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- Page 2 E G A L O T I C E S Copyright © 2002 ScanSoft, Inc. All rights reserved. The software described in this book is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license. M P O R T A N T O T I C E ScanSoft, Inc.
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
O N T E N T S E L C O M E Using this Guide Getting online Help Online HTML Help Context-Sensitive Help Tech Notes Glossary OmniPage SE N S T A L L A T I O N A N D S E T U P System requirements Installing OmniPage SE Setting up your scanner with OmniPage SE... - Page 4 The Toolbars The Image Panel 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...
- Page 5 Defining the source of page images Input from image files 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 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 Troubleshooting Solutions to try first Testing OmniPage SE Increasing memory resources Increasing disk space...
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Page 7: Welcome
Welcome ® Welcome to OmniPage SE, and thank you for using our software! The following documentation has been provided to help you get started and give you an overview of the program. This User’s Guide This guide introduces you to using OmniPage SE (Special Edition). It includes installation and setup instructions, a description of the program’s commands and working areas, task-oriented instructions, ways to customize and control processing, and technical information. -
Page 8: Using This Guide
Using this Guide This guide is written with the assumption that you know how to work in the Microsoft Windows environment. Please refer to your Windows documentation if you have questions about how to use dialog boxes, menu commands, scroll bars, drag and drop functionality, shortcut menus, and so on. -
Page 9: Getting Online Help
Getting online Help In addition to using this guide, you can use OmniPage SE’s online Help to learn about features, settings, and procedures. Online Help is available after you install OmniPage SE. Online HTML Help Open OmniPage SE’s online Help at its top level by choosing Help Topics at the top of the Help menu. -
Page 10: Tech Notes
Tech Notes ® Commonly reported issues using OmniPage are presented on ScanSoft’s web site at www.scansoft.com. 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
Chapter 1 Installation and setup This chapter provides information on installing and starting OmniPage SE. It presents the following topics: System requirements Installing OmniPage SE Setting up your scanner with OmniPage SE How to start the program Registering your software New features in OmniPage Pro 12 OmniPage SE and OmniPage Pro 12 OmniPage SE User’s Guide... -
Page 12: System Requirements
System requirements You need the following minimum system requirements to install and run OmniPage SE 2.0: A computer with a Pentium or higher processor Microsoft Windows 98 (from second edition), Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0 (with at least Service Pack 6), Windows 2000 or Windows XP 64MB of memory (RAM), 128MB recommended 90MB of free hard disk space for the application files plus 5MB... -
Page 13: Installing Omnipage Se
Chapter 1 Installing OmniPage SE OmniPage SE’s installation program takes you through installation with instructions on every screen. Before installing OmniPage SE: 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 have previous ScanSoft OCR software on your system, the installer will ask for your consent to uninstall that software first. -
Page 14: Setting Up Your Scanner With Omnipage Se
Setting up your scanner with OmniPage SE All files needed for scanner setup and support are copied automatically during the program’s installation. Before using OmniPage SE for scanning, your scanner should be installed with its own scanner driver software and tested for correct functionality. Scanner driver software is not included with OmniPage SE. - Page 15 Chapter 1 Click on Scan to begin the sample scan. If necessary, click on Inverse Image… or Missing Image… and make the appropriate selections. Once the image appears correctly in the window, click on Next. Select the item that most appropriately describes your scanner, then click on Next.
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Page 16: How To Start The Program
How to start the program To start OmniPage SE do one of the following: Click Start in the Windows taskbar and choose Programs ScanSoft OmniPage SE 2.0 OmniPage SE 2.0. Double-click the OmniPage SE icon in the program’s installation folder or on the Windows desktop if you placed it there. -
Page 17: Registering Your Software
Chapter 1 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 page 76. Page backgrounds are defined as process (auto-zone) or ignore, so all zoning instructions appear on the page and can be saved to zone templates. See page 55. Irregular zones can be drawn and zones split and joined more simply, without the need for separate tools.
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Page 19: Omnipage Se And Omnipage Pro 12
Chapter 1 OmniPage SE and OmniPage Pro 12 This list documents features that are not incorporated in OmniPage SE, but can become available by upgrading to OmniPage Pro 12: Significant improvement in recognition accuracy Access to training, IntelliTrain and training files Ability to open and read the contents of PDF files Ability to save recognized documents to PDF format Support for two-page scanning to scan books more easily... - Page 20 Installation and setup...
