User manual NUANCE OMNIPAGE PRO X FOR MACINTOSH

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[. . . ] This is useful if you want to get rid of smudges, signatures, or other types of "noise" on the page before OCR. Use the Zoom tool in the Tools palette to enlarge the area of the image you want to erase. You can also hold the mouse button down and drag the mouse pointer over the area you want to erase. Note If you do not want to permanently erase parts of the actual image, but want to omit areas of a page from OCR, identify the areas as Ignore zone types prior to auto-zoning, or do not include them in zones when you do manual zoning. Modifying text You can modify recognized text in Text view before exporting it to another application. Move the splitter at the base of the Document window to the left to give more space to Text view. Selecting all text To apply formatting, such as a particular font, to all text on a page, you can select the entire page by choosing Select All in the Edit menu (or zA). The entire contents of a recognized page is selected when Text view is active with any style set except True Page. To remove a selection, click anywhere within it. 58 Processing documents Chapter 3 Selecting a block of text Click at the start of the desired text and drag the cursor to the desired end point. With the True Page style set, a selection cannot extend beyond a single frame. Formatting text Use commands in the Format menu to apply font, font style, and font size formatting to selected text in your recognized document. Cutting or copying text and graphics Choose Cut in the Edit menu to place selected text or a selected graphic on the Clipboard. Choose Copy in the Edit menu to place a copy of selected text or graphics on the Clipboard. Text on the Clipboard can be pasted back into Text view or into another application. Choose Paste in the Edit menu to place text at the cursor location in Text view. Graphics cannot be pasted into Text view, but can be pasted into applications that support the PICT format. Deleting text or graphics Choose Clear in the Edit menu (or press the Delete key) to permanently delete selected text or graphics from Text view. Printing a document You can print one or more pages of a document. You can print recognized pages if Text view is active or page images if Image view is active. If you have a color printer, you can choose to print pages in color. Working with documents 59 t To select options and print pages: 1. The options available in the Page Setup dialog box depend on your printer. Click Print to start the print job. Listening to a document English or Spanish text in Text view can be read aloud by the Macintosh Speech Manager software. Select Pause to stop the reading. Closing a document Choose Close in the File menu (or zW) to close the current document in OmniPage Pro. If you have not exported or saved the document or if you have changed it since the last export or save, you will be prompted to save it as an OmniPage Document before closing. Quitting OmniPage Pro Choose Quit in the File menu (or zQ) to close a document and exit OmniPage Pro. If the current document has not been exported or saved or is changed since the last export or save, you will be prompted to save it as an OmniPage Document before closing. 60 Processing documents Chapter 3 Exporting documents You can export original images or recognition results, for use in other applications by: u u u u u u Saving an OmniPage Document Saving images Saving recognition results Saving to Portable Document Format (PDF) Copying a document to the Clipboard Using drag-and-drop functionality Saving an OmniPage Document You can save your document as an OmniPage Document file if you want to reopen it in OmniPage Pro again. [. . . ] You can see a plus (+) sign in the bottom right corner of the frame in this case. To view the text, place the cursor in the text frame and use the arrow keys on your keyboard to scroll to the top or bottom of the frame. Reduce the point size of framed text to make the whole text visible, or resize the frames in your target application, or choose Remove Frames on Export in the Export dialog box. u u u Improving fax recognition Try these solutions to improve OCR accuracy on fax images: u u u Ask senders to use clean, original documents if possible. Ask senders to transmit files directly to your computer via fax modem if you both have one. [. . . ]