User manual NUANCE SCANSOFT PAPERPORT 11 GETTING STARTING GUIDE

[. . . ] L EGAL N OTICES Copyright © 2006 Nuance Communications, Inc. 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 Nuance Communications, Inc. , 1 Wayside Road, Burlington, Massachusetts 01803-4609, U. S. A. 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. [. . . ] For example, you can straighten a scanned page, lighten an underexposed photograph that is too dark, adjust the color in a color picture, remove "dirt spots" from a document page, clear shadows and spots from page edges, or sharpen fuzzy pictures. In addition, you can rotate an item, remove stray dots, enhance lines, remove red eye, and crop part of an image. Some SET Tools are primarily designed for photo, or image enhancement, while others (shaded) help you prepare items containing text for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Right-click on the Image Editing toolbar to choose which icons you want to display. Touching Up Images 22 Scanner Enhancement Technology tools Select Area Use the Select Area tool to select part of an image you want to cut, copy, or delete using the commands on the Edit menu or in the shortcut menu. Use it also to select part of an image before cropping or using the Remove Red Eye tool. Click the Rotate Right tool to rotate the selected item 90 degrees to the right. Rotate an image Straighten an Sometimes a document is crooked when scanned. image When this occurs, you can use the Straighten and Auto Straighten tools to adjust it. Straightening lines of text in an image file will yield better OCR results. Enhance an image The Auto Enhance feature adjusts the brightness and contrast, color, and tint of an image. PaperPort analyzes the image and tries to correct whatever is wrong with it. It lets you change brightness, contrast, color and tint values and choose the best result from nine candidates. Select the Sharpen tool to adjust the sharpness of a blurry picture or blur a sharp image for special effect. The Remove Red Eye tool helps you to remove the red-eye effect from a selected part of a picture. Red Eye may occur when photographing people or animals in low light or with a flash. Sharpen an image Remove red eye PaperPort Getting Started Guide 23 Remove part of an image When you want to save or work with only part of a page or image, you can crop the image or you can erase the part that you do not want to use. Use the Selection tool to define the part you want to keep and then use the Crop tool to remove the remainder. Select the Eraser tool to erase the area of the image that you draw over with the pointer. Remove stray Scanned images sometimes include stray dots or dots "speckles". The Remove Stray Dots tool automatically finds and removes such "dirt" from a page. Improve lines The Improve Lines tool (for black-and-white images) darkens lines and connects broken lines in a table or form to appear darker and straighter. Erase edges Use this tool to clear shadows and spots from page edges to improve OCR performance. Click this tool, then click on a light color in the image that will become the white point. Click this tool, then click on a dark color in the image that will become the black point. The colors chosen for the new white and black points are displayed on the Status bar. Set white point Set black point Apply current Click this tool to apply the new black and white black and points to the current image. [. . . ] The following combination options are available: · · · Combine into PDF stack: Each original page becomes one PDF page with no resizing. Combine into Multi PDF, resize to fit: This resizes the contributing items and always places four original pages onto a single PDF page. Combine into Multi PDF, maintain original sizes: This places as many original pages onto each PDF page as it can. PaperPort Getting Started Guide 37 · Combine into thumbnail PDF page: This creates thumbnails of all item pages and fits as many as possible on a PDF page. The original items remain in their original file types. Combining usually takes more time than stacking because of PDF generation. [. . . ]