Tutorial 2 - Document Types And Ocr Settings - NUANCE OMNIPAGE PRO 6 - REFERENCE MANUAL FOR MACINTOSH Reference Manual

Tutorial 2 — Document Types and OCR Settings
Tutorial 2 — Document Types and OCR Settings
Tutorials 2-30
People encounter a variety of documents in an average workday: office
memos; legal documents; standardized forms; newspaper and magazine
pages; foreign-language reports; etc.
Before you scan and recognize any page, you must determine how you
want OmniPage Pro to order the page information and in what format you
want the pages' recognized text and graphics.
This chapter examines some common document types and the OCR
concepts associated with each one:
• Setting zoning options
You will use the zone tools and learn which OCR settings to choose
for various types of documents.
• Complex layouts
You will learn when to use manual zoning and practice recognizing
just a portion of a scanned document.
• Standardized forms
You will specify zone contents, edit a zone contents file, create a
zone template, and export a graphic.
• Legal documents and spreadsheets
General tips are listed for each.
• Documents with specialized characters
You will train OmniPage Pro to recognize specialized characters
and edit an OCR Training file.
• Foreign-language and multilingual documents
You will learn how to use the Language Analyst, how to select
dictionaries, and how to select an appropriate character set.
Make sure you have the following page samples:
• Manual Zoning Page Sample
• Standardized Form Sample