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  • Page 2 E G A L O T I C E S Copyright © 2002 ScanSoft, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be transmitted, transcribed, reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or translated into any language or computer language in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual, or otherwise, without prior written consent from ScanSoft, Inc., 9 Centennial Drive, Peabody, Massachusetts 01960.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    N S T A L L A T I O N A N D S E T U P System requirements Installing OmniPage Pro Setting up your scanner with OmniPage Pro How to start the program Registering your software New features in OmniPage Pro 12...
  • Page 4 Contents The Text Editor The OmniPage Toolbox Managing documents Thumbnails Document Manager Customizing Document Manager columns Deleting pages from a document Printing a document Closing a document OmniPage Documents Why save to OPD How to save to OPD Settings R O C E S S I N G D O C U M E N T S Quick Start Guide Loading and recognizing sample image files Scanning and recognizing a single page...
  • Page 5 Input from scanner Scanning with an ADF Scanning without an ADF Describing the layout of the document Zones and backgrounds Automatic zoning Manual zoning Zone types and properties Working with zones Table grids in the image Using zone templates R O O F I N G A N D E D I T I N G...
  • Page 6 Contents A V I N G A N D E X P O R T I N G Saving original images Saving recognition results Saving a document as you work Selecting a formatting level Selecting advanced saving options Saving to PDF Copying pages to Clipboard Sending pages by mail E C H N I C A L I N F O R M A T I O N...

  • Page 7: Welcome

    The Scanner Guide contains up-dated information about supported scanners and related issues; ScanSoft tests the 25 most widely used scanner models. Access ScanSoft’s web site from the OmniPage Pro Installer or afterwards from the Help menu. OmniPage Pro User’s Guide...

  • Page 8: Using This Guide

    We also assume you are familiar with your scanner and its supporting software, and that the scanner is installed and working correctly before it is setup with OmniPage Pro 12. Please refer to the scanner’s own documentation as necessary.

  • Page 9: Context-Sensitive Help

    Getting online Help In addition to using this guide, you can use OmniPage Pro’s online Help to learn about features, settings, and procedures. Online Help is available after you install OmniPage Pro. Online HTML Help Open OmniPage Pro’s online Help at its top level by choosing Help Topics at the top of the Help menu.

  • Page 10: Tech Notes

    Tech Notes ScanSoft’s web site at www.scansoft.com contains Tech Notes on commonly reported issues using OmniPage Pro 12. Web pages may also offer assistance on the installation process and troubleshooting. Glossary This guide does not include a glossary. The online Help has a comprehensive glossary, with its own alphabetical index and a table of contents.

  • Page 11: Installation And Setup

    This chapter provides information on installing and starting OmniPage Pro 12. It presents the following topics: System requirements Installing OmniPage Pro Setting up your scanner with OmniPage Pro How to start the program Registering your software New features in OmniPage Pro 12...

  • Page 12: System Requirements

    (called High Color in Windows 2000 and Medium Color in XP) and 800 x 600 pixel resolution Windows-compatible pointing device CD-ROM drive for installation A compatible scanner with its own scanner driver software, if you plan to scan documents. Please see the Scanner Guide at ScanSoft’s web site (www.scansoft.com) scanners.

  • Page 13: Installing Omnipage Pro

    Installing OmniPage Pro OmniPage Pro 12’s installation program takes you through installation with instructions on every screen. Before installing OmniPage Pro: Close all other applications, especially anti-virus programs. Log into your computer with administrator privileges if you are installing on Windows NT, 2000 or XP. If you own a previous version of OmniPage Pro, or if you are upgrading from demonstration software or an OmniPage Special Edition, the installer asks your consent to uninstall that product.

  • Page 14: Setting Up Your Scanner With Omnipage Pro

    Scanner installation and setup are done through the Scanner Wizard. You can start this yourself, as described below. Otherwise, the Scanner Wizard appears when you first attempt to perform scanning. Please follow these steps to use the Scanner Wizard to setup your scanner with OmniPage Pro 12: Installation and setup Choose Start  Programs  ScanSoft OmniPage Pro 12.0 ...
  • Page 15 You have successfully configured your scanner to work with OmniPage Pro 12! Click on Finish. To change the scanner settings at a later time, or to set up a different scanner, reopen the Scanner Setup Wizard from the Windows Start menu or from the Scanner panel of the Options dialog box.

