User manual NUANCE TEXTBRIDGE PRO-MILLENIUM

[. . . ] COPYRIGHT INFORMATION Copyright © 1995­2000 by ScanSoft, 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 the prior written consent of 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. IMPORTANT NOTICE ScanSoft, Inc. 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. [. . . ] You can change the language of the selected zone, table, or table cells from the document language to any other language in the same language group. In the Properties dialog select the language for this zone using the language drop down list. WHERE TO GO FROM HERE To learn how you use TextBridge to process simple and complex documents, refer to Chapter 4. Chapters 5 and 6 provide sample sessions that are step-by-step tutorials. Chapter 5 shows you how to use auto processing, Instant Access, recognize a document with complex layout, and process a document with text, pictures and a table. Chapter 6 shows how to process a document for a database, to use advanced settings for zones and page types, and to train TextBridge's OCR. The Help system provides a complete reference to the TextBridge user interface. Help includes overview information on key features, getting started instructions, step-by-step procedures for most operations and user tips. Typical user questions are answered in a "How Do I?" section and Troubleshooting helps when you have problems. Context-sensitive Help is always available by pressing F1 from any menu command or dialog box. 3­18 TextBridge Pro Millennium User's Guide 4 LEARNING TO USE TEXTBRIDGE The previous chapters introduced you to TextBridge and document recognition. You will become familiar with the basic functionality of TextBridge so that you can understand how TextBridge works. The following chapters take you from the beginning to the end of using TextBridge to process different kinds of documents. The topics presented in this chapter are in the following list: x x x x x x x Before beginning to process a document Using TextBridge to process a document Starting TextBridge Using automatic processing Using manual processing Performing basic operations Getting Help while using TextBridge TextBridge Pro Millennium User's Guide 4­1 BEFORE BEGINNING TO PROCESS A DOCUMENT The following checklist will take you through the most important questions to ask before you start to process a document. If you have difficulty reading a page, TextBridge may also have trouble recognizing it. The rest of this chapter provides information that helps you to answer these questions. USING TEXTBRIDGE TO PROCESS A DOCUMENT TextBridge provides an easy-to-use interface and a powerful set of built-in capabilities. You can use it in a number of ways to do OCR, depending on the complexity of the document you want to recognize and the results you want. 4­2 TextBridge Pro Millennium User's Guide TextBridge provides flexibility in performing the steps of the OCR process. You can: x Process your pages automatically or interact with processing in manual mode Optimize processing by specifying settings using page types View and mark parts (zones) of pages to be recognized View and manipulate the pages of a document with page thumbnails Process pages in any order Zone multiple pages before recognition Proofread the OCR results and correct any recognition errors Save the recognized text and optionally retain page layout and pictures x x x x x x x A thumbnail is a small image representation of your document. Thumbnails make it easier for you to select and redo a poorly recognized page, insert a page, delete a page, reorder pages, or recognize a specific page. STARTING TEXTBRIDGE There are two ways to start TextBridge. You can start TextBridge as a standalone application or you can start TextBridge through Instant Access from most Windowsbased text applications or directly from Explorer. In this section you will learn to start TextBridge as a standalone application. Learning to Use TextBridge 4­3 To start TextBridge as a standalone application: 1. Point to Programs, then point to the TextBridge Pro Millennium folder. The TextBridge main window appears (Figure 4­1). Menu Bar Main toolbar Process toolbar View area showing welcome Thumbnail area Tip and Status bar Figure 4­1. TextBridge Pro Millennium main window Note The Welcome message appears when you start TextBridge for the first time and each time you start TextBridge until you uncheck Show this welcome when starting. 4­4 TextBridge Pro Millennium User's Guide USING AUTOMATIC PROCESSING When you use TextBridge's automatic processing feature, TextBridge processes pages with very little interaction with you. In automatic mode, after you select the page type and page source, TextBridge automatically recognizes your page(s). [. . . ] Select the page type. · · Click the Page Type button and then select Fax. Click OK. The settings are automatically set to any page layout, any page orientation, and fax quality. 6­14 TextBridge Pro Millennium User's Guide 2. Click the drop down arrow on the Recognize button and select Enable Training (Figure 6­11). Click the Recognize drop down arrow Select Enable Training Figure 6­11. Enable training This "sticky" setting remains in place for all subsequent documents until you disable training. [. . . ]