User manual NUANCE TEXTBRIDGE PRO 9.0

[. . . ] User's Guide COPYRIGHT INFORMATION Copyright © 1999 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. [. . . ] Many of these options are related to the manual processes described in the previous section. Use the Page Type Settings, Save As, and Options dialog boxes to specify which options of the software you want to use. Usually, you will want to use the settings automatically assigned to a page type. However, it is possible for you to change these settings. Page Type Settings You can view and change the settings for a page type in the Page Type Settings dialog box (Figure 3­2). Check the settings to be sure they are the best ones for processing the original page. 3­8 TextBridge Pro User's Guide Figure 3­2. Original Page tab in Page Type Settings dialog box This dialog box has three tabs: Original Page, Scanner, and Processing. Each lets you view or change Page Type settings. Original Page Settings On the Original Page tab, you can choose the following settings: x Set the page orientation for the way text and images are printed on the original page: · · · Any orientation Portrait Landscape If you select Any orientation, TextBridge automatically determines the page orientation. Use this setting if you don't know the orientation of your pages or have pages with different orientations. Use Portrait or Landscape for faster processing. OCR and Basic TextBridge Operations 3­9 x Select the page layout of the original page: · · · · · Any layout Single column Multi-column Table As zoned by template When you select Any layout, TextBridge automatically determines the page layout. Use Any layout when pages in your document have different layouts or when your pages have complex layouts that do not fit the above layouts. Select Table for pages with a table or spreadsheet and singlecolumn text. x Select Book (dual page) If your scanned page contains two pages (for example, when you scan an open book) check Book (dual page), so TextBridge will know to split the scanned page into two separate pages. x Set the print type of the document to be processed. · · · · · Any Good Fax Dot matrix Newspaper When you select Any, TextBridge automatically determines the print type. 3­10 TextBridge Pro User's Guide Scanner Settings You can view and change the settings for your scanner in the Scanner tab of the Page Type Settings dialog box (Figure 3­3, next page). On the Scanner tab you can set: x Original Page quality: · · x Good print Difficult or degraded Picture Output: · · · Black and White Gray Color Figure 3­3. Scanner tab in Page Type Settings dialog box OCR and Basic TextBridge Operations 3­11 x TextBridge determines the best scan resolution and color for the Original Page and Picture Output settings. Click Custom if you want to override this default scan resolution setting. Set the scan page size to reflect the actual size of the original page. To override the default scan Brightness setting, uncheck Adjust Automatically and move the slider. x x Processing Settings You can view and change the settings for processing in the Processing tab of the Page Type Settings dialog box (Figure 3­4, next page). Check the settings to be sure they are the best ones for processing your pages. Figure 3­4. Processing tab in Page Type Settings dialog box 3­12 TextBridge Pro User's Guide On the Processing tab: x Select the primary language of the document. If you select more than one language, they all must be in the same language group. You cannot change the language group after you begin processing a document. [. . . ] Select the page type. · · Click the Page Type button to select Fax. Click OK. The settings are automatically set to any page layout, any page orientation, and fax quality. 6­14 TextBridge Pro 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. [. . . ]