  • Page 16: How To Start The Program

    How to start the program To start OmniPage Pro 12 do one of the following: On opening, OmniPage Pro’s title screen is displayed and then its desktop. See “The OmniPage Desktop” on page 22. It provides an introduction to the program’s main working areas. There are several ways of running the program with a limited interface: Installation and setup Click Start in the Windows taskbar and choose Programs ...

  • Page 17: Registering Your Software

    Registering your software ScanSoft’s registration Wizard runs at the end of installation. We provide an easy electronic form that can be completed in less than five minutes. When the form is filled, and you click Send the program will search an Internet connection to immediately perform the registration online.
  • Page 18 Installation and setup saved to zone templates. See page 53. Irregular zones can be drawn and zones split and joined more simply, without the need for separate tools. See page 57. Better proofing and verifying The Proofing dialog box now shows suspect words in a wider context.

  • Page 19: Introduction

    Chapter 2 Introduction You probably use your computer for business correspondence, preparing reports, handling data and an ever-increasing number of other uses. The challenge is that, in spite of the digital revolution, certain sources of information still circulate in printed, paper form and cannot be used immediately in a computer.

  • Page 20: What Is Optical Character Recognition

    What is optical character recognition Optical character recognition is the process of extracting text from an image. This image can result from scanning a paper document or opening an electronic image file. Images do not have editable text characters; they have many tiny dots (pixels) that together form character shapes.

  • Page 21: Documents In Omnipage Pro

    Documents in OmniPage Pro OmniPage Pro 12 handles documents one at a time. When you acquire your first image (from scanner or from file) a new document is started. Further acquired images are added to the same document, until you save and close it.

  • Page 22: The Omnipage Desktop

    The OmniPage Desktop The OmniPage Desktop has a title bar and a menu bar along the top and a status bar along the bottom. It has three main working areas, separated by splitters: the Document Manager, the Image Panel and the Text Editor.

  • Page 23: The Toolbars

    We show the program with a three-page document. Page one is the current page, which has been recognized and proofed. Page two has been recognized but not proofed yet. Page three has been acquired and manually zoned, but not recognized yet. The icons at the bottom of the thumbnail images show page status.

  • Page 24: The Image Panel

    The Image Panel When this displays the current page image, the Image toolbar is available. All page images have a background value: process or ignore. Zones can be manually drawn on page images, or can be placed automatically after recognition. There are five zone types: Process, Ignore, Text, Table, Graphics.

  • Page 25: The Omnipage Toolbox

    The OmniPage Toolbox This Toolbox lets you drive the processing. By default it is located along the top of the OmniPage Desktop, just above the working areas. It can be floated and also be docked along the bottom of the desktop. Start button Get Page button Get Pages...

  • Page 26: Managing Documents

    Managing documents Document management can be done by thumbnails in the Image Panel or by the Document Manager, situated along the bottom of the OmniPage Desktop. Both summarize the pages in the document and are synchronized. Our pictures show these with the same seven-page document.

  • Page 27: Document Manager

    the Ctrl key as you click thumbnails to add pages to a selection one by one. Then you can move or delete the selected pages as a group, or send them to (re)recognition. You can also export selected pages. Document Manager This provides an overview of your document with a table.

  • Page 28: Customizing Document Manager Columns

    When multiple pages are being selected, the page set as current does not change. All selected pages are highlighted. Customizing Document Manager columns You can specify which columns of information you want to see in the Document Manager. Click Customize Columns... in the View menu for the following dialog box: Define which columns should appear, their widths, and column order.

  • Page 29: Printing A Document

    Chapter 2 Printing a document You can print the document with the Print item in the File menu. Choose whether to print images or text (that is, recognition results as they appear in the Text Editor). You can print all pages or a range of pages.

