User manual NUANCE OMNIPAGE PRO 10

[. . . ] OmniPage Pro ® User's Manual Caere Corporation 100 Cooper Court Los Gatos, California 95032-7603 USA Caere GmbH Innere Wiener Strasse 5 81667 München, Germany Caere UK Information Centre Abbey House 4 Abbey Orchard Street Westminster, London SW1P 2JJ Centre d'informations Caere 72, rue Baratte-Cholet 94100 Saint-Maur, France Please Note To use this program, you should know how to work in the Microsoft Windows environment. Please refer to Windows documentation if you have questions about how to use menu commands, dialog boxes, scroll bars, edit boxes, and so on. OmniPage Pro for Windows Version 10 Registration Number: Copyright© 1999 by Caere Corporation. The Caere logo, Caere, OmniPage, OmniPage Pro, PageKeeper, PageKeeper Pro, AutoOCR Toolbar, True Page, and OCR Proofreader are registered trademarks of Caere Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. ii 800-1319-030A Table of Contents Welcome Using This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] You can also drag a corner of the dialog box to see more areas of the image. 2 Select how you want OmniPage Pro to treat the word. After you choose an option for the word, the OCR Proofreader looks for the next possible error. Color markers are removed from words that have been proofread. 3 You can also select Read Text Aloud in the Export Destination dropdown list to proofread your document by listening to OmniPage Pro read the recognized text out loud. 26 Chapter 3 Improving OCR Results Checking Recognized Text Against Original Text After performing OCR, you can compare recognized text against the original image to verify that the text was recognized correctly. To verify text against its original image: 1 Double-click any word in the text view or select a word and choose Verify Text in the Tools menu. The Verify Text window opens and shows a picture of the original word and its surrounding area. Close button This window shows a picture of the original image. You can also drag a corner of the window to resize it. 2 Click inside the window to enlarge or reduce the picture. The picture is enlarged on the first two clicks and reduced on the next two clicks. Click the Close button to close the window. 3 4 Processing Documents 27 Working with OmniPage Documents Working with OmniPage Documents OmniPage Pro's thumbnail, image, and text views allow you to look at and work with pages in the current document. Thumbnail view Image view Drag this splitter to the left or right to resize a view. Text view This section describes the following procedures: · Resizing a Page View · Changing Pages · Reordering Pages · Deleting Pages · Printing a Document · Closing a Document 28 Chapter 3 Working with OmniPage Documents Resizing a Page View You can resize a page displayed in the image view or text view to enlarge or reduce the view. To resize a page view: 1 2 Click in the view you want to enlarge or reduce to make it active. Choose a size options in the Zoom drop-down list in the Standard toolbar. Or, choose Zoom in the View menu and select a size option in the drop-down list. The page resizes as specified. You can also click your right mouse button in the view you want to resize and select a size option in the shortcut menu. (If you are resizing the image view, click outside of a zone. ) Changing Pages The thumbnail view, image view, and text view all display the same page of a document. You can change pages in a document in the following ways: · Click the thumbnail of the page you want to display. The thumbnail of the currently displayed page is highlighted with a light border around it. Processing Documents 29 Working with OmniPage Documents · Click the Next Page or Previous Page buttons at the lower-right corner of the OmniPage Pro desktop. · Choose Next Page, Previous Page, or Go to Page. . . in the Edit menu. Reordering Pages You can reorder pages in a document by dragging their thumbnails to different positions in the thumbnail view. Click the thumbnail of the page you want to move and drag it above the desired page number. Hold down the Ctrl key while you click thumbnails if you want to select multiple thumbnails to move as a group. Deleting Pages If you delete a page from a document in OmniPage Pro, the thumbnail, original image, and recognized text for that page are all deleted. To permanently delete pages: · Choose Delete Current Page in the Edit menu to delete the currently displayed page. · Select one or more thumbnails of pages you want to delete and press the Delete key. 30 Chapter 3 Working with OmniPage Documents Undoing Changes You can click the Undo button or choose Undo in the Edit menu to cancel the very last change you made in the text view. However, page deletions cannot be undone. Printing a Document You can print the current document's original page images or recognized text. in the File menu and choose one of the following in the submenu: · Choose Image. . . Click OK to start the print job. As a shortcut, you can click either the text or image view to make it active and then click the Print button to print from that view. Closing a Document Choose Close in the File menu to close a document. You are prompted to save your document if you have not saved it or have modified it since the last save. Save a document as an OmniPage Document (*. opd) if you want to reopen it in OmniPage Pro. Processing Documents 31 32 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Settings and Commands This chapter describes OmniPage Pro toolbar commands and Options settings. [. . . ] Draw zones manually or modify automatically created zones and perform OCR on one page area at a time. · Restart Windows 95 and 98 in safe mode, or Windows NT and Windows 2000 in VGA mode and test OmniPage Pro by performing OCR on the included Sample. tif. · If you are performing multiple tasks at once, such as recognizing and printing, OCR may take longer. 56 Chapter 6 OCR Problems 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 make sure that all text areas are enclosed by text zones. Reidentify zone types and contents, if necessary, and perform OCR on the document again. [. . . ]