ScanSoft PDF CONVERTER PROFESSIONAL 3-HELP Online Help Manual page 81

The Built-In OCR
OCR is the process of extracting text from an image. This image can result from
scanning a paper document, opening an electronic image file or a PDF file. Images
do not have editable text characters, they have many tiny dots (pixels) that together
form character shapes. These present a picture of the text on a page.
From character image ...
When To Use OmniPage Pro
Your PDF converter program offers a powerful
OmniPage Pro 14.
However, there can be advantages in using this ScanSoft
Character Recognition (OCR) program if you want more control over the OCR
process.
 Convert selected page areas
 Choose from four formatting levels instead of two (see below)
 Win full control over the OCR process, including:
o The ability to manually zone pages
o Access to multi-lingual spell checking and proofing
o Dynamic verifier image display to speed up editing
o Voice readback facility
o And much more.
 Scan new pages into the converted document
 Add new pages from fax or image files
 Save to other formats, including OmniPage Pro's internal format for document
sharing with other OmniPage users.
... to editable text
built-in OCR, similar to that in
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OmniPage Pro
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