  • Page 30: Why Save To Opd

    You want to pass the document to other users who have OmniPage Pro. For example, you can pass an OPD file to a specialist for proofing. In an office network, you may have one scanner generating images for recognition and proofing at several workstations.

  • Page 31: Settings

    Automatic Document Feeder (ADF). You can change scanner setup settings or install a new scanner or change the default scanner. See “Input from scanner” on page 49. This panel is not available if you requested display of your scanner’s native...
  • Page 32 Introduction Some settings have an effect only on future recognition. Examples are the recognition languages, a training file or scanner brightness. These settings should be correctly adjusted before you start processing. To have changes in these settings applied to already recognized pages, you will have to re-recognize them. Other settings are implemented immediately in all existing pages.

  • Page 33: Processing Documents

    Chapter 3 Processing documents This tutorial chapter describes different ways you can process a document and also provides information on key parts of this processing. The detailed topics are: Quick Start Guide Processing overview Automatic processing Manual processing Combined processing Processing with the OCR Wizard Processing from other applications (Direct OCR, PaperPort) Processing with Schedule OCR...

  • Page 34: Quick Start Guide

    Next, try scanning a page from your scanner. Scanning and recognizing a single page Turn your scanner on and be sure it is working correctly. Choose a page with good-quality clear text for this test. We assume OmniPage Pro’s default settings are set and that your document is in the language you specified for interface language during installation.
  • Page 35 If you succeeded in getting good results from the sample image files, but not from the scanned page, check your scanner installation and settings: in particular brightness and image resolution. See “Input from scanner” on page 49. This provides a model of optimum brightness. See also the online Help topics Setting up your scanner and Scanner troubleshooting.

  • Page 36: Processing Overview

    51 page 48 from Apply a scanner template page 49 page 61 Here is an overview of the processing methods you can use. You will find step-by-step guidance for each of them in the following pages.
  • Page 37 Chapter 3 Using the OCR Wizard The OCR Wizard guides you through the selection of settings and commands by asking you questions. It then launches automatic processing. This is a good way to get started if you are new to OmniPage Pro. In other applications You can use the Direct OCR feature to call on the recognition services of OmniPage Pro while working in your usual word-processor or similar...

  • Page 38: Automatic Processing

    Perform OCR button the document source, which can be from image files or from a scanner. See “Defining the source of page images” on page 48. shown above. This guides the program in auto-zoning the pages. You describe the incoming pages or specify a zone template file. See “Describing the layout of the document”...

  • Page 39: Stopping And Restarting Automatic Processing

    4. Choose in the Standard toolbar or Options in the Tools menu and check that settings are appropriate for your document. You can, for instance, specify recognition languages and whether you want to proofread the document or not. See “Settings” on page 31. 5.

  • Page 40: Manual Processing

    31. list. You define the document source, which can be from image files or from a scanner. When scanning, select a scanning mode and use the Scanner and Process panels of the Options dialog box to select settings. See “Defining the source of page images” on page 48.

  • Page 41: Combined Processing

    6. Select a value for the Perform OCR button. You describe the layout of the incoming pages. This value has an influence if auto-zoning runs on any pages. See “Describing the layout of the document” on page 51. You can also select a template to have its zones placed on the current page.
  • Page 42 determine which pages are in order, and which need different settings or some manual zoning. After adjusting settings and/or modifying zones, use manual processing to re-recognize just those pages. 1. Prepare the document and perform automatic processing, as already 2. If you close or finish proofing you will be invited to save the 3.

  • Page 43: Processing With The Ocr Wizard

    Wizard panels. Click the OCR Wizard button in the OmniPage Toolbox to see the first wizard screen: 1. The first panel lets you define your document source: scanner or image file. See “Defining the source of page images” on page 48.

  • Page 44: Processing From Other Applications

    Applicable settings not offered by the OCR Wizard take the values last set in the program. This concerns mainly scanner settings, a user dictionary or a training file. Zone templates cannot be used with the OCR Wizard. If a template file was set when the OCR Wizard starts, it is unloaded and Automatic is set as input description.

