard, but you can also specify a user dictionary. The fifth panel lets you specify an export file name, type, location and a file separation choice. The last panel lets you define the job start time, retain or delete input files after processing and specify use of a log file to note job completion and any problems encountered. Click Finish to close the Wizard. The Schedule OCR dialog box lists all jobs, with status Waiting, Running, Error or Complete. You can modify and reuse finished jobs to process new jobs needing similar settings. You can delete completed jobs when they are no longer needed. Note For more information, please see Scheduling OCR in the online Help. PROCE S S I N G DOCUMENTS WITH SCHE D U L E OC R 47 DEFINING THE SOURCE OF PAGE IMAGES There are two possible image sources: from image files and from a scanner. There are two main types of scanners: flatbed or sheetfed. [. . . ] u If you use True Page as the Text Editor view or for export, recognized text is put into frames (formatting boxes). Some text may be hidden if a frame is too small. To view the text, place the cursor in the text frame and use the arrow keys on your keyboard to scroll to the top, bottom, left, or right of the frame. OCR PROBLEMS 81 u Check the glass, mirrors, and lenses on your scanner for dust, smudges, or scratches. Clean if necessary. Note TextBridge Pro only recognizes machine printed-text characters such as typewritten or laser-printed text. [. . . ]