Scanning Long Documents Without An Adf; Describing The Layout Of The Document - ScanSoft PE16 - WorkCentre B/W Laser User Manual

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You can scan double-sided documents with an ADF. A duplex scanner

will manage this automatically. For non-duplex scanners, select 'Scan

double-sided pages' in the Scanner panel of the Options dialog box. Then

you can scan the document in just a few passes, with even pages grouped

together and odd pages also grouped. OmniPage SE will merge the pages

for you.

Scanning long documents without an ADF

You can scan multi-page documents efficiently from a flatbed scanner,

even without an ADF. Select 'Automatically scan pages' in the Scanner

panel of the Options dialog box, and define a pause value in seconds.

Then the scanner will make scanning passes automatically, pausing

between each scan by the defined number of seconds, giving you time to

place the next page. A dialog box allows you finish the pause early or

request a longer pause and to specify when the last page is scanned.

ESCRIBING THE LAYOUT OF THE DOCUMENT

Before starting recognition you are requested to describe the layout of the

incoming pages to assist the auto-zoning process. When you use the

OCR Wizard, auto-zoning always runs. When you do automatic

processing, auto-zoning always runs unless you specify a template to be

used on its own. When you do manual processing, auto-zoning

sometimes runs. See online Help for more detail.

Here are your input description choices:

Automatic

Choose this to let the program make all auto-zoning decisions. It decides

whether text is in columns or not, whether an item is a graphic or text to

be recognized and whether to place tables or not. Choose Automatic if

your document contains pages with different or unknown layouts.

Choose it for a page with multiple columns and a table, and for any pages

with more than one table.

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