User manual VISIONEER PROOCR100

[. . . ] Untitled Document Pro OCR User's Guide file:///C|/VisioneerDoc/Main. html [1/20/2003 4:21:09 PM] Pro OCR User's Guide Contents Chapter 1: Introducing Visioneer Pro OCR 100 Chapter 2: Learning Pro OCR Basics Chapter 3: Getting Documents Chapter 4: Locating Text and Graphics Chapter 5: Setting Recognize Options and Proofing a Pro OCR User's Guide Chapter 1 Introducing Visioneer Pro OCR 100 This chapter introduces you to the Pro OCR application and to the concept of optical character recognition (OCR). Why Pro OCR Pro OCR is an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application. An OCR application converts images of text, such as those obtained from scanning a document or receiving a fax through your faxmodem, into editable text. For example, when a scanner scans a page of text, it sees black and white areas on the page. The scanner converts what it sees into an image and stores the image on the computer. [. . . ] As a page is read in, the Get Page button is highlighted, and the progress bar moves down the page. Each page is read in and displayed in the image view at 25% magnification (zoom level). If the Enable Auto OCR Dialogs processing option is not selected, when all pages have been read Pro OCR finishes getting pages and displays the first page in the image view. Pro OCR then locates and recognizes each page. If the Enable Auto OCR Dialogs processing option is selected, when all pages have been read the Get Page dialog box is again displayed. To add pages from an additional file or files to the end of your current document, repeat steps 5 and 6 as often as necessary. Each time you read in another file, the new pages are read in and added to the end of the current document. You can read up to 999 pages into a document, as long as you have enough available disk space. When you're done reading files, click Finished. When you click End, the file reading step completes, and locating and then recognizing begins. For more information about locating see Chapter 4, "Locating Text and Graphics. " For more information about recognizing and proofing, see Chapter 5, "Setting Recognize Options and Proofing a Recognized Document. " NOTE: When you use Auto OCR, the locate and recognize steps occur automatically. file:///C|/VisioneerDoc/html/03get. htm (14 of 16) [1/20/2003 4:21:17 PM] Getting Documents More About Enabling Auto OCR Dialogs By default, after you've used Auto OCR to scan pages or to read in one or more files, Pro OCR displays a dialog box that prompts you to continue in one of several ways: s Scan another page or stack of pages Scan the second side of a page or stack Open additional files s s This lets you read in and process multiple files or stacks of pages as one document. However, it also means that you have to click Finish to proceed with automatic processing after the Get Page step is done. If instead you want the Auto OCR process to continue without interruption, you can prevent the dialog box from reappearing by deselecting the Enable Auto OCR Dialogs option. NOTE: You can't process more than a single stack of pages or set of files when Enable Auto OCR Dialogs is deselected. To enable/disable Auto OCR dialog boxes: 1. The Options dialog box appears with the Processing options. file:///C|/VisioneerDoc/html/03get. htm (15 of 16) [1/20/2003 4:21:17 PM] Getting Documents 2. To enable the dialogs, select Enable Auto OCR Dialogs. To disable the dialog boxes, deselect the option. Reach us at www. visioneer. com. file:///C|/VisioneerDoc/html/03get. htm (16 of 16) [1/20/2003 4:21:17 PM] Saving and Printing Documents Chapter 6 Saving and Printing Documents This chapter describes the input file formats and output file formats that Pro OCR supports and tells you how to save documents in a variety of these formats. Saving Documents and Other Pro OCR Items You can save the following documents and items: s Documents (in various file formats) Templates (text, numeric, picture, and table region definitions and ordering information) Gallery settings and selected processing, display, and proofing options s s Saving a Document Documents are not saved automatically. You save a document using Save or Save As from the File menu. If you close or exit Pro OCR without saving a document, a message prompts you to save the current document. After you get a document, you can save it at any or all of the various stages of the Pro OCR process--after locating, recognizing, or proofing. [. . . ] Click the Proofing tab, and select the following options: Suspects (Normal), Illegibles, and Misspelled Words. When Proof selects the character to replace, select the word that contains the suspect character or illegible character you want to replace. Choose Find & Replace from the Edit menu. The dialog box is displayed with the selected text. [. . . ]