ScanSoft TEXTBRIDGE PRO 9.0 User Manual page 12

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NTRODUCTION TO EXT RIDGE
Welcome to ScanSoft's TextBridge ™ Pro 9.0, optical character
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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 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 when possible.
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