User manual NUANCE OMNIPAGE DIRECT 2 FOR MACINTOSH

[. . . ] OmniPage Direct OmniPage Direct adds the power of OCR directly to any Macintosh wordprocessing, spreadsheet, or communications program. Working within your application, you simply choose OmniPage Direct in the Apple menu. Scanned text then appears in your document just as if you had typed it yourself. It is virtually automatic: just point and click to recognize a single paragraph or multiple pages. Chapter 1 Installation . [. . . ] Click the Zoom out tool and then click on the area to zoom to a wider view. If you highlighted the Multiple Pages and Partial Page icons (and you did not select Pause after every page in the Options dialog box) the same zones will be recognized on each page that is scanned. For example, if you select a zone on a form, and then scan five forms, the same zone will be recognized on each form. If you selected Pause after every page, you'll be able to draw different zones for each page. Adjust Click this button to change settings after a scan has started but before recognition is complete. The Recognize button turns into the Adjust button after recognition has started. For example, imagine you selected several zones on a page for recognition and clicked Recognize. During recognition, you notice that you forgot to 22 Commands and Settings select a particular zone. You click Adjust; recognition stops and you can select zones correctly or adjust settings without having to re-scan the page. Cancel Click this button to stop a scan and return to the Direct application. Options Click this button to display the Options dialog box so you can change settings. Rotate Tools Click these tools if you placed a page incorrectly in your scanner. You don't need to replace the page in your scanner; Direct will recognize the text if it appears correctly oriented in the image window. Pause after every page Select this if you are scanning multiple pages and you may want to change settings for different pages. For example, imagine you are scanning a magazine article that stretches over several pages. You select Partial Page because you don't want to recognize all the advertisements that are on the page. You also select Pause after every page because each page has a different text/ad layout and you will have to select different parts of each page. After each page is scanned, you'll be able to draw different zones or change settings in the Options dialog box. Quit Select this to exit the Direct program and remove the OCR portion of the program from memory. Quit after n minutes of inactivity Select this if you want to automatically exit the Direct program when Direct is not used for a period of time. This will free memory for other applications if you are not using Direct often. "n" stands for a number of minutes from 1 to 99. Recognize Click this button to start the recognition process after you have selected zones. Commands and Settings 23 This turns into the Adjust button if you want to change the zones or settings after recognition has started. Reject character This edit box lets you choose a character to mark unrecognized characters in your text. For example, if Direct could not recognize the J in REJECT, and the tilde (~) was the reject character, the characters RE~ECT would appear in your text. Retain text style Select this to keep text character attributes such as size, bold, italic, and underlined when recognized text is pasted into an application. The text will be pasted as plain ASCII with no formatting if this is not selected. Direct does not retain formatting when you save text to a file. Save text to file Select this to save recognized text as a text file rather than having the text pasted into an application. [. . . ] With these scanners, an Auto Intensity checkbox is available next to the Brightness control. Direct will use HP AccuPage if you select an HP scanner with AccuPage as the scanner extension in the Apple Chooser. Direct will use Caere AnyPage if you choose other grayscale scanner extensions. This feature is especially useful when you scan text printed on a colored background. [. . . ]