  • Page 45: How To Set Up Direct Ocr

    OmniPage Pro. Settings changed for Direct OCR are also changed in OmniPage Pro. 3. Use the File Menu item Acquire Text to acquire images from scanner or file. 4. If you selected Draw zones automatically in the Direct OCR panel of the Options dialog box, or under Acquire Text Settings...,...

  • Page 46: How To Use Omnipage Pro With Paperport

    How to use OmniPage Pro with PaperPort PaperPort It lets you link pages with suitable applications. Pages can contain pictures, text or both. If PaperPort exists on a computer with OmniPage Pro, its OCR services become available and amplify the power of PaperPort.

  • Page 47: Processing With Schedule Ocr

    If you are scanning pages, your scanner must be functioning at job start time, with the pages loaded in the ADF.

  • Page 48: Defining The Source Of Page Images

    (ADF), which makes it easier to scan multi-page documents. The images from scanned documents can be input directly into OmniPage Pro or may be saved with the scanner’s own software to an image file, which OmniPage Pro can later open.

  • Page 49: Input From Scanner

    Input from scanner You must have a functioning, supported scanner correctly installed with OmniPage Pro. See “Setting up your scanner with OmniPage Pro” on page 14. You have a choice of scanning modes. In making your choice, there are two main considerations:...

  • Page 50: Scanning With An Adf

    Brightness and contrast Good brightness and contrast settings play an important role in OCR accuracy. Set these in the Scanner panel of the Options dialog box or in your scanner’s interface. The diagram illustrates an optimum brightness setting. After loading an image, check its appearance. If characters are thick and touching, lighten the brightness.

  • Page 51: Scanning Without An Adf

    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.
  • Page 52 Single column, no table Choose this setting if your pages contain only one column of text and no table. Business letters or pages from a book are normally like this. Choose it also for a page with words or numbers arranged in columns if you do not want these placed in a table or decolumnized or treated as separate columns.

  • Page 53: Zones And Backgrounds

    Zones and backgrounds Zones define areas on the page to be processed or ignored. Zones are rectangular or irregular, with vertical and horizontal sides. Page images in a document have a background value: process or ignore (the latter is more typical).

  • Page 54: Manual Zoning

    Auto-zone a page background Acquire a page. It appears with a process background. Draw a zone. The background changes to ignore. Draw text, table or graphic zones to enclose areas you want manually zoned. Click the Process background tool (shown) to set a process background. Draw ignore zones over parts of the page you do not need.

  • Page 55: Zone Types And Properties

    Type Text zone Table zone Graphic zone Process zone Process background Ignore zone Ignore background Automatically drawn zones and template zones have solid borders: Manually drawn or modified zones have dotted borders: Zones do not have a reading order. Reordering of recognized elements can be done in the Text Editor.
  • Page 56 process zones on an ignore background. Draw a process zone to enclose columns of text to have them handled automatically. They will be decolumnized in the Text Editor’s NF view and RFP view, but kept in columns in True Page view. Ignore zone (gray) Use this to draw an ignore zone, to define a page area you do not want transferred to the Text Editor.

  • Page 57: Working With Zones

    Chapter 3 Working with zones The Image toolbar provides zone editing tools. One is always selected. When you no longer want the service of a tool, click a different tool. Some tools on this toolbar are grouped. Only the last selected tool from the group is visible.
  • Page 58 Join two zones of the same type Draw an overlapping zone of the same type. Make an irregular zone by subtraction Draw an overlapping zone of the same type as the background (in this example, on an ignore background). Split a zone Draw a splitting zone of the same type as the background (in this example, on a process background).

  • Page 59: Table Grids In The Image

    The following zone shapes are prohibited: Indented along the bottom To expand a zone more quickly than using its resizing handles, draw a zone of the same type to completely enclose it. The smaller zone is replaced by the larger one. To replace a set of zones of whatever type with a single zone, draw a larger zone of the desired type to completely enclose them.
  • Page 60 Use the table tools and their cursors as follows: Insert row dividers Click the tool then click at the location in a table zone where you want to place a row divider. Avoid placing a divider so it cuts through text. Insert column dividers Click the tool then click at the location in a table zone where you want to place a column divider.

