ScanSoft TEXTBRIDGE PRO-MILLENIUM Manual page 13

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NTRODUCTION TO EXT RIDGE
Welcome to ScanSoft's TextBridge Pro Millennium, optical
character recognition (OCR) software for Microsoft Windows ® 95,
98, 2000 and Windows NT ® 4.0.
This chapter provides an introduction to TextBridge including:
Basic OCR concepts
Features and benefits
Characteristics of documents TextBridge can recognize
Input image file formats
Output text file formats
Output image file formats
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ASIC ONCEPTS
OCR technology enables you to convert paper documents into
fully editable text with images on your computer. Originally, OCR
technology performed simple character recognition of text
characters, numbers, and symbols. Today, TextBridge OCR
includes full document recognition including recognizing text
plus formatting such as headlines, multiple columns, tables, and
running headers and footers and capturing photographs and line
drawings. TextBridge even retains the layout of the original
document as much as possible.
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