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Page 21: 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 22: 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 23: Documents In Omnipage Se
Chapter 2 Documents in OmniPage SE OmniPage SE 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 24: 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 25: The Menu Bar
Chapter 2 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 26: 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 27: The Omnipage Toolbox
Chapter 2 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 Perform OCR button... -
Page 28: 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 29: Document Manager
Chapter 2 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. Get information on an input image by hovering the cursor over its thumbnail (so long as ToolTips are enabled). -
Page 30: 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: This item is highlighted. -
Page 31: 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 32: Why Save To Opd
An OmniPage Document created and saved in OmniPage SE will not include training data. Any training in an OPD file you open will be ignored. Why save to OPD You do not have to save your documents to the OPD file type. You would typically do this for the following reasons: You cannot finish working with the document in the current session. -
Page 33: Settings
Chapter 2 The title bar shows the file name of the most recent whole-document save. Settings The Options dialog box is the central location for OmniPage SE settings. Access it from the Standard toolbar or the Tools menu. Context-sensitive help provides information on each setting. In overview, the settings panels are: Use this to specify recognition languages, a user or professional dictionary, a reject character and font matching. - Page 34 scanning for handling books, and other settings. You can change the interface language here. OmniPage SE does not support two-page scanning. Proofing Use this to define whether proofreading should begin automatically after recognition. Define also whether IntelliTrain should run, and use it to load or work with a training file.
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Page 35: 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. 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 The detailed topics are:... -
Page 36: Quick Start Guide
Quick Start Guide This topic takes you step-by-step through the basic OCR process. Loading and recognizing sample image files You will find sample image files in the program folder, both single-page and multi-page files. First try reading these files using the procedure presented below, except for the references to a scanner. - Page 37 Chapter 3 What you do: What happens: Set up your scanner using the Scanner Configures OmniPage SE to work with your scanner. Wizard, if this is not already done. Select Start Programs ScanSoft Opens OmniPage SE on your computer. OmniPage SE 2.0 OmniPage SE 2.0 Place the document correctly in your scanner.
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Page 38: Processing Overview
Processing overview The following flow diagram summarizes the processing steps: Get Pages Describe Auto- Export pages page zoning Perform to file Verify and layout page 55 from file page 81 edit page 53 page 50 page 68 Manual with to Clipboard zoning current page 86... - Page 39 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 SE. In other applications You can use the Direct OCR feature to call on the recognition services of OmniPage SE while working in your usual word-processor or similar...
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Page 40: Automatic Processing
Automatic processing Automatic processing provides an efficient way of handling documents, especially larger ones. First you select all settings needed, then you can use the Start button in the OmniPage Toolbox to process a new document from start to finish or to restart and finish processing on an open document. -
Page 41: Stopping And Restarting Automatic Processing
Chapter 3 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 33. 5. -
Page 42: Manual Processing
Manual processing Manual processing gives you more precise control over the way your pages are handled. You can process the document page-by-page with different settings for each page. The program also stops between each step: acquiring images, performing recognition, exporting. This lets you, for instance, change the page background and draw zones manually on each page. -
Page 43: Combined Processing
Chapter 3 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 53. You can also select a template to have its zones placed on the current page. - Page 44 can process it automatically and view results in the Text Editor. You can 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.