  • Page 61: Using Zone Templates

    Using zone templates A template contains a page background value and a set of zones and their properties, stored in a file. A zone template file can be loaded to have template zones used during recognition. Load a template file in the Layout Description drop-down list or from the Tools menu.
  • Page 62 How to unload a template Select a non-template setting in the Layout Description drop-down list. The template zones are not removed from the current or existing pages, but template zones will no longer be used for future processing. You can also open the Zone Template Files dialog box, select Set As Current button.

  • Page 63: R O O F I N G A N D E D I T I N G

    Chapter 4 Proofing and editing Recognition results are placed in the Text Editor. These can be recognized texts, tables and embedded graphics. This WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor offers the following features, detailed in this chapter: The editor display and views Proofreading OCR results Verifying text...

  • Page 64: The Editor Display And Views

    The editor display and views The Text Editor displays recognized texts and can mark words that were suspected during recognition with wavy underlines: Choose to have non-dictionary words marked or not in the Proofing panel of the Options dialog box. All markers can be shown or hidden as selected in the Text Editor panel of the Options dialog box.

  • Page 65: Proofreading Ocr Results

    True Page view True Page original document as possible. Character and paragraph styling is retained. All page elements, including columns, are placed in boxes and frames. Reading order can be displayed by arrows. See from page 72. The formatting level for export is chosen separately at export time. Proofreading OCR results After a page is recognized, the recognition results appear in the Text Editor.

  • Page 66: Verifying Text

    3. If the recognized word is correct, click Ignore or Ignore All to move 4. If the recognized word is not correct, modify the word in the Edit 5. Color markers are removed from words in the Text Editor as they are Verifying text After performing OCR, you can compare any part of the recognized text against the corresponding part of the original image, to verify that the...
  • Page 67 To do this: Turn verifier on Turn verifier off Turn verifier on/off temporarily Show verifier until next keystroke Zoom display in Zoom display out Make verifier dynamic or docked/floating Dynamic context (scroll through 3 values) The verifier tool is in the Formatting toolbar. The verifier can also be controlled from the Tools menu.

  • Page 68: User Dictionaries

    User dictionaries The program has built-in dictionaries for many languages. These assist during recognition and may offer suggestions during proofing. They can be supplemented by user dictionaries. You can save any number of user dictionaries, but only one can be loaded at a time. Your user dictionaries from Microsoft Word are also available;...

  • Page 69: Training

    Chapter 4 Training Training is the process of changing the OCR solutions assigned to character shapes in the image. It is useful for uniformly degraded documents or when an unusual typeface is used throughout a document. Training will be less useful for texts with random distortions. Here is an example, based on the letter “g”, which can be printed in different ways: The first two examples do not need training, because both shapes are normal for the letter “g”...

  • Page 70: Intellitrain

    finds candidate words to change, the Check Training dialog box lists these. Incorrect words should be re-trained before the list is approved. For guidance on using the Train Character and Check Training dialog boxes, please consult their context-sensitive help or the online help topic Manual training and its related topics.

  • Page 71: Training Files

    IntelliTrain remembers the training data it collects, and adds it to any manual training you have done. This training can be saved to a training file for future use with similar documents. Training files If you want to be prompted to save your unsaved training data when you close the document, select that option in the Proofing panel of the Options dialog box.

  • Page 72: Text And Image Editing

    You are editing your unsaved training. This frame is grayed. It has been deleted. To undelete it, select it again and press the Delete key. Characters marked as deleted are really deleted when you close the dialog box. Text and image editing OmniPage Pro has a WYSIWYG Text Editor, providing many editing facilities.
  • Page 73 Chapter 4 between paragraphs. The Text Editor’s horizontal ruler lets you define indent and tab positions easily. Advanced tab settings are done in the Tabs dialog box from the Format menu. Paragraph styles Paragraph styles are auto-detected during recognition. A list of styles is built up and presented in a selection box on the left of the Formatting toolbar.

