User manual NUANCE OMNIPAGE PRO 8

[. . . ] OmniPage® Pro Users Manual CAERE CORPORATION 100 Cooper Court Los Gatos, California 95032 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 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 8 Copyright© 1997 Caere Corporation. CAERE®, OmniPage®, OmniPage Pro®, Language Analyst®, 3D OCR®, AutoOCRTM, and True Page® are trademarks of Caere Corporation Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Such designations appearing in this manual have been printed in initial caps. PD 802-0584-030A 2 Welcome Welcome to OmniPage Pro, and thank you for buying our software! [. . . ] Ask senders to select Fine or Best mode when they send faxes that you plan to recognize. Good Clear, well-formed, black text characters on a clean, white background Recommendations Select Black and white in the Accuracy settings for the fastest processing if you are scanning. Deselect Use Language Analyst in the Accuracy settings for faster processing. well-formed text characters OmniPage Pro Settings - 57 Settings Guidelines How much original formatting do you want to keep? Minimal Keep one font and one font size only Recommendations Select Remove formatting in the Page Format settings. in the Page Format settings and select one font and one font size to be used for all text. Select ANSI in the Save As dialog box if you want to be able to open the document in any application. Some Keep font characteristics and paragraph formatting Recommendations Select Retain font and paragraph formatting in the Page Format settings. in the Page Format settings and select the fonts you want mapped to various font types. Save to a file format, such as Rich Text Format (RTF), that supports the formatting. Text formatting, such as bold and italics, is retained if the application supports RTF information. Graphics are retained if the application supports bitmap images. OmniPage Pro Settings - 58 Settings Guidelines How much original formatting do you want to keep? As much as possible Keep font characteristics, paragraph formatting, column formatting and graphic positioning Recommendations Select True Page in the Page Format settings to retain the original appearance of a page using frames. The formatting will be more precise but will be more difficult to edit. Select Retain flowing columns in the Page Format settings if your page contains multiple columns and you want text to flow between paragraphs and columns in your target application. The formatting may be less precise than True Page but will be easier to edit. Please note: The Retain flowing columns setting uses frames when necessary to maintain column formatting and graphic positioning. Although frames will appear in the text viewer, only required frames, such as frames around graphics, will be exported. in the Page Format settings and select the fonts you want mapped to various font types. Any part not enclosed within a zone is ignored during OCR and will not appear in the recognized document. Save to a file format, such as Rich Text Format (RTF), that supports the formatting. Text formatting, such as bold and italics, is retained if the application supports RTF information. Graphics are retained if the application supports bitmap images. OmniPage Pro Settings - 59 Settings Guidelines Do you want to retain graphics in your document? Yes Keep graphics such as logos and photos during OCR processing Recommendations for scanning Select Grayscale with 3D OCR in the Scanner settings if you are scanning with a grayscale scanner or loading a grayscale image file and you want to retain grayscale graphics. Select Black and white in the Scanner settings if you are scanning line-art drawings. Please note: The Grayscale with HP AccuPage setting does not support grayscale graphics. Other recommendations Select Multiple columns or Mixed pages in the Page Format settings. Make sure separate zones are drawn around graphic areas and text areas. Select Retain graphics in the Save As dialog box when you save a document to another file format. [. . . ] image An electronic picture of text and/or graphics such as a scanned paper document or an electronic fax file. Images do not have editable text characters; they have many tiny dots (pixels) that together form a picture of text. image viewer The area on the OmniPage Pro desktop that displays the original page image. Language Analyst® A Caere technology that uses information about language context and usage rules to evaluate text and correct likely errors during OCR. [. . . ]