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Page 45: Processing With The Ocr Wizard
Chapter 3 3. Manually zone pages where you want to process only part of the page or if you want to give precise zoning instructions. Use ignore backgrounds or zones to exclude areas from processing. Use process backgrounds or zones to specify areas to be auto-zoned. 4. -
Page 46: Processing From Other Applications
5. The last panel asks you to define the export choice: saving to file or copying to Clipboard. After setting the choice, click Finish to close the Wizard and start the automatic processing. 6. If you requested proofing and the text contains suspect words, the OCR Proofreader dialog box will appear. -
Page 47: How To Set Up Direct Ocr
Chapter 3 How to set up Direct OCR 1. Start the application you want connected to OmniPage SE. Start OmniPage SE, open the Options dialog box at the Direct OCR panel and select Enable Direct OCR. 2. Select process options for proofing and zoning. These function for future Direct OCR work until you change them again;... -
Page 48: How To Use Omnipage Se With Paperport
If OmniPage SE is running when Direct OCR is called from a target application, a second instance of OmniPage SE is launched. See the Direct OCR topics in online Help for more information. These include a topic Direct OCR Questions and Answers. The Readme file and the ScanSoft web site may present more recent information relating to specific target applications. -
Page 49: Processing With Schedule Ocr
Chapter 3 Processing with Schedule OCR OmniPage SE does not support Schedule OCR. The following text applies to OmniPage Pro only. You can schedule OCR jobs to be performed automatically at any time within the following eight days. The job pages can come from a scanner with an ADF or from image files. -
Page 50: Defining The Source Of Page Images
Defining the source of page images There are two possible image sources: from image files and from a scanner. There are two main types of scanners: flatbed or sheetfed. A scanner may have a built-in or added Automatic Document Feeder (ADF), which makes it easier to scan multi-page documents. -
Page 51: Input From Scanner
Chapter 3 Normally the Add button places each file at the bottom of the file list. To place a file at a different location, highlight a file in the list. The new file will be added immediately below the lowest highlighted file. Input from scanner You must have a functioning, supported scanner correctly installed with OmniPage SE. -
Page 52: 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 53: Scanning Without An Adf
Chapter 3 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 54 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.
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Page 55: Zones And Backgrounds
Chapter 3 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 56: 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 57: Zone Types And Properties
Chapter 3 Type What happens: Text zone OCR runs and generates text. Table zone OCR runs, text is placed in a table grid. Graphic zone Image is embedded in recognized page. Process zone Auto-zoning creates one or more zones, decides their types and processes their Process background contents. - Page 58 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.
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Page 59: 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 60 Join two zones of the same type Draw an overlapping zone of the same type. existing resulting zones zone zone Make an irregular zone by subtraction Draw an overlapping zone of the same type as the background (in this example, on an ignore background). existing zone on an ignore...
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Page 61: Table Grids In The Image
Chapter 3 The following zone shapes are prohibited: Indented Indented Hole in the along the along the middle 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. - Page 62 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.
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Page 63: Using Zone Templates
Chapter 3 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 64 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 and click the [none]...
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Page 65: 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 66: 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: Green – Non-dictionary words: These were recognized confidently, but are not found in any active dictionary: standard, user or professional. -
Page 67: Proofreading Ocr Results
Chapter 4 True Page view ® True Page view tries to conserve as much of the formatting of the 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 74. The formatting level for export is chosen separately at export time. -
Page 68: Verifying Text
3. If the recognized word is correct, click Ignore or Ignore All to move to the next suspect word. Click Add to add it to the current user dictionary and move to the next suspect word. 4. If the recognized word is not correct, modify the word in the Edit panel or select a dictionary suggestion. - Page 69 Chapter 4 To do this: Use this: Turn verifier on F9 or verifier tool Turn verifier off Esc or F9 or verifier tool Turn verifier on/off temporarily F8: press and hold down Show verifier until next keystroke Double-click on word Zoom display in Alt + Num + or click in verifier Zoom display out...
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Page 70: 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 71: Training
Chapter 4 Training Training, IntelliTrain and training files are not supported in OmniPage SE. They are available in OmniPage Pro 12. Any training data included in an OPD file will be ignored when it is opened in OmniPage SE. Training is the process of changing the OCR solutions assigned to character shapes in the image. -
Page 72: Intellitrain
the current OCR solution. Change this to the desired solution and click OK. The program takes this training and examines the rest of the page. If it 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 73: Training Files
Chapter 4 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 74: Text And Image Editing
You are editing your unsaved Double-click a frame training. or press Enter to change its OCR solution. Enter the This frame is grayed. new solution in the It has been deleted. text box that appears To undelete it, select and press Enter. it again and press the Changed assignations Delete key. - Page 75 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.
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Page 76: 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. -
Page 77: Reading Text Aloud
Chapter 4 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 78 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.
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Page 79: 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 80 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 81 Chapter 5 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 97. 1. Choose Save As... in the File menu, or click the Export Results button in the OmniPage Toolbox with Save as File selected in the drop-down list.
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Page 82: Saving A Document As You Work
5. Click OK. The document is saved to disk as specified. If Save and Launch is selected, the exported file will appear in its target application; that is the one associated with the selected file type in your Windows system or in the advanced saving options for your selected file type converter. -
Page 83: 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 ), 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 84: Selecting Advanced Saving Options
does not happen when text boxes are used. Flowing Page export is not offered in OmniPage SE. It is available only in OmniPage Pro. 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. - Page 85 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.