  • Page 74: On-The-Fly Editing

    Frames have gray borders and enclose one or more boxes. They are placed when a visible border is detected in an image. Format frame and table borders and shading with a shortcut menu or by choosing Table... in the Format menu. Text box shading can be specified from its shortcut menu. To call up a shortcut menu, right-click inside an element away from a marked word.

  • Page 75: Reading Text Aloud

    Click the on-the-fly tool with a green signal. The zoning changes will cause changes in the Text Editor. Click the Perform OCR button to have the whole page (re)recognized, including your zone changes. For details on how changes are handled in on-the-fly zoning and their effects in the Text Editor views, see On-the-fly processing in online Help.
  • Page 76 The Text-to-Speech facility is enabled or disabled with the Tools menu item Speech Mode or with the F5 key. A second menu item Speech Settings... allows you to select a voice (for example, male or female for a given language), a reading speed and the volume. The three basic speech keys are grouped together on the numeric keypad.

  • Page 77: Saving Original Images Saving Recognition Results

    Chapter 5 Saving and exporting Once you have acquired at least one image for a document, you can export the image(s) to file. Once you have recognized at least one page, you can export recognition results – a single page, selected pages or the whole document –...

  • Page 78: Saving Original Images

    page is recognized (or proofread, if that was requested), an exporting dialog box appears. You can specify export any time the program is not busy. If you ask to export a document with unrecognized pages, you will be asked whether they should be recognized first.

  • Page 79: Saving Recognition Results

    Saving recognition results You can save recognized pages to disk in a wide variety of file types. See “File types for saving recognition results” on page 95. 1. Choose Save As... in the File menu, or click the Export Results 2.

  • Page 80: Saving A Document As You Work

    5. Click OK. The document is saved to disk as specified. If Save and Saving a document as you work Click the Save tool in the Standard toolbar or choose Save in the File menu to save changes to the current document as you work. If you do this with an untitled document, the Save As dialog box appears.

  • Page 81: Selecting A Formatting Level

    Chapter 5 The Save As dialog box lists available file types in its Save as Type drop- down list. The OmniPage Document is the last format in the list. If you first save the document as an OmniPage Document (for instance as ), then modify it and later save it to a text file (for instance as memo.opd ), then modify it again and click Save, the recent changes are...

  • Page 82: Selecting Advanced Saving Options

    True Page (TP) This keeps the original layout of the pages, including columns. This is done with text, picture and table boxes and frames. This is offered only for target applications capable of handling these. True Page formatting is the only choice for XML export and for all PDF export, except to the file type ‘PDF Edited’.
  • Page 83 Chapter 5 Click Defaults to have all settings returned to the default values for the current file type. Click Save to have the changed settings applied to the current save and also stored as the settings to be applied in future whenever this file type is selected again for saving.

  • Page 84: Saving To Pdf

    Saving to PDF You have five choices when saving to Portable Document Format (PDF) files. PDF (Normal): Pages are exported as they appeared in the Text Editor in True Page view. The PDF file can be viewed and searched in a PDF viewer and edited in a PDF editor.

  • Page 85: Sending Pages By Mail

    plain or Unicode text will be pasted. Graphics are retained if the application supports insertion of images. W To copy pages to the Clipboard: • With automatic processing, select Copy to Clipboard as the setting in the Export Results drop-down list on the OmniPage Toolbox or in the OCR Wizard.
  • Page 86 At any time the program is not busy, choose Send as Mail in the File menu to call up the Send as Mail dialog box. 1. This dialog box lets you specify a file type, a page range, a formatting 2.

  • Page 87: Technical Information

    This chapter provides troubleshooting and other technical information about using OmniPage Pro 12. Please also read the online Readme file and other help topics, or visit the ScanSoft web pages. Its scanner section contains detailed and regularly updated information about scanner setup and support.

  • Page 88: Troubleshooting

    Make sure that your system meets all the listed requirements. See “System requirements” on page 12. Make sure that your scanner is plugged in and that all cable connections are secure. Visit the support section of ScanSoft’s web site at www.scansoft.com.

