User manual NUANCE OMNIPAGE PRO FOR WINDOWS 95

[. . . ] OmniPage Pro for Windows 95 CAERE CORPORATION 100 Cooper Court Los Gatos, California 95030 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 95 Version 7. 0 Copyright© 1996 Caere Corporation. CAERE®, OmniPage®, Language Analyst®, 3D OCR®, True Page®, AnyPage, and AnyFax 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. Product Serial Number: _______________________________________________ (from Disk #1 label) ii Table of Contents Welcome Help Menu Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi Context-Sensitive Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi Chapter 1 Introduction to OmniPage Pro What Is Optical Character Recognition (OCR)?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Exchange faxes are loaded in the order selected and combined into one working document. If a document is already open, loaded faxes are inserted as new pages. Creating Zones for OCR Document images are displayed in OmniPage Pro's image viewer where zones are created before OCR. Zones are boxes that identify areas of a page that will be recognized as text or retained as graphics. This section describes how to create and modify zones including: · Creating Zones Automatically · Creating Zones Manually · Creating Zones Using a Template · Deleting Zones · Reidentifying Zone Types Creating Zones Automatically OmniPage Pro can create zones automatically for you. Make sure the Original Page Layout selection is appropriate for your document. OmniPage Pro uses this as a guideline for determining the text flow on a page. See "What Type of Document Are You Processing?" on page 4-4 for more information. Set Auto Zones as the command in the Zone button's dropdown list. HP AccuPage appears in the drop-down list if an HP AccuPage scanner was specified in the Scan Manager. You can select HP 3 3-10 Basic Procedures Creating Zones for OCR AccuPage as the auto zoning command when you scan pages with an HP AccuPage scanner. OmniPage Pro automatically draws zones on the current page in the image viewer. Each zone has a number indicating its order and a letter indicating its zone type. Zone #1: alphanumeric Zone #2: alphanumeric Zone #3: graphic You cannot move or resize zones that have been created automatically, but you can reorder them, delete them, and reidentify their zone type. Creating Zones Manually You can create zones manually using tools in the Zone toolbar. Rotate Image tool Zone Type drop-down list Reorder Zones tool Draw Zones tool To draw zones manually: 1 2 Set Manual Zones as the command in the Zone button's dropdown list. Click the Draw Zones tool in the Zone toolbar if it is not already selected. The mouse pointer in the image viewer becomes a drawing tool when the Draw Zones tool is selected. Select the appropriate zone type in the Zone Type drop-down list in the Zone toolbar. For example, select Graphic if you are going to draw a zone around a graphic such as a photo. Basic Procedures 3-11 3 Creating Zones for OCR 4 Enclose an area of the image you want as a zone by holding the mouse button down and dragging the mouse to form a rectangular box. Try to keep areas of text, such as paragraphs, together in the same zone. Each zone displays a number indicating its order and a letter indicating its zone type. Repeat steps 3­4 until you have finished drawing zones around each area that you want to recognize as text or retain as a graphic. Do not overlap zones; areas on a page should not be enclosed by more than one zone. Any area of the page image that is not enclosed by a zone is ignored during OCR. 5 Creating Zones Using a Template You can create zones by applying a previously created zone template. A zone template contains zone attributes such as size, position, order, and zone type. [. . . ] Or, you can save faxes as image files and then load them into OmniPage Pro. Sans serif fonts are easier to recognize than serif fonts. Technical Information 5-7 Scanner Setup Issues Scanner Setup Issues Topics in this section include: · Scanner Drivers Supplied by the Manufacturer · Scanner Drivers Supplied by Caere · Scanner Message on Launch · Using Visioneer PaperPort with OmniPage Pro · Using TWAIN-Compliant Scanners See also the Scanner Setup Notes included in the OmniPage Pro package. Scanner Drivers Supplied by the Manufacturer Many scanners are shipped with one or more scanner drivers. This is software that allows your computer to communicate with your scanner. Some scanners do not require drivers and other scanners require more than one driver. [. . . ]