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Chapter 3
Quick Start Guide 35
If you succeeded in getting good results from the sample image files, but
not from the scanned page, check your scanner installation and settings:
in particular brightness and image resolution. See “Input from scanner”
on page 49. This provides a model of optimum brightness. See also the
online Help topics Setting up your scanner and Scanner troubleshooting.
What you do: What happens:
1. Set up your scanner using the Scanner
Wizard, if this is not already done.
Configures OmniPage Pro to work with your scanner.
2. Select Start
Programs ScanSoft
OmniPage Pro 12.0
OmniPage Pro 12.0
Opens OmniPage Pro on your computer.
3. Place the document correctly in your
scanner.
4. From the Get Page drop-down list, select a
scan option for your document:
black-and-white, grayscale or color.
Allows you to determine how pictures or colored texts
and backgrounds will look in the exported document.
Color scanning needs a color scanner.
5. From the Layout Description drop-down list,
check Automatic is selected. For a wide
range of documents, this is the best choice.
Configures the program how to place zones on the
page and decide their properties automatically.
6. From the Export Results drop-down list,
check that Save as File is selected.
This means you will be able to name your export file
after you have proofed the document.
7.
Click the Start button.
OmniPage Pro will start to scan in your document. A
thumbnail appears with a progress indicator. The
OCR Proofreader appears.
8.
Use the OCR Proofreader to modify words
that the program suspects have not been
recognized correctly.
The OCR Proofreader operates like a spell checker in
a word processing program, but with added
OCR-specific features. It removes markings from
words you proof.
9. Click in the Text Editor. Select Text Editor
views one after another, to see how the
page appears in each view.
Each Text Editor view defines a formatting level. This
guides you which level to choose at saving time.
10. Click Resume to restart proofing. When the
message OCR Proofreading is complete
appears, click on OK.
This ends the OCR Proofreader process. The Save
As dialog box will appear.
11.
Choose a file name, file type, path and a
formatting level to save your recognized
document. Click on OK.
By default, Save and Launch is enabled, so your
document will be automatically opened in the word
processing program associated with the file type that
you selected.
12.
Inspect the document in your word process-
ing program.
You have successfully used OmniPage Pro 12 to
recognize your document and open it in your target
application!