User manual NUANCE SCANSOFT OMNIPAGE PRO 12

[. . . ] No part of this publication may be transmitted, transcribed, reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or translated into any language or computer language in any form or by any means, mechanical, electronic, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual, or otherwise, without prior written consent from ScanSoft, Inc. , 9 Centennial Drive, Peabody, Massachusetts 01960. The software described in this book is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license. provides this publication "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Some states or jurisdictions do not allow disclaimer of express or implied warranties in certain transactions; therefore, this statement may not apply to you. [. . . ] Then the scanner will make scanning passes automatically, pausing between each scan by the defined number of seconds, giving you time to place the next page. A dialog box allows you finish the pause early or request a longer pause and to specify when the last page is scanned. To scan books two pages at a time, select Look for facing pages in the Process panel of the Options dialog box. The program will split the incoming images into two pages and deskew them independently. Describing the layout of the document Before starting recognition you are requested to describe the layout of the incoming pages to assist the auto-zoning process. When you do automatic processing, auto-zoning always runs unless you specify a template that does not contain a process zone or background. Here are your input description choices: Automatic Choose this to let the program make all auto-zoning decisions. It decides whether text is in columns or not, whether an item is a graphic or text to be recognized and whether to place tables or not. Choose Automatic if your document contains pages with different or unknown layouts. Choose it for a page with multiple columns and a table, and for any pages with more than one table. Describing the layout of the document 51 Single column, no table Choose this setting if your pages contain only one column of text and no table. Choose it also for a page with words or numbers arranged in columns if you do not want these placed in a table or decolumnized or treated as separate columns. Multiple columns, no table Choose this if some of your pages contain text in columns and you want this decolumnized or kept in separate columns, similar to the original layout. Columns can be retained in the output document, either with frames (if True Page is selected at export time) or without frames (if Flowing Page is selected). If tabular data is encountered, it is likely to be treated as flowing text. Single column with table Choose this if your page contains only one column of text and a table. Auto-zoning will not look for columns but will try to find a table and place it in a grid in the Text Editor. You can later specify whether to export it in a grid or as tab separated text columns. Spreadsheet Choose this if your whole page consists of a table which you want to export to a spreadsheet program, or have treated as single table. You can prevent or encourage the detection of columns, graphics and tables. Make your settings in the Custom Layout panel of the Options dialog box. Template Choose a zone template file if you wish to have its background value, zones and properties applied to all acquired pages from now on. The template zones are also applied to the current page, replacing any existing zones. They will also be applied to pre-existing pages without zones when they are (re-)recognized. [. . . ] Then an ODMA panel will appear in the Options dialog box allowing you to specify permissible file types and other settings. An ODMA interface will replace the Load Image File and Open OmniPage Document (OPD) dialog boxes. This lets you load image files and OPDs one at a time from the network file system or your local computer. The Save As dialog box will provide a Save to DMS button for saving recognized documents into that system. [. . . ]