Processing Documents With Different Character Quality - Visioneer PROOCR100 User Manual

Tips for Getting the Best Results

Processing Documents with Different Character Quality

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to be processed.
2. Click Get Page to get the page, or choose Get Page from the Process menu.
3. Repeat Steps 1 and 2 for each page in the document.
4. Choose Finish Processing from the Process menu.
Make sure you select the Locate and Recognize options in the Gallery
toolbar.
OR
Save the document in Pro OCR Deferred format.
If you save the document in the Pro OCR Deferred format, you can finish
processing it by choosing Process Deferred Jobs later.
A good image has characters that are not too dark or touching and are not too light
or broken. It also has characters that are distinct from the background. The
background in a good image is light and not "fuzzy" or "dotty."
To process a document with pages that vary in character image quality (too
dark/touching, too light/broken) or in background (color or "noise"):
1. Use the brightness level control in your scanner software to manually select
a brightness level.
2. Click Get Page to get the page, or choose Get Page from the Process menu.
3. Zoom in on the page to see if it's a good image.
If the image looks good, skip to step 9.
4. If you're not sure if it's a good image, use the Locate and Recognize on the
page, then check the results.
If there are many suspect and illegible characters in the recognized text, you
may be able to improve recognition by experimenting with a different
brightness setting.