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Page 86: Saving To Pdf
Saving to PDF This section does not apply to OmniPage SE. In OmniPage Pro 12, 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 87: Sending Pages By Mail
Chapter 5 Text formatting, such as bold and italics, is retained when you paste into an application that supports RTF 6.0/95 information. Otherwise, only plain or Unicode text will be pasted. Graphics are retained if the application supports insertion of images. W To copy pages to the Clipboard: •... - Page 88 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 level and attachment options: one attachment for all pages, one attachment per page, new attachment at each blank page or one attachment for each input file.
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Page 89: Technical Information
Chapter 6 Technical information This chapter provides troubleshooting and other technical information about using OmniPage SE. 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 90: Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting Although OmniPage SE is designed to be easy to use, problems sometimes occur. Many of the error messages contain self-explanatory descriptions of what to do – check connections, close other applications to free up memory, and so on. Sometimes that is all the troubleshooting help you need. -
Page 91: Testing Omnipage Se
Chapter 6 Testing OmniPage SE Restarting Windows 98, Me, 2000 or XP in safe mode or Windows NT in VGA mode allows you to test OmniPage SE on a simplified system. This is recommended when you cannot resolve crashing problems or if OmniPage SE has stopped running altogether. -
Page 92: Increasing Memory Resources
5. Launch OmniPage SE and try performing OCR on an image. Use a known image file such as one of the supplied sample files. You can also run OmniPage SE from a command line in its own safe mode. Choose Start Run, browse for the file and add the command OmniPage.exe line option... -
Page 93: Text Does Not Get Recognized Properly
Chapter 6 Text does not get recognized properly Try these solutions if any part of the original document is not converted to text properly during OCR: Look at the original page image and ensure that all text areas are enclosed by text zones. If an area is not enclosed by a zone, it is generally ignored during OCR. -
Page 94: Problems With Fax Recognition
OmniPage SE only recognizes machine printed-text characters such as type- written or laser-printed text. It can handle dot-matrix characters, though accuracy may be lower on draft-quality texts. It cannot read handprint or handwriting. However, it can retain signatures or other handwritten text as a graphic. Problems with fax recognition Try these solutions to improve OCR accuracy on fax images: Ask senders to use clean, original documents if possible. -
Page 95: Odma Support
Chapter 6 ODMA support This does not apply to OmniPage SE. 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. -
Page 96: 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 Multi- B/W, Grayscale, File type Extension Open / Save page Color BMP, Bitmap Open and Save Open and Save JPEG Open and Save Grayscale, color... -
Page 97: File Types For Saving Recognition Results
Chapter 6 File types for saving recognition results This table shows which formatting levels are available for each file type. Exten- No For- Flowing True Spread File type Graphics Tables sion matting Page (1) Page sheet eBook (see note 1) Excel 97, 2000 Excel 3.0 to 7.0 FrameMaker 5.5.3... -
Page 98: Uninstalling The Software
Tables File type supports tables in grids, no table handling choices at export time File type supports tables, choose to use grids or tab separated columns File type does not supports table grids, choose to convert to tab or space separated columns These output formats and Flowing Page are not supported by OmniPage SE. -
Page 99: I N D E X
N D E X unrecognized double-sided Checking OCR results exporting Accuracy Clipboard finishing improvement Closing documents in OmniPage SE influence of brightness Color layout description influence of training images managing scanning mode influence markers place for new pages Acquire Text menu items scanning saving Acquired pages... - Page 100 to target applications Image files Load Image File dialog box True Page input Loading opening a user dictionary reading order OPD files samples training files Fax recognition types zone templates Features OmniPage SE compared to Image Panel Location for new pages OmniPage Pro Image toolbar Features, new...
- Page 101 settings for Direct OCR pending Wizard proofed Quality of images ODMA support recognized Quick Start Guide OmniPage Desktop reordering OmniPage Documents re-recognizing all contents of saved definition selecting multiple Reading purpose of OPD files sending as mail order of image files saving as single column text aloud...
- Page 102 drivers editing dividers starting duplex generating dividers unloading setting up in single column pages Using Direct OCR Scanning inserting dividers black-and-white moving dividers books removing dividers Verifying text brightness rows in VGA mode color table handling in Text Editor Views contrast zones No Formatting...