You are invited to provide a description of the layout of
the original document to assist the program when auto-zoning is performed.
See When does auto-zoning run?
The OmniPage Toolbox has
the Layout Description drop-down
list.
Select a setting that best describes how your original document
looks. Your setting may also reflect how you want the layout to be handled.
The default value is Automatic,
and for most processing this is the quickest and easiest way to proceed.
The other options exist to give you greater control over the layout handling.
Choose from the following options:
Automatic
Choose this to let the program make all auto-zoning decisions.
It will decide whether text is in columns or not, whether an item is a
graphic or is text to be recognized and whether to place tables or not.
Forms are not automatically detected. To get form processing (Professional
only), you must explicitly set Form as Page Layout or draw form zones.
Choose Automatic
if:
you want to process your document
quickly.
your document contains pages
with different or unknown layouts.
you have a page with multiple
columns and a table.
you have any pages containing
more than one table.
Single column,
no table
Choose this setting if your pages contain only one column
of text and no table. Business letters or pages from a book are normally
like this. Choose it also for a page with words or numbers arranged in
columns if you do not want these placed in a table or decolumnized or
treated as separate columns. Graphics may be detected.
Multiple columns, no table
Choose this if some of your pages contain text in columns
and you want this decolumnized or kept in separate columns, similar to
the original layout. Columns can be retained in the output document: you
specify at saving time whether this is done with frames or flowing columns.
If table-like data is encountered, it will be placed in columns, not in
a gridded table. Graphics may be detected.
Single column with table
Choose this if your page contains only one column of text
and a table. Auto-zoning will not look for columns but will try to find
a table and place it in a grid in the Text Editor. You can later specify
whether to export it in a grid or as tab separated text columns. Graphics
may be detected.
Spreadsheet
Choose this if your whole page consists of a table which
you want to export to a spreadsheet program, or have treated as a table.
No flowing text or graphics zones will be detected. For information on
saving documents to Excel, see Formatting
levels.
Form
Choose this if your page contains a form. Form objects and
elements will be detected on the whole page. (Available in OmniPage Professional
only).
Custom
Choose this for maximum control over auto-zoning. You can
prevent or encourage the detection of columns, graphics and tables. Make
your settings in the Custom Layout
dialog box. To open the Custom Layout dialog box, click the Custom Layout...
button in the OCR panel of the Options dialog box.
Template
Choose a zone template file if you wish to
have its background
value, zones and zone properties applied to all acquired pages from now
on. In manual processing the template zones are also applied to the current
page, replacing any existing zones. For more detail, see Zone templates.
