User manual NUANCE OMNIPAGE PRO 8 FOR MACINTOSH

[. . . ] OmniPage Pro for Macintosh Users Manual CAERE CORPORATION 100 Cooper Court 95032-3321 USA Los Gatos, California &DHUH *PE+ , QQHUH :LHQHU 5JH=IIA 0QFKHQ *HUPDQ\ &DHUH 8. , QIRUPDWLRQ &HQWUH $EEH\ +RXVH $EEH\ 2UFKDUG 6WUHHW :HVWPLQVWHU /RQGRQ 6:3 -- &HQWUH G©LQIRUPDWLRQV &DHUH UXH GHV $UFKLYHV 3DULV )UDQFH Please Note 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, or scroll bars. OmniPage Pro for Macintosh Version 8 800-1267-030 Copyright© 1998 Caere Corporation All rights reserved. Caere, OmniPage, OmniPage Pro, AnyPage, True Page, Language Analyst, and 3D OCR are registered trademarks of Caere Corporation. [. . . ] Depending on the gray or color content of the page, this setting can have a big influence on OCR accuracy. Click the Contrast check box to activate the adjustment (lighten or darken) for the brightness of the entire page. The Contrast setting is not available if you have a black-and-white (Monochrome) scanner. To manually adjust the contrast, drag the box in the scrollbar or click the arrow buttons. OmniPage Pro Settings - 68 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, Option(A document must be click the OCR button in the AutoOCR Toolbar. open for the button to be active. ) Input Options The Input Options area of the Settings Panel provides settings for the type of characters in the scanned image, the use of a training file, and to automatically correct the page orientation. Character Type Select the printed text characteristics of your document in the Character Type pop-up menu. · 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 103. Automatically Correct Page Orientation If a page is oriented incorrectly in the Image View, it will not be recognized properly. Select Automatically Correct Page Orientation to have OmniPage Pro automatically correct an improperly oriented image by 90, 180, or 270 degrees during text recognition. OmniPage Pro Settings - 69 OCR Settings This feature is only used for documents on which zones have been created automatically (and not manually modified). The Automatically Correct Page Orientation feature takes extra processing time. To increase processing speed, deselect this setting and make sure your page image is properly oriented in the Image View before performing OCR. To manually correct the orientation of a page, see "Rotating an Image" on page 53. Output Options The Output Options area of the Settings Panel provides settings for the style set used when creating documents, whether to ignore or retain graphics, and to set the character that appears for rejected (unrecognized) text characters. Style Set Used When Creating Documents Select the style set you want to use whenever a new document is created in OmniPage Pro. A style set contains one or more zone styles that you can apply to zones before OCR. This is similar to applying styles to paragraphs in your word processor. During OCR, the selected styles specify how recognized text will be formatted. In addition to the style sets that are shipped with OmniPage Pro, any style sets that you create appear in the pop-up menu. See page 93 for descriptions of built-in style sets and instructions for creating new style sets. To change the style set for pages that are already open, use the Zone Info palette that is displayed when the Image View is active. Choose Show Zone Palette in the Window menu to display the palette if it is closed. Retain Graphics Select Retain Graphics if you want OmniPage Pro to retain original graphics, such as photographs or drawings, in the recognized document. Files containing graphics that are exported to another application can be at 75 or 150 dpi depending on your Preferences setting in the Settings Panel. To retain graphics, you must also do the following before recognition: OmniPage Pro Settings - 70 Direct Input Settings · Make sure Save Page Image in OmniPage Document and the desired resolution are selected in the Document section of the Settings Panel. · Make sure that graphics on a page image are identified as Graphic zone types. See "Specifying Zone Types" on page 31 for more information. For additional guidelines, see "Do you want to retain graphics in your document?" on page 89. Reject Character Unrecognizable characters are represented by a red reject character when recognized text is displayed in the Text View. [. . . ] Words replaced by the Language Analyst appear in blue in OmniPage Pro's Text View. manual zoning The process of manually drawing zones on a page image. Glossary Terms - 129 mapping See font mapping. For example, in Courier (a monospaced font), the letter is the same width as the letter . mouse pointer A small shape on the screen that follows the movement of the mouse. [. . . ]