  • Page 89: Testing Omnipage Pro

    OmniPage Pro has stopped running altogether. See Windows online Help for more information. Your scanner will not run with OmniPage Pro in safe mode or VGA mode, so do not test scanner problems in this configuration. To test OmniPage Pro in safe mode (Windows 98, 2000, Me or XP): 1.

  • Page 90: Increasing Memory Resources

    5. Launch OmniPage Pro and try performing OCR on an image. Use a Increasing memory resources OmniPage Pro may run poorly under low-memory conditions. This may be indicated by various error messages or if OmniPage Pro works slowly and accesses the hard drive often. Try these solutions for low memory conditions: Increasing disk space Problems may occur if your system runs low on free disk space.

  • Page 91: Text Does Not Get Recognized Properly

    Be sure you do not have an unsuitable template loaded by mistake. If zone borders cut through text, recognition is impaired. Adjust the brightness and contrast sliders in the Scanner panel of the Options dialog box. You may need to experiment with different settings combinations to get the desired results.

  • Page 92: Problems With Fax Recognition

    OmniPage Pro” on page 89. Minimize all applications or click Alt+Tab to check for Windows error messages. Check image quality. Consult your scanner documentation on ways to improve the quality of scanned images. Break complex page images (lots of text and graphics or elaborate formatting) into smaller jobs.

  • Page 93: Odma Support

    Chapter 6 ODMA support If your local network includes a Document Management System (DMS) that supports ODMA clients, OmniPage Pro may be able to work with it. Then an ODMA panel will appear in the Options dialog box allowing you to specify permissible file types and other settings. An ODMA interface will replace the Load Image File and Open OmniPage Document (OPD) dialog boxes.

  • Page 94: Supported File Types

    Supported file types The program supports a wide range of file types for images and text. File types for opening and saving images File type BMP, Bitmap JPEG TIFF Compressed G3 TIFF Compressed G4 TIFF Compressed LZW TIFF FX TIFF PackBits TIFF Uncompressed Input image files can have resolutions up to 600 dpi, but 300 dpi (both horizontally and vertically) is recommended for optimum OCR accuracy.

  • Page 95: File Types For Saving Recognition Results

    File types for saving recognition results This table shows which formatting levels are available for each file type. File type eBook (1) Excel 97, 2000 Excel 3.0 to 7.0 FrameMaker 5.5.3 Freelance Graphics Harvard Graphics HTML 4.0 (2) HTML 3.2 (2) Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Microsoft Publisher 98 Microsoft Word 6.0, 97, 2000, XP...

  • Page 96: Uninstalling The Software

    Tables Uninstalling the software Sometimes uninstalling and then reinstalling OmniPage Pro will solve a problem. OmniPage Pro’s Uninstall program will not remove any of the following user-created files: To uninstall from Windows NT, 2000 or XP you must be logged into your computer with administrator privileges.

  • Page 97: N D E X

    Accuracy improvement influence of brightness influence of training scanning mode influence Acquire Text menu items Acquired pages Acquiring images Adding pages to a document to zones training to training files words to a user dictionary Advanced saving options Advice on problems Alphanumeric zone Attachments to mail messages Auto-detect layout...
  • Page 98 PDF Improving accuracy Incomplete automatic processing Increasing disk space Increasing memory resources Input from image file from PDF files from scanner Inserting table dividers Installing OmniPage Pro scanners IntelliTrain Interface language Interrupting automatic processing Irregular zones Italic text...
  • Page 99 ODMA support OmniPage Desktop OmniPage Documents contents of definition purpose of OPD files saving as OmniPage Pro documents in earlier versions installing new features of registering reinstalling starting testing uninstalling OmniPage Toolbox Online HTML Help registration On-the-fly editing and zoning OPD files definition purpose of...
  • Page 100 Schedule OCR input from folders watched folders Searching PDF output Selecting multiple pages Send Mail dialog box Sending pages by mail Setting up a scanner Setting up Direct OCR Settings Acquire Text effect of settings for Direct OCR in OCR Wizard...

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