User manual NUANCE TEXTBRIDGE PRO 11

[. . . ] 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 the Legal Department at ScanSoft, Inc. , 9 Centennial Drive, Peabody, Massachusetts 01960, USA. 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 recognized text is placed at the cursor position in your application, with the formatting level specified by Acquire Text Settings. . . . If TextBridge Pro is running when Direct OCR is called from a target application, a second instance of TextBridge Pro is launched. Note How to use TextBridge Pro 11 with your PaperPort software PaperPort® is a paper management software product from ScanSoft. If PaperPort exists on a computer when TextBridge Pro is installed, its OCR services become available and amplify the power of PaperPort. You can choose an OCR program by right clicking on a text applications PaperPort link, selecting Preferences and then selecting TextBridge Pro 11 as the OCR package. OCR settings can be specified, as with Direct OCR. : Here TextBridge Pro 11 has been selected as the OCR package for MS Word 2000. Then you can drag page images from the PaperPort desktop onto the MS Word link on the PaperPort. While the text is being recognized, only a progress monitor is displayed. TextBridge Pro's manual zoning window or proofing facility will appear if requested. The recognition results are placed in a new unnamed document in the target application. 46 T U T O R I A L : PROC E S S I N G DOCUMENTS PROCESSING DOCUMENTS WITH SCHEDULE OCR You can schedule OCR jobs to be performed automatically at any time within the following 24 hours. The document pages can come from a scanner with an ADF or from image files. You do not have to be present at your computer at job start time, nor does TextBridge Pro have to be running. It does not matter if your computer is turned off after the job is set up, so long as it is running at job start time. If you are scanning pages, your scanner must be functioning at job start time, with the pages loaded in the ADF. Click Schedule OCR in the Process menu or in the Windows Start menu: select ProgramsÉScanSoftÉTextBridge Pro 11. 0ÉSchedule OCR. An additional feature lets you process all supported image files in a defined folder. The next three panels are similar to those in the OCR Wizard, but you can also specify a user dictionary. The fifth panel lets you specify an export file name, type, location and a file separation choice. The last panel lets you define the job start time, retain or delete input files after processing and specify use of a log file to note job completion and any problems encountered. Click Finish to close the Wizard. The Schedule OCR dialog box lists all jobs, with status Waiting, Running, Error or Complete. You can modify and reuse finished jobs to process new jobs needing similar settings. You can delete completed jobs when they are no longer needed. Note For more information, please see Scheduling OCR in the online Help. PROCE S S I N G DOCUMENTS WITH SCHE D U L E OC R 47 DEFINING THE SOURCE OF PAGE IMAGES There are two possible image sources: from image files and from a scanner. A scanner may have a built-in or added Automatic Document Feeder (ADF), which makes it easier to scan multi-page documents. [. . . ] If an area is not enclosed by a zone, it is generally ignored during OCR. See the section on creating and modifying zones, Working with zones, in chapter 3. Reidentify zone types and contents, if necessary, and perform OCR on the document again. u Adjust the brightness and contrast sliders in the Scanner panel of the Options dialog box. [. . . ]