User manual NUANCE OMNIPAGE PRO 7 FOR MACINTOSH

[. . . ] OmniPage Pro for Macintosh CAERE CORPORATION 100 Cooper Court Los Gatos, California 95030-3321 European Offices: Caere GmbH Innere Wiener Strasse 5 81667 Munich Germany Please Note In order to use this program, you should know how to work in the Macintosh environment. Please refer to your Macintosh documentation if you have questions about how to use menus, dialog boxes, scroll bars, and so on. OmniPage Pro for Macintosh Version 7 Copyright© 1996 Caere Corporation. CAERE®, OmniPage®, OmniPage Pro®, AnyPage, True Page®, Language Analyst®, and 3D OCR® are trademarks of Caere Corporation. [. . . ] Select Auto Brightness if you do not want OmniPage Pro to analyze the grayscale information during OCR. This setting is faster than 3D OCR , but will not be quite as accurate when recognizing degraded page images. This is recommended for images with crisp text on colored or shaded backgrounds. Page Orientation Select the way you want an image file to be positioned when it is loaded into the Image View. Select Landscape to load a page image and rotate it 90 degrees to the left. OmniPage Pro Settings - 73 Zone Settings Select Flipped to load a page image and rotate it 180 degrees. Select Flipscape to load a page image and rotate it 90 degrees to the right. You can also rotate a page image after it is loaded into OmniPage Pro. For more information, see Rotating an Image on page 56. Zone Settings Click the Zones icon in the Settings Panel to select a zoning method for creating zones automatically. This tells OmniPage Pro how to look at the page layout and whether or not to look for graphics. To automatically open the Settings Panel to the Zones section, Optionclick the Zone button in the AutoOCR toolbar. (A document must be open for the button to be active. ) The Zoning Method only affects the way OmniPage Pro draws zones automatically. To create and modify zones manually, see Drawing Zones Manually on page 34. 74 - OmniPage Pro Settings Zone Settings Automatic Select Automatic if you want OmniPage Pro to distinguish graphics from text and detect the text flow of side-by-side columns (either tabbed or flowing text). It is also the best setting if you are automatically processing many different types of documents at once. To make sure graphics are retained during OCR, see Do you want to retain graphics in your document?on page 94 for guidelines. Single Column or Table Select Single Column or Table if you want OmniPage Pro to treat adjacent page areas as single blocks of text. This setting does not discern graphics or the text flow of side-by-side columns. If OmniPage Pro detects five or more spaces between columns, it assumes the page is in a spreadsheet format and inserts tabs as delimiters between the columns to preserve the format. Single Column or Table is recommended for documents such as spreadsheets, tables, financial forms, and memos. One Zone Select One Zone if you want OmniPage Pro to draw one, big text zone around the entire page. However, because it draws a text zone around the entire page, OmniPage Pro tries to recognize everything on the page including any stains or scribbles as text characters. One Zone is only recommended for very clean page images that have no graphics. OmniPage Pro Settings - 75 OCR Settings OCR Settings Click the OCR icon in the Settings Panel to select input and output options that assist OmniPage Pro during recognition. To automatically open the Settings Panel to the OCR section, Optionclick the OCR button in the AutoOCR toolbar. (A document must be open for the button to be active. ) Character Type Select the printed text characteristics of your document in the Character Type pop-up menu. OCR-A is a special font used for items such as part numbers and utility bills. (If your document contains a mixture of OCR-A and a conventional font, select Normal for faster recognition. ) Select Dot Matrix for text characters printed with a 9-pin, monospaced dot-matrix printer. Training File A training file is a set of up to 256 pre-recognized text characters that OmniPage Pro compares with characters it is trying to recognize. Select a training file that you want OmniPage Pro to use in the Training File pop-up menu. Training files are useful for recognizing characters that might normally be difficult to recognize. To create a training file, see Training OCR for Special Characters on page 111. 76 - OmniPage Pro Settings OCR Settings Automatically Correct Page Orientation If a page is oriented incorrectly in the Image View, it will not be recognized properly. [. . . ] For example, in Courier (a monospaced font), the letter 0 is the same width as the letter . mouse pointer A small shape on the screen that follows the movement of the mouse. The pointer can take the shape of an arrow, an l-beam, or other graphical character depending on the current operation. OCR-A font A special font often used for items such as part numbers and utility bills. [. . . ]