ScanSoft OMNIPAGE DIRECT 2 FOR WINDOWS Installation Manual page 20

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Load OCR When Direct is Launched

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18 Commands and Settings

Select this to choose one or more languages for text recognition.

Direct will recognize additional characters (such as circumflexes, umlauts,

etc.) unique to a particular language. You may select more than one

language by clicking on different selections; however, for faster

recognition, select only the minimum number of languages you need.

Select this if you want Direct to load the optical character recognition

(OCR) program in your computer's memory when Direct is started. Direct

will take a few seconds to load OCR, and then there will be no delay the

first time you scan a page.

There are two parts to the Direct program. One is the part that shows

dialog boxes and drives your scanner. The other, the OCR portion, is the

part that actually analyzes a scanned image and converts it into text. The

OCR part uses a lot of your computer's memory.

Normally, Direct waits until you scan before it loads OCR into memory.

The first time you scan, it takes a few seconds for Direct to load the OCR.

Once loaded, OCR stays in memory until you close the program.

However, you can use the Unload OCR after n minutes of inactivity setting

to clear OCR from memory without closing the Direct program.

Select this icon if you want to scan more than one page.

After a flatbed scanner scans a page, a prompt will appear asking you if

you want to scan more pages. If you use an automatic document feeder

(ADF), the prompt will appear when the ADF is empty.

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