Zoning The Page - ScanSoft TEXTBRIDGE PRO-MILLENIUM Manual

Zoning the Page

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Before recognizing text on a page, TextBridge finds the text,
table, and picture areas (or zones) on the page (Figure 4–9).
TextBridge does this automatically when processing in Automatic
mode. In Manual mode, you can mark the zone yourself or click
Find Zones to have TextBridge automatically zone the page.
A zoned page is divided into one or more zones. There are three
types of zones: text, table, and picture.
Text zone
Table zone
Picture
zone
A form is not a table. TextBridge does not OCR forms and does
Note
not retain the original layout of most forms.
Each type of zone has a different transparent color so you can
easily distinguish among them. TextBridge assigns the default
colors to each type of zone: yellow for text, blue for pictures, and
brown for tables. You can change the assigned colors in the Color
Tab of the Options dialog box, available from the Tools menu.
Only those parts of the page that are marked with zones are
recognized by TextBridge. If you want to recognize only part of a
page, mark only that portion. TextBridge does OCR on text and
table zones and converts both to text. TextBridge does not do
OCR on picture zones but does save picture zones as part of the
output.
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Contains text and can be normal or reverse (light
characters on a dark background).
Contains cell or tabular tables. Tables can be ruled
or unruled.
Contains any graphic art such as line art, color
photographs, or halftone images.