ScanSoft TEXTBRIDGE PRO-MILLENIUM Manual page 44

Page sources
Recomposition
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Scanning grayscale (or color) rather than black and white can
improve text recognition on pages with difficult-to-recognize text.
However, grayscale scanning is slower than black and white
scanning.
You can get pages to process from your scanner or from page
images. Use your scanner as a source to input documents on
paper to TextBridge, which then takes the scanned images,
performs OCR, converts the recognized text and pictures to the
text file format of your choice, and stores it on your PC.
Alternatively, use TextBridge to recognize and convert page
images stored in image files that come from fax modems or other
sources.
TextBridge recomposition lets you keep the layout of the original
page. When you select Retain page layout in the Save As
dialog box, TextBridge recomposes the layout, while maintaining
full ability to edit in the output file (except WYSIWYG HTML).
After recomposition, text, pictures, and tables are in the same
position in relation to each other as in the original page. You can
see the results of recomposition when you print the page or look
at it in layout view, if your word processor supports these
elements.
You can retain page layout when outputting to Word or
WordPerfect. Outputting HTML WYSIWYG preserves page
layout for Internet Explorer and Netscape.
It is important to note that in reconstructing the layout of the
original document, TextBridge is limited by the composition
capabilities of the text program. For example, there are some
complex magazine pages originally created with a publishing
program for which you will not get identical output in your word
processor. Even the most powerful word processors do not have
some of the composition capabilities of publishing software.
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