Chapter 8: Tips For Getting The Best Results; Fixing Broken And Touching Characters - Visioneer PROOCR100 User Manual

Tips for Getting the Best Results
Chapter 8
Tips for Getting the Best Results

Fixing Broken and Touching Characters

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This chapter provides tips for getting the best results from Pro OCR by:
Fixing broken and touching characters
Adjusting the brightness to obtain consistent documents
Processing inconsistent documents
Changing a setting after completing autoprocessing
Getting the best recognition
Making sure page images are not skewed
Using numeric regions when you're recognizing numeric text
Putting pages in the scanner correctly
Avoiding marks on a page
Pro OCR is good at recognizing characters that are broken (light) or touching
(dark), especially when you use brightness level to compensate for poor character
quality.
You can assist Pro OCR in accurately recognizing text that has broken/light or
touching/dark characters by adjusting the brightness level used during scanning.
There are two general rules:
When characters are dark or touching, use a higher (brighter) setting.